Why doesn’t Google allow advertisers to buy “Proper Names”? Proper name searches are one of the most popular searches that people do on search engines right? What are five top things that you do on the internet nowadays? 1. Check your email 2. “Google” someone 3. Read news on how McCain is losing in the polls 4. Check your [...]

This is my week to rant about Google so just let me be for a second. I have been doing random searches everyday in areas and verticals that I don’t typically search on just to find some funny search results that don’t make sense or where the SEO pro’s have worked the “Google Algorithm” also [...]

I think that there is huge anti-trust issues with the proposed Yahoo-Google advertising partnership. Google says they will backfill their advertisers into areas where Yahoo doesn’t have any advertisers. Yahoo President Sue Decker recently wrote on a Yahoo company blog that the nonexclusive Google deal is simply a way of “backfilling” search queries with relevant [...]

Google has been making some very poor business decisions lately mostly in the way they handle their advertisers in Google AdWords. When I first bought an ad on Google (I believe I was the 3rd person to do so) it was presented to me in a 3-ring binder with a list of keywords that I [...]

Have you been wondering how you can get your site included in Cuil.com but can’t find anything anywhere on their site? I am always looking for alternative SEO and natural search traffic options and did a little digging around and found the Cuil.com webmaster info page at: http://www.cuil.com/info/webmaster_info/ From that page, there is a link that says [...]

If you are trying to get a higher click through rate on your ad in Google in order to reduce your CPC in your Google AdWord’s campaign here are a few tips and tricks that I recommend you implement and use. Google has recently (sort of) introduced new quality score measures where they are looking for [...]

And finally the moment that we have all been so anxiously awaiting, a new search engine to battle the Google giant. I have always been an advocate for the small guys. Cuil.com was created by Ex-Google workers, Anna Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power and Louis Monier. [...]

Our good and sometimes evil friend over at Google are always squeezing the algorithms in how they rank your paid listings against your competitors that are buying the same keywords in an effort to show and reward relevance. This can be a frustrating game for mom and pop shops and agencies to manage as keywords [...]

I recently did a SEO presentation at BizJam and got a few questions about SEO and flash websites and came across this posting in Google’s Blog by Software Engineers at Google, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins. Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, [...]

I attended Danny Sullivan’s sort of new SMX Advanced conference here in Seattle this week and was walking around the exhibitor areas looking to see if there was anything new to report and the best booth stop of the morning for me was at the Microsoft Advertising booth. I talked to a guy that was [...]