Paid Search To Take Off In Canada
Canadian revenues from online advertising hit C $1.01 billion (US $894 million) in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada, a jump of 80 percent in one year.
Visualization and Buying
Visualization risked becoming another one of those clichéd words through the 90’s, because it was used by every self improvement guru as a path to success.
Xing Prepares News Feed Feature
Facebook had it first, and then MySpace beat this company to the punch. But the concept of a news feed has now spread to Xing, the professional networking site.
The Danger of Aggressive Ad Placement
When I did a recent Q&A thread one of the recurring themes with sites that were struggling was AdSense ads positioned above their content.
Many websites are never given the chance to grow because they monetize too aggressively and look to spammy to enjoy the benefits of organic growth and community building.
Internet Use Up By 24.3 Percent
According to Compete’s month-to-month statistics, there have been two dips in the amount of time people spent online in the past year, and one of those occurred between August and September. On a year-to-year basis, though, the total amount of time is up by nearly 25 percent.
Newspapers Propose New Indexing Standards
This should come as no surprise from the people who’d sue you to stop you from linking to them: at a publishers’ consortium today, after complaining about the limited nature of robots.txt, the newspaper industry has proposed new standards to prevent search engines (and other sites) from indexing their sites willy-nilly.
Official: Google Penalizing Paid Links
Google has officially said that buying and selling links that pass PageRank is a violation of the company’s Webmaster Guidelines, and can result in a drop in search rankings.
GoogleNet may get its wireless side yet
Eric Schmidt will put Google’s money where the company’s mouth is in January when the bidding begins for the highly valued 700MHz spectrum.
Analytics and Gut-Feelings
Neil sent me an interesting link yesterday – Less (Information) Is More in which the work of Gerd Gigerenzer, of the Max Planck Institute in Germany is discussed.
Gerd has a new book “Gut Feelings” that sounds like it has a lot in common with Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (reviewed here).
AOL Cashes In Money & Finance Beta
AOL will go head to head with Yahoo Finance as well as competition from Google and Microsoft, with all of these big Internet players looking for valuable financial news readers.