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  • Digital Thoughts – The Many Faces Of Google

    If I were the number one search engine in the world, I’m not sure that I would allow many queries to show my number one competitor’s web site as the first listing, all while not showing any paid listings. MSN doesn’t do this. Yahoo doesn’t do this. So why…

  • Designing For Your Demographic

    When designing a website, one must take the intended audience into careful consideration. Whether the website is business-to-business or business-to-consumer the design will require a format which caters to the desired type of visitors…

  • Who Can You Trust?

    The other day I was talking to a sales manager at a large e-tailer when they said something that stuck with me- how do you trust a company you’ve never worked with, particularly in the online arena?

  • Buy your way to the Top?

    If you’re an SEO, you already know the importance of building relevant backlinks. For the layman who may have heard terms like backlink and pagerank being thrown around, but wasn’t quite sure what they meant:

  • Digital Thoughts – Far East

    It’s not often that deals in our industry top nine figures, and it is even rarer when those deals involve Internet ventures outside of the United States. Such a transaction occurred this week when Yahoo announced its intent to purchase a stake in China’s…

  • Trends Report – Internet Real Estate

    The housing market isn’t the only hot real estate segment…internet real estate is also reaching its peak. Like a marketing company that has figured out how to convert low value PPC keywords or an affiliate that has figured out how to create SEO…

  • Grocers’ Use of E-Mail Growing: Survey

    Most grocers with frequent-shopper programs use e-mail to communicate with members, according to a survey of 66 supermarket chains by Retail Systems Consulting. The retail marketing consultancy found that 53% of grocers let shoppers register for loyalty …

  • Digital Thoughts – State of the Union

    Arbitrage is a word that gets bandied about freely these days; it’s an activity that has transcended the financial world where it began to become the de-facto means for making money online. At its core, the activity describes the absorption of…

  • MSN Paid Search

    MSN recently introduced MSN adCenter, what they call “the next generation online advertising platform from Microsoft…” The first product offering from adCenter is the MSN Paid Search solution, encroaching further on Yahoo! and Google’s PPC cash cow.

  • AzoogleAds 100% Growth

    Online Advertising Leader AzoogleAds Grew More Than 100 Percent in the First Half of 2005, Dramatically Outpacing the Overall Growth of the Industry.