Search as Navigation On the Rise
Compete has shared some interesting data indicating that web users are increasingly using search engines to simply navigate to the sites they…
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Compete has shared some interesting data indicating that web users are increasingly using search engines to simply navigate to the sites they…
One aspect of search that doesn't get discussed often enough is image search. It's such a huge part of search and the daily habits of web surfers all over the world, it's amazing how little attention is actually paid to it when it comes to marketing and optimization. Have tips for optimizing for image search? Share them here.
Press releases are a form of online marketing that we don't discuss very often. They don't have the new and exciting appeal of social media or even search engine marketing, but they've been around a lot longer and are still working. In fact, they can play right into those other forms.
A recent study from LinkedIn and Harris Interactive showed that only 8% of advertisers and consumers think Twitter is a "very effective" promotion tool. Still, it is the most linked to social network in email marketing campaigns.
Two weeks ago, Adobe released a critical patch for Flash Player and Acrobat Reader. According to online security company Trusteer, about 80% of users are still vulnerable, and perhaps more startling, the company views this as being possibly the biggest security hole on the Internet today. That 80% figure is based on Trusteer's installed base of over 2.5 million online banking users of the company's…
There has been a 508 percent increase in the number of new malicious Web links discovered in the first half of 2009, according to IBM's X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report. The report found an increase in the presence of malicious content on trusted sites, including search engines, blogs, bulletin boards, personal websites, online magazines and mainstream news sites.