Posts Tagged ‘google’

The Incredible Value of SEO vs PPC

Monday, July 19th, 2010

If you’ve written off SEO (search engine optimization) as a search engine marketing tactic in favor of the presumably easier PPC campaign (pay-per-click), boy are you missing the boat!

I am not going to talk about HOW to optimize your site for the search engines, but rather, showcase the tremendous importance it has for the success of your campaign, your website, and even your company related to traffic.

Before we talk about the future, let’s go back.  Way back.  Remember BANNER ADS?  Sure, they’re still around.  Actually, they’re still all over.  But when is the last time you recall seeing a banner ad on a site and clicking on it?  Chances are, you don’t…because you didn’t.  This is so common, there’s a term that’s been created called “banner blindness“.

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IE6′s Nail In The Coffin? Thank You Google.

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

I just received an email from Google Apps and am grinning from ear to ear.  Google  announced, “…we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.”

Amen!

IE6 was released in August of 2001!  Yet people still use it today, not taking advantage of the latest technology.  Could you imagine in 2001 using a browser from 1992.  No, you wouldn’t because the experience would be so much different (Mosaic was starting development in December of 1992!)

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