It's the final day of sessions of PubCon 2008, although there are plenty more informal events planned tonight at the Palms casino and tomorrow afternoon. In the same vain as my last two posts, I have put together some highlights...
We at Guava have been very active of late, with Gary speaking at SMX London and Teddie currently at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.I am lucky enough to be travelling to PubCon in Las Vegas on Monday, so...
A couple of weeks ago I posted about the accuracy of the Google keyword tool. July’s figures are now available in the Keyword Tool, so I decided to run the same set of ‘100% impression share’ keywords through to see...
There was a fair amount of fuss made about Google’s decision to include ‘real’ numerical volume data in the keyword tool update (released 07/07/2008). Many people shouted hoorah at a new age of openness from Google, and twice as many...
Last night was yet another fun evening at the New Media Age Search Social, hosted by Will Cooper their search expert and reputed nominee for lead singer if NMA ever get round to doing a Christmas play :-). The formula...
Google's recent research into search's impact on branding echo the results featured in Guava's UK Search Engine Marketing Report published in April this year. When asked what the primary objectives of search campaigns were; the importance of branding as a...
A big thank you to all of you who completed our UK Search Engine Marketing survey earlier in the year (we had over 1000 respondents!) and to those of you who came along to our pre-launch event at the Hospital...
Even though news volumes are up, searches for generic terms are down by what appears to be almost 25% since 2004. This ties in nicely with other studies showing increasing sophistication on the part of search engine users, longer search...
It took a full two years longer than I'd expected but finally they've done it, Microsoft has made an offer to buy Yahoo!, and that so called analyst can choke on his Chateau Latour. The deal is worth $44.6 Billion...
I'm fed up with "Social Media". Not with the mediums themselves; sure Digg users can be a bit moronic, but the block button is handy (I'm sure my rants have been blocked by several) - I'm more annoyed with the...
