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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
February 12, 2008 – 9:07 pm
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 […]
January 9, 2008 – 12:07 pm
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 […]
December 22, 2007 – 3:12 pm
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 […]
November 16, 2007 – 12:51 pm
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% […]
October 19, 2007 – 11:00 am
Google announced yesterday that Google Health will launch in early 2008. Microsoft also recently launched HealthVault Search. Both aim to be part medical search engine and part repository of personal data and health information. We all know the challenges they both face! I would suggest to the marketers out there, test […]
October 18, 2007 – 11:13 am
I think we can all agree that an evergreen approach to search marketing is ideal. However, as episodic events present themselves it is important to strategize accordingly. For instance, launching a DTC campaign will create online buzz (we hope). We need to plan for queries and query volumes created by this DTC campaign. A second […]
October 5, 2007 – 2:49 pm
In case you have nothing to talk about this weekend, Internet advertising revenue for the first half of 2007 hit $10 billion - an increase of nearly 27% over the same period last year, according to the latest IAB report, released Thursday in conjunction with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Search (41%), banners/display (21%) and classifieds (17%) continued […]
