While many of us do a good job staying tuned to SEO to help garner an optimized Google SERP presence, many sites still don't take advantage of the needed steps to gain an edge in Google's SERPs. Share your images with image sharing sites.
Sites designed around consuming and sharing different kinds of media, like Picasa Web Albums, Google Reader, YouTube, Blogger, and Docs. When it comes to the Display Network, they also look at what you're interested in, as expressed by your actions...
s BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) have requested the incorporation of Sponsored Ads as a way of generating revenue on their sites. The ads will appear on filtered results for selected sites who are also Yahoo!
A new breed of Internet yellow pages (IYP) sites, who's primary business model is focused on ratings and reviews, has transformed this information from anonymously provided information to focus on the social aspects and community formed around...
In the last two months, two solid examples of startups launched public beta sites that can be best defined as a new hybrid model of travel inspiration and research, with an added layer of shopping and rate comparison to bring the consumer to the...
My Mahalo is a service, currently in beta, that allows users to import their ratings and reviews from other social media sites, and share them with contacts on Mahalo Social. Instead of having to visit several social media sites to find the various...
The poster child of this new (maybe not so new anymore) breed of local-social search sites has clearly been Yelp, with 4 million monthly unique users and over a million reviews under its belt since its late-2004 launch.
Local Guides – Sites like Citysearch, Yelp and Marchex's Open List provide deep local content across many categories. Local Niche – Specialty sites like kudzu.com, or Marchex's network of thousands of direct navigation domains, like NewYorkDoctors...
But Yelp's strategy still beat the heck out of giving away Starbucks cards which is what some local social search sites did to try to get users to participate. It could be a valuable addition or user retention tool for its product, which is one of...
network (comScore lists it as the traffic leader in the category of “IYP sites” with 20 million uniques). Positioning key verticals will be coupled with easier access to ratings and review features in order to boost content generation and use...
On the other hand, it will have less relevance in many cases within Google Maps, than on sites that have branded themselves as strong local search destinations for certain demographics, or within certain verticals, such as Yelp and Citysearch (see...
The additional challenge it will face is to not only motivate reviews and recommendations like the aforementioned sites, but to rely on internet yellow pages users' yet-to-be-proven proclivities for posting - or even watching - video and pictures...
SuperPages) are adding ratings and reviews to their sites, but the social directory sites are far ahead in that game. InsiderPages, one of the top "social directory" sites, has launched its equivalent of Yahoo!
Smarter.com launches sites in Japan, China. Industrial BTB Sites Are Lacking, Survey Finds.dmnews.com Nov 13 2005 7:29PM GMT Each of these products is presented in a new overview page, with product details, coupons, user reviews and ratings and...
MSN Shopping, formerly known as eShop, offers Buyer's Guides with tips and tools, editor suggestions, and other features beyond the price comparisons offered by other shopping search sites.mySimon http://www.mysimon.com/
