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Friday, 04 December 2009

Search Engine Wars Extend to Paid Content

Rupert Murdoch’s public jabs at Google seem to have paid off. After Murdoch’s threats to block Google from indexing content from his 175 newspapers and multiple news Web sites, claiming that the search giant offered no value to its model, Google today announced an alteration to its policy.
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009

A Great New SEO Tool for Salesforce Users

What happens when your customers find you in Google? Using many analytics programs, you can already track how many of your visitors become members, contact your sales team or make a purchase through a search query. If you use Google AdWords, you may even understand which paid keywords regularly convert to leads. But if you are a B2B business, or sell large-ticket items, you likely don’t know which organic keywords actually convert to sales.
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Rupert Murdoch Moves to Counter Search Engine Dominance of News

The extent to which Google has replaced direct traffic to Web sites is evident in this interview with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, in which he condemns Google, Microsoft and other search players for "stealing" the content of his news sites.
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009

Banking on the Facebook App Economy

Some prominent Facebook app developers breathed a heavy sigh of despair last week when Facebook announced that it would effectively mute involuntary app notifications messages (e.g. “Mark Just Leveled Up in Mafia Wars”). For some of the huge gaming apps, such as Mafia Wars and Farmville, notifications generated major traffic – as much as 70%, according to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington.
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Saturday, 24 October 2009

Your Tweets on Google: 3 Things Every Company Should Do Right Now

As a result of separate deals with search giant Google and upstart Bing, Twitter feeds are coming to a search engine near you. Even as Twitter struggles with monetizing its service and holding spam down to acceptable levels, it has achieved search marketing value as search engines vie to be kings of the "real time Web."
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

What Google’s Sidewiki Means for Corporate Reputation Management – Part II

In our last post, we discussed how Google's Sidewiki launch has sent corporate anxiety regarding brand management and PR off the charts. Today we’ll offer some tips for managing and monitoring Sidewiki.
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Saturday, 17 October 2009

What Google’s Sidewiki Means for Corporate Reputation Management – Part I

“You are surrounded. Come out with your hands up. We are in complete control of your brand. Resistance is futile.” No, this isn’t a direct quote from a legion of tech-savvy consumers. But it expresses the fears of businesses everywhere since Google debuted Sidewiki as a part of its browser toolbar several weeks ago.
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Friday, 16 October 2009

Google Taking PageRank Information In-House

Since Google’s inception, the company has touted its patented PageRank algorithm as the bedrock of its technology. Google defines PageRank as a system that reflects the importance of individual Web pages. It does this, in part, by measuring the relevance and authority of links from one page to another. Unlike a democracy, however, not every vote counts equally.
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Friday, 09 October 2009

The Twitter Analytics Wish List

As reported by the Los Angeles Times , Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has committed to developing a revenue strategy by offering special features to businesses, including corporate accounts with special features. Stone specifically mentioned rolling out an analytics package for businesses.
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Monday, 05 October 2009

Objections to Online Tracking Point to Opportunities in Search Marketing

A new university study, “Americans Object to Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It,” may spark legislation that makes it much more difficult for Web marketers to track users’ behavior online and deliver ads that are targeted to their tastes.
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