Rocky Fu’s Blog

Search Engine Marketing

On-Site Geo-Targeting and Local Search Optimization [Search Engine Journal]
Ten Ways to Waste Your PPC Budget [ClickZ]
What Should You do When Quality Score Kills Your Keywords? [Search Engine Land]

Web Analytics

iPerceptions Summarizes the Thoughts of Web Analytics Leaders [Web Analytics World]
Using Testimonials Effectively [Marketing Experiments]

Social Media Marketing & WOM

6 Common Mistakes Companies Make in Social [...]

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Search Engine Marketing

Google learns to crawl Flash [Google Blog]
Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Should you build your website in flash?
A Beginners Guide To Link Building [WebProNews]

Social Media Marketing | Word of Mouth | [...]

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Branding

Color Psychology in Marketing [Branding Strategy]
Give some thoughts to the message you want to send and to the psychology of the recipient. Then choose your colors accordingly.

Search Engine Marketing

Top ad placements not always most profitable [BizReport]
Achieving top AdWords placement positions isn’t necessarily the most profitable spot for advertisers.

Social Media Marketing

9 widget myths debunked [iMeida Connection]

Web [...]

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Search Engine Marketing

Google XML Sitemaps : Essential FAQ [Search Engine Journal]
Plotting the Effects of your PPC Changes [Apple Pie & Custard]
Imagine you could plot the effects of every single change to your PPC campaign on a graph. You’d be able to view instantly whether that bid your raised on Friday evening before leaving the office [...]

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It’s about 5:30pm and Tiger Airways website is down, which is terrible for an e-commerce website and a big mistake a brand could make. Why?
Remember: your customers expect you to be there 24/7. Get yourself a website monitoring service like Pingdom.

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NYT: Online Search Ads Faring Better Than Expensive Displays
“While search advertising remains strong, there are signs that the growth in online advertising — particularly in more elaborate display ads — is slowing down.”
(tags: NYT search display advertising online)

Ad Age: Linking Web Buzz to Mini Sales
The 2002 U.S. debut of Mini, a flashy, toy-like car in [...]

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Los Angeles Times: Some movies are entitled to do well
The best titles, such as “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Pulp Fiction,” are “sonorous,” Lockhart says. “They just sound right — appealing to your emotions and your senses.” How’s your marketing campaign tag line, by the way?
(tags: marketing)

MediaPost : Coca-Cola Uncaps Promo Efforts [...]

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ReadWriteWeb: Five Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have (IMHO)
They include: a multi-service IM client, cross platform screensharing tool, a custom search engine, a startpage and a blog with contact info.
(tags: online tools Google blogging)

Top 10 Reasons for Monitoring Brands in Social Media | Online Marketing Blog
“We’ve found a multitude of reasons for paying attention to [...]

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Ok, I said that. Here is the original research findings:

Marketing communications have a much stronger effect on consumers in Asia-Pacific
New digital media also showed to have more quantifiable impact on consumers in Asia Pacific markets

And, this is helpful too, said Abrahams:
brands were an important symbol of wealth in many emerging markets, where advertising was often [...]

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Do you have a passion of making a remarkable product which people love? If yes, you gotta watch this video from Seth Godin, the greatest marketer. An old one, but a remarkable one. Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones. And [...]

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