Search Category Archive

Behavioral advertising: a grudging thumbs up

Behavioral banner advertising is all the rage. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and bloggers everywhere have cottoned on to it, and clearly the US Federal Trade Commission is interested. If the federal government takes notice, you know we’ve crossed the chasm. I can’t help thinking, though, about a piece I ghost-wrote two years [...]

The Search Engine Persona

The Wall St. Journal reports today on a number of new search technologies that promise to customize your search activity based on previous activity. If, for example, you have searched on Burgundy the place more often than Burgundy the wine, Google would return search results more travel-focused than oenophile-focused. Search personalization will soon extend to [...]

Welcome to Google, your second home page

One of the fine folks from Avenue A/Razorfish dropped this bon mot in a recent presentation to a client we share, and it got me thinking that a disconnect still exists between many BtoB companies and how much they should be devoting to search. As a client put it to her own eMarketing team, “We [...]

Organic Search and Flash

Last year we redesigned the PJA web site. The primary driver was to update the site to reflect our more recent work. Another high priority reason to redesign the site was to improve our search rankings. Our site was contained entirely within Flash and none of its content was visible to the search engines. Back [...]