The Search Engine Watch blog had a post today citing figures from a Microsoft adCenter survey which revealed that 59% of small businesses don’t do paid search marketing and that 90% of that number hadn’t even tried. The survey was actually news on several blogs and news sites. Some simply related the survey results; others [...]

I’ve been reviewing articles for newsletters and sites for over 10 years and about 7 years ago I launched GoArticles.com, now one of the largest free article content directories on the Web. In that time, the volume of article content being pumped out has mushroomed, but the overall quality has seriously declined. One of the [...]

Normally, although I enjoy writing, I don’t have the time. Yesterday, I made the time and posted 2 entries to this blog. The posts were made a few hours apart. I’d barely finished posting the first when I received a Google Alert that it had been added to the Google index. I chalked that off [...]

I’ve been fascinated by Twitter for months although for the life of me I don’t know why. The idea of micro-blogging – limiting posts to 140 characters or less – seems ludicrous on the surface and yet has a certain appeal. Maybe it’s because everyone is busy these days and less is more. Or, maybe [...]

A Search Engine Land post yesterday (Dec. 8/08) by Barry Schwartz entitled “Yahoo BOSS Now Serving 100 Queries Per Second” cited that the BOSS initiative was serving 10 million search queries per day, a figure that was close to rivaling Ask.com’s search volume. I’m not sure if BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) was Jerry [...]

David Berkowitz made an interesting blog post today about Google entitled “So Over Google” where he cites some of the frustrations people have with Google. Their gripes reflected some of my own and I suspect will strike a chord with many Google users, especially marketers and webmasters. As Google continues to move from search domination [...]

If you haven’t read Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 report, you should. The Blogosphere continues to grow in size and influence and the lines between what is a blog and what is a mainstream media site is becoming less clear with each passing year. The full report can be found at: http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ But here are [...]

Based on reports I’ve read at various SEO/SEM/Blog sites, it would be easy to conclude that the PubCon show in Las Vegas was a  major success. All the attendees must have been attending the speaker sessions because they certainly were not in evidence at the exhibit hall. The number of exhibitors appeared to be down from previous years [...]

If you’ve noticed a sudden decrease in spam hitting your Inbox, there’s a reason. Last Tuesday, after a lengthy investigation, McColo Corp, a Web hosting service based in San Jose, California was shutdown for hosting clients who were engaged in “everything from sending spam to controlling compromised computers around the world and selling knock-off pharmaceuticals”. Reports [...]

Email has been the undisputed king of the internet from Day 1 but in the last few years online search has been making inroads. According to a recent PEW study, 49% of internet users now use online search on a daily basis versus 60% for email. Email still leads as the Net’s most popular activity, [...]