Posted by Robyn Snyder on May 22, 2009
We live in the land of the free and the home of the brave, but are you aware of all of the free resources and tools Solid Cactus offers? You are already reading the blog, but be sure to browse around through all the categories.
Are you reading eBiz Insider magazine? If not, start now! The [...]
Posted by Jean Lloyd on Apr 29, 2009
Last week, we were very fortunate to have our representatives from Google come to visit during Boot Camp. During their visit, they dropped off some super cool Google aprons & cook books for the team here. We wanted to say THANK YOU to Google for all they do and for the gifts that you see [...]
Posted by Jean Lloyd on Apr 17, 2009
If you read the official Inside Adwords blog, you’ll already know that Google is planning a complete overhaul of the Adwords web interface. They’ve even started a new series to highlight the upcoming changes, dubbed “New Interface Thursdays”.
I attended a webinar a couple of weeks ago that went through many of the features in the [...]
Posted by Jean Lloyd on Feb 24, 2009
I saw an article the other day about some hidden Easter eggs in Google and I wanted to share a couple that made me laugh. Google is translated into a ton of different languages, so that most of the world can search in their native tongue. You might not be as familiar with these variations:
Google [...]
Posted by Jean Lloyd on Feb 6, 2009
Google’s Conversion Optimizer continues to excite and frustrate me, and I think I’m not the only one. If you drive any kind of volume in your Adwords campaigns, you’ve probably seen the links in your account encouraging you to try the Conversion Optimizer.
I had the chance to try it early on in the beta, probably [...]
Posted by Jean Lloyd on Jan 26, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, a cool program that Google offers was brought to my attention: Google Grants.
Over a year ago, Solid Cactus created the Solid Cactus Cares fund in order to help local non-profits. As a result of working with Cactus Cares, we’re all always looking for new opportunities to help the non-profits we [...]
Posted by Robyn Snyder on Nov 7, 2008
If you are following the Yahoo/Google agreement, you will be interested to know that as per the following from Hilary Schneider, Executive Vice President for Yahoo! U.S., Google has decided to terminate the proposed agreement:
Dear Advertiser,
We wanted to reach out to you directly regarding Google’s decision, announced earlier today, to terminate the advertising [...]
Posted by Jean Lloyd on Nov 4, 2008
If you haven’t already done so, there’s still plenty of time to get out and vote today! If you’re unsure of where to go, or need to brush up on who’s running in your district, check out the two resources below:
Google Voting Guide
SmartVoter.org
We’re all on the cusp of a history making election either way it [...]
Posted by Jean Lloyd on Oct 31, 2008
Google’s at it again! They announce another update coming to their Quality Score metric soon. This update specifically deals with how clickthrough rate (CTR) is calculated into your Quality Score. Google has frequently said this is one of the major metrics in determining how relevant your ads are. This new update will factor in the [...]
Posted by Robyn Snyder on Oct 29, 2008
To add to Marc Manfree’s encouragement to get out there and vote, following is another helpful resource, courtesy of Google:
http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/elections/2008/us-voter-info/us-voter-info.xml