Yahoo’s Adwords Test Continues, Raises Justice Dept’s Eyebrows
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo’s Adwords Test Continues, Raises Justice Dept’s Eyebrows
After reporting great success with the test of Google Adwords, Yahoo’s test continues. But that’s making a few people in Washington just a little bit nervous. It seems the Justice Department is checking into the all-too convenient relationship to see if there’s any antitrust violations going on.
The test is slated to run just two weeks and was reported to the Justice Department in advance, according to Reuters. The first week brought great results, according to Yahoo. Though, the timing of the announcement is surely mangled up in the whole Microsoft-unsolicited-bid fiasco.
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Data Explosion Drives Growth For EMC
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
EMC’s Joe Tucci Source: EMC UPDATED: EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported respectful gains today in overall first-quarter revenue of $3.47 billion, reflecting a 17 percent increase over the previous year. It marks the storage vendor’s 19th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth. Profits landed at $268.8 million, reflecting 13 cents a share, a bit of a drop from last year’s first quarter of $312.6 million (15 cents a share). “It was an extremely well-executed quarter,” Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com. Despite criticism of the company’s acquisition strategies and not spinning off all of VMWare, Babineau praised the company’s performance. (Read the full post about ‘Data Explosion Drives Growth For EMC’…)
Vysr Says Better to ‘Roam’ Than Web Surf
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
SAN FRANCISCO — Surfing the Web is so 20th century. That just might be the thinking of startup Vysr, one of the many Internet companies hoping to make a big splash here at the Web 2.0 Expo this week.
Vysr has launched a limited public beta of RoamAbout, a browser extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox designed to bring Web users ready access to the services they want.
With Vysr installed, the idea is to let users quickly tap Web services they normally use without leaving the site they’re viewing. “This is a platform many services can be written for, too,” Vysr CEO Guda Venkatesh told InternetNews.com.
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Sun Broadens Virtualization Support For Legacy OSes
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
Sun continues building out its flagship Unix operating system, Solaris 10, with a new update that adds new virtualization features that may be chiefly of interest to users of older Solaris systems.
The Solaris 10 5/08 update for the three-year-old OS also continues the evolution of the platform, as Sun attempts to gain operating system share.
Its latest effort centers around broadening the capabilities of Solaris’s Containers, the core virtualization technology that enables guest operating systems, including Solaris 9, to run on Solaris 10.
With the new update, Solaris 10’s Containers add support for Solaris 8 environments.
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Ubuntu’s ‘Hardy’ Cozy With Windows
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
The newest Ubuntu Linux long term support (LTS) release, code named ‘Hardy Heron’ (officially called Ubuntu 8.04) is set to be available today, including both desktop and server editions with a long list of new features.
Among them is an innovative new way to install and uninstall Linux with a Microsoft Windows desktop.
With the release, Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical aim to dispel the myth that there isn’t a market for the Linux desktop and that it can compete against Microsoft. The Ubuntu 8.04 release also aims to make it easier in the first place of users to try out Linux.
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Advancing your Search Education in SEO Forums
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
Our SEM.edu search engine optimization (SEO) resources have guided you through book form, a seminar or workshop, and digging through the basics on your own.
But what if you don’t want to invest in a full round of training? What if you feel pretty good about yourself and your own training and just have a quick question? Or maybe you’ve heard about something in the SEO world, live in an obscure town, and don’t have an abundance of face-to-face networking opportunities.
Of course, today we’re addressing SEO forums: environments in which you can find experts and novices alike to discuss all things SEO.
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The Power of Sharing: Link Building in Online Forums
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
I’ve been spending more time in my old haunts, the discussion forums, looking for link building opportunities. Participating in online forums is a great link building activity.
You definitely can’t be a blatant link spammer. You have to understand the policies of each forum. You also can’t come into a forum and be aggressively needy. Never start throwing around links to your site in your first posts.
I also wouldn’t recommend coming into a forum and asking for big favors right off the bat. I’ve seen people come to a forum and ask things like: “Please look at my site and tell my why I’m not coming up in the search engines.”
That’s a big topic.
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Twitter Expands to Japan, Includes Ads
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
Twitter Expands to Japan, Includes Ads
Popular social media network, Twitter, has announced its expansion to Japan. But this time, ads will be rolled out with the launch of the service. The Twitter blog said that users will see “media from two clients.” So far, it seems as though the Japanese ads are display ads placed on the Twitter site, while rumors of contextual ad testing in the US have creeped up on blogs in recent weeks.
Part of Twitter’s appeal is social search. Users are finding that asking their followers for recommendations often yields better or quicker results than using a search engine.
Twitter as a utility offers only limited search – providing users the ability to search user names and locations for keywords.
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Google Says ‘No’ to Ecocho
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
Google Says ‘No’ to Ecocho
Last week, we reported the launch of Ecocho, a custom search engine that promises to plant up to 2 trees for every 1,000 searches. Users could choose to search either Yahoo or Google in their quest to help the planet.
But just one day after Earth Day, word has come that Google isn’t so cool with Ecocho’s modus operandi.
New Yahoo Feature Reports Number of Discarded Clicks
Autor admin | 24.04.2008 | Category SEO
New Yahoo Feature Reports Number of Discarded Clicks
Yahoo has been throwing out bad clicks on search ad campaigns, but now a new feature will give further insight into those clicks. The new “Click Filter Report” will show how many bad clicks Yahoo is discarding.
Users can customize the report to display the data across various metrics including time, impressions, invalid clicks and average cost-per-click.
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