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Quality Score: the Hype and the Reality

Hacking through the mythology surrounding Google’s Quality Score.

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AdWords $20 Million Class Action Payout

Find Out if the Settlement Applies to You.

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ASCII Art Adwords Worm

The worms.com ASCII wriggler gave me a chuckle.

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Monitor Your Brand Online Via RSS

RSS feeds from search results make it easy to monitor your brand across the web.

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Google Trademark Policy Change

Google announced a major change in trademark policy today.

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Google Microformats Will Have Large Impact On Online Retail — Not All Good

For better or worse, this is where online retail is heading, and your marketing and merchandising teams will benefit from being there at the beginning.

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Google PlusBox Performance Results

Reaction to 6-months of Google AdWords’ PlusBox performance data.

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Paid Search Market Share by Engine: Yahoo Resurgent?

We took a look at “Market Share” of the big three engines over time and saw some interesting trends.

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Google’s Web PlusBox & Wonder Wheel Test?

Today I noticed a new feature on my Google results pages: A “web” plus box that expands to show new SERP features.

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What do we want from Google?

I’ve been asked to join Google’s SEM Advisory Council. Here are some things we want from Google in 2009.

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Broad Match Controls We Need

Following up last week’s post on a bug in Google’s Broad Match algorithm, this post details more controls we’d like to have while they’re under the hood.

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FeedBurner, Google, And The 502 / 503 Error

Last week we transferred our FeedBurner account to Google and encountered some problems. This post discusses the bug fix in specific, and Feedburner in general.

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Best First Link For Beginner SEO

Here’s my new favorite response to the friends-and-family question, “so, how do I get my website to show up higher on Google?”

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Did Your RSS Counts Drop After Migrating to Google Accounts?

Our RSS subscriber counts are down 50% and our reach numbers down 60% after migrating from Feedburner to Google. Is this real, or a tracking hiccup?

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Google Broad Match: A Change for the Worse

Google’s Broad Match changed over the summer — unbeknownst to them!

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Google Shuts Down Google Catalog Search

The end of an experiment.

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2008 vs. 2007 Q4 Paid Search Results

Here are some aggregate charts of our clients’ results in the fourth quarter of 2008 vs. 2007.

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Chrome “Destination Search” Foiled For Some Retailers?

I’ve recently noticed Chrome’s “Destination Search” doesn’t work for sites with unconventional search-form HTML. Perhaps there’s a broader lesson there.

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Click Volume Versus Click Profitability In Pay-Per-Click Bidding

Can you bid more than your target efficiency and make it up in volume? Often, no.

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YahooCash4Idiots

We’ve complimented Google here before on their efforts to improve their content network. It it nice these changes are beginning to be noticed by the get-rich-quicksters too.

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Early Read on Google’s New Mobile Phone Network Setting

Google’s New Mobile Device Network Distribution Setting - Should We Care?

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Merry Christmas, Mike Ullman

We’d welcome JCP customer relations to our blog to describe how to reach JCP customer service.

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Google Analytics Blinders?

“An entire generation of web analytics experts are being trained by Google to analyze business exactly the way Google wants your business to be analyzed.”

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Online Retail Stats: CyberMonday 2008 vs. 2007

One day isn’t an entire retail season, but I thought it interesting to compare CyberMonday 2008 to 2007.

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SearchWiki For Adwords

Yesterday Google announced SearchWiki, allowing Google users to customize their search results.

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