Archive for July, 2007

Google Indexing Flash

You may have read but over the July 4th holiday, Google posted some subtle changes to their algorithm and rankings. I’ve seen a few notes about website age being one of the most noticeable factors in the changes. It’s a long story, but I’ve turned up pretty clear indications that they also rolled another [...]

Could It Be True? MSN’s Numbers Skyrocket

I am suspicious of the datasource, but I read an interesting article today about how MSN is taking a lot of market share from Yahoo (in particular). Is MSN up to their standard trickery — rolling traffic from Hotmail and "ClubLive" through their primary URL to inflate the numbers? Or is MSN finally regaining [...]

Yahoo Announces Advanced PPC Targeting

Happy July 4th. Quick post: I read Yahoo is rolling out some advanced PPC targeting features… ones that will target ads by the individual’s demographics. I’ve been talking to colleagues for a while about this: how we haven’t seen anything yet when it comes to paid and natural search result targeting. Read more about [...]