SEW Experts: Keeping SEO Staff Motivated and Driven
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
SEW Experts: Keeping SEO Staff Motivated and Driven
Talented link developers are hard to find — you want to retain them as long as possible. In today’s Link Building column, “Keeping SEO Staff Motivated and Driven,” Justilien Gaspard offers tips on some incentives you can use to keep your link marketers productive and driven, while reducing staff turnover.
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ComScore Places Google Sites Ahead of Yahoo Sites for First Time
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
ComScore Places Google Sites Ahead of Yahoo Sites for First Time
While Google has dominated the search market, it’s Yahoo that’s been the leader as a destination site (think email, photos, etc.), according to published reports. But the tide is turning in that field, as comScore reported Google sites finally overtook Yahoo sites in the month of April.
But unlike its lead in search, this lead is a slight one. Only 466,000 visitors separate the #1 and #2 slots in this field. Here’s the raw data for April:
Google sites saw 141.1 million visitors, up 18% year over year.
Yahoo sites saw 140.6 million visitors, up 7% year over year.
Microsoft trailed in third at 121 million.
Yahoo does still lead in page views, meaning either people are returning or are more engaged in Yahoo content.
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SEW Experts: Facebook & MySpace Connect: Good Idea or Social Media Catastrophe?
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
SEW Experts: Facebook & MySpace Connect: Good Idea or Social Media Catastrophe?
Both MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect will soon let users’ personal information follow them as they traverse the Web. In today’s Building Brand Equity column, “Facebook & MySpace Connect: Good Idea or Social Media Catastrophe?,” Erik Qualman notes that, besides the implications for personal and business transparency, it looks like Google should worry about social media stealing some of its market share.
Comcast Acquires Social Network Pioneer Plaxo
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
Comcast Corp has agreed to acquire pioneering Web start-up Plaxo Inc, which first sought to turn address books into social networks and laid the foundation for Friendster and Facebook.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
However, a source close to the deal said Comcast, the largest U.S. cable TV operator and a leading U.S. broadband Internet supplier, is paying “around $175 million, plus or minus 5 percent.”
Plaxo is famous in Silicon Valley lore for being early to realize the potential business opportunities sitting latent in the online address books of e-mail users — but only belatedly jumping on the social network craze that soon followed.
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Small Business Has a New Online Calling Card
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
Source: Smalltown SAN MATEO, Calif. — You might think “everyone” is on the Web, but when it comes to small businesses that’s often not the case. Much as they might appreciate the benefits of having an online presence to reach more customers, the truly small mom-and-pop operations often don’t have the time, resources or expertise to create and manage a Web site. “After more than a decade of the Internet, it’s surprising that developing an effective online presence is still such a challenge for small businesses,” said Greg Sterling, principal of Sterling Market Intelligence, a research firm that studies the Internet. Enter Webcards.com from San Mateo, Calif.-based Smalltown. (Read the full post about ‘Small Business Has a New Online Calling Card’…)
Gates Sees Boom Ahead in Home, Business Touchscreens
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
Bill Gates speaks at the Microsoft CEO Summit 2008 Source: Microsoft You wouldn’t have known that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is retiring in six weeks as the legendary tech executive and pioneer continues expounding on his vision of the future in keynotes around the world. Gates, who is slated to retire from full-time duty at Microsoft in just over a month, gave the opening presentation Wednesday at the start of Microsoft’s annual CEO Summit in Redmond, Wash. Before an audience of Global 1000 CEOs from 26 countries, Gates waxed eloquent about technical innovations he sees reshaping the worlds of home and business. He spent at least as much time, however, emphasizing what can be done today using Microsoft’s existing products and technologies. (Read the full post about ‘Gates Sees Boom Ahead in Home, Business Touchscreens’…)
Gates Provides More Windows 7 Details
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
Call it executive privilege.
Bill Gates may be about to retire from the day to day activities of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) , the company he co-founded 33 years ago, but he’s still a card carrying tech visionary and since he’s still the chairman of the board and the largest stockholder, he can spout off about new products and technologies as much as he wants.
After all, what are they going to do? Fire him?
That has been the case a couple of times recently when Gates pulled the curtain aside slightly to let his audiences see what’s coming next – and that is Windows 7. The only problem was that he didn’t show much leg above the knees.
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Search Engine Watch Forums Names Chris Boggs Associate Editor
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
Search Engine Watch Forums Names Chris Boggs Associate Editor Chris Boggs, manager, Search Engine Optimization for Brulant has joined Search Engine Watch Forums as Associate Editor. Chris is a highly sought after speaker on the circuit. He’s presented at Search Engine Strategies (SES), PubCon and SMX among others. Chris will be teaming up with Search Engine Watch Forums Editor, Frank Watson, founder of Kangamurra Media. Chris and Frank write the weekly SEM Crossfire column for SEW Experts: debating, arguing, and discussing the hottest search engine marketing and SEO issues in the industry. So what can you expect from Chris in the Forums? The best example may be found here. (Read the full post about ‘Search Engine Watch Forums Names Chris Boggs Associate Editor’…)
Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO
Autor admin | 15.05.2008 | Category SEO
Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO There’s been a lot of talk recently about how SEO is dead, and branding will rise out of its ashes. I have to disagree. If anything, branding is the marketing technique on its way out–a victim of how search has changed the way people think and shop, online and offline. Once upon a time, a consumer had to juggle a lot of information just to make a relative intelligent purchase. In 1991, if you wanted to buy a portable compact disc player, you had to know: 1. What you wanted to buy (portable compact disc player) 2. What brand you wanted to buy (Sony) 3. What product you wanted to buy (Discman) 4. What store to buy it at (The Wiz) 5. (Read the full post about ‘Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO’…)