Online Marketing News Archive

An interesting announcement over at the Google Webmaster Central Blog and one that we are not convinced is a good move and another possible entry for Google’s annus horriblis.
It appears that the new feature is only live in the US as we cannot, despite trying a wide range of searches, see the new results formats … Read full article>

We had a significant response to our post on what we referred to as a fundamental flaw on Google. Thank you for all those who contacted us directly and agreed with the frustration that this can cause and thank you to those sites that linked to the article.
Such was the response that we would like … Read full article>

Google adwords presents website publishers with an excellent medium through which to attract highly targeted traffic to their website.
By carefully selecting keywords, crafting appealing ad copy and sending the visitors through to the most appropriate landing page, pay per click (PPC) marketing can be an extremely effective form of online marketing.
In the UK, and many … Read full article>

We like Google.
We spend quite a bit of time defending Google to our clients and explaining how embracing Google’s quest for relevant search results is the most effective form of search engine marketing in the long term.
Every now and then we do, however, come across examples of the greed that many people despise Google for … Read full article>

Some online retailers and other website owners have expressed their concern over a new Google search tool which is intended to help web users search within sites.
This new search tool is displayed in the search results pages for a number of well known retailers and publishers. By using the tool, Google users perform a keyword … Read full article>

As the morning news today claimed that most students in the UK are guilty of plagiarism and copy and paste huge chunks of material found on the internet, a UK professor has criticised the effect that Google is having on students, calling the search engine ‘white bread for the mind’
Tara Brabazon of the University of Brighton believes that the … Read full article>

The planned acquisition of online ad firm DoubleClick by search engine giant Google is likely to be delayed, depending on whether or not the European Commission decides upon a full investigation of the deal.
The EC’s competition watchdog has until the end of October to make a decision over an investigation, which would delay the deal … Read full article>

There was an interesting article on Forbes last week, which featured Google’s Senior Product Manager Shuman Ghosemajumder talking about the issue.
Google has previously faced legal action from advertisers over the issue, and many third party reports suggest that the click fraud problem is growing. For instance, monitoring firm ClickForensics estimated in July that the overall … Read full article>

Google has been accused of misleading web users by failing to distinguish between organic search results and sponsored links generated by the search engine.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has taken the company to court in Sydney over the issue, saying Google misleads those thought that the ranking of its search results were not … Read full article>

After temporarily removing all its paid search advertising from the search engine, eBay has returned to advertising via Google, though it has reduced its spend from previous levels.
The two firms had fallen out after Google had scheduled a Google Checkout party on the fringes of eBay’s own event in Boston last week. This was seen … Read full article>