Available only in closed beta, Google AdPlanner promises to help you identify websites your customers are likely to visit helping define media plans and ad placement. A blend of market analytics and Google’s endeavors as an all encompassing ad platform, AdPlanner may be some icing on the cake.
I’m left to wonder though, how many […]

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ad:tech San Francisco, the interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition, starts next week at the Moscone Center. The show blends keynote speakers, topic driven panels and workshops to provide us with the tools and techniques needed to keep up and compete. It has, perhaps, the best show floor in the industry making it […]

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Certainly, one has to have a degree of ego involved with starting one’s own blog, after all, these are my thoughts; thoughts I presume are of interest to someone. Sure, perhaps it isn’t really “ego” but, needless to say, I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t hope someone cared and derived a modicum […]

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Does anyone know…
Does Google weight the value of inlinks relative to the lifespan of a website?
While debating with some friends the question of buying links, I argued that buying links has its place in that new businesses, new companies with no brand recognition, reputation, or awareness, need way to catch up to the […]

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Having spent the past few days with family and friends for the Holiday, I repeatedly found myself in the situation of trying to explain search engine optimization and how websites are not simply ‘found’ through Google. Peppered with questions about how SEO is Marketing or why Google doesn’t just do a better job, I […]

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Yes, it is my new best friend. A digg-like news and resource aggregator that filters based on the popularity of content. At its peak, I had over 100 search and marketing related blogs on my reader before turning to Yahoo Pipes to mash them up in hopes of finding the gems among so […]

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Just a quick post to let you know about a wonderful resource I’ve stumbled onto: Xinu is a brilliant mashup of valuable search optimization insights such as backlinks, page rank, social bookmark links, and pages indexed. The intuitive service includes links to each platform to investigate your site’s details, leaving only recommendations lacking; Xinu […]

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