Cultivate Search Engine Positioning, Inc. » Live http://cultivateseo.com/blog Search Engine Marketing Tips and Tricks Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Microsoft’s adCenter’s Fall Feature Release http://cultivateseo.com/blog/microsofts-adcenters-fall-feature-release-41 http://cultivateseo.com/blog/microsofts-adcenters-fall-feature-release-41#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:28:38 +0000 Mike http://mfarley.us/?p=41 I didn’t write about Microsoft sporting a new logo when I noticed a few days back because to me that’s not newsworthy. However, Microsoft, it appears, has undergone more than just a face lift sporting a new logo! On a side note, what an ugly logo. Not sure who designed this but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen much better work at stock logo galleries. In the past couple years Microsoft has launched some truly beautiful websites, but this is a joke.

Now, if you’ve worked with me in the past you know my thoughts on adCenter; it’s by far the forerunner in PPC features – neither Google’s adwords nor Yahoo! Search Marketing platform come close. Unfortunately, with such a small market share it can’t make much of an impact. This I’m sure was one of the reasons Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo!, Microsoft needs users not technology but that’s a post for a different day.

Faster reviews about why ads or keywords were disapproved and the ability to pause geo-targeting and ads/keywords at the ad page level, are just a few of the new features.

The problem is – there isn’t any real lack of features at the moment…it’s lack of users that’s the issue. Focus on that, and Google will finally have a fire lit under it.

]]> http://cultivateseo.com/blog/microsofts-adcenters-fall-feature-release-41/feed 0 How much traffic does Yahoo! send? http://cultivateseo.com/blog/how-much-traffic-does-yahoo-send-36 http://cultivateseo.com/blog/how-much-traffic-does-yahoo-send-36#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:15:09 +0000 Mike http://mfarley.us/?p=36 There was an interesting poll and post over at Search Engine Roundtable about how much traffic Yahoo! sends. I’m confident SERoundTable see’s a lot more traffic than my sites do and it was interesting to see the breakdown. Less than 6% of traffic to their site came from Yahoo! in the past month.

So I decided to poke around and examined my own analytics for a handful of my clients. One client in particular sees around 1500+ unique visitors a day which is a fair amount of traffic. Here is what I saw:

A couple of notables…

  1. Yahoo! only accounts for less than 5% of the organic traffic sent.
  2. MSN and Live.com combined accounted for less then .25%!
  3. Google with 71% (slightly lower than I expected) and ask.com with 19% combine for 90% of the organic traffic!
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