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Yahoo tips - The gang at Yahoo were handing out some of the Top Time-Saving Yahoo! Search Tips Search Fatigue - Are search engines really delivering the goods? If they want to keep the people happy they will have to get more relevance happening in a big way. Search Engine Land reports on 7 out of 10 Americans experience Search engine fatigue Is search still worth it? – in a review of Marketing Sherpa’s ‘Search Marketing Benchmark Survey’ eMarketer reports that ‘the SEO effect is great, but gauging the ROI is tough’. Mega Lists – Mashable had a few huge ass lists this week that I figured some folks would make use of; 350 social networking sites , 140 Search Engines and Directories and 30 Blog directories Getting Social – are you using Social Media Marketing? A report this week says social networks drive more traffic to retailers. Of course you’d better hurry up and get in there since the growth of Social Networks should peak in 5 years. Look out MySpace - It seem the gang at FaceBook are having a great week as they hooked up with Microsoft as a partner and from the valuation in that deal are considered the 5th most valuable property on the web. On top of that the rumor mill has more rounds of funding all ready churning. It doesn’t seem to worry the brass at Google mind you though. They have their own plans for world domination :0)
Landing Pages for PPC – Jon Miller explored landing page testing mechanisms and asks; Optimizing Landing pages, How much is too much?
Search Wars Stop whining - Seems Brian McAndrews senior vice-president Microsoft's Advertiser Publisher Solutions Group thinks that Google is getting to much credit for conversions Big Brother Google - the Times Online decided to take a shot at the Big G and asks ‘ Are your secrets safe with Google?‘
Data Guard Market Share - There is the latest from Nielsen with the Search Market Share for September 07 Analytics and Advertising - so much of advertising costs are based upon analytics and perceived traffic/readership. The New York Times asks ‘ How many Hits? (Depends who’s counting)’ Web Rankings – Yahoo! Properties, Google, Time Warner, Microsoft and Fox Interactive lead the pack in the Website Rankings for Sept. There is some related views at comScore as well.
Surfing behavior - If you missed it the other day, Moms are super surfers, so you don’t ever forget it (or I’m telling on you) Social networking sites – listings for the Top 10 (US) Social Networking and Blog sites as well as Social Site rankings (Sept.07). Random Data – since I am into stats this week, here are some tidbits from last week from ClickZ on the 61 Billion searches per month and the Top 10 terms over 10 categories
Down and Dirty Blow me - So ya wanna blow something up? Try Google Earth. Screw you - Or maybe you are looking for a new tactic to negotiate ( er… blackmail) potential clients? Then you should consider Slander Attacks
Pssst, hey buddy… over here – had a good laugh with Fantomaster’s ‘Pay me or I’ll link to you’ cartoon – he also opened up a small shop – priceless.
..and NO, I am not getting into the whole ToolBar PageRank thing at the moment… I have to stop rolling around on the floor laughing long enough to type anything…..
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