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Creative Google Adwords Ad Contest

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

Vote for the Best Ad

We were so impressed with the creative ad entries that we received for the Google Adwords Creative Writing Contest, that we decided to add a runner up, and we want you to choose!

We selected 10 of our favorite ads and would like you to vote for your favorite creative ad. All you have to do is:

  • Visit: http://www.aims.co.il/blog/creative-google-adwords-ads/
  • Click on the ad that you like
  • Rate the picture by selecting the number of stars you want to give the ad
  • Fill out your email (so we can enter you in the draw)
  • Click the send button
  • Confirm your vote via email.
    (You will receive an email requesting confirmation up to 5 minutes after voting)

Voters will be entered into a draw where 1 lucky winner will win a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.
The entrant whose ad gets the most votes will win a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.

Contest ends on August 1, 2010.

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Google Ads You Wish You Wrote

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

People are writing amazing ads for our Google Adwords contest. Here is the one I like the best so far:

Aims PPC Contest ad

Another good one – although a little dated:

AIMS PPC Contest evel ad

Can you do better?
You can write it for any product or service you can think of—real or unreal.
$500 Prize for the best ad!

More information here.

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Google Israel Buys 1st Israeli Company

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Google Israel’s R&D center director Yossi Matias has closed the deal with Labpixies’ Ran Ben-Yair. Labpixies is a web site gadget developer. Flood-it! Is one of their best know widget games.
LabPixies acquired by Google

Google has purchased their 1st Israeli Internet Company

The widgets are developed for iGoogle, iPhone, Yahoo as well as many social media platforms.

Yahoo and Microsoft also have research and development centers in Israel. How long will it be before they start doing some local shopping?

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Optimizing Beachfront Property for Search Engine Companies

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Yahoo is the new kid on the block

We all know how hard it is to optimize for Search Engines but one city in Israel has learned how to optimize itself for all 3 Search Engine Companies. As you can see below, all of the major international search engine companies have offices next to each other so all their employees can take advantage of the beautiful beach view.

Google, yahoo & microsoft
All 3 search engine companies are neighbors here in Haifa, Israel. Look closely to see the Google, Yahoo and Microsoft logos on the buildings. Also, click on the photos below for a close up.

Yahoo and Google in the same building microsoft

Click on photos to enlarge and see search engine company logos on the building

Readers of this blog already know that Microsoft and Google have been here for a while. (If you are not a regular reader, get your RSS feed – no need to worry—I only post about once a month).  Our copywriter, Natalie, tipped me off that Yahoo has now also moved in to the Search Engine neighborhood so I grabbed my camera to bring you these exclusive photos. And now that I have a Flip video camera, I grabbed that too.

How did Haifa, Israel become host to all the major search engine companies? And which major internet company will move in next?  Facebook? Digg? Stay tuned and we will let you know as soon as we find out.
Yahoo Google & Microsoft on the Haifa beach

Click if you want a panoramic view with audio of the search engine company neighborhood

Haifa beachThe beach view that all the search engine people watch when they aren’t working

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You are probably wondering what your blog would look like if it were a fish

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Well, wonder no longer. Take a break and have some fun with Wordle at http://www.wordle.net/.  And if you don’t like fish, other options are available.

This is much more than a typical word cloud. You can spend hours playing with all the different options. Some are quite beautiful. Use it to print your business cards—they can show what your company is all about at a glance.

This is what this blog looks like on Wordle – the Word Cloud maker.

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Green SEO – Is it a Stretch?

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Internet marketing company pushes the envelope by recycling fruit and vegetables to produce eggs.

It is very fashionable to go green today and Internet marketing offices are jumping on the bandwagon. A search for Green SEO brings up over 20 million results according to Google. A clean environment is a great thing to work for but we do have to be careful of little green lies.

 

Google Green SEO

Green SEO brings up over 20 million results

 

There is isn’t too much an SEO company can do that is different than any other company – recycling, saving energy and the like. However that didn’t stop me from writing a Green SEO article. I did think of a couple of things the SEO crowd can do.

And I think that our office is pushing the envelope by recycling apple cores and other organic remains to feed my son’s chickens which we expect will start laying eggs soon. Every weekend I take the leftover fruit and vegetables to the chicken coop in our backyard.

Read more about Green SEO….

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Beyond Global Internet Marketing

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

SEO for Extraterrestrials

It is a good idea to target extraterrestrials in order to break away from the over crowded global marketing scene here on earth. We will use Klingons as a case study to show the best methodology for extraterrestrial SEO.

Our first goal is to help people on Earth to market to Klingons. Although there are many technical problems, this group is worth targeting now that they are allies of the United Federation of Planets. Less money spent on making war frees up more disposable income.

First, we want to see if Klingons are a market. Google has a Klingon interface which proves just that. More on
Multilingual Internet Marketing – The Final Frontier

Google interface in Klingon

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Google and Microsoft Cohabitating on the Beach

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

I thought it was interesting that here in Israel, Google and Microsoft located their offices very close to each other as you can see below.

Search Companies in Israel
I had to wade into the water so you could see how close the Google and Microsoft offices are. You can see my sandals in the foreground. Click to enlarge.

Google Search Company in Israel
Close up of Google’s offices		 microsoft search company
Close up of Microsoft’s offices

Israel is a very small country and it isn’t unusual for competitors to locate near each other.

There are also great reasons to locate here in Haifa (full disclosure–my office is in Haifa too):

  • A beautiful view of the beach
  • Close to the Technion–with a great supply of excellent engineering graduates (full disclosure again: I am a Technion graduate)
  • Close proximity to freeway and train

Despite our marching towards a global village it seems like local customs still influence multinationals. It is nice that both Google and Microsoft employees can enjoy the view of the Mediterranean.

Israeli beach in Haifa
The Israeli beach–not a bad view for hard working search engine people.

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SEO Cartoon Quiz

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Today we posted our SEO Cartoon Quiz. I hope it will create a lot of smiles in the Internet marketing community (I don’t think regular people will get the jokes). As soon as we finished setting up the quiz a lot more ideas started to come to us. Maybe we will have to put out another edition one day.

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