Here’s a Google Analytics query for you…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: November 8th, 2008 Published in: GoogleJust checking my GA stats for Zero Strategy (launched this week) and found keywords in the report that have absolutely no chance of being real results – it was a search I conducted via the Google toolbar earlier on in the day (I was looking for a Twitter profile of a colleague – Zero Strategy [...]
Google agrees animated advertising deal
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 3rd, 2008 Published in: GoogleGoogle has agreed a new advertising deal that will see animated video clips distributed throughout its AdSense network.
The search engine giant’s latest digital marketing venture has been launched in conjunction with the creator of adult animated comedies, Family Guy and American Dad, Seth MacFarlane.
UK Internet providers team up with Phorm to take a slice of the Internet advertising market
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 10th, 2008 Published in: Advertising, Google, Google Adsense, MSN, Marketing, YahooNot sure if this old news or not but interesting all the same if you haven’t read about it yet.  The NYTimes reported last month that 3 UK Internet providers (BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virginmedia) are teaming up to offer an advertising alternative to that offered by the big 3 search engines.
The 3 companies have allowed ad [...]
Google displaying an additional search box in SERPs
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 5th, 2008 Published in: Google, Local Search, Search EnginesCheck this out:
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Pretty neat huh? I’m seeing the additional search box added to quite a few SERPs today – seems to be only for site names just now. I know TheBestOf use the Google Search Appliance for internal searches and I also see the search box on results for Youtube, Amazon and a few other big [...]
More poor Google / Wikipedia results
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 26th, 2008 Published in: GoogleFollowing on from my post the other week about Wikipedia outranking Google for the term “PageRank”, I thought I’d post this one as well: “search engine optimisation”
Page 2, the Wikipedia page for “SEO” which is classed as a “disambiguation” page (lists different meanings of a word / abbreviation). Fair enough, useful for users of Wikipedia [...]
Karma be gone! Reporting paid links to Google is a legitimate business move!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 16th, 2008 Published in: Google, Link Building, SpamDavid Wallace has a nice write up about reporting paid links to Google this week, which is based on the back of a poll by Blogstorm. Both posts have some interesting comments on them and while I don’t agree with some of them, the articles are well worth a read.
The key areas that grabbed my attention [...]
Google SERP UI change
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 17th, 2007 Published in: GoogleI’m seeing a new look to Google SERPs today which include an update to the “fluff” parts of the page (notably the header level dividing graphic and footer graphic part) and importantly the addition of links and a drop down menu to the header: