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Ad Hijacking through the Internet

Posted by on June 23, 2009 2 comments

Just did a guest post at Search Cowboy’s, titled “Ad hijacking:integrate off- & online advertising” a topic very close to me. You can read the post at the Search Cowboy’s web what I wanted to say here and to underline the problems facing marketer not remembering the Internet crystallizes in the Patrick Dempsey advertisement for L’oreal. As Bos send me the email that the post was I out I was located at a SuperDrug store in London trying to find “oinments” for my face I saw this stand at the store.

Patrick-Dempsey-Avon-Loreal

Get your links through Link-Baiting

Posted by on June 22, 2009 No comments

A great way of gaining quality inbound links is through link-baiting, that is get people to link to you through the type of content you have on your site.

Here are couple of ideas:

1. Whitepapers and research
2. Interviews and Reviews
3. Tools or Plugins
4. Tips and Advice

Giving people thins is always good and will gain attention, people that then like what you are giving will link-to your give-aways and recommend them. By getting people to link to you through link-baiting you will grow links naturally and hopefully equally so prominence in organic search results.

When you create a link-building strategyit’s vital that you have this in mind but also that you can compliment these efforts by requesting links directly from site owners or through forms if you are looking for links at directories such as Dmoz, JoeAnt, Randburg and so on. Through the years I have been creating multilingual link-building campaigns mixing together link-baiting, link-requesting, online PR, social media bookmarking and link exchange to mention few of the techniques out there, with good success for well over one hundred clients over the past 10 years or so. Read more »

Why it is important not just to open a PPC campaign

Posted by on April 12, 2009 No comments

We recently worked for a client that wanted us to do a PPC campaign at Google for 3000 pounds, thee campaigns with several ad groups and run it for three or four weeks . The problem was that the campaign was actually not the three campaigns and couple of ad groups, this was four campaigns and some 20 ad groups with all its related keyword clusters. Read more »

Search me, the newest of the new or is it?

Posted by on March 14, 2009 No comments

So I was watching CNN and there was an interview with the founder of Search Me, Andy Adams. So what makes Search me better? You search and see the Blue list of links that was a system created back in the old age when everybody had a slow connection. But that is not anymore, you should just see the sites right away. So the if you search it shows you a screenshot of sites and that is all great but when I tested it it was slow in loading and it only shows one picture at a time and three or four others on the sides of the main result. But when I tried to search for Iceland, I found some good sites but there were missing pictures. It is still in BETA, so that is forgiven.

My feeling is that Search Me is on the right track but I am not convinced yet.

www.searchme.com

Airlines plan to increase Internet marketing in the recession

Posted by on February 27, 2009 3 comments

Despite trends in former recessions of decreased marketing, there are signs that many companies might keep their marketing efforts unchanged or even increased this time around.

For the airline industry which is traditionally very recession sensitive, this might be particularly true. The flight industry magazine, Airline Business, in its latest issue publishes the results of a survey conducted among 22 top level airline executives. The surveyed focuses on the airlines marketing directions and size of their marketing budgets for 2009. Interestingly, as much as 60 percent of the participating airlines claim that it is important to invest more in marketing during a recession, to stimulate demand. Read more »

Use the Internet, It’s 2009

Posted by on February 20, 2009 No comments

Sometimes its good to be taken back a few steps and being reminded of the world that is inhabited by “normal” Internet users. Working professionally everyday with the Internet as a sales and marketing channel, easily makes you loose the perspective of those people. The people that are the end receivers of our clients messages and products.

Luckily though, an article in The Mail on Sunday on the 15th of February reminded me of the Internet reality that actually reigns out there outside of our office walls. Entitled “Millions lost by firms who ignore the net”, the article reveals that six out of ten British companies do not use the Internet to sell their products, even though they are quite happy to use the Internet to buy goods and services for their organizations. A survey on small businesses (up to 50 people) showed that four out of five use their website to showcase their goods rather than sell it. Even more surprising, 67 percent believed that they would not find customers online if they were to try. Considering the fact that 20 billion pounds was spent online during 2008, it feels safe to assume that they are wrong and that they are loosing out on considerable earnings by not incorporating the Internet as a serious marketing and sales channel. Read more »

Most of the top UK PR agencies do not offer online press releases

Posted by on November 27, 2008 No comments

Recent survey carried out by Bigmouthmedia revealed that 79 out of the 100 top UK PR companies don’t offer online PR services.

Sadly, only 14% of the operations that claimed to have new media covered, published their own blogs. All in all, surprisingly as low as 11% of UK PR consultancies communicate with clients, colleagues and the wider marketplace via their blogs.

Companies nowadays still do not seem to see the real semantic difference between online press releases and digital press releases.

The following figures for October 2008 in the UK show the differences in terms of their relative search popularity:

Online PR 2,900
Online public relations 1,600
Web PR 880
Digital PR 590
Internet PR 260
Internet Public Relations 170
Digital public relations 73

Are 80pc of SEO consultants are scammers?

Posted by on August 8, 2008 1 comment

College of mine pointed a blog post to me written by Peter Kent, author, SEO for Dummies. The post claims that 80% of search engine marketing consultants are scammers and I must say that I agree. I have seen some poor samples of SEO consultancy to even the biggest companies.

In the post there is also a mention of flash designed webs having poor visability, even though I have seen search optimized flash sites they tend to have lesser chance than other and I must also say that I agree with Peter when he claims not having seen evidence showing that flash sites are indexable, I have but for me it’s rather a question of the ranking.

The rule is that you do not hire anyone that says he/she can get to the top 10, even if he has done it for another client, different clients have different needs.

Another thing is be carefull of what tools you use, many are just there to collect information about you and your activities, understand trends and so on.

Get case studies and references to verify that they are correct.

Bye, bye to my favorite SEO tool

Posted by on July 5, 2008 6 comments

It is official Yahoo is officially and finally discontinuing it’s Overture keyword suggestion tool. Sad but true! So bye, bye, adieu, farwell. My favorite multilingual SEO 1.0 tool gone forever! Now all roads lead to http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/

Google announces a “Flash indexing algorithm”

Posted by on July 1, 2008 1 comment

Finally I must say, now that Adobe has made Flash indexable Google launches their Flash indexing algorithm. As most SEO people know the big problem with Flash-based websites has been that they could not be properly indexed by the likes of Google and Yahoo. Flash websites have been favored by marketers and advertisers for a long time, because of the ability to create rich, interactive Web experiences and now they can be indexed by Google, now let’s see what Yahoo and MSN do.