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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advise.

This month, we introduce you to our Global Sales Manager, Mark Crow.
Mark is our sales head-honcho. We hear his voice (with his strong English accent) bellowing around the office daily as he helps many small business in the UK and US find the right SEM solution.
Describe yourself in 3 words:
Driven, ambitious and hungry
If I was in a movie, I would like to be in…
Saving Private…
Hi ineedhits,
I need you to give me the good news. Is there any way that I can actually make headways in this financial crisis in marketing my site online? I have submitted (and continue to resubmit) my site to most of the big search engines, but this doesn’t seem to be enough – I’m not seeing many more visitors to my site.
Please help!
Robert Hasson, Brisbane,…

We have been heavily documenting the rise of Bing on this blog, and there’s no denying it has definitely improved Microsoft’s position in terms of search market share.
So now the question for website owners and SEO’ers remains - “How do I rank higher in Bing and drive more traffic to my website?”
While the jury is still out on definitive strategies for top ranking success in Bing, there…

Yep – it’s true. Google are venturing into the world of computer operating systems and have clearly put Microsoft on notice.
In case you missed the news, last week Google confirmed that they will be launching an operating system (known as Google Chrome OS) that will provide PC and laptop users with an alternative to Microsoft’s various Windows operating systems.
According to Google’s announcement:
Google Chrome OS is an…

A new report released today by Efficient Frontier shows that overall search advertising spend is beginning to stabilize as the economy slows its freefall.
Overall U.S. advertising spend dropped slightly in Q2 2009, however the rate of decline is slowing. In contrast to the reduction in spend is advertiser’s ROI, which recently grew by 12 percentage points to 129%.
Overall search spend has been quite reflective of the…

After recently revamping our ineedhits email signature, I thought I’d write a quick post to remind everyone about the importance of keeping your email signature up to date!
An email signature is basically just a standard way of signing off all your emails. When used correctly, an optimized signature can have many benefits such as:
The latest video in our SEMVideo series focuses on how small businesses can effectively optimize their website when they don’t have the cash to get it done professionally.
SEO can be very time consuming for small business owners, not to mention often expensive if you outsource to professional SEO companies. Google understands that many small business owners and webmaster don’t have the time or funds, which is…

A study from analysts Citigroup may resolve the question of the moment: Is Bing a better search engine than Google?
The study compared 200 queries on the Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines. So without further ado, the winner is…. Google! Actually, the results are quiet convincing in that Google is much better at returning relevant results than Bing and Yahoo. Google returned the most relevant result…
Our latest SEM poll is sure to generate a bit of discussion. The topic is quiet a contentious one at the moment….
We want to know your thoughts on Bing, Microsoft’s much hyped new search engine. Have you used Bing? If so, we would love to know whether you think it is a better search engine than the mighty Google.
<br /> <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1764206/” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1764206/”>Is Bing a better…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would have heard about the phenomenal sales of the new iPhone by Apple. It sold approximately 1 million handsets in 3 days - which is approximately 231 handsets per second.
Now stop and think what that means for website marketing. There’s no prizes for realizing that a mobile version of your website is now becoming more important than ever.
I…