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How SMBs Can Optimize their Social Networking Time, Part 2
Small business owners have limited time to spend on social media, so where are the best places to focus? Participating in local and niche…
NCAA Says Facebook Fan Groups Violate Recruiting Policies
The NCAA has said that Facebook groups set up by college students to woo high school student athletes violate their recruiting policies. It’s against…
Google Offers Developers Early Look at Android 1.5 SDK
Google is offering developers an early-look release at Android 1.5 SDK. Version 1.5 introduces APIs for features such as Soft keyboards Home screen widgets…
11 Myths About Bloggers that Need to Be Busted
Stereotypes about bloggers have begun to formalize as blogging has taken its place in society. As usual, not all stereotypes are rooted in fact.…
Is Amazon Homophobic? Or Were Rankings Broke?
Seems Amazon has had some problems with books on gays and lesbians intheir sales rankings, according to the Huffington Post. People noticed sales rankings…
Mass Exodus From Silicon Valley Reflecting Increase in Telecommunting?
Seems it is hard to come by U-Hauls in Silicon Valley these days. There has been a major exodus from the area, both due…
Wozniak Joins Deep Web Search Company
DeepDyve – the ‘deep web’ search startup – announced Steve Wozniak has join their advisory board, the Industry Standard reported. “DeepDyve, formerly known as…
SearchDay | Most Corporate Social Media Efforts Will Fail
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Most Corporate Social Media Efforts Will Fail; The Search Bachelor; Extortion SEO Sanctioned by Google; and more.
Is Social Media The Key To Challenging Google?
ValleyWag reported that Facebook is now providing 19% of Google’s search traffic, add in 3% or so from MySpace (that could get higher if…
StumbleUpon Buy Themselves Back From eBay
The founders of StumbleUpon and a group of investors have bought the company back from online auction giant eBay, ReadWriteWeb reported today. This should…
The Search Bachelor
We've all dated someone who, after a few dates, is already picking out baby names; they're in such a rush to get to the…
No Need to Freak Out Over Google Analytics Suddenly Disappearing
Last week, there were reports swirling the internet about how many of the top 10,000 sites would soon lose their Google Analytics reporting because…
Ex-Yahoo! Tapped as Vice President of Ad Operations at interCLICK
Dave Myers, formerly the senior director of advertiser marketplace operations at Yahoo! has been selected by online advertising network, interCLICK, to be their new…
Microsoft and Discovery Channel Partner for ‘Deadliest Catch’ Cross-Channel Ad Blitz
The fifth season of Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” begins tomorrow night at 9pm and the network chose Microsoft to conduct a cross-channel ad blitz.…
Yahoo! First Page Advertisers Increase by 10% in Q1 2009
When Yahoo! announced that its quarterly earnings will be released Tuesday, April 21, I mentioned that it could be too soon to see any…
Q&A with Piera Palazzolo, SVP of Dale Carnegie Training
One of the new tracks at SES New York 2009 was focused on “Search & the C-Level Executive.” As I pointed this out during…
Most Corporate Social Media Efforts Will Fail
Social media can be a very effective and successful marketing tool, but only if companies take the time to plan for it. It basically…
Average Search CPC Data by Category for March 2009
Cost-per-click data by vertical category in search in the U.S.
Twitter 101, Part 3
You can't ignore Twitter's explosive growth, and the conversation is only going to get bigger. The more you know how to use this tool,…
Extortion SEO Sanctioned by Google
Google has taken a hard-line approach to link buying, but they've left the door open for another profitable niche: extortion SEO. Sites like Ripoff…