Category Archives: Regulated Industries

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 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 […]

Search Marketing Fact Pack

I hope you all had a chance to read the AdAge Search Fact Pack 2007. If not let me give you the highlights I found interesting:
1. Top three categories reached by search: Education: 45% of traffic from search; Health and Medical: 44%; Food and Beverage: 40%. All categories was 25%, up from 20% […]

Drug ads and Congress

So we all sighed after the House and Senate passed the Food and Drug Administration bill last week. An article in Friday’s WSJ titled, ‘Media Industry Helped Drug Firms Fight Ad Restraints’ highlights the drug industry
…”found powerful allies among media and advertising firms who were determine to protect one of their biggest and fastest […]

Pharma Industry: Embrace Web 2.0

I am not sure how many of you saw the article published yesterday, “eMarketer: Pharma Industry Failing at Web 2.0.
“Despite accounting for an ever-increasing spend of online ad spending, the pharmaceutical industry is still failing to embrace the Web 2.0 strategies that could help it better engage consumers looking for health care assistance, according to […]

Wikipedia and Pharma

We at Catalyst always advise our clients to read their brand’s Wiki entry. Is it accurate?
Why? The Wikipedia listing is usually on the first page of the SERPs (search engine result page).
However, like anything a little knowledge can be dangerous. Perhaps that is what happened to Abbott and Astra Zeneca this summer.
Abbott: In […]

Are your DTC Dollars driving users to the competition?

So the cover of MedAdNews displays the top DTC drug spends in 2006. As we would guess,
-Lunesta leads the pack at $329 million
-Ambien CR is next at $209 million
Now go to Google and type “insomnia treatment“.
Neither site is listed on the first page of Google in the organic results. Although on the second […]

Some thoughts for Memorial Day Weekend

So, to start your Memorial Day Weekend, I thought I’d load you up with some facts. You know, some fun conversation starters for your barbecues. I do hope a lot of you will have other things to discuss, like the Red Sox are still nine and a half games ahead of the Yankees, even […]

Pharma, are you watching your brand?

I recently read a great article, “What Are Search Engines Saying About Your Brand?”,
“In the offline world, companies make it a priority to influence the message people see in the media. However, in the search marketing world, very few companies make an effort to influence the message seen in search results pages. Instead, many companies […]

Is pharma ready for communities?

So the big boys are jumping into communities, “Just Do It”, marketers say. However, we are still struggling in the pharma industry. I could talk ad nauseum about why we should just do it, but instead I will present a couple options moving toward a solution. I know, I know. What about […]