Do you need SEO or a...

So I’m still considering what the biggest news of the year is on the Marketing front (specifically, tactics). Boldly claiming the death of SEO, I have to admit it’s more of a “SEO is Dead, Long Live SEO”. The game is changing from cheap tricks over to master copywriting...

Still off the grid

Home inspection tomorrow so things are still moving. Some quick things you may be interested in: Google is cracking down on search arbitrage I was unable to hit the WebInno event yesterday so I’m looking for a good writeup on what I missed. Some rumors about Google acquiring...

Advanced Kung-Fu Blo...

Eric Schwartzman, Sam Whitmore and Jason Calacanis Jason Calacanis delivered a great lunch keynote today. I enjoy the mix of straight talk mixed and the understanding of showmanship. I had a brain buster today when everything snapped into focus – he mentioned that you should keep...

The Latest M Show an...

Get your latest dose of 10 minutes of News, Talk, and Entertainment in the Audio Form from the newest episode of The M Show, the Best Business Podcast. In other good news David Meerman Scott’s new book is coming out, here’s the all-star list of new media folks that he’s...

Getting Started With...

I had a question come in today about some best practices for Google Adwords so here’s some basics that I follow, I’d be interested in anything that people have to add. For those who have no knowledge of this you should swing over to the official google adwords blog and check out...

Pay Per Click vs Pay...

Will Herman sent in a comment on my post bemoaning the end of the pay per click advertising (PPC) gold rush and asked if Pay per Action will replace Pay per Click. There’s been a lot of hype in the past couple of weeks and Google recently moved in that direction by allowing PPC in their...

Paid Search=3 second...

I reached a tipping point with a number of paid search campaigns over the past month. More than one client has thrown in the towel at click prices that have increased 100x in the past year. This made me think more about relevancy – the old model was to cover as many keywords as possible....

IT’S ALIVE! an...

After literally months of struggling we finally managed to get the SalesForce.com / Google integration going. I’m definitely geeking out, but how cool is it to look at a closed deal and say “one year ago you searched for this specific term, we paid $2.75 for that click and it...

SEO is Dead

Last week I had heard some rumblings about Google continuing to use individual search history to influence results. There are differing opinions on this but I am all for it. If, after months of searching, Google realizes that I can’t speak spanish, then it would be great if I never had...

SEO is Dead

Bryper threw a question to the CAPOW group about Google serving up different search results pages depending on whether or not a use is logged in. Is this a problem for companies that you pay to get you to score well in Google? I had a related discussion at the MIT event last week –...