Thursday, May 27, 2010

Blogging My Recent SEM/SEO/Display Tweets


If you follow my blog but not my tweets you might wonder if I'm in a coma or something, as I'm [like many others, I suspect] blogging less and Tweeting, LinkedIning and Facebooking more. That said here's a recap of my <140-character observations, from most recent to oldest:

SERountable poll: 43% of SEO's say traffic down since Google redesign, & only 13% say traffic's up. Monopoly money IMO http://bit.ly/cmDdIz (May 27)

Title of SEO forum post yesterday: "Is 1st place organic worthless without Adwords campaign?" http://bit.ly/avMV3c Directionally accurate. (May 27)

Interesting stats from DataXu showing how volatility in display CPMs dwarfs that of paid search http://bit.ly/auH61e (May 25)

Map by Brent Halliburton shows the interconnected web of funding for ad tech companies, organized by functional groups http://bit.ly/bpzaZ5 (May 25)

@ppc_tools Can you please stop posting the same tweet?!? "The most efficient frontier in PPC..." It's gettin' old. #stale (May 13)

RT @fabianabartholo visualize people's innermost thoughts, compare google suggest results... http://dlvr.it/wCf3 (May 11)

As usual, interesting cutting-edge SEM data from RKG, this time on types of searchers http://bit.ly/b2L8bo (May 10)

Algo(s) run amok caused 1000-pt drop in the Dow b4 market recovered. It's odd that's never happened with SEM bid algos http://bit.ly/a0IBVa (May 6)

UK SEM guru Nick Morley just told me about three UK SEM agencies that've gone belly-up recently. Innovate or die a debt-filled death. (May 5)

RT @searchbeest If there are any i-level people who are great SEM/PPC operators, Efficient Frontier is recruiting at all levels. Get in touch. (May 5)

Of all the Internet stocks I track (65 total), only 6 are up today (VPRT, SAPE, OSTK, UNCA, TRAD.ST & 0700.HK http://bit.ly/9NUc5Z (May 4)

Interesting (but not surprising) that Google & Facebook are both buyingGoogle ads on 'How to advertise on Twitter'. (May 3)

Ex-Efficient Frontier sales guy Tim Krozek goes to Support.com to run BD, stock then goes up 12%. NASDAQ: SPRT. (Apr 30)

Trying to make sense of where the bewildering world of display advertising technology is going? Jerry Neumann's take: http://bit.ly/aBwD8S (Apr 29)

Here's as good a definition of 'DSP' as any I've seen. http://bit.ly/a3qjIh Many DSP's are actually DST's. (Apr 29)

The Display Adv'g Tech Landscape PDF from GCA Savvian: 144 entities, 137 companies, of which ~6 have been acq'd. Consolidation ahead... (Apr 29)

SharesPost valuations for Zynga, FB, Twitter & LinkedIn up 13.8% recently, on average. (Apr 27)

Is Facebook's Like button distribution damaging to social sharing firms? I don't know, but BuiltWith.com trend info suggests so http://bit.ly/aAqILt (Apr 26)

I've got on my To-Do list to move to a new blogging platform, one goal of which will be to incorporate my social media stream...

 
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