Quick: how many customers that buy from you on eBay are return customers? Not sure? Here’s a fast way to get an idea of the percentage. Divide your unique feedback by your total feedback
(total is usually higher) and that will give you an idea. The number isn’t perfect, of course, because some of those extra […]
Entries from March 2004
Customer Loyalty at eBay
March 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Yahoo Beta Testing News Search 2.0
March 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Yahoo has begun beta testing Yahoo News 2.0, a new News Search Engine which unlike the current Yahoo News, draws in news stories from thousands of online news sources indexed by Yahoo. News Search now combines articles from Yahoo! News and over 7,500 crawled news sources around the Web.
The News Search tab on the Yahoo! […]
Optimizing Your Site for Local Search
March 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
Google has just launched Google Local, Yahoo unveiled SmartView Yahoo Local Search last week, Gigablast was one of the first search engines to offer local search, Internet Yellow Pages are expected to be the new local buyer to business connection. If you are a brick and mortar business dependent on local customers who use the […]
Google Local - Google Joins Local Search Market
March 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google, the world’s top search engine, unveiled Google Local on Tuesday, adding the function of local search to the Google experience and joining rival search engine Yahoo in staking its place in local search. Google Local, developed and tested in Beta within Google Labs, lets web searchers look locally from different sources including Yellow Pages, […]
Information On Copywriting Examples
March 16th, 2004 by anthonyparsons | 8 Comments
This article is written to provide information on copywriting, examples and provide professional copywriting tips to improve your website’s performance, without the cost of hiring a professional web copywriting consultant. Killer copywriting can be performed by anyone who has a creative writing ability, not just a copywriting expert. You can achieve just as much as any expert with search engine copywriting if you put your mind to it. Lets face it, search engines require text, and good quality content specific text to know what your page is promoting.
Google Europe’s Top Search Engine
March 16th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Over 55 million Europeans use Google as their search engine of choice according to a report released by Nielsen/NetRatings. According to a BBC story ‘Google also enjoys the most number of pages viewed and the most amount of time spent on the site. Most search engines have only fleeting visits from surfers but Google is […]
Internet Security Systems Tops Google’s Image Index with 1 Billion Images
March 16th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Claiming to top the Google and Yahoo/Overture/Altavista image search indexes, Internet Security Systems today announced that the company’s Web content filtering technology has identified and stored the one-billionth Internet image, making the ISS database the most comprehensive listing in the world. Google currently maintains a database that holds approximately 880 million images. Customers use this […]
Norton’s Firewall Blocks Pay Per Click Search Engine Advertising
March 16th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
For those that dislike advertising and pop-ups Norton Internet Security 2004 is a dream come true, but for advertisers it could be your worst nightmare…
The newest version of Norton Personal Firewall includes a new web assistant that allows users to block ads and pop-ups, this setting is turned on by default and is stirring up […]
Q&A: Microsoft Launches New Local Language Program to Further Enable Global Access to Technology
March 16th, 2004 by anthonyparsons | 1 Comment
Maggie Wilderotter, senior vice president of the World Wide Public Sector for Microsoft, is focused on the company’s international efforts with government. The programs in education and security that she leads reflect Microsoft’s global commitment to working with governments worldwide to develop initiatives that address their specific challenges in meeting the needs of their citizens, including a new initiative called the Local Language program. To learn more about these efforts, PressPass spoke with Wilderotter and Dato’ Hj. A. Aziz Deraman, director-general of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, the national language authority of Malaysia and an initial Local Language Program partner that is implementing a new program to enhance governments’ access to technology.
Kanoodle’s ContextTarget Hopes to Challenge Google and Quigo
March 16th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 9 Comments
Kanoodle’s new team of contextual advertising executives which came over to Kanoodle after the Google acquisition of Sprinks Inc. is planning on offering their own contextual advertising solution to compete with Google AdSense.
Since moving to Kanoodle, Lance Podell, president; Doug Perlson, senior vice president, partner development and operations; and Mark Josephson, senior vice president, […]
