Bill Hartzer

6 Reasons the Search Engine Optimization Industry Needs a Bailout

Since the United States Government has been giving out money recently and calling it a "bailout", many different industries have been stepping forward and trying to stake their claim. We have already seen a bailout in the financial industry, and we have recently seen the automotive industry go to Capital ...

Worst Demographic Targeting Ever: Hannah Montana Tickets Given Away on Digg

  I usually do not make it a habit of pointing out badly implemented online promotional campaigns. However, in this case, I could not help but point out one of the worst demographic targeting that I have ever seen on the web. Hannah Montana tickets are being given away ...

Time Warner and Road Runner Attempting to Monetize by Hijacking DNS

Here we go again. Third Pipe predicted it and now it's happening. Time Warner, using their Road Runner internet service, is attempting to monetize typo domain names and domain names that are not found when their users are type a domain that doesn't resolve. If you are a Road Runner customer, ...

Moving to Dallas Interactive Marketing Firm VIZION Interactive

For several years now, I have been the main search engine marketing expert at MarketNet in Dallas, Texas. After talking for quite some time with Mark Jackson over at VIZION Interactive, I have decided to make a move. Starting Monday, February 25th, 2007, I will be at VIZION Interactive. VIZION Interactive was ...

CNN Fails to get IReport.com Live; Oilman Leaves Range, and Other News

There is a lot going on this week and it is only Monday, January 21st 2007. I thought I would catch you up on some of the interesting, totally unrelated things, not in any order of importance. I considered covering each of these items today, but CNN Markets Domain Name ...

Monday Marketing Foo for July 30, 2007

Every week I try to go through the blogosphere and see what everyone's talking about. This week I thought I'd take a look at the SEO (search engine optimization) blogs. I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I recently turned off nofollow on this site. So, if you comment ...

Monday Marketing Foo for July 23, 2007

Jeremy Liew, a venture capitalist with Lightspeed Partners, has a great post about usage numbers of social networks. Hat tip goes to Robert Scoble for mentioning it. Matt Cutts recently spoke at WordCamp2007. If you're interested, Stephanie Booth took notes. Matt Cutts talked about a few ideas for bloggers, including: - make ...

Monday Marketing Foo

Want a free iPhone? Sign up to be a writer at Mahalo, Jason Calacanis' new search engine. The first 100 part time guides who reach 100 search results get a free iPhone from Mahalo. Go here to sign up. You get paid $10 to $15 for each search result that ...

Topix Appoints Chris Tolles as CEO

Topix, a leading news community on the internet, is transitioning from a news aggregator to a news community and "top 20 news site". As a part of this transition, Topix.net has appointed Chris Tolles as Chief Executive Officer. Chris Tolles is a longtime marketing executive and a mamber of the founding ...

Business Marketing Association Winners of 32nd Annual 2007 Pro-Comm Awards Competition

The Business Marketing Association (aka the BMA) has announced a total of 139 winners of its "B2BREAKTHROUGH" 2007 Pro-Comm Awards competition. There were several unique categories, including Blog and Online Mindshare, which reflect the changing business environment. What's also interesting is that these categories drew a "new crop" of entrants ...

Amazon.com Shuts Down Amazon Associates Affiliate Program

Amazon.com has "jumped the gun" so to speak and shut down its affiliate program, the Amazon Associates Program, to associates who live in the State of North Carolina. Amazon.com is taking this unprecedented step of shutting down their affiliate program ahead of what they're calling an "unconstitutional tax collection scheme ...
June 24th 2009
Tags: Word of Mouth Marketing 3 Comments

Zuberance Webinar June 24 Shows How to Turn Word of Mouth into Sales

Zuberance, a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn "word of mouth" into actual ...
June 18th 2009
Tags: Internet Usage 6 Comments

comScore Releases May 2009 Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search marketplace. In May 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches. Google's websites continued to lead the US search market in April 2009 with 65.0 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! (20.1 percent), ...
June 17th 2009
Tags: Ask.com, Search Engines 9 Comments

Ask.com Unveils Database of 300 Million Questions and Answers

Got a question? Well, according to Ask.com, they have the answer. Well, apparently they now have the answers to 300 million questions. Ask.com has unveiled a database of 300 million "Q&A pairs". Ask.com used their "proprietary core search technology" launched in the fall of 2008 and came up with 300 million ...
June 8th 2009
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 18 Comments

User Centric Releases Results of Eye Tracking Study: Google Versus Bing

User Centric has released the results of an eye tracking study that compares data between Google and the new Microsoft search engine Bing. What is interesting to note is that sponsored links are attracting more attention than they are on Google. Google users appear to be more aware of the ...

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