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Linkscape is something significant. read more »
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Perhaps the most engrossing and entertaining presentation at SMX East was Rand Fishkin’s introduction of Linkscape, an advanced link intelligence engine delivering rich data to website owners and SEOs regarding inlinks, related anchor text, trust, a read more »
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Zvents, a local online search engine and advertising network, announces that it had raised $24 million from several investors, including Nokia's venture capital unit, AT&T Inc., and digital map data company Navteq. read more »
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38 significant marketing conferences - missing anything? read more »
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Reporters and venture capitalists often ask me to name some of the top vertical search engines. Because I believe strongly that search will become a dynamic industry of very search specific sites and concepts, I decided to compile a listing of what read more »
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MtvU, MTV Networks' collection of TV and Web properties that target the college student universe, today launches 25 Web sites dedicated to individual U.S. schools. read more »
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Zvents' local search engine announced that it will be collaborating with Microsoft Corp. to enhance the events and local promotions experience on for MSN's local experience. Through the collaboration, Zvents’ platform will bring new capabilities to read more »
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a groundbreaking new application that combines the Zvents' leading local search capability with the iPhone's unique strengths to change the way users discover, plan and share local places and events while on the go read more »
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Online marketing has become one of the best ways to promote local businesses and attract the right audience. Consumers are constantly searching the Internet for their specific interests; your goal is to compel consumers to attend events. read more »
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Brilliant diagram of the search landscape mapping the online, general web search engines and related components in vertical search blended with the offline, local search players and respective incumbents. read more »
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Zvents launched federated local search today blending business listings with events, sales, movies, restaurants, sports, concerts, conferences, and other things to do. read more »
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There is a fascinating SERP artifact which almost prompts me to question whether or not there is no more valuable focus in SEO than anchor text. read more »
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Tested analogy for explaining SEO to win friends and influence people. read more »
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Are you properly marketing to your customer? read more »
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Because Google's algorithm depends on optimized pages, how does search work when one site uses black hat techniques while another can't even be crawled and indexed? read more »
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You might have seen through YouTube but it was quickly removed due to copyright violations. If you haven't seen it, this is the hilarious video from The Richter Scales that hails the coming of our impending doom! read more »
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Granted, for events but most advertising is spent promoting sales, store closings, conferences, etc. Besides, these are lessons for everyone. read more »
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Some general, related content on small business web sites goes a long way in providing keyword rich content, creating another avenue into the web site and finally, to simply provide resources to the visitors. read more »
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What magic power causes a free site like Wikipedia to own between a quarter and a third of results for the single most powerful page position at the world's two largest search engines? read more »
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You've got to be kidding me read more »
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The importance of GFS to Google's dominance of the search space with some insight to the kinks in the armor read more »
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They keep piling them up don't they? read more »
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We obsess over the algorithms but what's really under the hood of these engines that drive the internet? read more »
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Traditional marketers have no chance of catching on to the next generation of the internet when they can't even catch up with the first generation and search. read more »
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