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July 2008 Posts

• July 28th, 2008 | 2 | Videos

  The Great Office War

  The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo. I've never posted a video before, but this one hit the funny bone just right. It's not search or design related, but anyone ...
  
  
• July 28th, 2008 | 2 | News, SEM, SEO, Social Media

  Microsoft Live Search Coming to Facebook

  Microsoft, desperate to secure real estate for their paid search ads, strikes a new deal with Facebook, the industries quickest growing social platform. Under the new arrangement, Microsoft will trade it's ...
  
  
• July 28th, 2008 | 0 | News, SEM, SEO

  Microsoft ‘Buying Yahoo - A Tactic, Not A Strategy’

  Microsoft struggles to convince analysts and investors it still has a plan - a solid strategy for building search market share. Most remain unconvinced. I noted earlier this month that Microsoft, ...
  
  
• July 24th, 2008 | 7 | SEM, SEO, Tools

  10 Essential FireFox Add-ons No SEO Superhero Should Be With-out

  From smoke pellets to grappling hooks, from night vision goggles to batarangs - is there anything the caped crusader can't pull out of that utility belt? But what sort of ...
  
  
• July 17th, 2008 | 5 | Design, SEM, SEO

  A Search Engine’s Homepage The Key to Search Success?

  From the smoke and rubble of the failed dot-com-bubble era emerged 3 contenders for the search crown. (4 if you count that interesting blip on the radar - Ask)  ...
  
  
• July 15th, 2008 | 2 | Design

  Fun With Logo Equations

  Apparently a little creative math + Photoshop + a Blogspot account goes a long way. The guys over at the Logologos blog have some interesting ideas about the origins of some pretty ...
  
  
• July 15th, 2008 | 0 | Design, News

  The Pylon Initiative : The Expanding Typography Lexicon

  I just love typography and the depth to which one can obsess about the nuances of type face, kerning and stroke weight. I've always been envious of the clever way ...
  
  
• July 10th, 2008 | 4 | News, SEM, SEO

  Google Usage Still Rising, Yahoo Steady, MSN Falling

  It's no secret - Google is the most widely used search engine in the marketplace. Hitwise has tracked  search engine usage over the years (amongst other things) and their data ...
  
  
• July 08th, 2008 | 1 | News, SEM, SEO, Tools

  Google Keyword Tool To Get Search Volume Numbers?

  As SEOers we're constantly weighing the value of one phrase against another to determine which phrases to write & optimize around. There have been a number of tools out there ...