What is Google’s Universal Search
Google’s introduction of Universal Search essentially brings together the various types of searchable internet content sources into one, allowing results to range across all silos of the Google landscape, including categories that were previously segregated. These silos include book search, blog search, image search, local search, video search, web search, […]
Category Archives: SEM
Google Universal Search makes integrated SEM essential
May 30, 2007 – 10:38 am
Click Fraud: Are Your Campaigns Safe?
May 1, 2007 – 10:25 am
Since the advent of paid search engine marketing, click fraud has been a growing area of concern for search engine marketers. Estimates of the scope of click fraud vary from 10% to 35% of all click activity. If not detected, click fraud can rob your company of both your marketing dollars […]
Ambivalence for DTC ads: Can search help?
April 27, 2007 – 3:19 pm
Pharmaceutical Executive had a very interesting article on a series of studies conducted for the Pharmaceutical Safety Institute on DTC ads and consumers. The data revealed that despite ads prompting consumers to take action, either by searching online or discussing the product with their doctors, nearly half of respondents find DTC ads uninformative or inaccurate.
As […]
SEM Has Become Mainstream
April 24, 2007 – 4:39 pm
I’m not sure exactly when it happened but it happened. Search engine marketing has become mainstream. Businesses of all sizes no longer debate whether or not they need to do search engine marketing, the debate has become: “Do we do it in-house or do we hire an experienced SEM agency.”
Not long ago, many businesses who […]
Exploiting Site-Internal Search Systems for SEM
April 24, 2007 – 10:05 am
Many of our clients’ sites have internal search features, which allow visitors to the site to search for information within the site, such as a “Find a {Doctor/Center/Office/Event/Course/Dealership/etc.} Near You” feature. This type of internal search is powered by a searchable database, and the URLs of search results pages in this system are dynamically […]
Search Matters Weekly Search Links 4/18/2007
April 18, 2007 – 9:21 am
Google Bombing, Wikipedia vandalism and the future of Google search are making the top headlines this week.
Is Stephen Colbert the Greatest Living American? You decide. (SEOmoz)
Now that Google is an advertising giant, will search get abandoned and/or outsourced? (Gord)
Search for regulated industries? Who knew? (Catalyst Blog)
Want to know how far you walked after dinner last […]
Report from SES: Linkbaiting
April 16, 2007 – 9:56 am
One of the hottest topics at the SES Conference in New York was the concept of “linkbaiting”. Content producers have always known that hot news items attract visitors in droves. Providing viral tools such as “E-mail to a friend” can help encourage that. But in the last couple years, viral marketing has acquired a new […]
Catalyst is at SES. Behold!
April 11, 2007 – 9:19 am
SES 2007 is underway in New York City! The best of the best in Search are there! Two of our top Catalyst people (Catalytes?) are there! Why am I talking in exclamations? No clue.
Heather Frahm, Catalyst’s President and co-founder is speaking on Friday in the vertical track. Her topic is Search for Regulated […]
Search Matters Weekly Search Links
April 4, 2007 – 2:31 pm
There are a lot of hot search topics going on this week from litigation, to PPA, to Google’s right hand not know what their left hand is doing. Try to keep up.
Google’s Website Optimizer is now out of beta in into …whatever Greek letter comes after beta. Is it cloaking? Is Google so big that […]
Online Video for Healthcare Companies
April 3, 2007 – 7:46 am
Since the DTC advertising took-off ten years ago, pharmaceutical companies have been aware of the persuasive power of video. TV commercials have brought an unprecedented degree of awareness to mass audiences, and have brought depth and dimension to products that would otherwise be difficult to explain. Now that opportunity […]
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