placement

When I did a recent Q&A thread one of the recurring themes with sites that were struggling was AdSense ads positioned above their content. Many websites are never given the chance to grow because they monetize too aggressively and look to spammy to enjoy the benefits of organic growth and community building.

According to search ranking factors done by SEOmoz, your keyword in your title tag is the upmost importance, but the placement of that keyword in your title tag has been debated. Some believe that placing your branding first and then kewyords in your title tag causes little or no difference when optimizing a page in the SERPS. I am going to finally uncover this once and for all.

Webmaster World reported the first ever unveiling of Google AdWords' Placement Performance Report.

Google AdSense appears to be eyeing a few new features, and - if you're lucky - you may be able to take a look at them, too. An "Ad Placement" tab has become available to all users, while "My Publishers" and "Message Inbox" are still in a limited release phase of testing.

On August 18, 2005, I wrote about how I had seen some extreme Microsoft product placement in The Island, a Michael Bay movie starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson.

Yahoo!'s got some splainin' to do after a lawsuit filed in New Jersey alleging that the search marketing company not only charged premium PPC rates for ads appearing on spyware, typosquatter, and parked domain sites, but also pumped up the volume of ads served to boost financial reports.

The Center For Media Research (CMR) reported on the study and projects even more will be spent in North American, hitting $11 billion by 2010. These totals including payments to search engines and search-related media companies, search engine marketing agencies and in-house expenditures in support of those programs. The programs they included covered search engine optimization, organic search engine optimization, and search engine market technology platforms.

Google is the default search option in the Opera web browser for PCs, and the two firms have extended their agreement to place Google on Opera browsers made for smaller devices.