Kayak.com Travel Search Adds Display Ads to Targeted Ad Network

Travel search engine Kayak.com has launched a display advertising platform optimized for the travel industry. The new ad platform is based upon technology developed by Sidestep.com, which Kayak.com purchased in December 2007. Like Google AdWords style text ads, the new display ad system helps travel marketers target their ads based on search criteria including destination, origination, trip … [Read more...]

Travel search engine Kayak.com has launched a display advertising platform optimized for the travel industry. The new ad platform is based upon technology developed by Sidestep.com, which Kayak.com purchased in December 2007. Like Google AdWords style text ads, the new display ad system helps travel marketers target their ads based on search criteria including destination, [...]

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Yahoo & Coupons Inc Partner for Mobile Coupons

Yahoo and Coupons, Inc. are now working together to deliver mobile coupons to Yahoo Mobile users, expanding their current partnership. Mobile coupons are considered a promising source of revenue for mobile publishers; they are one of the marketing tactics consumers say they would welcome as part of their mobile experience says Coupons, Inc.

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Reasons To Not Blog Using Blogger or Blogspot

If you use Google Blogger to produce your blog or host your Blogger blog on Blogspot, this could happen to you : This week I attended a Blogger MeetUp which I set up in the Tampa Bay area to meet and get to know other bloggers. I found the MeetUp to be a success and [...]

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Hakia Semantic Search Adds Pubmed Content to Medical & Health Search Engine

Semantic search engine Hakia has intensified its health and medical search coverage by adding more than 10 million abstracts from PubMed, a medical database maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. The new service is available at Pubmed Search. Compared to searching for documents on PubMed itself, hakia’s [...]

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6 Educated Theories Behind Google SiteLinks

Google Sitelinks will always intrigue and excite webmasters until they know exactly how to get them. Google’s official explanation is rather vague and never explains the actual algorithm; still it (and not only it) allows for a number of theories behind sitelinks: They (sitelinks) serve as shortcuts to help users quickly navigate to the important [...]

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Sta.rtUp.biz Offers a Social Network for Small Business

Among the current crop of social networks, LinkedIn is perhaps the only one which is catering to business professionals but more specifically to the tech-savvy internet professionals. If you’re not so much into Internet/Web stuff, chances are you might not be into LinkedIn. Technically there has been no social network that caters to the small [...]

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Google Co-Founder Invests in Space Tourism

According to various reports, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has invested in a space tourism company.  Furthermore, Brin has expressed interest in going into orbit himself within three years. Brin has plunked down a $5 million down payment for the option to book a seat on a future orbital flight with Space Adventures, a U.S.-based space [...]

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Google Trends Touts New Flavor

Google has just updated its “not-so-popular” keyword research tool – Google Trends. For those who may have forgotten about Google Trends, it’s basically a tool for finding out how popular search terms are across geographic regions, cities and languages. The addition of a new feature now allows downloading of the graphical chart into a spreadsheet [...]

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SEO for WordPress by Joost de Valk

When I think of WordPress blogs and SEO, I generally think of a handful of experts on the subject of WordPress and SEO oriented plugins; one such person being Joost de Valk. Joost has mindmapped his knowledge on SEO for WordPress Blogs into a wonderful guide on establishing high rankings via optimizing a WordPress Blog.

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How to Protect Your Images from Hotlinking

A while ago we published a post discussing how image hotlinking might be beneficial for your site. Naturally we collectively came to the final conclusion that there is more harm than benefit in other sites hotlinking yours: it can steal your bandwidth; it can result in copyright infringement; it can damage your image search rankings [...]

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