Is Search Engine Optimization and Search Marketing Agencies considered an Ad Agency

link: www.yoursite.com (not link:www.yoursite.com) site: www.yoursite.com (not site:www.yoursite.com) If you add the space, you will see some dramatic results. Almost ‘Yahoo Like’ We are currently researching the diffrences between the two ‘site’ and ‘link’ commands. However at first glance, it appears that the commands with the space generate increased links, however we have found some…

The US Army has awarded McCann Erickson a $1.35 ad contract

Moving forward, since Webmasterworld is banned in Google, Yahoo and MSN, I hereby revoke Brett Tabke’s right to name the updates. We have seen movement rollback to Jagger 2 Update on this datacenter: 64.233.179.99

We have Google Pagerank update confirmed as of now, 4:15 EST DEC 06, 2005

BRUSSELS, Belgium – European publishers warned Tuesday that they cannot keep allowing Internet search engines such as Google Inc. to make money from their content. “The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have built up over the years,” said Francisco Pinto Balsemao, the head…

It’s an intresting read. It appears that more and more major firms are allocating resources to Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing rather than TV… even the Superbowl is feeling the effects of this. Overall network ad sales are flat, as major advertisers continue to shift their marketing spending away from TV. Nontraditional advertising,…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Internet advertisers and marketing professionals have a message for television networks: get ready to change the way you work. As Internet advertising grabs a bigger share of marketing budgets and ad agencies tailor spots to a new medium where attention spans can be measured in split seconds, television networks will have…

I got a few requests on how to use the 301 redirect for the .htaccess file in order to do it search optimization friendly. the below code , put into a .htaccess file in the root directory in an apache system would redirect a NON-WWW to WWW domain. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com RewriteRule (.*)…

I know this isn’t a normally reliable test… however.. due to the prior high traffic levels of Webmaster world… I think the Alexa ranking might actually have some weight… I always thought Alexa was pretty accurate when it came to the top sites that have alot of traffic.. because the base of installed users might…

Why would Webmasterword ban themselves in Google, Yahoo and MSN? SEO Roundtable Full Story Honestly we feel there is more to the story then Webmasterworld is telling us. Let’s face it, a website that has a huge percentage of it allocated to SEO would want to be banned in Google? We have pushed the limits…

Google has fixed a security hole in Google Base that would have exposed sensitive information stored by users of Google’s services. The cross site scripting vulnerabilities discovered by British Computer Scientist Jim Ley would allow an attacker to steal cookies and other information from users, while providing fraudsters with the facility to publish their own…

David Naylor points out, as does this WebmasterWorld thread spotted via Threadwatch, a pretty surprising security oversight with Google’s new Sitemaps stats system that can allow anyone access to stats of other web sites, if those web sites don’t report 404/File Not Found errors correctly. Right now, I’m looking at stats for eBay and AOL,…

FYI people… Massive number of reports of Google dropping the nofollow tag… regardless of nofollow is there or not it’s showing up as backlinks.

Google Analytics has been installed on one of our clients as a test to see if it affects rankings. Though we cannot tell you the exact client, we can tell you that the client is a fortune 100 firm with nearly 1 million pages indexed in Google currently. In 3 months we will publish our…

Working with Social Media Sites. Recently we have been working more and more with Social Media sites in attempts on raising the profile of our clients and their products. It doesn’t work for all companies, it works with firms that have interesting products. Things that are really high tech, or breaking news sites that literally…