Attendees learned the basics of search metrics at the recent “Measuring Search Success” session at the Toronto Search Engine Strategies conference, moderated by Chris Sherman, of Search Engine Watch. What…
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What Else Are Searchers Thinking?
At Search Engine Strategies in Toronto, Chris Sherman of Search Engine Watch moderated this forum on what searchers think and do while they are searching. Gord Hotchkiss made a similar…
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Jim Sterne is a prolific author on Web metrics and the organizer of the well-respected Web Analytics Conference held each June in Santa Barbara. Jim is a well-known speaker who…
Read MoreWhat Are Searchers Thinking?
This interesting session at the AD:TECH conference in San Francisco featured three different research studies highlighting the way searchers behave. The first study featured an eye tracking study of exactly…
Read MoreHow do you influence the search results title and snippet?
We search marketers spend a great deal of time searching for our own sites. Just sending a little query to Google to see where our important keywords rank today. And…
Read MoreClick fraud: The inside story?
The click fraud news just won’t quit. Since I wrote my March Biznology newsletter, we’ve seen court cases against both the search engines and the alleged defrauders, but now there’s…
Read MoreGoogle and MSN search experiment with titles
It’s big news when Google changes anything. Google is constantly tinkering with making results appear more relevent—they were the first to extract text from your page to show the snippet…
Read MoreClick fraud enters the courtroom
The words on the March Biznology newsletter are barely dry before we start seeing a whole new side of the click fraud wars—order in the court! Two notable lawsuits have…
Read MoreWill click fraud kill the paid search golden goose?
If, in our wired world, it feels like something useful is always imperiled by something from the dark side, well, it’s not just a feeling. Viruses have infected our personal…
Read MoreBig company and big site search marketing
Big sites really are different. If you can gather your entire Web team into a conference room and explain the new way that we are all going to code our…
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