Posts Tagged ‘brand’

How to Block Sitelinks in Google Search Results

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

How Is Your Web Site Represented in Search Engine Results Pages?

When searching for your Web site, you want to see your Web site listing in the SERPs (search engine results pages) to be the representation of your company/site. For instance, you want the title and the snippet to include the information about your site/page and a marketing statement that will generate clicks. This can be done by optimizing your title tag and meta description tag. But what about sitelinks? Are these links showing up in the SERPs satisfactory?

Streisand Effect - A Lesson for Enterprise

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

The Streisand Effect is a term that refers to an event where an individual or organization attempts to censor, inhibit, or otherwise block access to information on the Web, and subsequently the attempt to block the information foments and increases the interest in the information massively. The end result is that the involvement intended to block the spread of the information turns out to extend its reach and ironically push the information to many many more people via the Web.

Ask.com NASCAR Campaign ROI

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Though Ask.com may not dominate the search landscape in the United States, they have given themselves a solid foundation to prosper with the brand loyal world of NASCAR fans.

Google Trademark Policy

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Google trademark policy in their AdWords ad-serving system is changing in a big way beginning in June. In a big turnaround from previous policy, Google will begin allowing advertisers to use trademarked terms within their paid search creative copywriting in many countries around the world. The previous Google Adwords policy was that if proper trademark paperwork was not filed with Google for a specific trademarked term, any advertiser could both bid on and/or use the trademarked term in their ad text.

Google AdWords Trademark History

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

In June ‘09 there will be changes to the Google AdWords Trademark policy. To help understand the importance of this change, it’s useful to take a look at the history of how Google treated the trademarked term within AdWords.

WOMM-U Miami - May, 2009

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

I’ll be speaking at this year’s WOMM-U event in Miami. I’m going to be leading a session on optimizing your Twitter efforts. Here’s the description of my conference session: