October 3rd, 2012

Google Shopping’s Transition To Pay-For-Play Completes On Oct. 17

Google Shopping

Although it wasn’t among the services Google axed during its latest bout of “spring cleaning,” it’s definitely the end of an era for Google Shopping: starting on October 17th, the service formerly known as Google Product Search will make the full transition to a Paid Listings Service here in the U.S. It’s another example of Google’s changing position on what’s known as “paid inclusion.” In other… → Read More

April 15th, 2010

WebVisible: SMBs Spent Average Of $2,201 On Search In Q1, Bing Share On The Rise

According to the latest quarterly report by local online advertising company WebVisible, the average small business advertiser spent $2,201 on search advertising in Q1 2010, a 2.4 percent increase over the previous quarter and a 91 percent increase over the same period last year. Year-over-year spending was up 111 percent in Q4 2009 and 91 percent in Q3 2009.

WebVisible posits that Bing saw its… → Read More