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Foursquare Wants To Pair With Google, Yahoo, Bing And Other Search Players 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
Foursquare, the location-based social media site, is aware of the value of its data for searches and has started talking to "a lot of different potential partners," including industry majors such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in order to clinch data deals. |
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Search Agency Update - What Are Companies Up To? 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: Trada/Google Ventures, IBM and Boostability |
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You’re All Wrong! Paid Links From Offtopic Sites Do Count 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
“Paid links from off topic sites get devalued and flagged.” A common claim by otherwise savvy SEOs such as Ross Hudgens. Ross, would you take three links from the Wall Street Journal if its reporters write about internet marketing? |
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Will New York Governor David Paterson Protect Vacation Rentals? 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
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Three's Company, 30's a Crowd at SES San Francisco and Connected Marketing Week 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
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Custom Variables, Part III: Slots 1 points posted 5 days ago Comment |
This is the third post (at long last) in a series about custom variables. We’ve already written about why to use custom variables and how the code works. This last part is about a subtlety of how custom variables operate called “slots”. |
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Social Media Doesn't Stop New York Governor from Signing Bill 1 points posted 5 days ago Comment |
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Why I Returned the Apple iPad Tablet to Rutgers University 1 points posted 4 days ago Comment |
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Bada Bing, Bada Hoo at SES San Francisco 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
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NBCU Sets Up "UAP" In-House Ad Network 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
NBC Universal (NBCU), the media and entertainment company, has launched its own advertising platform UAP to serve its own network of owned and operated sites, Mediaweek reported, quoting company executives. |
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AOL Launches Political Ad Platform, Seeks Top Music Ops Hire 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
When AOL is in the news, it means business... CEO Tim Armstrong said advertising would be AOL's primary source of revenues in his turnaround plan for the company. As such, AOL already demonstrated its willingness to leave non-viable operations behind by selling its failing and ailing social site Bebo for a reported $10 million. Now it's building a new future, starting with the launch of an innovative political ads platforms and at the same time looking for its future head of music operations. |
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AOL Keeping Google (And Bing) On Its Toes For Search Deal Pick 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
AOL is currently gauging the offers of several companies to power its search as its $700 million-a-year deal with Google is set to expire in December. Whether it renews its agreement with Google or switches to another search company, AOL is likely to sign in its partner for the few years to come by September, according to various reports. |
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Google's Search-Related Music Store Slated For Holiday Season [Report] 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
The rumor is growing fast. Now the New York Post has it that Google could launch its search-related music store as early as this holiday season, i.e. November-December. |
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Ad Industry To Facelift Reputation With Institute For Advertising Ethics 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
The advertising industry is launching its own PR campaign by way of setting up an Institute for Advertising Ethics. The sector has always had a negative image and the likes of the "Mad Men" series are certainly surfing that tide to... sell. With the market staging a robust recovery the industry is planning ahead and wants to tweak its reputation. Here's how. |
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How To Get Customer Reviews on Your Website 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
While UGC and Reviews can often be a mixed blessing, as long as Google continues to reward rich snippets with enhanced visual listings, it’s probably a good idea to try to make reviews part of your website strategy. |
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Interview with Steven Wyer of ReputationAdvocate.com 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
The following is a sponsored post. For this post we’re going to be talking with Steven Wyer of Reputation Advocate. Steve, for my readers who aren’t familiar with your firm, can you tell me a little bit about yourself? |
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United States Copyright Office Declares YouTube Remixes Are Legal 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
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Yahoo Japan Picks Google Search Over Bing 1 points posted 1 day ago Comment |
Yahoo Japan -- an independent entity from Yahoo -- has decided to forgo the Bing transition and will be using Google search results, Reuters announced today. |
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RegEx ebook Answers – for Google Analytics 1 points posted 1 day ago Comment |
A couple months ago, I published a RegEx for Google Analytics ebook. You can download the ebook or just “page through it” online . The last page was a quiz, and I promised the answers — here they are: Question 1: Write a Regular Expression that matches both dialog and dialogue. |
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Econsultancy Finds Companies Are Increasing Investment in Site Search to Drive Sales 1 points posted 1 day ago Comment |
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