SAN FRANCISCO – Google may be entering a make-or-break phase in its colorful history now that U.S. regulators have opened an investigation into whether the company has been abusing its dominance of Internet search and advertising to stifle competition. Skip to next paragraph The probe by the Federal Trade Commission, confirmed by the company Friday,...Read More
David Mercer SEO and marketing shortcomings of hosted WordPress blogs SEO blogging tips for business Separate individual business offerings for increased ROI Businesses, especially small businesses and small business owners, often find it difficult to keep blogging over the kind of timeline necessary for a good blog to start driving decent traffic to a site....Read More
Black hat SEO tactics are no laughing matter, but that hasn’t stopped established comic strip Dilbert from poking fun. The two recent Google-centric strips may even help raise awareness of black hat SEO practices. The SEO Comic Strips To say that anything SEO-related falls under the descriptor of “funnies” is presumptuous; that would suggest we...Read More
(click image for larger view and for full slideshow)WordPress on Tuesday warned all users who run its software on their own servers to beware a trio of malicious plug-ins for its content management software, which may have been available for download from the site for more than 24 hours. “Earlier today the WordPress team noticed...Read More
Market Press Release – June 25, 2011 9:47 am – For many businesses nowadays, online presence is a make or break aspect of their strategy. Many businesses have great products and offer great services, unless they have the constant flow of traffic to their website no one will ever know. Every entrepreneur has a vision...Read More
Did we say that? We didn’t mean that. Henry Blodget Google is gearing up to launch its Groupon-killer, Offers, in New York. After talking with merchants who have signed up to provide deals through Offers, we’ve learned that Google’s deals product provides merchants several key advantages relative to Groupon, advantages that could shake up the...Read More
Google boss Larry Page Henry Blodget Google launched its Groupon-killer, “Offers,” in Portland, Oregon, about a month ago. And now it’s gearing up to launch in San Francisco and New York. Could Offers become a massive new revenue stream for Google–the “second huge growth engine” that Google has long searched for in vain? Could Google’s...Read More
By studying search results and website analytics data, a Denver SEO firm has concluded that website owners must add new pages, articles or blog posts to their website if they want to show up in search results. We hear this from the SEO experts who attend TechMedia’s events such as the upcoming Digital East and...Read More
What should you do if you are stepping into a role as the new “SEO Manager†of a website? This is a question you could ask yourself either as an in-house employee at a company, an agency taking over an account from another agency, or moving into the role from one account to another within...Read More
Google is giving up on its vision of helping people live healthier lives with online personal health records. When Google Health was introduced in 2008, Marissa Mayer, a Google executive, said it would be a “large ongoing initiative†that the company hoped would attract millions of regular users. But Google Health never really caught on....Read More
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