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Entries for June, 2008

“Google Trends Comes To Web Sites: Trends For Web Sites”

Rustybrick woke me up out of my Friday Zone with some interesting breaking news today: Google Trends is now open out of the Labs for web sites. This is very cool info for those of us looking for some numbers out of our markets. Some features include: Geographics, visit trends, and search terms of searchers [...]

Notes from June's Google Webmaster Chat

Since this is the first I’ve attended, I was not sure how applicable the information covered in the second of Google’s Webmaster Chats would be for me and my situation. Despite this, I had just passed my Professionals Exam (please note the pretty logo in the Sidebar!), and had overall had a pretty crappy day, [...]

Notes from June’s Google Webmaster Chat

Since this is the first I’ve attended, I was not sure how applicable the information covered in the second of Google’s Webmaster Chats would be for me and my situation. Despite this, I had just passed my Professionals Exam (please note the pretty logo in the Sidebar!), and had overall had a pretty crappy day, [...]

"Microsoft Gets Into Interactive TV Ads; Buys Navic"

“Microsoft is going after the $70 billion spent on TV ads every year. This morning it announced that it will acquire Navic Networks, a company based in Waltham, Massachusetts that delivers interactive ads across cable TV networks. ” With wider options for their demos, the effort should prove to be fairly strong competition for Google. [...]