First Rate's Monthly search engine marketing newsletter. January 2007 http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/?source=rss en-NZ ontarget@firstrate.co.nz First Rate Ltd Wed, 31 January 2007 10:50:00+1300 http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/?source=rss http://www.first-rate.com/rss/ontargetlogo.gif Jon Ostler, First Rate’s founder and CEO will be moderating the Financial Services session on Thursday 8th February at 1:10pm. You’ll hear from top advertisers National Australia Bank and Citigroup as they share case studies of how and why they are moving into the digital space. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/index.html?source=rss#1 First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 Search Engine Room is Australia’s largest Search Engine marketing conference and Jon Ostler will be presenting a strategy on SEO Strategies for Data-Rich Websites as well as participating on a panel session about linking. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/index.html?source=rss#2 First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 First Rate is sponsoring the Best Financial Services Site at the 2007 NetGuide Web Awards. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony in April. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/index.html?source=rss#3 First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 First Rate has moved! Our new address and contact details are as follows: Level 3, 4-16 Yurong Street, Sydney NSW 2011, Australia, t. +61 2 9339 6786, f. +61 2 9475 4566 http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/index.html?source=rss#4 First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 THE ABC is keeping open the option of running advertisements on its website following news that the BBC is preparing to open a New York office to sell online advertising. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/01-ABC-eyes-move.html?source=rss First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 Print media companies APN New Zealand and ACP New Zealand have formed a venture to develop ACP's sellmefree.co.nz website, which offers free general classified advertisements. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/02-APN-ACP-classifieds-venture.html?source=rss First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 With one click of a button it now takes mere seconds to leap from Lambton Quay to the peak of Mt Everest - virtually. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/03-concern-over-google-earth.html?source=rss First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 Microsoft has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse today after it offered to pay an Australian blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web encyclopedia site. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/04-microsoft-tried-to-doctor-wikipedia.html?source=rss First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 News Corp's MySpace said today it has sued an email marketing executive for an unspecified amount of damages, saying he and his company were behind millions of junk email, or spam, messages sent to its customers' accounts. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/05-myspace-sues-marketer.html?source=rss First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007 Google sites accounted for nearly half of all U.S.-originated searches in December last year, a 0.4 share point increase over the previous month. That's according to data released by comScore Networks's qSearch product. Search volumes increased in December. A total 6.7 billion searches were conducted online in the U.S. market, a 1 percent increase searches in November. Search query volumes are up 30 percent over December 2005. http://www.first-rate.com/ontarget/0701/07-yahoos-4Q-profit-tops-analyst-views.html First Rate Wed, 31 January 2007