Google Groups Hit By The Redesign Update Bug
Google has been on a role as of late. The company, just this year, has: launched Gmail, filed for its IPO, redesigned Blogger.com, added a slew of functions to their search options, began including images into their ad program, and now has launched its redesign/re-imagining of Google Groups. It’s obviously been a busy year.
A Fast Way to Find Clients
So you’ve gotten the training certification, made up your business cards, and started your web site. You’ve discovered your niche, and you have been marketing – aggressively even!
Google Begins Featuring Image Ads In AdWords
In a surprise to many experts, Google has begun offering image based ads to their AdWords clients. This new format of Google ads will, like all AdWords/AdSense campaigns, be contextual targeted.
Web Shopping Search Engine Use Jumps During Mother’s Day
Web users were out enmasse this past Mother’s Day weekend. Nielsen//NetRatings released a study that showed the amount of traffic to shopping-based search engines rose, in some cases, as much as 91%. The study also found that nearly 13 million unique visitors used online shopping directories and search engines.
Google Contest – Nigritude Ultramarine
Nigritude Ultramarine Search engine optimization experts are having fun with Google.
Gaining Financial Insights with the ROCE Tree Part 1
Few professionals in competitive intelligence have attended a formal financial analysis course: yet, analyzing a company’s financial statement is often part of the job. The following framework should be part of your portfolio of tools. It is geared toward those who understand financial terms, but do not know how to pull together financial ratios to “tell the story.” We at Competia particularly like this tool for the following reasons:
Search Engine College Launches
Offering classes in search engine optimization and marketing, Search Engine College has launched its web presence. Located in New Zealand, the courses SEC offers are completed online. SEC is owned by WebRank LTD and is managed by SEO expert Kalena Jordan.
How To Optimize Your Images For Image Search
Do the images on your website appear in Google’s image search? If you’re selling products they should. If you have pictures of yourself on your site those should appear in Google’s (and Yahoo’s) image search too.
Toronto Search Engine Strategies Report: Back To Basics
The Search Engine Strategies Conference is one of the largest and most comprehensive search engine focused conventions of the year. Held quarterly in different cities around the world, this spring’s conference is being held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in the middle of the country’s largest and most diverse city. I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate as a speaker at one of the site clinic sessions.
Exchange upgrades can deliver significant ROI
One of the core utilities IT provides to an organization is messaging services, including e-mail, calendaring, task management and collaboration. This utility is surprisingly expensive, especially if the organization runs prior-generation e-mail platforms. A typical Microsoft Exchange 5.5 solution has direct costs of more than $350 per user, per year, including hardware, software, IT operations, support and administration, and overhead. Older versions of same generation e-mail solutions like IBM Lotus Notes are similarly expensive.