October 27, 2008

Keeping users abreast with the latest trends in the news is what news aggregators are all about. Silobreaker, a UK based search and news engine provides a comprehensive interface along with several additional features that understanding news in context. The engine culls information from 10,000 sources providing graphical display of relationship between entities mentioned in [...]

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Facebook Marketing Case Study: Creative and Popular Facebook Fan Pages

Some time ago I posted on the difference between Facebook group and Facebook fan page. I decided not to stop there and looked at some examples of Facebook fan page creative usage. Information-based approach Some brands focus on product / company background information, the page has no active discussions or updates. Example: Lucky Magazine Fan [...]

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Blog Search Engines : The Complete Overview

Blog search tools are numerous; most of them are pretty much useless (per my opinion). Here I am looking only at the most helpful and unique ones that I do recommend trying and that offer some great features. Google Blog Search Technorati Blog Pulse Blog Lines Sort by relevance/ date only by date date or [...]

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October 24, 2008 | 28 Comments | Read Story

ScarySEO Livestreaming on IMBroadcast & UStream

Scary SEO has begun and we’re livestreaming the conference at IMBroadcast, the new social video sharing community for Internet Marketers. Jeff Quipp, the CEO of Search Engine People, is now giving the keynote speech! Check it out at IMBroadcast!

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AideRSS: What’s the PostRank of Your Blog Posts?

AideRSS is a very handy blog evaluating tool that can help you understand and grade your blog posts. The service grades all your blog posts based on PostRank: …a scoring system that we have developed to rank each article on relevance and reaction… The posts are listed along with the most important evaluating data: post [...]

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Russia Blocks Google Acquisition of Begun Ad Service

The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has blocked the $140 million acquisition of Begun, Russia’s biggest contextual ad service. The FAS has fears that Google would dominate the Russian Internet advertising world. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service claims that Google has not submitted the proper and complete info on all the company employees working in Russia. [...]

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IMBroadcast.com : Video Sharing for Internet Marketers

People learn in different ways. Our industry offers a plethora of learning and sharing communities based around linguistic learning styles including blogs, forums, Sphinn, and more. Our industry also offers many auditory learning resources in the form of Webmasterradio.fm and podcasts. Furthermore, our industry has also been among the earliest adopters of video, creating vlogs [...]

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Google Analytics Rolls Out Some Enterprise-Friendly Features

Google Analytics is rolling some new features which are aimed for the delight of the business-oriented, enterprise users. The Google Analytics blog list down these features as; Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a data export API (private beta), integrated reporting for AdSense publishers (private beta), multi-dimensional data visualizations called “Motion Charts,” and an updated user and [...]

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October 22, 2008 | 5 Comments | Read Story

Myths and Truths About Google GrayBar PR

Toolbar PR is something many webmasters have no more trust in. The common opinions are: PR (change) often seems to have nothing to do with rankings; Toolbar PR seems not to reflect the true website authority. Believe it or not, but Toolbar PR really means something. Of course it will not show you the full [...]

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October 22, 2008 | 26 Comments | Read Story

Google Webmaster Chat Starting Now

For those of you who are not logged in yet, Google’s third online webmaster chat is starting right now : Google Webmaster Chat : Tricks and Treats Enjoy :) [Yes, this is my shortest blog post ever]

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