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Matt Bailey on the importance (and ROI) of putting one's efforts into SEO, usability, and analytics. read more »
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The bill aims to force web sites to give consumers obvious ways to opt out of advertising based on their browsing history and Web actions. read more »
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What's worse: failing to achieve the rankings you're after, or being made to think that you've accomplished something extraordinary, only to have it turn out to be far less than you thought? read more »
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After announcing a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profits Tuesday, Yahoo issued a disappointing outlook for this year, suggesting that investors would have to wait until 2009 for a turnaround. read more »
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Lisa Barone creates a Frankenstein monster of a conference by sewing together the best events of the year. read more »
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Now that's good eatin'. Or do you prefer barbecued congo eel with wikipedia and Fermented bean curd? read more »
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Debra Mastaler points out that in a recent survey,16% said they'll watch more original content on the Internet as a way to keep themselves entertained during the Writers' Guild strike, so maybe this is the time to upload those videos you've been thi read more »
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"The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about read more »
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CATS, Cutts... It all makes sense when you think about it. read more »
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AskEraser allows a user to delete his/her search history from Ask's servers. read more »
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Vanessa Fox on how the vast majority of UGC... sucks. read more »
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Apparently, if you don't capitalize your query the right way, you don't get to enjoy Ask's blended results. read more »
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No, I’m not talking about relationships between the company and any political figures. I just want to point out something I noticed regarding Google suggesting other searches when I look for information about a politician. read more »
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Vanessa Fox offers tips on getting the ball rolling with user-generated content. read more »
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The brand building impact of online advertising is given a lot of lip service, but there have been few attempts to develop a framework to analyze this dimension of interactive marketing. With his research, Yoo concludes that advertisers and marketer read more »
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The general in charge of part of Microsoft’s assault, Brian McAndrews, joined the company just last month and is still learning its way of doing things. But he does know the Internet ad business, having run aQuantive, the advertising company that Mi read more »
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A McKinsey global survey of marketers shows that companies are using digital tools -- from web sites to wikis -- most extensively for customer service, least in pricing. read more »
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MIT Advertising Lab notes that the political blog Daily Kos is asking its readers who choose not to see ads to pay for a subscription instead. read more »
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Important advice for anyone whose site depends on user-generated content. read more »
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Google is trying to fix me up on a date when all I'm looking for is a bit of information. What a pushy search engine! read more »
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Yahoo is going to be returning public images from Flickr in image searches, using those images' meta data (i.e., tags) to determine relevance. read more »
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The post is about web development, but it's relevant to any freelancer who writes proposals. read more »
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Alan Perkins weighs in on Google and paid links:
"Some people have inferred that Matt [Cutts] is saying that paid links that aren’t labelled in a machine-readable way are contravening the FTC guidelines. He isn’t saying this at all. Read carefully. read more »
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"At CitiGroup's Technology Summit in New York this week, Google's Business Product Manager for Ads Quality Nicholas Fox said the company will be moving ahead with integration of video and image ads within sponsored search results. Does that mean you read more »
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According to Laura Ries of the Origin of Brands blog and a JupiterResearch study, and in spite of the popularity of the Subservient Chicken, the answer is "no." read more »
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