Like the last invaders from back in ‘75 (Seventeen Seventy Five that is), it seems that Google, a new dreadnought, has its sights on Boston and they’re planning on more than a fortnight’s stay. Amidst not so subtle clues, like job listings for Google and YouTube for the Boston area and search insider gossip, the [...]
Category Archives: Search Engines
Paid Search: Are you getting your money’s worth?
February 28, 2007 – 2:18 pm
The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) recently released its annual industry survey and it includes some truly remarkable findings. One such finding is that spending on paid search marketing was approximately $8 Billion (U.S.) in 2006 and that number is expected to double over the next five years. This is obviously a [...]
What is Social Media Optimization?
November 22, 2006 – 5:39 pm
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 [...]
Best Practices for Integrated Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
October 22, 2006 – 5:21 pm
As advertisers increasingly seek to synchronize their pay-per-click and organic search engine marketing campaigns, a new strategic discipline is emerging-integrated search engine marketing. The goal of an integrated SEM campaign is to deliver better overall ROI than search engine optimization and pay-per-click campaigns would have yielded independently. This article outlines the opportunities that are unique [...]
Reaching the US Hispanic Market with Healthcare Search Marketing
June 22, 2006 – 5:32 pm
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 Google Co-op - Health?
May 22, 2006 – 5:29 pm
Google Co-op was released in Beta this early May to introduce its users to a new concept of community and social tagging of websites that may influence the way we see search engine results in the future. Google claims that it “is a platform which enables you to use your expertise to help other users [...]
What is Personalized Search?
April 4, 2006 – 5:11 pm
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 [...]
Do You Have An Effective Paid Search Campaign?
February 22, 2006 – 5:01 pm
Paid search engine marketing campaigns can be one of the most effective and cost efficient channels for promoting pharmaceutical products and attracting new patients.
But if not implemented and managed effectively, paid search campaigns can quickly burn through a marketing budget with little to show for it. In this article I discuss the key steps [...]
Can Blogging Drive Traffic to a Pharma Site?
February 1, 2006 – 4:55 pm
So, what is a Blog?
A blog is nothing more than a web page; but it is a special kind of web page. A typical blog is a website with regularly published “articles” that are displayed “newest first”.� Blogs have certain attributes that distinguish them from standard web pages; namely, ease of web publication and mass [...]
How does video search benefit health-related websites?
January 21, 2006 – 4:08 pm
Apple’s successful launch of video to its popular iTunes service has generated a lot of media buzz about the growing search demand for videos.
For both Google and Yahoo, video search appears to be all about content distribution and maximizing additional revenue streams. Health related websites that offer education videos and video testimonials on your website [...]
