by Samuel Scott | May 13, 2013 | Marketing Essays
As technological innovations occur at an ever-increasing rate, marketers often develop unrealistic expectations because they think that each new gadget or medium has made all of the previous communications strategies obsolete. Far from it. For example, social media is...
by Samuel Scott | Dec 24, 2012 | Marketing Essays
TEL AVIV – Here in the Silicon Valley of the Middle East, I finally saw the hit movie “The Avengers” only recently since it had finally come to Israeli cable TV. As a fan of director Joss Whedon, I loved watching how a group of heroes with expertise in...
by Samuel Scott | Dec 3, 2012 | Marketing Essays
One of my first jobs in search marketing some years ago was managing the English website of a forex company based in Tel Aviv that had sites in various languages and targeting various countries. Each week, the CEO wanted us to update and send spreadsheets of keyword...
by Samuel Scott | Oct 28, 2012 | Marketing Essays
Google’s Panda Update is completed. The system goes online February 23, 2011. Human decisions are removed from website evaluation. Google begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware with the Penguin Update at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, April 24th,...
by Samuel Scott | Oct 21, 2011 | Marketing Essays
Your website may be duplicating its own content without you even realizing it – and thereby possibly causing negative effects on your search-engine marketing performance. Say that you are a company that sells widgets. One of your pages will list all of the widgets,...