http://marketing.webdepart.net Search Engines and Marketing News Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:56:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Read complete article from WebmasterWorld “Why is it still taking 3+ hours (on average) to see ads after resuming campaigns and 3 hours after pausing ads before they actually stop appearing and receiving clicks?” ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/25/adcenter-3-hours-to-pauseresume-ads/499.html Read complete article by The Founder from Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed Merrill Lynch issues report stating that Microsoft should buy Yahoo. When asked Microsoft refused to comment. Read more… http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/25/merrill-lynch-to-microsoft-buy-yahoo-now/500.html Read complete article from Search Engine Watch Blog Pacific Epoch reports that Google expect to have over 1,000 employees in Google China by 2007. By the end of this year, Google hopes to have 200 employees based in China. ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/25/google-to-have-1000-employees-in-china-by-2007/501.html Read complete article by noemail@noemail.org (Andy Beal) from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim We knew it was coming, and today Google announces they are running a pilot to test ad supported videos for premium content on Google Video. ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/25/google-testing-ad-supported-free-videos/502.html Read complete article by Adam Schultz - MarketSmart Interactive from Search Engine Lowdown Lately, I have been engaged in a MySpace Marketing conversation with Clary Lopez on her Guerrilla Marketers Forum at Lulu. Read ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/22/the-myspace-marketing-research-project/495.html Read complete article from WebmasterWorld “Microsoft and the Creative Commons on Wednesday plan to release a free tool that will let people attach a Creative Commons copyright license to Microsoft Office documents.” Read more… http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/22/creative-commons-comes-to-microsoft-office/496.html Read complete article by rustybrick from Search Engine Roundtable Danny reports that Google and Adobe formed a deal that will “Adobe will distribute the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer as part of Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player downloads.” ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/22/adobe-partners-with-google-but-what-about-yahoos-partnership-with-adobe/497.html Read complete article by rustybrick from Search Engine Roundtable Danny digs deep into the censorship taking place at Google Answers. Basically, as I wrote yesterday at SEW, Google Pulls Question About Google From Google Answers. ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/22/google-censors-google-questions-at-google-answers/498.html Read complete article by Loren Baker, Editor from Search Engine Journal Yellow Pages Group Beefs Up YellowPages.ca Local Search Yellow Pages Group has developed a new search platform which allows searchers on YellowPages.ca to be served more structured results after submitting unstructured queries. Local searchers in Canada will now be able ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/21/yellow-pages-group-beefs-up-yellowpagesca/503.html Read complete article by grnidone from Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed I’d like to know how you guys find contract jobs in SEO/ SEM/ anything. Most of the contract jobs I’ve had I’ve gotten through people I know who have had excess work they needed to farm out, and ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/21/how-do-you-find-contract-jobs-when-youre-an-unknown/490.html Read complete article by Chris Gilmer from The Unofficial Google Weblog Google’s Page Creator is a free website and hosting service put together by Google to let users with virtually no knowledge of HTML, a space of their own on the internet. However, it seems as ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/21/google-pages-used-by-hackers/491.html Read complete article from Search Engine Watch Blog PaidContent reports that two of the largest Chinese portals have been temporarily shut down by the Chinese authorities for not passing a “an on-the-spot censorship test.” ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/21/chinese-authorities-temporarily-shut-down-two-large-chinese-portals/492.html Read complete article by rustybrick from Search Engine Roundtable There is an excellent thread at WebmasterWorld, where the Google AdSenseAdvisor posts how geo-targeting works with Google’s contextual ad program, Google AdSense. Read more… http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/21/how-geotargeting-works-on-google-adsense/493.html Read complete article by noemail@noemail.org (Andy Beal) from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim Reports are surfacing that Google is offering a new CPA model for AdSense publishers. Read more… http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/21/google-launches-cost-per-action-model-for-adsense/494.html Read complete article by ShoeMoney from Shoemoney - Skills to pay the bills So this auction Here is for a “website” that makes over 12,000$ a month. Read more… http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/19/dude-sells-landing-page-on-ebay-for-10000/485.html Read complete article by noemail@noemail.org (Andy Beal) from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim Did you know that, on average, there is one mobile phone for every UK resident? When I left England in 2000, the cell phone industry was about 3 years ahead of the U.S. market, ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/19/google-using-london-to-expand-mobile-search/486.html Read complete article by noemail@noemail.org (Andy Beal) from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim I’m really curious as to why Google is so touchy when it comes to questions about whether their new payment processing system will challenge PayPal. ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/19/google-testing-payment-system-avoids-paypal-comparison/487.html Read complete article by graywolf from Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed Seeing how this has hit the front page of Digg I’d say we’re well past the stage of ‘outing’ someone’s spam. So Looking up the whois data we see the domain was registered on May 31st 2006 ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/19/how-to-get-5-billion-pages-indexed-in-less-than-30-days/488.html Read complete article from Search Engine Guide Blog Everyone knows that Google has agreed to work with the Chinese government in order to censor search results on the Chinese version of the Google search engine. Many people have also seen some examples of this censorship at ... http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/19/what-does-google-censor-in-china/489.html Read complete article from Search Engine Watch Blog Google Analytics has launched the Google Analytics Blog to provide product update news, bug fixes, and probably some how to posts…. Read more… http://marketing.webdepart.net/2006/06/16/google-analytics-launches-blog/482.html