Category Archives: Personalized Search

Effective B2B Search Marketing

We’ve discussed B2C search often in this blog and in our newsletter. It is only logical that in order to increase your visibility, you need to be available everywhere your customers interact if you offer a solution or product. However, B2B search has become an increasingly important aspect of the marketing budget and businesses need to [...]

Search Matters Weekly Pravda

Здравствулте! Камрады! Добро пожаловать к правде людей!
Search links for you to enable your fight against capitalist aggression and banishment to the search engine gulag (supplemental results).
За успеха нашево безнадёжнова дела!

Comrade Jane explains the downside of democratic link baiting. (SEO moz)
Titleist fails to make social media campaign fly. Power to the people. (SMO)
Yahoo Assist helps aid [...]

Lee Odden is #1 for “Lee Odden” (Oh wait: that doesn’t matter anymore.)

Lee Odden posted on personalization of search results, and how customized search results spelled the end of conventional ranking reports. He then proceeded to blast an unnamed SEO company for mentioning that they use WebPosition to provide ranking reports for their clients:
At a recent conference I attended, a speaker from a very large search engine [...]

Search Matters Weekly Search Links 4/25/2007

Blogs, social networks and personalized search are all making headlines this week. All this fancy pants social media and uppity blog talk gets me cranky. I remember a time when you didn’t have to worry about RSS food and XML whatsits and tag storms, or whatever. You just built a static website with a [...]

What is Social Media Optimization?

Social Media Optimization is a concept that is making its way into mainstream marketing publications. Social Media Optimization or SMO is a concept coined by Rohit Bhargava of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. In his 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization, Rohit explains that:
“The concept behind SMO is simple: implement changes to optimize a site so [...]

Reaching the US Hispanic Market with Healthcare Search Marketing

Many healthcare companies recognize the US Hispanic market as a growing part of their business and online strategy, and their websites are slowly beginning to reflect this. Although this is considered a major step toward successful marketing to the US Hispanic audience, providing a Spanish sub-section of a website or dedicating a few pages of [...]

What is Personalized Search?

Put most simply, personalized search is the delivery of search engine results that are uniquely tailored to both keyphrases and individual searchers. For example, in the early days of search, everyone searching for the phrase “AMD” would get the same results, whether they were interested in silicone chips or semiconductors, or age-related macular degeneration. With [...]