Reddit’s Nuclear Attack On SOPA, The Anti-American Bill
Reddit, one of the most popular social news site, has decided to go Nuclear to protest the dangerous SOPA, the anti-American bill. The site has threatened to blackout reddit on January 18th from 8am–8pm EST (1300–0100 UTC). Which means there will be no reddit for 12 hours. Wikipedia is also planning to block access to [...]
Microsoft considers financing Yahoo bid
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the largest software company, has signed an agreement that lets it take a closer look at Yahoo! Inc.’s financial information to help it consider financing a bid. Private-equity firms TPG Capital and Silver Lake also signed non-disclosure agreements to help size up a possible bid for Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo, people close to [...]
Media Chiefs Want BitTorrent Removed From Home Entertainment Player
Leading figures in the music and movie industries have rallied against the manufacturer of a home entertainment hub. The Freebox server-based system from a French ISP provides Blu-Ray, games and home network playback of media, but the included torrent client has drawn the ire of music and movie bosses, who are now demanding that the [...]
4 Tips to Keep Your Email List Squeaky Clean
This is a guest post written by Heather Bonura. Heather is the director of brand strategy for Lititz, PA-based email marketing firm, Listrak. We all know that email marketing is continually evolving. Subscribers are savvier, and therefore, we need to get more targeted. But many marketers still haven’t adjusted their email strategies to be truly effective. It’s no [...]
Tips to Boost SEO Ranking
SEO optimization is the key goal of every online marketer. The reason behind is in the extremely competitive online industry today, high online viewership is critical to success. Let’s have a complete insight on SEO optimization and tips to boost SEO rankings. SEO Ranking and Its Significance The term SEO is an acronym of “Search [...]
Retailers Ready to Use PPC Services Other than Google According to Survey
If you use the services of a Boston Search Engine Marketing company, then chances are quite high that they will offer you to advertise your website via the Google Adwords pay per click advertising service. The reason behind this is actually quite simple; Google remains the top player on the internet. They have the world’s most popular [...]
FTC begins antitrust inquiry of Google
Google has confirmed that it has “received formal notification,” that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating its business practices. The acknowledgment was posted on the internet search engine company’s blog Friday. Google said it was unclear about the nature of the probe. A broad FTC investigation would cause the company be tied up in defending itself for [...]
Is Seo Consulting Necessary For Successful Online Business?
Online business is growing by leaps and bounds these days. Each day, a number of websites are added to the amazing World Wide Web. When you are a beginner in the internet world, it becomes very difficult for you to create your own stand and gain the confidence of the customers. Similar is the case of the established forms as they [...]
Yahoo: Can a bid for Hulu revive the ailing internet giant?
Not a word from Yahoo for months, and lots of interesting snippets come along at once. • First: The mood at Yahoo is still pretty bleak despite Carol Bartz’ much-reported turnaround plan, which seems to have underwhelmed investors. TechCrunch describes this as a “360-degree turnaround” plan, which rather beautifully describes a lot of activity but no real [...]
Google’s Real-Life Babelfish Will Translate the World
It was no coincidence that the man who eventually headed Google’s research division was the co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the standard textbook in the field. Peter Norvig had been in charge of the Computational Science Division at NASA’s facility in Ames, not far from Google. At the end of 2000, it was clear [...]
The way to Begin Your Online Enterprise
You most likely do some online purchasing from time to time. But chances are you’ll spend hours upon hours searching for one of the best deals. There’s a solution. Some corporations have designed downloadable internet apps that enable you to get the best and lowest prices whereas shopping. All it’s a must to do is [...]
SEO’ing in a Social World
SEO is dead sang the “Social Evangelist”. Um Yah riiiiiiigt. SEO is as important than ever. Here is the reason. Social media is tied to Google, Bing and Yahoo. How? Bing serves results for Yahoo. Bing pulls much of their data from Facebook. In fact, it is believed that results are influenced by some of [...]
The Mother Of All Internet Wars
There have been quite a few wars in the history of the commercial Internet. But I think that we are gearing up for the start of the biggest one yet in 2011. Before I get to that a brief review of some of the past battles is needed. The 1st Browser War Perhaps the most [...]
Vietnam: State of Social Media One Year after Facebook Block
When Vietnam blocked Facebook, everyone was talking about a smaller China. One year after the government’s endeavor, Facebook Vietnam tells another story. Not only does Vietnam remain on the list of 10 countries with the fastest growth of Facebook users, Facebook marketing is enjoying a boom in this country with Facebook marketing agencies mushrooming all [...]
Advertising Frequency: How Many Times Is It Effective?
So how many times does a consumer need to see your advertisements before he/she will remember, respond and then buy from you? Marketers call this effective advertising frequency. Well, it really varies depending on whether it is push or pull advertising. Push advertising – most traditional offline advertising such as magazine, newspaper, TV as well [...]
Easy Tips to Improve Your Business’s Search Engine Marketing Campaign
According to Wikipedia, search engine marketing (SEM) is “a form of internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs) through the use of search engine optimization, paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion.” There are many ways that you can grow and strengthen your internet marketing [...]
Yahoo Will Switch to Bing Search Engine
At the corporate level, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed on a search and advertising partnership, potentially raising their joint search share to 25 percent of the market. What users will notice, however, is Yahoo switching to Bing’s search engine. Update: The story went from sourced to officially announced after this post went up. If you’re a [...]
WebOS 2.0 Now Official, Arriving On Palm Pre 2 “In the Coming Months” In US
It’s always nice when rumors actually hold up: HP just officially introduced the world to webOS 2.0 and confirmed its flagship handset, the Palm Pre 2. So this is why HP spent all that money. Let’s take a quick spin. Much of what we saw in those leaked webOS 2.0 screen shots has been confirmed: Stacks and JustType, baked [...]
Roles of SEO
The world of Internet Marketing has evolved greatly over the last few years as more and more consumers turn to online services to fulfil their marketing needs. In the past consumers would have to look up in the yellow pages to find the phone number for a retailer or service and then contact them to find [...]
17 Highly Effective Strategies to Increase Search Engine Rankings
Search engines are still one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your web site. This is because it is highly targeted traffic. A person searching for a particular phrase on a search engine, gets taken to your web site. It makes sense then, to make your site as attractive as possible to [...]
