Date Archive: March 2006
Web Usability: Reflections On Best Of The Web Judging
Why are some websites so good and some so marginal when it comes to usability? After judging this year’s finalists for the MultiChannel Merchant Best-Of-The-Web awards, one sees some very large sites dropping the ball, and some tiny sites hitting homeruns. When it comes to web usability, you don’t always have to be big to be great.
read more...Google Finance: Google’s Algorithmic Origins vs. Yahoo’s Editorial Origins
Google was born from algorithms, Yahoo was born from human editors, and those earliest influences still reverberate.
read more...Paid Search: PPC DayParting and Time Lag Between Click And Order
Dayparting PPC bid algorithms need to differentiate between time-of-click and time-of-order, matching each order back to the click responsible for it.
read more...Sharing Value Across The Clickstream in PPC Paid Search
For the retailer concerned with using online ads driving online sales, when the pundits preach spending more on poorly-performing high-volume terms because they “play an important role on the top of the conversion funnel”, we’d respond “maybe, maybe not.” Proceed with care, testing and tracking as you move ahead.
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We’re folks from the Rimm-Kaufman Group, a search marketing agency located in Charlottesville, Virginia. We started this blog to share our ideas about online marketing. We hope this blog helps clients, prospects, and potential employees get a better sense of our perspective and values.
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