Blog for better search engine placement
Business Feet – London,England,UK
He points out that his blog manages to increase website traffic to the business he works for (a search engine marketing company), driving three times as

SEM Gorilla Author Offers Guerilla Search Engine Marketing!
NewDesignWorld (press release) – Oxford,Oxfordshire,UK
Little River, SC ( Newdesignworld ) – August 14, 2008 – Randy Zlobec, the author of the definitive book on search engine marketing, has opened his treasure

Local.com Named Finalist for SES Awards
Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA
SES San Jose attendees will have access to 70 panels and sessions on universal search, local search, blended search, video search engine marketing,

Popular brands ‘dominating online search’
Digital Response Media – Watford,UK
Generic keywords are falling out of favour among UK online searchers, indicating the need for a new approach to search engine marketing, according to a new

Price Law Group Joins with LeadRival to Enhance and Increase
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
is located at www.pricelawgroup.com/Front_Door/get_started.asp LeadRival, founded in 2004, is a leader in the search engine marketing (SEM) industry.

Webinar series this fall on web strategies with Find and Convert
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
The first webinar to be held August 26th is titled: “Get Big Payback Using Search Engine Marketing.” The second webinar to be held September 24th is titled:

Marketing outsourcing recommended for small firms
Epiphany Search News – Leeds,England,UK
Those undertaking search engine marketing are likely have the goals of direct sales and

Infuse Creative’s Gregory Markel to Speak at New Media Expo
MarketWatch – USA
LAS VEGAS, Aug 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Founder President of Infuse Creative, Gregory Markel, will share his 13 years of search engine marketing

Pringo Networks Partners With Imerex to Provide Clients With
MarketWatch – USA
The Imerex closed-loop, iterative process integrates web site usability, search engine marketing, search engine optimization and conversion rate

18-month beatdown: Google search crushing Microsoft, Yahoo
Ars Technica – Boston,MA,USA
Yahoo is a mixed bag. Comscore essentially has Yahoo’s search traffic heading into the toilet, if not swirling down the bowl. Although Yahoo has seen a

Tech companies increase their Yahoo paid search spend
DM News – New York,NY,USA
Technology companies increased their paid search marketing spend with Yahoo in the second quarter of 2008, according to a recent report by Covario.

Get Expert Analysis on How to Optimize Your Own Web Pages to
PR.com (press release) – Levittown,NY,USA
Aaron Rosenthal, Director of Channel Research for MarketingExperiments, has been working with Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and the comparison

Yahoo Strengthens Perception as “Must Buy” & “Partner of Choice”
Hardware Zone – Singapore,Singapore,Singapore
At the 2nd IMMAP Summit in Makati City, Yahoo! delivered the opening keynote and noted that digital marketing continues to be the most effective medium for

Online chatter: Six free tools to monitor what the public is
The Gazette (Montreal) – Quebec,Canada
Search Engines – even if Google accounts for a huge percentage of all search done on the Internet, it’s also important to know what comes up when Yahoo! and

Marchex Adds Advertising Industry Veterans to Its Leadership Team
MarketWatch – USA
He joins Marchex from RH Donnelley where he was Director of Product Management and Innovation leading the organization’s search engine marketing and search

$9 million in funding for data firm Media6Degrees
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
The company is helmed by Joe Doran, former general manager of Microsoft’s Ad Center. “Media6Degrees is revolutionary,” Tim Connors, general partner at US

SEMPO to Host Speed Networking Reception at SES San Jose on Monday
MarketWatch – USA
Strategy Director for iCrossing, Terry Plank, SEMPO Institute Curriculum Dean, and Jorie Waterman, Senior Program Manager of Microsoft’s adCenter.

Live Search Maps Offer Local Ads
Search Engine Land – Redding,CT,USA
I guess there is no way to do this within their adCenter ad product? Again, Live Search Maps ads is brand new to me and I assume most advertisers are

Furl Launches New Group Feature
WELT ONLINE – Germany
and contextual search advertising via its quality Advertiser Networks; and licenses its white label AdCenter technology to publishers and networks.

Study: MSN Hit Hardest by Dominance of Google
TMCnet – USA
Google and Yahoo recently entered in a non-exclusive agreement that lets Yahoo use Google’s ‘AdSense for Search’ and ‘AdSense for Content’ advertising

First Wiki Aimed at Helping Small Businesses and Freelancers
Event Planner Spain (press release) – Malaga,Andalusia,Spain
The AEPIM is funded by contributions from its members and collaborating companies, and the revenues from Google Adsense campaigns.

FeedBurner Ad Network Kaput?
ClickZ News – New York,NY,USA
Word has it Google, which bought FeedBurner last year, will officially make the switch to AdSense network ads. As noted by the RSS feed firm in May,

Google issued notice for promoting sex selection via ads
Khabrein.info – New Delhi,Delhi,India
search engine company and advertisement firm has been sued for ads displayed on its website and through its Google Adsense programme across the globe.

Google shuts Feedburner ad network
Media Guardian – UK
The note also encouraged publishers to seek similar options through AdSense, touting the new AdSense for Feeds product, which is powered by FeedBurner.

Google Facing Third ‘Parked Domain’ Suit
MediaPost Publications – New York,USA
The Illinois company specifically takes issue with Google’s AdSense for Domains and AdSense for Errors programs, which place ads on sites that have little

Book Review: The Coming China Wars – Where They Will Be Fought and
Blogcritics.org – Aurora,OH,USA
For weeks it nailed the small Adsense box on my Inside-out China blog (apparently Google did a good job of matchmaking), and I got so tired of seeing it all

Forget FeedBurner: Roll Your Own
Mashable – San Francisco,CA,USA
Adam Ostrow wrote this weekend on the horrible state of advertising targeting on AdSense for RSS, which as we’ve learned today is the replacement for the

The Beginning of the End for Feedburner?
Wired News – USA
So will this migration to AdSense be a seemless transition, or will Feedburner go the way of companies like Dodgeball, Urchin, and Jaiku, who learned that

Oops! iPhone app publisher waits on Apple to fix a big mistake
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
I have to wonder if the iTunes team has considered priority accounts like Google AdWords or emergency-attention surcharges like UPS and Fed-Ex. Probably.

Google ‘Ransoming’ Customers Searching For Trademarked Brands
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
A packaging company claims that until May 2008, Google actively hid the extent to which its AdWords program monetized low-quality pages, parked domains,

Ten Million Zombies Distributing Spam and Malware Every Day
MarketWatch – USA
Google Adwords has been at the center of one of the most notable attacks over the last quarter. This Google service had been used previously to launch

No love for L’Oréal: EU courts waffle on eBay counterfeits
Ars Technica – Boston,MA,USA
In fact, Louis Vuitton also won a case against Google AdWords after companies began to use Louis Vuitton trademarks in their online advertisements (such as