Bing To Include Local Product Inventory In Search Results

Yesterday Microsoft and Local Corporation announced a deal in which the latter’s Krillion local product database will be provided to Bing for display in search results. Local Corp. will supply in-stock product data from a range of mostly national-local retailers. The list of participating…

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Google Logo Celebrates Hull House Founder & Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jane Addams

Today’s Google logo celebrates Jane Addams, a woman of many disciplines, including social worker, peace activist, settlement house founder, suffragist and author. Included in her extensive list of accomplishments, Addams was the first American woman awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. The Google…

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Segmenting Your Paid Search Program For Improved Manageability

Most direct response marketers either need to meet a given efficiency goal (CPA, ROAS, etc.) or get the most of the budget available — or both combined. The budget and efficiency goals typically vary over time for lots of different reasons, such as seasonal trends and promotion periods, and…

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SEO Checklist For Startup Websites

Startups have a lot going on. Staffing, outreach, overhead, paperwork, development, testing, financing — and that’s just before lunch. Regardless of the industry, startups are by their nature volatile businesses that are stuck bootstrapping much of the heavy lifting early on in their…

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Google’s Inadvertent Plan To Withhold Search Data & Create New Advertisers

How do you convince a bunch of publishers to buy ads on your service? If you’re Google, how about withholding data from those publishers about how people are finding their sites, as a way to drive them into your ad system? I don’t think Google planned for this to happen. But…

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Google To Extend “Top Search Queries” Data In Webmaster Tools From 90 Days To One Year

Data telling publishers the top terms being used to find their web sites will be available for up to one year in Google Webmaster Tools, rather than the current 90 days, Google has said. The news came in response to an article today on Search Engine Land covering a conflict between Google limiting…

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AdWords Debuts Offline Conversion Tracking For Full Sales Cycle Optimization

Running lead generation campaigns on Google AdWords? Measuring success and optimizing campaigns for actual sealed-deal conversions, not just lead in-take, just got a whole lot easier. On the heels of rolling out cross-account conversion tracking and se…

SPONSOR MESSAGE: Enterprise SEO Tools 2013: A Buyer’s Guide

In this Buyer’s Guide, learn about the latest trends, opportunities and challenges facing the market for Enterprise SEO Tools. Drawing from interviews with industry leaders and their customers, this report profiles vendors in the SEO Tools marketplace and what you need to look for in an SEO…

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