| Does Google Pay Per Click Influence Organic Search Results?
A Google user posts on the Google Groups asking whether signing up to a Google AdWords campaign will expedite her site listing in the organic SERPs. However, AdWordsPro of Google writes to say that there is no correlation between PPC and organic listings: It is very important to note that there is absolutely no connection between being an AdWords advertiser, and having your site appear in the unpaid search results. One does not effect the other in any way. To put it another way, being an AdWords advertisers will neither help nor harm your chances of appearing on the 'organic' search engine. AdWordsPro adds that this information has been gathered after careful observation after "quite a few years at Google." Still, this has been a "conspiracy theory," to quote Barry, since the inception of AdWords.
Google shows off its Ann Arbor offices
A young man steps inside the McKinley Towne Centre in Ann Arbor and asks a valet, "Is this the Google building?" The Internet search and advertising giant has arrived.
Taking over a former bank headquarters, Google has transformed a bland downtown office buikding into spacious high-tech environment. The modern lobby boasts flat screen plasma TVs tuned to CNN. Private offices and narrow carpeted hallways have given way to flexible work spaces that boast Google's primary color scheme: red, green, yellow and blue. The place is bright, airy and buzzes with energy. Last Thursday, Google AdWords leader Grady Burnett welcomed Ann Arbor community leaders to its new space and provided them with a slick but quick tour of its fifth floor offices.
Google Ads Linking to Unaffiliated Individuals Cause Anger
Over the weekend, an article found via DigitalPoint Forums was published in a New Zealand news site about financial authors and property investors whose names are being linked to an unaffiliated company through Google AdWords. They are disgruntled, to say the least, and they question the ethics of the practice. One of the individuals explains his disgust pretty eloquently: Property investor Kieran Trass, of the Hybrid Group said: "It's underhanded. I have nothing to do with that company, and I don't want to. They are leveraging off other people's efforts to gain a financial reward with no recompense to the people they are linking to. Shoemoney writes in to say that this is trademark bidding and that people should take appropriate legal action. This is called trademark bidding and it goes on all the time.
Google: Doing a Little Evil is OK, Right?
[audio:http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/news.mp3|autostart=yes|bgcolor=0×000000] "Those passing familiar with Jesus' teachings know He taught that the path to the Father led through the ordinary. Those who prefer other metaphors may wish to think of a heterogeneous universe, where meaning and love imperishable exist side by side with cruelty, horror and absurdity. And we must choose whether to try and understand it all or create and defend a bubble in which love and meaning truly do exist. For these somewhat fanciful reasons I hope that the blogosphere will become less a cockpit of argument and ideas — though it will always be that — and more a forum for action: a place to facilitate meetings between real people, develop actual applications and accomplish physical tasks.
Glam Media Strikes Multi-Year Advertising Deal with Google
NEW YORK, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Glam Media, the fastest-growing lifestyle property on the Web, today announced a multi-year deal under which Google will serve as their exclusive provider of web search and contextual ads through their AdSense(TM) program. Google's world class search and advertising programs are designed to provide the most relevant search results and contextual ads to users. Coupling the quality of Google's search and contextual advertisements with Glam Media's growing foothold in brand display advertising creates a valuable marketplace for consumers and advertisers. "Our strategy is to provide our audiences and advertisers with the most integrated and contextual entertainment experience possible, and our collaboration with Google provides additional and different contextual ad opportunities for advertisers," said Samir Arora, chairman and CEO of Glam Media.
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