Aun Consulting announced that Japanese SEO industry grew to 194 billion yen market in 2010, which was a 18.6% growth from 2009. According to the report, SEO outsourcing category grew 22%, SEO In-house category grew 19% and SEO Tool industry … Read More
Médiamétrie has just released for the second time the number of mobile internet users in France in 2010. The figures represent traffic on websites, portals and apps from a mobile phone. France’s 2010 last quarter – Q4 2010 – accounts … Read More
In October 2011, Google launched Google Boost in order to tackle the SME advertising market. It is, of course, not the first try from Google at this, if you remember previous attempts such as Jumpstart, GBBO and current Adwords Vouchers … Read More
Yandex’s launch of Yandex.Maps in July of 2010 following its acquisition of GIS Technologies is now to be fully exploited through the addition of Geo-targeted ads which will appear in the maps, in Yandex’s business directory and more significantly within … Read More
I would hazard a guess that at least 99% of people reading this post will have a LinkedIn profile, and I would put money on the likelihood that your connections will not be limited to people in your own organisation, … Read More
Yandex has just released its financial figures for 2010 and the number one Russian search engine managed to achieve a whopping 43% growth in revenue taking them to $410 million — 88% of this increased revenue related to pure search … Read More
Alibaba has leapt ahead of Google in terms of the share of online advertising revenue it earns in China – its home market. According to Analysys International, Alibaba’s Taoboa keyword advertising and the further development of its interactive advertising offer … Read More
There are only two days left to book your place at the International Search Summit @ SMX West at the Super Early Bird Booking rate. The Summit, being held on Friday March 11th, takes key search and social media topics … Read More
Leading Russian search engine Yandex, has introduced a new method of predicting user intent in order to improve the quality of its results and thereby improve relevancy. The Yandex team advise that the system, known as “Spectrum” is based on … Read More
Search Engine Advertising, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Marketing, a.k.a Adwords for most users is one of the strongest online communication channel. You need to market a service, a product or even yourself worldwide? Well don’t go too far, don’t … Read More
A short introduction video to the Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference held in Iceland every year. Next conference will be in Iceland on 11 March with international speakers from Facebook, Wall Street Journal, AOL, SAP, Yandex, Hotels.com, Icelandair, Boats.com and more.
The European Interactive Advertising Association has published the EIAA European Media Landscape Report Summary December 2010 Key FIndings of the report: Key findings 521m 16+ year old people in the 15 European countries sampled According to EIAA’s latest Mediascope Europe study 76% (396m) of all 16+ year old people across 15 European markets surveyed use different media simultaneously with almost a third (30%) using the internet whilst they watch TV A third (33%) of Europeans cannot live without the internet, equal to the percentage of Europeans who claim they cannot live without TV 54% (279m) of Europeans use the internet in a typical week spending 12.1 hours online 16‐24 year olds use the internet more frequently than they watch TV – 79% of this younger demographic use the internet between 5 and 7 days each week while 76% watch TV as regularly More than 8 in 10 (83%) online Europeans use a broadband connection and over half (52%) of these broadband users are wireless The most popular web activities amongst all European internet users include; email (76%), communicating via social networking sites (45%) instant messaging (40%) watching film, TV or video clips (32%) contributing to ratings and reviews (27%) … Read More
According to yesterday’s Le Figaro article, companies advertising online will have to pay a tax – the infamous ‘Google Tax’ – equalling 1% of the yearly ad spend from January 1st 2011. This tax creation was proposed by french ‘député’ … Read More
It’s no secret that the world is going digital. Your books are digital, your music is digital, and your funny cat videos are digital. The internet is no longer something people do, it’s the pipeline through which people do everything … Read More
Combining the capabilities of Google Translate with Google Search has long been a feature of international search experiences – but somewhat in the background. Not anymore. Google this week rolled out a feature across the non-English speaking world, which gives … Read More
