Are you tired of typing into your browser “Google.com”? Would you like to enter something else, but still get the same results as if you went to Google.com? … How about XXXDisc.net? Heather Paulson noticed something odd during a test of the SEM/SEO/AM research service Syntryx, which is currently in beta. She stumbled across a …
A fellow affiliate marketer and blogger with the name Andrew Wee from WhoIsAndrewWee.com was writing an interesting post while I was heading to Affiliate Summit East in Miami two weeks ago. I liked the post, because it had two nice paragraphs about what I am doing as well as a link to my site. I …
Google added last Thursday a nice little video to their YouTube account without mentioning anything significant to their blogs as they usually do for announcements of new product features. Search Engine Roundtable noticed it on Friday and made a quick post, Lifehacker posted about it on Saturday. The new feature is in my opinion significant …
The major business networking sites LinkedIn and Xing are quick in providing one feature after another to out-do each other in the struggle for increasing their member bases and market share. Less than two weeks ago did Xing announce the partnership with ZoomInfo, which has the goal to expand the reach of Xing and the …
Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform Plaxo opened their new version 3.0 beta to the public. As a user and fan of Plaxo, did I go and tested it out right away of course. I had …
Although all external Wikipedia links are using the nofollow attribute since January of this year, links from the encyclopedia are still important because of other reasons than ranking in search engines. Next to generating human traffic from people who read Wikipedia articles, external links from Wikipedia also reinforce the authority of a site for the …
Google announced today via a press release that they expand the Google Pay-Per-Action beta program to include beta testers around the world. As of today are willing advertisers and publishers outside the United States able to participate and apply for a beta account. Quote: “Starting today, advertisers in the beta will see an alert in …
Here’s some advice to anybody who is silly enough to provide feedback to Yahoo! Services, keep it for something else or you might end up losing your account over it. In my opinion, they do not want being criticized, hear suggestions for how to improve things and know about bugs in their site. Send them …
My last one, two, three posts that involved Xing.com did always contain a comparison to LinkedIn. This time is it no different, although there nothing directly to compare. Xing does something, that LinkedIn did not do yet and probably also not anticipated. Xing announced today that they agreed with ZoomInfo.com on a mutual partnership. Tweet …
Frank Watson at SearchEngineWatch reported today that Google AdWords in now bolding synonyms in the sponsored search results. David Szetela spotted this today and contacted Google for confirmation. AdWords is now bolding the expanded match terms in the ads. The example he used saw handbag being bolded when the search contained purse. I did some …
