Reminder-You only have until tomorrow morning to participate in the Evantage contest for the Mima Summit. Details: As a part of our sponsorship of the MIMA...
In case you haven't heard, Andy Beal at MarketingPilgrim.com has put together a Search Engine Marketing scholarship worth $5000+. To win the scholarship, you...
So far we have had 13 responses to the group survey and some great feeedback. It would be nice to see more take the survey though. If you have not yet taken...
We had 15 responses to the survey and the survey is now closed. You can see the summarized results <http://www.surveymethods.com/Publish.aspx?C8T4aQRZW34%3d>...
Check out the article "Web sites balance flash, function <http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/15680591.htm> " at the Pioneer Press web site or...
The rumors were right. Google announced today that they are acquiring YouTube for $1.65 Billion. They say YouTube will operate independantly and to preserve...
Interesting, but I guess I'm not understanding the revenue model for this. If someone can provide some insight, I'm all ears. I'm wondering what they're...
I think YouTube is/will be the internet's first real "channel" for visual broadcasting. Think of it as the first cable channel but for the internet. Earlier...
Product Manager Priyank Garg of Yahoo Search announced that a new index update is being rolled out this evening. You can see the announcement at the Yahoo...
Well, it will definitely be interesting to watch. The big assumption in all of this is that it they will be able to recover their 1.65B investment. They'll...
Hi again, I am trying to convince my web developer to gid rid of the <META HTTP- EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:01 GMT"> that is currently on...
Hi Nicole, Google uses the 304 If-Modified-Since HTTP header to determine when to grab a page. Vanessa Fox said in a recent post about the Google cache date ...
MIMA has posted podcasts <http://www.mima.org/resources/articles.asp?articleID=41> of all but one presentation from the recent Summit. They also have posted...
Thanks Chris, Lee and Tony for you responses. I had never used that tag either but since this guy was putting up such a stink about it he made me second guess...
Hello, I would love opinions on this. A client launched a new site and I noticed weird incoming traffic from spammy and adsense type sites. I thought it was ...
If they do have a spammer old ip they may be on some ip blacklists. have they had any email problems where they are having their emails rejected? Even thought...
Hey gang, check out our new mimasm blog at mimasm.com <http://mimasm.com> . I hope we can make this an informative and friendly place to share our knowledge...
I thought I would share this with the group. A friend of a friend is hiring for this position at CarSoup.com which may be of interest to one of our MIMA-SM...
So I'm using LivePerson to monitor my live web traffic right now and am noticing some serious problems after turning on Content Match just minutes ago....
Hi my name is Alex, I am new to this group, but I am hoping to get some help from the SEO experts out there. I have a site: http://burstcreativity.com . It...
Content match is such a bear. Unless you have a latent product, I don't really advise it. What I mean by this is something that would sell well, but people...
The links is a good suggestion. What I am doing now is posting articles in various directories, as well as commenting on blogs. Don't know how effective that...
Hi Alex, Submit your sight manually to all the free link directories; submit to the paid directories if your budget permits and create exciting relevant...
Thanks Jeff, Those aricles are a great resource. Thanks again. Alex ... to the ... relevant content ... creative title ... Link ... articles ... must reads. ...
Hi, I don't necessarily think that the webring are hurting the site or penalizing it (webrings have been around for years, long before Google). For some reason...
Yes, I have discovered content match turned on (I would not say I purpously used it). And I turned it off asap. Once I read what it was ... "Yes, you can have...
If you do run content match, you should organize it as a separate campaign and track it differently than the search results. Then you can determine whether it...
