Archive for March, 2011

Connect.me/TimCohn

March 10, 2011

I have signed up for the Connect.me Beta.

Connect.me

Connect.me

It will be interesting to see is someone has finally cracked this particular problem or not.

AdWords Advertising Life Cycle

March 9, 2011

Here are the four types of AdWords services at least as defined by Google Partner search.

Ongoing AdWords account management services

One-time AdWords account optimization

One-time AdWords account setup

AdWords training (to self-manage in the future)

I think these four types of Google AdWords services accurately address each stage of the AdWords advertising life cycle.

 

 

Industry Revenue Per Employee

March 8, 2011

Via Fortune Magazine – here are the top twenty five industries with the highest amounts of revenue per employee.

Revenue Per Employee

Revenue Per Employee

Rethinking The Grind

March 7, 2011

After inadvertently forgetting to post to SearchMarketingCommunications.com last Friday ending 914 consecutive days in a row of posting, I have begun to question the process of consecutive daily blogging altogether.

The first question I have to ask myself is – was it worth the price?

Yes.

The second question is: would I do it again?

I don’t yet have that answer.

The SEO Is Dead Debate

March 6, 2011

About once a month, some blogger somewhere tells their audience SEO is dead.

Although the SEO is Dead headline is a great hook, the argument against SEO always rings hollow.

Why?

Because the SEO is Dead author never offers an equal let alone superior alternative that instead lives.

Information Discovery Matrix

March 5, 2011

The following Information Discovery Matrix comes from a TechCrunch guest post written by Techmeme Editor Mahendra Palsule.

Information Discovery Matrix

Information Discovery Matrix

Read  about the “Information Discovery Matrix” at TechCrunch.

 

YouTube Trends Dashboard

March 4, 2011

I discovered the YouTube Trends dashboard and just for fun thought I’d see which video my own demographic viewed the most.

YouTube Trends Dashboard

YouTube Trends Dashboard

To my surprise, 45-54 year old American men like myself appear to also be drawn to anything with Charlie Sheen in it like today’s most viewed video.

Even more telling was the fact that none of the other age groups whether male or female ranked the Charlie Sheen video first.

A Paid Search SWOT

March 3, 2011

Via comScore:

Paid Search SWOT

Paid Search SWOT

Linkedin Pushing The Work Graph

March 2, 2011

I got the following email from Linkedin today asking me if I knew any of these people.

Linkedin Work Graph

Linkedin Work Graph

Well I don’t know any of these people but what better way to deepen user engagement than to provide them with potential insights about potential connections within their work graph?

 

 

2011 Google Social Search Update

March 1, 2011

In this video, learn about recent updates to Google Social Search which was launched in 2009.

More about Social Search from Google:

Our new improvements enable you to get even more information from people you are connected to, whether they’re publishing on Twitter, Flickr, Blogger or other publicly available sites. When you sign in to your Google Account, you can get ideas and recommendations from people you trust, right in your search results. Go try it out for yourself.