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Twitter As a Traffic Generator : Set Up a TwitterFeed
via Search Engine Journal by Loren Baker, Editor on March 09, 2008
This morning I awoke to update myself on the scandal and news surrounding the blog post on optimizing start-up costs by Jason Calacanis, and clicked over to his blog homepage, instead of the post itself. I then came across Jason’s post on his 9,000 + Twitter followers and read this quote : “Twitter is the #2 referrer of traffic to my blog… behind Google.”Last week I joined Twitter for the...
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Google Acquiring Bebo & Plaxo Despite Social Media Revenue Challenges?
via Search Engine Journal by Loren Baker, Editor on February 07, 2008
On top of the buzz of Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo over the past week, Google has been making some acquisition waves of their own : despite these moves currently being rumors.Google has been whispered to be going after two very different social networking companies : Bebo and Plaxo. Bebo & Google :Bebo is a generalized social network, like Orkut or MySpace would be, with a very solid global...
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Google Indexing Blogs Quickly
via Search Engine Journal by Julie Kent on February 10, 2008
... some way or another.Updating your blog frequently can also help to ensure that Google finds it faster, and keeps you in their index. Once you’ve gotten into their index, use it to your advantage. If you continue to write compelling, interesting posts, you’ll gradually attract more readers. And being in their index will increase the chances that more people will find your site when they ...
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Yahoo Layoffs Happening Now : Employees Notified Today
via Search Engine Journal by Loren Baker, Editor on February 11, 2008
... they announced layoff plans and the Microsoft takeover news.Well, there is no force field protecting the valley from economic downturn and Yahoo just laid off 1,000 people. More on the Yahoo Layoffs via Google News.Is it the Recession or is it Yahoo?On the other side of the fence, CNN is reporting that many tech companies hungry for quality talent are aggressively pursuing Yahoo employees.
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Twitterfeed : Bringing RSS to Twitter for Every Blogger
via Search Engine Journal by Loren Baker, Editor on March 27, 2008
I’d heard about this Twitter fad for a good year or so, but had never really gotten into it (or Twittered) until after the SMX West search marketing conference in early March. It seemed like almost everyone was using Twitter at the conference for various reasons; whether they were to alert others of the sessions that they were attending, or sharing their favorite blog posts.Sharing the favorite...
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Is Google Trumping The URL?
via Search Engine Journal by Robin Cannon on April 30, 2008
... many people aren’t bothering with that inconvenient “www” and “.com” and are just going straight through Google.Hitwise UK just published its most searched for brands 2007 statistics, and the fastest rising US search terms are widely available. Both suggest that Google users know exactly where they want to browse to, and just use the search box to give them the link to click.(more…)
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Yahoo Serving Images in Sponsored Search Listings
via Search Engine Journal by Loren Baker, Editor on January 09, 2008
Yahoo Search Marketing is testing the serving of images embedded within their sponsored search results on Yahoo Directory pages. The images, which are being supplied by a company called ImageAdvantage, are generated either from a stock photo database or from their sponsors’ sites to the left of their Yahoo Search Marketing results. One has to wonder, why serve these in the Yahoo Direct
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Top 10 Social Networks, Blogs & Web Brand Rankings for Dec. 2007
via Search Engine Journal by Pablo Palatnik on January 21, 2008
Reported by Marketing Charts, Nielson Ratings releases the statistics for the top 10 social networks, blogs, and web brand rankings for December 2007. Top 10 Social Networks:
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Google to Offer Terabytes of Free Database Storage to Scientists
via Search Engine Journal by Julie Kent on January 21, 2008
Google will soon be offering up terabytes of online storage for open-source scientific datasets, which will be housed at the domain http://research.google.com. Storage will be free to researchers, and anyone will be able to access the data. The service, which is currently known as Palimpsest, was due to launch this week, but missed its launch date and will be launching soon.Palimpset wa
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Microsoft Proposes to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion, Should Google Be Afraid?
via Search Engine Journal by Arnold Zafra on January 31, 2008
So finally, the long standing rumour becomes a reality. And although this been a long-awaited proposal, no one seemed to have predicted to happen that soon. Microsoft finally proposes to buy Yahoo for a whooping sum of $44.6 billion. This puts the value of outstanding shares of Yahoo common stock at $31 per share.The offer which puts a 62% premium about the closing price of Yahoo...
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