Topic: Jennifer Slegg

SEO

Day One: Search Marketing Expo West 2012 Live Blog Recap

SMX West day one is just about over and I wanted to post the live blogging I have found throughout the day. Here are some of the sessions that were live blogged today. Creating Conversion Friendly Mobile Landing Pages, Search Engine Roundtable Creating Conversion-Friendly Mobile Landing Pages, outspokenmedia.com Does Google Favor Brands? An In-Depth Look, […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 4, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Starts To Leverage Latitude Location Through New Apps Google is now expanding its map-based, location-aware service Latitude beyond the the Latitude destination in new ways with a public location sharing […]

PPC

Adobe & Yahoo Discontinue PDF Contextual Ad Program

Amit Agarwal reports that Yahoo and Adobe have decided to discontinue the Ads for PDF product they launched in November 2007. An email sent to current participants of the program blamed the economic conditions for the failure of the program. The email said the program was discontinued due to “reassessment of priorities in the current […]

Microsoft Now Serving Digg’s Ads

Chris Winfield reports that Digg is now featuring ads from Microsoft adCenter. Digg and Microsoft announced a partnership back in July 2007 and this is one of the first visible steps of that partnership. We expected then that the switch over from Google AdSense ads to Microsoft ContentAds would be in early August, but it […]

New Search Blogs From Women

I’ve written before about how there are many women are involved in search and search marketing, but blogrolls like ours can still feel man heavy. Fortunately, there are some new blogs up from women in search, including Google Webmaster Central’s Vanessa Fox. Here’s a round-up.

Google Testing Yellow Background Color Behind AdWords Ads?

JenSense reports spotted Google testing a yellow background color for the top sponsored results in Google. Typically, those ads have a light blue background color, but Jennifer Slegg saw a yellow version and snapped a screen capture. I have heard others seeing this randomly, so it is possible that this is a running Google AdWords […]

Search Engine Land: January 2007 Statistics Review

Time for the second monthly update on how Search Engine Land is growing. As I said with my review of December 2006 traffic, I hope our traffic statistics will be both interesting and also provide helpful tips to other search marketers. This review especially covers social media sites as a driver of traffic. It also […]

Search Engine Land: Top Stories & Stats, Jan. 9, 2007

Earlier I did a review of traffic stats for Search Engine Land in December 2006. Today, I’m looking at what happened on the site yesterday, in terms of most popular stories. I can’t promise to do this every day. But doing a daily stats review is part of my regular routine, and it helps me […]

Google Says No To Images Next To AdSense

Ad and image placement: a policy clarification from the official Google Inside AdSense blog covers issues about placing images next to AdSense units, something that seems to have grown in popularity as a means of encouraging clicks. In short — don’t. Google doesn’t want images to appear related to AdSense links: We ask that publishers […]