Topic

Digital

  • Visualize, then Optimize

    Search engine optimization (SEO) can be a contradictory combination of science and intuition. On the one hand, as often practiced by professionals, it assesses the relevance of a Web page to a keyword in terms of measurable, concrete factors such as keyword density and backlink counts. On the other hand, the values assigned to those factors (What keyword density is required? How many backlinks?) can be loose. Now Fortune Interactive has a new virtual-reality module that can point out which advertisers’ Web pages are best optimized for a specific keyword on a specific engine.

  • Blogging for Suds Success

    Can blogs sell beer?

    One microbrewery in Connecticut hopes so.

    New England Brewing Co. is heavily restricted both legally and financially in how it can advertise. So in May of this year, Rob Leonard, owner and brewmaster at the 17-year-old beer maker, engaged New Haven’s Heavybag Media to get the word out both online and offline.

  • InfoSearch Launches Search Optimization Services Reseller Program

    InfoSearch Media Inc. has reached an agreement with the WSI Consultants to promote search engine optimization services to customers using key phrases researched and supplied by InfoSearch

  • Jambo Will Provide Pay-per-call to Brokers

    Informa Research Services, an Agoura Hills CA-based company providing services to the mortgage industry, has signed an agreement for a pilot program to use pay-per-call ads from Jambo to connect consumers and mortgage brokers.

  • ComScore Launches Competitive Search Reports

    ComScore Media Metrix has launched a new service that will provide search marketers with reports that compare the effectiveness of their keyword strategies and tactics with those of their major competitors.

  • Click Fraud: Three Important Considerations

    With so much recent focus on marketing accountability, click fraud is clearly an important and timely issue. Chief marketing officers want accountability for each marketing dollar spent,

  • PR Goes to Work in News Search

    What would you say to getting the Web traffic equivalent of $11,500 in pay-per-click advertising for $779? Thought so. It can be done, if you can produce a press release that

  • Search Marketing and Display Ads: Good Alone, Better Together

    Using both sponsored search ads and display advertising produces a better conversion rate than using either channel by itself, according to a new study from digital marketing firm Atlas, a subsidiary of aQuantive.

  • Zixxo Gets Small Businesses Up and Couponing on the Web

    For small or local businesses who want to get contacts from their Web presence rather than clicks, there

  • Wedding Site Optimizes for Happy Returns

    Brad Fallon is not a serial entrepreneur; that would imply starting up one company, fostering it for a while, and then turning his attention to an entirely different one. He