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Tue Nov 3, 2009

Search Marketing Now will host an interactive webcast tomorrow that’s all Q+A: “Ask iProspect – PPC Strategy & Tactics from the Experts.” Senior management from iProspect will take questions from the audience — both live...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

Marshall McLuhan was the Canadian educator, scholar and philosopher who popularized the term “global village” way back in the hippie sixties. He coined the phrase in reference to the effects of mass media on the world, in that it enabled...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

Google announced that it had released voice search for Mandarin Chinese for Nokia S60 phones. This is potentially huge — if Google gets it right — because of the massive population in China. It could also drive more search usage and frequency....

Tue Nov 3, 2009

Although some GeoCities web sites are still online, all three major search engines have removed the domain from their search indices. As of this morning, a site:geocities.com search on Google, Yahoo, and Bing shows that geocities.com is dead and...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

Yahoo reported today that the company had “entered into an exclusive, multi-year, partnership with O2 Germany to become the preferred partner for mobile search and services, displacing Google.” Paid search results are reportedly part of the...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

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Tue Nov 3, 2009

Beginning search engine optimization efforts during the initial stages of a Web site project can save you time, effort, and money. ... Read Original Post Here ...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

Links in one country have a different value than links in another—and the average PageRank of sites in particular countries is not the same. So best not to start an international link building project with PageRank considerations, but rather to...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

What can a movie tell us about blogging When one of the central stories revolves around a blog quite a bit. And when that movie happens to be Julie and Julia one can learn all sorts of positive lessons as the plot unfolds.... Demo Microsoft® Unified...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

by Stoney deGeyter I believe that one of the key things that keep small businesses small is that the owners maintain a small business mindset. For many, being small is just fine. They don't ever want to be anything more than a mom and pop operation....

Tue Nov 3, 2009

Last week Debra Mastaler posted the most illuminating DMOZ article I have ever read. In DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search?, she got through to the right people and asked some hard questions. Many SEO folks consider DMOZ  irrelevant....

Tue Nov 3, 2009

Google Operating System noticed Google has added a new search option named “page preview.” If you go to Google, search on something and click on “show options,” you can then look towards the button on the left hand side and click...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

Google’s new social search experiment is kind of a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is it will open up lots of opportunity for smart local search marketers. Over the past couple of years we’ve seen social-local search...

Tue Nov 3, 2009

On October 6th, we reported on Google’s fading home page, which just showed the user a Google logo and a search box. Then after a gradual amount of time, the search boxes and other various links and navigational elements faded in. Since then,...

Mon Nov 2, 2009

Social search is web search aided in some way by social networks. Google (NSDQ:GOOG) launched its own social search last week. Who else is on this scene and how can social search help you find what you are looking for? What kind of sites came into...