Archive for October, 2007

Oct 24 2007

Yahoo! does ad deal with First Rate

Released on: October 24, 2007, 7:24 pm
Press Release Author: Tom Skotidas

Industry: Advertising

Press Release Summary: Yahoo! Search Marketing and online marketing agency First Rate have gone into partnership to distribute Yahoo!’s sponsored search listings across First Rate’s online advertising network.

Press Release Body: Yahoo! does ad deal with First Rate

Yahoo! Search Marketing and online marketing agency First Rate have gone into partnership to distribute Yahoo!’s sponsored search listings across First Rate’s online advertising network.

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Oct 13 2007

AdWords moves landing page quality goalposts

Published by AU Editor under Search Engine Marketing

Certain types of websites are unlikely to be able to achieve high scores for the quality of their landing pages after Google recently announced some AdWords changes.by Helen Leggatt

The nature of a website, and the content therein, will now dictate how that site is ranked in terms of the quality of its landing page. Those sites that are most likely to be penalized by the changes are:- Data collection sites that offer free gifts, subscription services etc., in order to collect private information.- Arbitrage sites that are designed for the sole purpose of showing ads.
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Oct 13 2007

10 Future Web Trends

Published by AU Editor under Other

We’re well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation and syndication (RSS), mashups (APIs), and much more. Currently the Web is still mostly accessed via a PC, but we’re starting to see more Web excitement from mobile devices (e.g. iPhone) and television sets (e.g. XBox Live 360).

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Oct 13 2007

Microsoft Launches New Search Index & Algorithms

As expected early last week, Microsoft announced the “New Live Search”. Todd, Oilman, posted live coverage, as did Vanessa Fox at Search Engine Land of the Searchification event at Microsoft. Here is what Microsoft explained is new:

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