Black Friday Ads, Sales and Online Shopping
Once again, today is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and a lot of Americans are sitting around, still digesting their turkey & trimmings, and...
Live Search Webmaster Center Rolls Out New Features
The Live Search team has just rolled out some useful new features for the Webmaster Center. If you’re using this Microsoft service aside from Google...
Facebook & Twitter Won’t Be Making Babies Anytime Soon
Motely Fool Reported on what would have been a “blockbuster” deal for us online marketers. Two of the BIG players in the social space partnering up....
5 Internet Marketing Services to Host and Promote Your Profile
If you are a serious Internet marketer, you should take care of your online reputation management. There are a few places where you should host...
The 5 Biggest Mistakes in PPC Testing
Pay per click is an advertising laboratory. Every new account, every adgroup, every keyword, every ad is a test. There are no guarantees when you...
How To Optimize Your Site Forms
Last week I listed a few free tools to quickly evaluate your site usability. I believe it’s a good follow-up to talk about one of...
Is Microsoft Rebranding Live Search into Kumo?
Liveside.net is reporting that Microsoft has just taken control of the domain name Kumo.com and the site is pointing to an internal Microsoft test site...
These Fun Keyword Tools Will Answer All Your Questions
It’s exciting to discover more and more keyword tools and brainstorm how far you can go with your keyword research. Let’s look at my recent...
MapQuest Launches Personalized Maps : My MapQuest
Playing catchup with Google and the search giants, AOL’s MapQuest yesterday launched My MapQuest, a personalized mapping service which lets MapQuest.com users save maps then...
Google Search to Roll Out SearchWiki feature
Google will soon be rolling out its SearchWiki feature which it has been testing for a couple of months now. SearchWiki as the name implies...
Keyword Rich Internal Anchor Text – How Much Is Too Much?
We’ve heard and seen evidence that internal anchor text over-optimization (sorry, Jill, but this has really become a generally recognizable term) can result in Google...
Yahoo Brings Visual Search Display, Glue to the US
For those who are aware of Yahoo’s experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo India dubbed Glue Pages and you’ve actually liked it, then...
Yahoo OneSearch Powers Up T-Mobile Search and Paid Mobile Ads
T-Mobile and Yahoo has just announced a new partnership that brings Yahoo’s mobile search facility – oneSearch to T-Mobile’s customers via its web2go services. With...
Link Building and Blog Pitching Euphemisms
Today with blog pitching for link building and awareness you just can’t say straight what you are actually up to: a link back to your...
9 WordPress Plugins You Need
As a WordPress enthusiast, guru, and lover, I use plugins every single day and am constantly researching new plugins — even creating plugins. These are...
Google AdWords Rolls Out Search-Based Keyword Tool
Google AdWords is rolling a new tool that would let AdWords members identify which keywords their potential customers are searching for and to help them...
Yahoo to Replace CEO Jerry Yang
As expected by many, Yahoo’s embattled CEO has finally decided to step down from his post as Yahoo starts searching for a new CEO that...
Google Analytics for Flash Campaigns : Ads & Widgets
Although Flash-enabled ad campaigns could be powerful form of advertising, its complex structure makes it difficult for advertisers to measure how users are interacting with...
4 Tools Visualizing Domain Backlinks
There are quite a few good Yahoo-based (and a couple of independent) backlink checking tools (both web-based and desk-top) that are great for investigating, organizing...
Solid Proof that the Online Ad Industry is not Looking Good
Online advertising is not growing, and it has been declining since Q3 2007. TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld has the graphical data to prove that the combined...
Wal-Mart Tells Search Engines No Links to Black Friday Ads
Black Friday advertisement flyers from Wal-Mart have hit the web early after a leak and Wal-Mart is not only going after the sites that have...
Google Docs Turns 2, Struggles to Get into the Mainstream
A couple of days ago, Google’s online productivity suite Google Docs and Spreadsheets just turned two years old. And through those two years, we have...
Yahoo Plans Over 1,000 Layoffs : 10% of Workforce
Yesterday, after the news of Sun Microsystems hit the newswires, Yahoo also confirmed that it would be again slicing the size of its workforce, this...
Google Launches Voice Recognition Search for Apple iPhone
Google search has now added voice recognition software to their search application on Apple iPhones. Now, iPhone users can request Google results without having to...
Blog Carnivals and Group Writing Projects for Link Building and Networking
A blog is an awesome networking tool. Beside multiple obvious benefits (interacting with your audience, content link building, etc), there are a few more creative...
On-Demand Indexing by Google Custom Search Engine
Google has introduced a new system to work in conjunction with its already existing Custom Search Engine (CSE). Since the launch of the CSE, its...
Microsoft Live Search Cashback Program Showing Positive Results
Last May when I covered the Microsoft Live Search Cashback program, I must admit that I found it a bit outrageous as a way for...
Microsoft Opens the Live Search API to the Public
Microsoft is all over the news headlines today. Aside from the “sweeping” new social features that it is introducing to the Live.com portal, Microsoft also...
Will Disney or Apple Buy Yahoo Before Microsoft Does?
Well, I started a little speculation this morning that Apple might be buying Yahoo, which was piggybacked off of TechCrunch’s rumor that Apple may develop...
Could a Social Twist Brings Good Tidings to Microsoft’s Live Service?
Microsoft is rolling out some new features of its Windows Live Service that can simply be put as taking the social route. Actually it will...