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Re: The Magazine Meme - Thoughts On Being Sociable | BPWrap

Andrey Milyan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:09:18 -0000

Hi Barry,

Glad to know you're reading SMS :)

Re: Another Blog Meme: Magazines

Andrey Milyan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:05:36 -0000

I'm shocked! Search Marketing Standard is not on your list?! Joking. Ask Andy. He'll tell you that SMS is a good read :)

Re: Exclusive: Google’s Click Fraud Rate is Less than 2%

Andrey Milyan — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:44:18 -0000

Whoohoo. Andy promised and Andy delivered ;) Good stuff.

Re: Exclusive: Google’s Click Fraud Rate is Less than 2%

Andrey Milyan — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:19:55 -0000

This is the case of "don't ask, don't tell" strategy. On one hand, search engines want to appear as "good guys" to the advertisers and keep this issue from hurting them on Wall Street, but at the same time they don't want to shoot themselves in the foot with doing too much.

I had a nice chat about this issue with Tom Cuthbert from ClickForensics a few weeks ago and he seemed to be very enthusiastic about coming up with some industrywide click fraud standards that everyone can accept.

Until Google and others continue to encourage services like AdSense for Parked Domains, there is little sense in talking about serious effort to combat click fraud.

Re: PayPal Has No Answer to Google Checkout

Andrey Milyan — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:00:05 -0000

Hi Andy,

I don't think I agree that PayPal is not threatened by Google Checkout. If you recall, back in July eBay had banned its customers from using Google Checkout.

Right now, a lot of merchants are still hesitant in using Google Checkout because of its "liberal" chargeback policies and the fact that it conceals too much customer information. However, Google is gaining ground with consumers by offering discounts on anything they buy. Soon consumers will expect merchants to have Google Checkout as one of their options because of the value it provides.

If you add on top of that the whole thing with the shopping cart icons in the sponsor listings and free credit card processing, merchants are running out of good reasons not to use Google Checkout.

Whatever Google's plans are for the moment, I think Google is flexible enough to take advantage of the new direction in which this service might be going. With that being said, PayPal has to think fast or lose their hold on the market.

Andrey

Re: Voting Begins for 2006 Search Blogs Awards

Andrey Milyan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:10:46 -0000

Hey, at least this time they put up a form. About time.

Re: Google, The AJAX Killer

Andrey Milyan — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:45:54 -0000

Jeremy,

Excellent point. However, there are ways to code the page so that most of the content inside AJAX would be crawlable, or viewable by visitors with JavaScript disabled, if you're the usability junky ;)

A

Re: “Immigrant Entrepreneurs” Generate $52B

Andrey Milyan — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:36:52 -0000

As an immigrant myself, I can tell you that we try harder. We had to work for things that many locals (aka Americans) take for granted.

I don't know if immigrant businessmen have more "info/knowledge" than American entrepreneurs but a lot of them try harder and are willing to sacrifice more, maybe because they have little to lose.

Millions of people from the former Soviet Union, China and India had the ideas and the skills but were held back by their governments. Now, finally they have a chance to step into the playing field and they are racing twice as fast as everyone else, trying to catch up with the rest of the world.

Therefore, I am surprised by these numbers either.

Re: Google, The AJAX Killer

Andrey Milyan — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:01:14 -0000

Jeremy,

There is no point for us to argue, we seem to be on the same page :) All I am saying is that there are ways to make AJAX crawable, or at least more search engine friendly. Of course, most people won't bother. So, yes, even if there are ways to optimize AJAX (just like there are ways to optimize Flash), website owners and designers will be compelled to create "simpler" pages in order to rank better. And, of course, ranking well on Google is the ultimate goal for many so indirectly Google will influence the success of AJAX.

A

Re: Are You Still Reading Search Engine Watch?

Andrey Milyan — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:37:21 -0000

SEL having a stronger team will be more popular, not much you can do about that. However, the SEW is not "doomed to fade into obscurity." They have a strong community base and a great forum. If they want to emerge from the shadow of Danny Sullivan, they will have to stop posting Danny's style (news recaps) and start coming up with the voice of their own.

I agree with Natasha; it's time to redesign the site. SEW design is stuck in the 90s. They still have links to pages that explain how to use search engines.

SEW, it's time to move on.

Re: Jeremy Zawodny Apologizes

Andrey Milyan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:00:31 -0000

Clearly Yahoo wants bloggers to keep using the service but doesn't want them to look at it as a marketing tool. I wonder how that's going to work...

Re: USA Today Make Over a Success?

Andrey Milyan — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:20:34 -0000

Jordan,

Don't forget that we are not talking about Search Engine Land or Marketing Pilgrim here. They are much more than a website.

Why are you assuming that their diminishing popularity can be reversed with a site redesign? Maybe they have terrible reporters, biased coverage, etc. And if others like CNN and MSNBC have the same problem, maybe it is just the diminishing popularity of big brand media in general.

So if we don't assume that USA Today has redesigned the site to improve its overall fortunes than we can safely say the new design brought improved participation online, and therefore is a success.

Re: Skittles Social Media Campaign Increases Traffic 1332% in One Day

Andrey Milyan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:15:32 -0000

With so much buzz in the online marketing blogosphere this is not at all surprising. There is no doubt Skittles got us talking about its campaign and visiting their site, no doubt contributing to the traffic spike. Did they reach the right audience though?

Re: Search Engines for Search Marketing Blogs

Andrey Milyan — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:11:16 -0000

I've noticed megite.com a few months ago when we started getting traffic from them. I'm not sure it's such a good idea though.

Personally, I like to read blogs with interesting ideas, like SEO by the SEA and SEOBook, instead of news blogs. These will never it make to the site like megite. In fact, once we stopped (re)posting SEM news on our blog, traffic from megite disappeared.

Andrey

Re: Another Blog Meme: Magazines

Andrey Milyan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:20:40 -0000

Lee,

That's strange. Your name is in our database. Anyway, please shoot me a quick email with your mailing address to andrey(at)smstandard.com and I'll make sure you get the next issue and the following ones as well.

And thank you for including our publication in your poll.