Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
New updated news on the YSM (Yahoo Search Marketing) Blog. Again they are touting the intent of the new blog to be a win/win place for marketers and the yahoo staff to learn and grow with their new product. It will contain updated news on the YSM platform and all updates planned and implemented. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Blog, Yahoo by Steve Terjeson
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Article Publication
I have had my Ironvine Search Marketing News - October 2006 edition published on several article sites.
Here are a couple links:
http://www.articleblast.com/Computers_and_Internet/General/Ironvine_Search_Marketing_News_-_October_2006/
http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/se-tactics/ironvine-search-marketing-news-october-2006.html
http://www.amazines.com/article_detail.cfm/164330?articleid=164330
Feel free to view, use or vote for the articles if you like.
No Comments » - Posted in News by Steve Terjeson
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Google SketchUp
SketchUp is one of Google’s lesser publicized applications that it offers for free online (for personal use).
SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Google, Programming by Steve Terjeson
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Maximize Holiday Sales with QuickLaunch
We haven’t talked about Microsoft’s adCenter in a while so here is a nice update about the QuickLaunch service that adCenter provides.
If you can spend at least $30/day on adCenter, check out QuickLaunch and get your holiday campaigns rolling.
This can be especially helpful during the busy holiday shopping season with all the new products [...]
No Comments » - Posted in MSN by Steve Terjeson
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog
Today Yahoo! unveiled its new Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog. This comes in the wake of the new Panama release, Yahoo’s latest search marketing platform. Their initial blog post explains why they are just now opening a search marketing blog to keep marketers up to speed with happenings at Yahoo!.
During the first few months, we’ll [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Blog, News, Yahoo by Steve Terjeson
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Google Alerts
Google has added the ability to have Alerts sent to your email that now include blogs, news, web, groups and a comprehensive report of all the options. I have had news and web alerts set up for about a year now, but today I got my first email that included a blog report.
Set up your [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Google by Steve Terjeson
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Google Webmaster Guidelines Change
Google has changed its algorithm and updated the webmaster guidelines. Previously in the Google webmaster guidelines it stated:
Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index.
They have removed this requirement and will now index dynamic URLs that use the &id= parameter. But, again, they still [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Google, News, SEO by Steve Terjeson
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Search News
Welcome to Ironvine Search Marketing (http://www.ironvine.com/blog/), providers of quality content including search engine optimization tips, search marketing, search industry news and programming tips with code samples. Today we will cover some of the latest news and happenings in the world of search.
This weeks topics:
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Released
Google Custom Search Engine
eComXpo Online Search Marketing [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Blog, Google, MSN, News, SEO, Yahoo by Steve Terjeson
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
eComXpo Virtual Tradeshow Starts Tomorrow
eComXpo Opens - October 24th, 2006 @ 9:00 am ET
I have attended the two previous eComXpo virtual tradeshows and found them to be interesting and a decent amount of good information from the presenters. There is generally a lot more content for affiliate marketers than for the strict SEO/SEM professionals. However they usually have a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News by Steve Terjeson
Friday, October 20th, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 Launch: Reviewed
Yesterday Oct. 19th Microsoft launched its latest version of Internet Explorer, IE7. There have been lots of radio spots, radio ads, and news articles going out to let everyone know IE7 is live. It is being touted by Microsoft as being more secure, user friendly, and full of new features including tabbed browsing, RSS reader [...]
No Comments » - Posted in MSN, News by Steve Terjeson
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Google Webmaster Central Update
This week sees a nice update to the Google Webmaster tools. Vanessa Fox posted on the Offical Google Webmaster Central Blog describing the recent additions and updates. These updates seem really useful and a big bonus for the webmasters who need to micro manage bandwidth, manage the crawl rate and get more detailed information about [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Google, SEO by Steve Terjeson
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Google Announces Website Optimizer for Landing-Page Testing
This week, Google revealed a new tool at the Emetrics Summit in Washington, D.C. Called Website Optimizer, it is designed to help AdWords advertisers test different landing pages in order to determine which one drives the highest number of conversions.
Multi-variable testing for landing pages is something that has become more popular over the last couple [...]
