Author Archives: Heather

Heather Frahm is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Catalyst online. Heather Frahm co-founded Catalyst online in 1998.

Search Marketing continues to Evolve

Marketers are constantly challenged with how to best segment our consumers.  Search offers an option to allow the consumer to self segment and this option is further evolving.  As we all know, segmentation can begin at the keyphrase level.  What you may not know, Yahoo is allowing us to further enhance this ability.  Let me introduce, Honda’s drive […]

Digital Asset Optimization (DAO)

iProspect recently released a study that shows users are responding to the various specialized content types within search results.  Top-level findings:  36% of search engine users click a “news” results within blended search results, 31% click “image” results and 17% click “video” results.   I just typed in “Lipitor image” in Google.  Three images appeared, none of them […]

The Evolution of Search

I am off to Disney World tomorrow with my family.  I started thinking about how my children will look for information as they grow up.  I have not yet introduced my three year old and five year old to Google.  I was at a CBI conference www.cbinet.com last week.  Henry van den Berg, from P&G www.pg.com gave an […]

Q4-2007 Pharma SEO Rankings

How did your company do last quarter? If your company is not on the list (to qualify the company must have at least five, billion dollar brands), let me know and we will add you to the analysis…if you dare!

Google Health unveiled, personal medical record service

Google Health was formally announced last Thursday, http://searchengineland.com/080228-094426.php. There is so much buzz around personal health profiles online, the simple notion that individuals should retain their own health data, medical records. I am all for it, I barely remember to go to the doctor once a year, let alone the last time I had a […]

Catalyst WPP GroupM announcement

We celebrated Catalyst’s 10 year anniversary yesterday. We gathered the company together, had some champagne while Beth and I told some stories about our 10 year journey.
I will share two stories that occurred in our first year, 1998. We rented a room in a house that had been converted to an office building located in Brookline […]

Paid Search Ads and FDA Guidelines

I often speak at pharma conferences regarding the impact of effective search marketing strategies in the pharmaceutical market. In fact, I am speaking again at CBI’s conference, The 7th Annual eMarketing for the Pharmaceutical Industry, March 6th in Philadelphia . A hot topic at these events is the FDA guidelines and how it applies […]

Wikia Search - Hit or Hype?

Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed their break. Our holiday memories will hopefully stay with us for at least another week.
So now back to reality. Wikia Search launched. We instantly had clients calling about their rankings on Wikia Search. That is 2008 search marketing energy. I love it! The […]

Catalyst Releases Q3 SEO Rankings for Pharma

Catalyst just finished compiling the Q3-2007 SEO Pharma Analysis Report. As you remember we started this analysis at the beginning of the year with Q1-2007 SEO Pharma Analysis Report (see methodology at end of post).
As a reminder, Catalyst (that’s us) is a search marketing agency with pharmaceutical clients. You can find more about What We […]

What is your digital asset strategy during a DTC campaign?

I am going to try and get the juices flowing the Monday after Thanksgiving or as many of you are aware “Cyber Monday.”  Cyber Monday is the unofficial start of online holiday shopping, comScore is projecting $700 million in online sales today!
Are you running a DTC campaign now?  in 2008?  What digital assets are you creating to further […]