Posts Tagged advertising

Yahoo and Microsoft Search Alliance moving at a snail’s pace.

Search-Alliance-Snails-PaceBack in July 2009, the ball began to roll on a merger of sorts between Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing search engines. This March the deal became more finalized and a shape began to form for what would become a joint search marketing effort. (Read our own article from January this year.)

What has happened since?  Well, not much really. However, any SEO you talk to will most likely have received countless emails regarding how it’s moving forward, how big things are happening, etc. etc.
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Online Marketing : What NOT to do

Search engines and SEO in general are changing on what seems like a daily basis. Algorithms are constantly being tweaked, and what worked like a charm 2 months ago, may be falling flat today. This presents an interesting mix of excitement and stress for most marketing companies, and I won’t lie… we are not exempt. Read the rest of this entry »

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Is mobile marketing important?

It seems that nearly everyone has a mobile device of some kind, especially ones that have online access able to view content and advertisements.

Why then, do so few people discuss mobile as a viable advertising vehicle? Could it be because of the much smaller viewable area on the device’s screen? Could it be because people are scared of using data on their mobile device, due to the potentially sky-high fees incurred by their mobile carrier? Or could it be that they simply don’t use their mobile devices for viewing media, content or other ad-supported material? Read the rest of this entry »

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Location-based social media. How could it go wrong?

One of the latest trends in online social activity has been the explosion of location-based search.  Whether it’s through Google search, Foursquare, Yelp, or the myriad other services available through a quick query to your mobile phone’s built-in GPS, tracking a user’s location is proving to be beneficial for both users and businesses.
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Twitter launches ‘Promoted Tweets’

After months of rumours and discussions, Twitter has finally launched their business model. Instead of calling them ‘ads’ or ‘paid tweets’ they will be called ‘Promoted Tweets‘. Many wondered if Twitter could ever actually begin making money, and with the launch of this new model, it’s certainly a possibility.

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