Charles Hope of Blip.tv posted an email exchange he had with a site visitor who complained about some controversial videos hosted on the site.
Online Retailers Need Better Optimization
Eighty-one percent of Internet Retailer Magazine’s top 100 retailer’s Web sites are fully taking advantage of search engine optimization and marketing according to a new study by online marketer Oneupweb.
Getting Better Employees Than Google
Google offers its employees an amazing collection of perks, but other companies need workers, too, and those companies don’t want to deal exclusively with Mountain View’s leftovers. So Forbes’s Brian Caulfield figured out several ways to compete with Google during the hiring process.
Yahoo Users Spell Better?
Statistically speaking, it’s likely that you (whoever you are) use Google for most of your searches. That’s fine – and I’m right there with you – but new information suggests that people who use Yahoo are better spellers. Wo is us!
Google’s Better, But They Like Yahoo
Another clue that perception, not truth, is what you can expect from people comes out of Penn State today. A study reveals that Web searchers prefer Yahoo over Google; the only problem is, they chose a logo, not a search engine.
A Better Ask Commercial (not saying much)
Ask has a new television commercial. And, yep, it’s . . . disappointing. Yes, the Lisa makes incredible points about how they’re still objectifying the opposite sex and how googling ogling Kato Kaelin is just plain weird. And yes, their campaign since hiring CB+P has been disjointed and disappointing. But since she’s covered all that so well, I hardly have anything to add. So I’ll quote her:
SMX: Better Ways
Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan took the chair as moderator for the round, where the discussion was on "Better Ways of Keyword research. Link building. Page titles. Yawn. You know the fundamentals of SEO cold. Still, no one knows everything. Been wondering if there’s a better way to get something done? Put it to our panel of experts!"
SMX: Things Can Only Get Better
It was question and answer time again at Search Marketing Expo, with a panel of pros taking questions on better ways to do things when it comes to optimizing for search.
Advertise Better By Advertising Less
Matt Haughey dug around in his site analytics and found out he might be able to make more ad revenue by not showing ads to his most ardent visitors.
Sponsorships Work Better Than AdSense
One blogger found that a trio of potential revenue streams simply did not work for him; he did credit paid sponsor ads for their help.