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Friday, February 15th, 2008What would you get if you combined two giant companies in their respective industries? Better services for customers and better income for both companies. I guess this must be what Google and Nokia folks are thinking right now, when both companies reached a deal whereby Google search will be integrated into Nokia’s mobile handsets.
At first, [...]
Yahoo Seen in News Corp. Talks But Analysts Dubious
Friday, February 15th, 2008Yahoo is in talks on a possible deal with News Corp., but analysts said an alternative was unlikely to emerge to rival Microsoft Corp.’s bid for Yahoo, now valued at $42.1 billion.
News of the talks to combine their Web properties was first reported by the Silicon Alley Insider blog on Monday, which said one proposal [...]
Xaby.com Relaunched!
Friday, January 11th, 2008Dear readers, we have recently relaunched our site in Joomla! (a Content Management System we swear by for the last 1 year).
And during this relaunched (a change from static html website to CMS), the main bulk of the work went to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) . As such, in the next 6-8 weeks, we do [...]
Are you unintentionally spamming search engines?
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Are you sure that your website is free of hidden text? There are many ways to create hidden text unintentionally. By checking your web pages, you make sure that you won’t be penalized for something you did not intend to do.
Why is hidden text a problem?
Google doesn’t like hidden text and hidden links [...]
GOOG-411 Is Out Of Beta
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007This is another post that shows Google is one more step closer to world domination (Internet Marketing)
The Google Blog announced that GOOG-411, Google’s voice enabled search service, is now out of beta.
To use GOOG-411 just dial 1-800-466-4411 (aka 800-GOOG-411) and listen to the voice prompts. As part of a promotion for GOOG-411 leaving beta, Google [...]
Google Tops Feed Reader and Social Bookmark Rankings
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Some interesting audience-engagement data just came out from AddThis.com, which ranks the top feed readers and bookmarking services by how actively they are used. These rankings are based on how many times people across the Web add a link to a bookmarking service or a feed to an RSS reader using the AddThis button. (That’s [...]
Improving Google Adwords Campaign Profitability Through the Elimination of Low Quality Clicks
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007With increased competition leading to higher keyword prices, one of the most important metrics in a search marketing campaign is the conversion rate of clicks to actions. An action might be a sale, a lead, or any other desirable, quantifiable result. Faced with increasing keyword prices, maintaining an acceptable return from a search marketing budget [...]
Web 2.0 and Social Media Optimization Trends: Memetrackers
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007I have been scoring the Internet the last few days trying to find resources related to Web 2.0 and/or Social Media Optimization and I came across the idea of “Memetracker Web Sites.” From a Web 2.0 perspective these sites are geared towards collecting information about “hot topics” or things that create a “buzz” in the [...]
Google Hinting at Its Own Social Network?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Unlike our good friend Steve, Eric Schmidt is one of the “true believers” in social networking. Perhaps he’s just one of the “younger people” (or younger at heart people) that Ballmer said were so absorbed in the faddish nature of social networking, even though he is a couple months older than Ballmer.
Whatever the case, Schmidt [...]
Facebook Has LinkedIn In Their Crosshairs
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Facebook may be used for professional networking (particularly in Silicon Valley), but it sure isn’t set up to be. People’s profiles are all about their dating status, pictures, videos and other very personal information. It’s perfect for college dorm networking, but not so much for job or business development hunting.
LinkedIn, by contrast, is set up [...]