BY THOMAS CATAN AND AMIR EFRATI Behind Google Inc.’s decision this week to settle a U.S. criminal probe into ads it carried for unlicensed online pharmacies lies a previously undisclosed factor: Justice Department investigators believed company co-founder Larry Page knew of, and allowed, the ads for years. Sorting through more than four million documents, prosecutors...Read More
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about mobile payments technologies like Square, a little white box that plugs into an iPhone and essentially turns it into a credit card processing tool. Small business owners and entrepreneurs like these technologies because it lets them bypass the high costs of processing credit card payments through traditional...Read More
SEO, or search engine optimization, has become a strategy familiar to nearly every real estate professional. This technical web site marketing method typically proves effective toward increasing organic search engine rank results. But real estate professionals who combine SEO efforts with search engine marketing – known as SEM – are the ones reaping the biggest...Read More
Image: See-ming Lee æŽæ€æ˜Ž SML on flickr Liz Klimas What‘s the Oddest Thing Found at Gadhafi’s Compound? How About a Condi Rice Photo Album Cops Confiscate 2 Cameras at Ohio GOP Rep. Chabot’s Town Hall Mtg. Two Russian Bombers Caught Invading European Airspace Personal info of 43,000 Yale students, staff and alumni was hacked using...Read More
Matt Mullenweg, founder of the WordPress web publishing platform, took the stage at the recent San Francisco WordCamp event to share the state of the WordPress union. A key figure: WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top one million global websites. There’s more. You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby A few more impressive stats: 22 out...Read More
SEO is all about words. Which words people search with; how to use them; and where to put them. Choosing the right keywords is imperative to the success of any SEO campaign. Unfortunately, selecting these keywords isn’t always as simple as it would seem. Many B2B companies have very specific marketing and messaging philosophies that...Read More
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Search-engine giant Google Inc. has agreed to forfeit $500 million for improperly allowing online Canadian pharmacies to use Google advertising services to target US consumers, the US Department of Justice said today. At a news conference this morning at the US attorney’s office in Providence, Justice Department officials said that...Read More
I met with Paul Edmondson, CEO of HubPages, and Jason Menayan Director of Marketing to talk about how the publishing site is dealing with the aftermath of Google’s major update to its algorithm, Panda, released earlier this year. Panda has caused huge problems for publishers because it cut off massive amounts of traffic in a...Read More
David Mercer How to design a great landing page for WordPress SEO marketing with hosted WordPress blogs Business blogging 101: How to deal with public reactions to your content There are three main aspects to any good marketing campaign: Drive traffic Convert traffic Analyze refine Obviously, without the ability to get eyeballs on your content,...Read More
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