From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Google is still the 800-pound gorilla

by Michael J. Evans on January 23, 2009

in Google, Google AdWords, Online Video, Search Engine Marketing

Google’s latest quarterly report reinforces the notion that an Internet marketer ignores Google at its peril. While many advertisers reported fewer ads in the 4th quarter, Google’s aggregate paid clicks rose 18% over the fourth quarter of 2007. Google remained the No. 1 search provider in December 2008, with an estimated 5.4 billion search queries, representing 62.9% of all searches during the month.

Google-owned YouTube was the number one Web brand when ranked by total streams in December 2008, with 5.6 billion total streams and 84.6 million unique viewers. The YouTube numbers show the increasing popularity of online video, something Internet marketers need to consider when creating a marketing campaign.

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Do we really need a new blawg?

by Michael J. Evans on January 22, 2009

in Miscellaneous

The short answer is no.  We’ve got plenty.  But I’ve owned the mjevans.com domain name since the late 1990s just so I could use it for email.  Most people, myself included, find that mjevans[at]mjevans.com is easier to remember than the other email addresses I had.  I recently thought “I’ve already got the domain, so why not write about some things that interest me?  I’m on the Internet much of the day anyway, so it wouldn’t take much longer to put interesting stuff in a blog”  So this is it.  We’ll see if it’s worth continuing after a few weeks.

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