Marketing Pilgrim Latest search engine news blog articles from Marketing Pilgrim. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Marketing+Pilgrim.html Marketing Pilgrim News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12727 TechCrunch today has no treatsand no joy, no, not even Almond Joyfor Facebook in reporting about its projected financial woes . For a company once valued at $15 billion , things are looking grim as the cash supplies may dwindle long before Facebook is ready or willing to go to IPO. There's no denying that Facebook continues to enjoy incredible popularity worldwidebut that could be part of the problem. Facebook's worldwide growth has been strong over the last year, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:12:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12703 After many requests, I'm happy to announce that we've launched a new "Agency" service level for Trackur . The online media monitoring service now offers PR firms and marketing agencies the following valuable options: Your logo displayed on the dashboard! Client's can see your brand, not Trackur's! A custom URL for login. Want Trackur.com/youragency? You've got it! Unlimited saved searches! Not only can you organize your Trackur account by client campaigns, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:12:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12698 Happy Halloween! Basically, you have two choices this evening. Turn on all your lights and spend 2 hours praising little kids' costumes, while they take all the good candy. Turn off all the lights and eat the candy yourself. I'm not revealing which option I'm taking this year, but don't be surprised if I have chocolate around my mouth when I wake up on Saturday. Today's Picks are especially spooky* This could come in handy. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:51:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12696 How much processing power does Google have at its fingertips? It must be a lot because the search engine giant will now included scanned documents in its search results. In the past, scanned documents were rarely included in search results as we couldn't be sure of their content. We had occasional clues from references to the document- so you might get a search result with a title but no snippet highlighting your query. Today, that changes. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:35:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12693 I'll admit it, I'm not a heavy user of paid search services, but today's Google AdWords Quality Score changes have me picturing SNL's Weekend Update team going "Oh really, Google?" More precise Quality Score calculation Clickthrough rate (CTR) is the most significant component of Quality Score because it directly indicates which ads are most relevant to our searchers. As you probably have observed, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:19:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12691 I'm going to stick my neck out and say that I do not believe Google had any intention of going through with a partnership deal with Yahoo. Further, I believe that the only reason this deal was done was to prevent Microsoft from getting its grubby little hands on it. For one thing, since when does Google delay a deal for a significant amount of time, so that regulators can carefully look at the details? Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:02:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12676 Wow, is it Thursday? I thought I felt that post-Wednesday, pre-Friday slump. It's been a year since Hulu launched ? While I know I joined in the universal berating of the company from its announcement last March , I join TechCrunch in saying, " I'm Glad You Guys Didn't Suck. " SoloSEO has some great ideas for improving stickiness and getting your visitors to come back every day and yes, the list does go beyond "post every day. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:57:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12672 Today the WSJ profiles a number of video search engines that actually seem to be getting smarter. Instead of relying on external meta data to determine the content of a clip, these engines are looking to data internal to the clip itselfincluding dialogue and people (or characters) appearing in the clip. And yep, one day YouTube might not be the #1 video search engine (although they may still be the #1 video hosting site). Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:12:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12644 If you've ever read one of my posts and thought to yourself, "Pfff, I could do so much better than that!" Now's your chance. For the next week, we will accept applications to become a guest writer at Marketing Pilgrim. We're looking for writers who can write informative posts, are passionate about an area of online marketing, and can share their opinion without being offensive (believe it or not, that is hard for some folks). You'll be writing for the fame and glory, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:24:25 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12641 How much of a shock is it to return from Hawaii to North Carolina and face 50F days? Let me show you what I just left: **sigh** Oh well, on to today's Picks: Thanks to Inc. magazine for inviting me to share my thoughts for this excellent article on analyzing web analytics to discover marketing ideas. I love the case study Diane Aull uses in her article on pricing your products/services. You only have until November 5th to enter the 2009 Effie Awards Competition . Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:08:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12640 I think the next GEICO "celebrity" TV ad should feature AOL. You know the ads I'm talking about. GEICO brings in a celebrity that once lived in the limelight but now, sadly, can't get any better work other than co-starring with an animated gecko. I say this because AOL has seen better days. Once the 800 gorilla of the internet, AOL has spent the last few years trying to find that one big comeback role that will revive its career. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:51:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12634 Unless you have a lot of friends on Facebook that are illiterate, I'm betting you won't have too much trouble identifying the latest attempt to infect your computer with the Koobface trojan. Here's the type of message that typically accompanies the attempt to infect you: "Sommebody uupload a viideo witth you on utubee. you shuold ese" Even my dog can spell better than that. OK, so the hackers are likely deliberately misspelling words so as to avoid spam filters, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:19:34 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12614 I'll admit it. I've put off purposefully joining Open ID for no real reason. But now, whether we want to or not, you and I (well, I'm guessing you are, anyway) are being jumped in to the world of Open ID. Because not only are Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail (aka Hotmail) joining the Open ID ranks, allowing their logins to become Open ID logins, but so is Gmail. If you've forgotten/never learned what Open ID is, it's like a universal login for participating sites. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:53:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12613 Social network advertising is not only not annoying but surprisingly effective in some segments, according to the results of a new survey by Razorfish. In FEED: the Razorfish Consumer Experience Report 2008 , Razorfish surveyed "connected consumers"1006 people with broadband access who spent at least $200 online in the past year, used a community site such as MySpace and consumed or made some type of digital media including videos and music. And of those people, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:37:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12612 It's time for another HUGE book contest giveaway. And, when I say huge, I mean 627 pages of search marketing awesomeness! We have 3 copies of the second edition of Mike Moran and Bill Hunt's book Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site . If you can call a book "the granddaddy" then this book would be deserving of the title. Even if you've practiced SEM for a number of years, Search Engine Marketing, Inc. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:20:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12607 I'm not quite sure how MarketingExperiments is able to do this, but it's offering a FREE online workshop designed to help marketers prepare for the holiday season-while the economy is less then buoyant. Here's what it's offering: 'a special, 2-hour virtual clinic on optimizing ecommerce for the holidays, with an emphasis on powerful strategies you can start implementing right away. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:42:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12592 So many Picks, so little time. You too can build your very own Yahoo applications . A republican congressman is the latest to question the Yahoo/Google deal-is it now doomed to failure? Hitwise reports the 8th consecutive weekly drop in traffic for top online retailers. A silver lining to the doom and gloom? Local advertising ad spend might actually be higher than expected ! Start-ups that actually charge for their service could be back in fashion . Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:39:14 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12590 Some good news for Yahoo! It's share of US searches in September reached 20.2%-up from 19.6% in August. Bad news for Google. It's share dropped a massive 0.1% from 63% to just 62.9%-that should freak out the Wall Street boys. The good news for everyone? The data comes from comScore, which means that it probably has a treasure chest of excuses ready -in the event this all just one big rounding error. PS. Please don't panic about the Google drop, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:25:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12588 At Aloha Summit Peter Shankman was adamant that LinkedIn was a waste of time-he really didn't see the value in it as a social network. Others claimed LinkedIn was a valuable site that allowed you to connect to your business network-as opposed to simply throwing sheep at someone. I wonder what Shankman et al will make of today's news that LinkedIn has launched the first of its applications -first announced at the end of last year. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:09:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12565 All right!! The tremors can stop, we're back to the regularly scheduled LG that we all know and love! You know how you see a business finally bring their key, core aspect online, and you think "What took you so long?" Yeah, that's what MTV Music finally bringing music videos online is. But with the number of music videos on YouTube (not to mention the recent YouTube/Amazon/iTunes deal ), is it too late? Unless they buy Yahoo, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:51:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12558 Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) have reached an agreement, announced today , that will allow Google Book Search to display the text of in-copyright, out-of-print books. In addition to the fact that these copyrighted works will now be searchable and accessible to all with permission from copyright holders, it's also nice to see the three organizations getting alone, since last we heard they were suing up a storm. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:30:58 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12538 See what happens when I take a vacation? Jordan gets giddy and introduces "Pilgrim Picky Goodness!!!!" That deserves a Well, eights nights in Hawaii were bliss-even if it was for my second job as photographer and chauffeur for my wife . Now I'm back in (cold) Raleigh and ready to share some great Picks with you. Enjoy! Finally! Two Gmail Lab projects I will actually find useful! The WSJ declares Twitter has gone mainstream. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:19:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12535 This is one of those posts where you get to tell me what opinion Marketing Pilgrim should take. The WSJ is reporting that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have agreed to follow a common set of principles that will govern how they do business in countries that might restrict free speech. Under the new principles, which were crafted over two years, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:04:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12531 I know a few things about you. 50% of you will have your buying decision influenced by what we say at Marketing Pilgrim. That increases to 56% if making a decision related to marketing products or services. 25% of you trust our advertisers, simply because you trust us. 38% of you will discover a new blog to read from among those we link to. No, I'm not a psychic. I'm not even a Mentalist . Heck, I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! I did, however, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:47:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12528 There's a reason why Apple's computers and iPhone are pretty much invulnerable to outside attacks-Apple controls everything from the operating system to the hardware. It's hard to find a vulnerability when you don't know the "secret blend of herbs and spices." Contrast that to Google's approach to Android. Google's mobile platform is made up of more than 80 different open-source components, and the hardware is manufactured by third-party providers. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:12:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12496 Because it's just been too long without a full-fledged linky goodness. MySpace gives up the good fightfor Holland. They're closing the Netherlands' office , citing too much competition from the Dutch social network Hyver. Don't like that YouTube clip's slow beginning? Link to it with a specified start time . And you can customize your YouTube homepage now. Facebook's showing off its open sourciness with revealing some internal code . It does . . . something. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:44:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12479 When Google first launched Google Earth, you pretty much needed a cutting-edge PC in order to power it. My, how far it's come! Today, Google has announced it has managed to stuff Google Earth into an iPhone/iPod Touch application-which you can download for free! Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:06:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12441 So little good news, so much time. Erm, strike that. Reverse it. We have so much news that it's an uber edition of Pilgrim Picky GoodnessPilgrim's Picks and Linky Goodness all rolled into one. (And, happily, LG will be back in its same bat time, same bat channel next week!) Look out, spammers Google adds a fighter jet to their air fleet . Yeah, really. We'll keep an eye out to see if they start purchasing missiles. Lagging well behind Facebook in yet another feature, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:39:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12436 Google's been using plusboxes in its organic results for quite some time now, but only in the last few months have we begun seeing those in paid results as well. Back in March, we first started spotting video ads in similar Google AdWords plusboxes , and now Google's added expanded product results with images : Notice here that the opened plusbox actually consumes the entire window (and for specs' sake, this is on 1280×800, Firefox with four menu bars (menu, address, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:03:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12429 There's a treasure trove of Internet marketing wisdom in instructional videos (and, of course, funny ones, too) around the Internet. But that was kind of the problemthey were all around the Internet. Now, instead of scouring SEOmoz, Matt Cutts's archives and YouTube for all the good marketing knowledge, you can turn to one central source: IMBroadcast.com . IMBroadcast won't just be a collection of videos, either. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:26:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12392 A new study by Rubicon Consulting states that word of mouth and online reviews are the most influential factors in consumer purchasing decisions. According to the study, the Internet is also important in providing customer support. The survey also looked at consumer's use and perceptions of different websites and categories of websites: The Web is the #2 resource for customer support information, after user manuals. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:11:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12357 I know what you're thinking (for it is also in my mind): Andy, come back. We miss linky goodness! The first Gphone, the aptly named G1 , is available today. To celebrate, Android goes open source , as promised. Some mildly good news for Yahoo: their stock didn't fall as much as the market did after their disappointing Q3 results . MySpace strikes again: this time, a teacher gets fired over what sounds like pretty innocuous communications with his students . Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:07:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12349 If you saw the post from the Google Analytics Blog this morning announcing the updated user interface and thought that was all they had up their sleevesyou're wrong. The UI is just the updated wrapping to go with major upgrades coming to Google Analytics in the coming weeks. The upgrades are part of an enterprise-class bundle of features that will be available to all Google Analytics users. The new features are: custom reporting, advanced segmentation, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:26:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12327 Yahoo reported its Q3 earnings today, and it's not all good news. Well, on the positive side, Yahoo's revenues are up to $1.8 million. The bad news is that it's only 1% YOY. And the worse news is that their profits were $54.3 million in Q3compared to $151.3 million for Q3 2007. And possibly worst of all, Yahoo is trying to cut its annualized costs for this year from $3.9 billion down to $3.5 billion. Normally, cutting costs is a good idea, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:52:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12322 A number of early stage investment outfits have popped up over the last few years, making what would amount to tiny investments in as many as a dozen companies at one time and then recouping their investment plus some as those companies mature and either build viable revenue models or become acquisition targets of other related businesses. Neil Patel recently announced that he has joined the Founders Co-op . The Founders Co-op has a goal to invest between $10,000 and $250, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:56:52 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12309 Despite Google's headway inside the Beltway , the Yahoo/Google ad deal is still under government reviewor, more technically, stalled while the government considers reviewing the deal. Yesterday, CNET reported that Google and Yahoo extended the deadline for the government's review of their still-pending ad deal. The deadline was tomorrow, and that was already after one extension from October 8. The new deadline is set for sometime before Thanksgiving. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:31:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12293 Is email marketing better than marketing through social networks? Yes, according to a new study from ExactTarget and Ball State University's Center for Media Design . The study reveals that: ". . . 18- to 34-year-olds claim they are more likely to be influenced to make purchases based on e-mail marketing messages and direct mail than marketing messages on social networks," said Mike Bloxham, director, insight and research, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:36:26 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12265 Ha ha ! I usurp Pilgrim's Picks while Andy . . . relaxes on a beach in Hawaii. Hm. On second thought, I lose. You know you work in marketing when someone's complaining that there aren't enough ads to go around . Still attached to old media? Not to worry, they're not going away. Yet. PricewaterhouseCoopers gives them a good five years . ( via ) Microsoft's at it again: now they're rebranding Live Search as Windows Live Search . Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:26:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12266 Google and Microsoft are at each other's throats once again: this time for control of Washington. And what I"m about to tell you probably sounds like all the back-room dealing we've heard so much about during this campaign and we're all tired of hearing about lobbyistsbut that's exactly what this is. Sunday's New York Times featured an article about Google's presence in the nation's capital. Although Google has had a slow start at lobbying lawmakers, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:26:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12245 Unless someone's better at keeping a secret than Motorola's being, the second Gphone to hit the market will be coming to the US in Q2 2009 (Europe, Q3 2009), according to a Business Week report . The phone is slated to cost about $150. Like the T-Mobile G1 , manufactured by HTC, Motorola's Gphone is slated to feature a touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Of course, last week's reviews noted a few deficiencies in the first Gphone's design, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:45:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12213 Today we're mostly Googly in our linkiness. Let's get our obligatory nonGoogle story out of the way first: Facebook wants to offer music, but they don't want to tangle with labels , reports paidContent.org. MySpace recently launched its music service , which it owns jointly with participating music labels. Facebook, on teh other hand, has no desire to cede ownership in exchange for access. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:18:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12210 From proposal to almost-marriage to messy breakup, their love affair dominated tech news for the first half of the year. Now that the Yahoo/Google deal has supplanted the proposed Yahoo/Microsoft merger in the public attention, it looks like Steve Ballmer's getting a little lonely again. In a keynote earlier this week, the Microsoft CEO said: We offered $33 bucks (for Yahoo) and it's $11 today. It's clear Yahoo didn't want to sell. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:12:25 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12187 The email said' cody simms (Cody) wants to connect to you on Yahoo! Once connected, you will be able to view cody simms (Cody)'s profile and easily share stuff like updates, interests, and more. To connect to cody simms (Cody), click here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/accept/'.. Thanks, The Yahoo! Team And I clicked''"delete." My first thought was, "Yahoo doesn't have a social network, I'm not clicking on that link." You see, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:45:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12186 I'm going on vacation. Ner, ner, nah, ner ner! Tomorrow I take on the arduous role of official photographer for Go Visit Hawaii . Yes, for 8 nights I have to follow my lovely wife around Hawaii as she collects new material for her popular blog. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it! I'll have a few posts up over the next week, but you can expect some great stuff from Jordan and our team of superb writers while I'm gone. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:45:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12182 Proving that just because you came up with the great idea, doesn't mean you can run the company, Twitter has announced that Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO and Ev Williams will take his place. We're entering a new phase now and there are new kinds of challenges ahead. Healthy companies acknowledge the need for change even during the best of times. As Twitter grows both internally and externally, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:12:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12169 Google's had a tough time over the last couple years, with Wall Street Analysts expecting almost exponential growth. When they first missed estimates, growing only 58% in Q2 2007 (the losers) , some analysts thought it was the beginning of the end. While they've bounced back from time to time (such as Q1 2008 ), Google is probably pretty happy to finally be sticking it to the analysts where it hurts the mostthe bottom lineas they post an estimate-beating Q3 , Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:22:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12167 The first reviews of T-Mobile's new G1 "Gphone" are inand it's at least as good as the iPhone, if the initial reviewers are to be believed. And considering who some of these reviewers are, it's probably true. What's the consensus? While it's not a bad little device, T-Mobile's 3G coverage sucks (20, soon to be 30 cities), the phone should have a better media player and a standard headphone jack, the keyboard is a nice feature but not the easiest to use, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:05:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12141 Apparently a lot of you would like to learn how to make your "Content Rich" because our book contest had a lot of entries. Did you win? Find out after these Picks. Google TV Ads has two partnership announcements today. One with COREMedia Systems and the other with Harris Corporation . YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley explains that online video is still in its infancy -just like TV was back in the 40s. I first fell in love with Polldaddy two years ago. Today, Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:32:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12139 Either the analysts are wrong about the declining trends for display ads, or Google knows something they don't know. Today, Google launches its AdWords display ad builder , making it idiot-proof to build you own banner ads and share them across the Google network. The new tool lets you create customized display ads with your own text, images, and logo. You can also change colors and backgrounds. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:00:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12134 As the news continues to pour in and the news media works hard to sell their wares (meaning the more terrible the news the more people pay attention) there are more victims to be counted in the carnage. This time the targets are the 'darlings' of the new world advertising and marketing including web video, mobile phones, gaming and virtual worlds. Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Marketing Pilgrim Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:13:56 GMT