Category Archives: Search Marketing

Using search queries for business decisions

In today’s Wall Street Journal (sorry, password protected) there is a piece by Kevin J. Delaney discussing how companies are investigating web-search queries to determine different industries to focus on and what type of product enhancements to deliver.The article is very interesting and discusses how companies such as National Instruments, Siemens, and others have actually […]

Digging for Answers

Shari Thurow, who has written the book Search Engine Visibility, has a post at SearchEngineLand yesterday that brings up a topic I’ve been discussing recently. Shari is quite right in writing, “I find that searchers who are truly interested in purchasing a product and/or service actually dig for information.” This is the same in all […]

Search Engines have First Amendment right to reject ads

A U.S. District Court in Delaware basically threw out a lawsuit originally filed by Chris Langdon. Elinor Mills has coverage over at CNET and I’m sure it will be picked up elsewhere throughout the day. Check out the comments already streaming in at CNET and you can see this is going to be a hot […]

Does vertical SEM matter?

In this weeks Mass High Tech, our local technology weekly newspaper, I wrote a piece entitled Proper Search Engine Marketing Aids Pharma. The main theme of the column was discussing how search engine marketing can help health care and pharmaceutical companies, but also that general SEM simply can not be effective, it must be specifically […]

Welcome the the Catalyst Search Marketing Blog

Everyone who is anyone has a blog, right? I’m not completely sure if that is true, but it certainly has become an important part of how we communicate in today’s world. For more than a year I have been following some terrific blogs in the search marketing space, and I’m really excited now […]