Topic

Digital

  • Hyundai to Watch Web’s Offline Effect

    Hyundai Motor America will take a closer look at the online research and shopping behavior of car seekers to better tailor its marketing efforts in the offline world.

  • Digital Broadcast Provide a New Niche for Advertisers

    Digital broadcast signals are among the hottest vehicles in television, as broadcast stations seek to find more advertising outlets and compete against national cable networks. For advertisers, they can be a new way to reach niche demographics.

  • When It Pays to Be Negative

    Search marketing is a potent tool: sometimes too potent. Sometimes your keywords call out to searchers who have very little to do with your product, service or content. Consider the unfortunate vacation marketer whose keywords include “cruise”. How do you make sure your ads appear only when searchers are looking for Caribbean getaways and not “Tom Cruise” or “cruise missiles”?

  • Cleanup in the Comparison Aisle

    Attention, comparison-engine Web shoppers: There

  • When It Pays to Be Negative

    Search marketing is a potent tool: sometimes too potent. Sometimes your keywords call out to searchers who have very little to do with your product, service or content. Consider the unfortunate vacation marketer whose keywords include

  • Contextual Ads: Where Content Is King

    Search engine marketing (SEM) has grown into an industry poised to earn a projected $10 billion in 2006 because it does a particularly good job of delivering the right ads to the right viewers. But research has determined that only 5% of the average person’s Internet activity involves search. To monetize that other 95% of Web activity, other ways to target ads have arisen. And as SEM becomes more competitive, those alternatives are getting a closer look from both advertisers and the search ad networks themselves.

  • Big Brands Slow to Adopt SEO

    A new survey of Fortune 100 companies reveals that relatively few of them make a serious effort to optimize their Web sites to receive high search rankings on Yahoo! or Google.

  • Google Sells Looks As Well As Clicks

    Google, the top search engine on the Web and the top search ad seller too, announced in late April the launch of a “limited beta” test on its AdWords/ AdSense marketing network. The test will give online advertisers the ability to select the sites where their ads will run on the Google network of Web pages and the opportunity

  • Google, Defender of the Faith

    Mysterious rumblings and clankings from within Google’s Mountain View, CA, stronghold suggest it, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth in search engine Web forums appear to confirm it: The most popular search engine in the world seems to have made some important adjustments to the way it ranks Web pages.

  • Cybergolf Search Helps Golfers Find Their Swing

    Here’s how you discover a new vertical search category:

    * Find motivated seekers.

    * Find motivated marketers.

    * Develop a tool/ portal/ engine that brings the two together easily.

    And that’s it. You’re done.