Digital Marketing Blog

What’s happening in the world of digital marketing?

The latest news from the world of digital, along with insights, opinions and practical tips.

  • Wikipedia founder close to launching open source search engine

    Wikipedia founder acquires Grub, a distributed crawling service, and readies for launch of an open source, human assisted, search engine.

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Yahoo and Google reveal second quarter results

    Google and Yahoo disappoint investors with latest set of results.

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Is Google on speed?

    How long does it take to rank in the organic search engine results pages? Evidence showing that it can happen in minutes.

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Ask.com attracts 1m new searchers

    ask.com makes inroads in the competitive world of search engine usage – the combination of a new service and agressive marketing campaign increases market share.

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Google takes 76% of search revenues

    New report shows that Google makes more money from its users than rivals MSN and Yahoo

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    Joe Friedlein

  • UK online ad spend to hit £4.5bn by 2011

    UK growth in online advertising spend is outstripping US and many other nations. Half of total advertising spend to be online in Western Europe by 2010.

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    Joe Friedlein

  • eBay reduces Google Adwords spend

    Ebay resumes ad on Google Adwords, albeit at a lower level. Does Ebay need Adwords and how much does Google earn from the PPC ads? What does the future hold for this relationship?

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Major search engine results overlap by less than 1%

    How much do search engine results vary from one search engine to another? Are all search engine results the same?

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Google’s privacy practices criticised

    Google is criticised for a lack of commitment to consumer privacy by the UK watchdog group Privacy International.

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Link Building Guide

    What is the secret to successful link building? How can you get other sites to link to your web site? Link building explained.

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Traffic to e-commerce sites from Google increases

    Google increases dominance in the US. How Google is driving the lions share of traffic to e-commerce sites.

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    Joe Friedlein

  • Ask upgrades its search engine

    Ask.com unveils Ask3D. Like Google Universal, the new search engine shows search results from different media types on one single interface.

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    Joe Friedlein