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SearchDay | Create Something Newsworthy — Branding, Marketing, Links
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Create Something Newsworthy -- Branding, Marketing, Links; Digg Tweaks DiggBar Again in Response to Continued SEO Criticism;…
Create Something Newsworthy — Branding, Marketing, Links
How do you get people talking about your company? Create the news. It isn't easy to create something newsworthy, but with hard work and…
FriendFeed Adds Italian and Turkish for a Total of 9 Languages
Social media aggregator FriendFeed has added two new languages: Italian and Turkish. This brings the grand total of languages offered on Friend Feed to…
Digg Tweaks DiggBar Again in Response to Continued SEO Criticism
Despite Digg’s attempt last week to defend the DiggBar, many SEO’s are still upset about the URL shortening and potential for reducing link juice.…
Tara Hunt, Author of The Whuffie Factor, to Give Opening Keynote at SES Toronto
The conference agenda for SES Toronto 2009 introduces some new terms and unique phrases to the search engine marketing industry. For example, the opening…
Live Search Updates Cashback Shopping Site
Microsoft’s Live Search team has updated their Cashback Shopping site. They’ve merged Live Search Products into the Cashback site to aid in the consumer…
Compete.com Launches Snappy New Site Design
Compete.com has updated the look and feel of their site. If you’re not familiar, Compete is a site where you can look up stats…
SearchDay | Do You Track Searcharoundings?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Do You Track Searcharoundings?; The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 3: Desire; Google Gets in Microblogging Game; and more.
Google Continues Dominance in March 2009 comScore Search Engine Rankings
comScore has released their March 2009 search engine ranking data and it should come as no surprise that Google is growing their share and…
SearchDay | Are You Giving Away Free SEO Advice?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Are You Giving Away Free SEO Advice?; How SMBs Can Optimize their Social Networking Time; Twitter 101,…
Do You Track Searcharoundings?
With advances in targeting, we often have some idea of where people are (geographically speaking), but how much time do we spend thinking about…
The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 3: Desire, Part 1
The AIDA conversion funnel governs all Web conversions. We've examined Awareness and Interest, so now we'll take a look at the Desire stage.
Online Map Wars: Google Passes MapQuest Just Before Easter
Hitwise has release new dating showing Google Maps surpassing MapQuest the week ending in Easter weekend. MapQuest visitors remain on the site longer at…
Blogger Gets in Microblogging Game with New Mobile and Email Publishing Options
If you have a blog on Blogger, you can now publish via SMS, MMS and Email on your mobile phone. This can essentially turn…
Google Analytics to Release Change to change to Google.com search referrals
A change is coming to Google Analytics. The change involves the URL that shows the referral from Google search. Google provided the following example:…
Ford Motor Co. Target of Malicious SEO Campaign
Panda Labs has discovered over 1 million links with Ford-related anchor text that lead to malware dressed up as anti-virus applications. The user is…
Google News Contributes to Real-Time News Trend with “Timeline of Articles”
Google News has rolled out a "Timeline of articles" so that users can keep track of events as they occur or occurred. Simply click…
YieldBuild Launches Premium Text Advertising Program
YieldBuild has announced the launch of their Premium Text Ad Program. The new program optimizes across text ads available from Microsoft pubCenter and other…
AdReady Offers Streamlined Online Advertising Management Suite
AdReady today announced the release of its enhanced online advertising management software. The management suite can help advertisers manage their display ad campaigns across…
Are You Giving Away Free SEO Advice?
It can be frustrating for an SEO to go to the effort of crafting a customized proposal for a potential client, who then takes…