RyanCaldwell

The reason Google pulled out of the Yahoo advertising deal ... they were 3 hours away from being charged as a monopoly.

"We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day. We told them we were going to file the complaint at tha read more »
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Increased advertising will sustain, but not drive, Digg. The company can increase its user base through acquisitions and cross its fingers with ads, but without a bigger vision, Digg won’t stick around, assuming the plan is to stay independent. read more »
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One of the core concepts of viral advertising is to make it as shocking or unexpected as possible, the idea is to push viewers outside of their mental comfort zone. The following advertisement is a perfect example, since you aren’t sure what it’s ab read more »
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Second part of a 6 part series attempting to 'decode digg'. Part 2 focuses on the importance of content. read more »
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Here are five actionable tips to ramp up your Holiday promotional efforts ranging from e-commerce optimization, link building, local search, and pay per click marketing. read more »
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Once you're ranking well, you'll want to boost the CTR of your organic listings. Here's how. read more »
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For each person success means a different thing. For Neil, it was when Pamela Lund tattooed my name on her body. read more »
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Sam encourage a discussion about the future of URLs as natural language navigation begins to lead technology... Should Google Search stop using the URL of a site as an indicator of relevance? Or will their omnibar, or Mozilla’s ubiquity will be the read more »
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Analysis of the Supermarkets' online marketing efforts. read more »
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If we take a typical e-commerce store as an example, up to 35% of sales can be taken over the telephone. Accurately attributing these sales can make a big difference to how you optimise your PPC campaigns, and have an effect on the overall ROI from read more »
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Linkbait is widely regarded by many SEOs as the premier weapon in their quiver of marketing and promotional tools, and justifiably so. When linkbait is successful it can be incredibly powerful, driving an initial spike in (arguably entirely useless) read more »
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SEJ explaining When, Why and How to Use Noarchive read more »
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Explore and validate page outbound links read more »
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Essential reading if you want to optimise your Google Product Search feed. Google have released a new Google Product Search Performance Tool which shows a host of useful data about your impressions, clicks and feed items. read more »
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Reddit recently launched a new feature to add "image preview thumbnails" to all submissions, as well as allowing video submissions to be viewed fully without leaving Reddit.com. Two great new additions that you probably didn't know about. read more »
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The guys over at the conversion rate experts (aka the squirrel guys due to their fantastic website optimiser piece) have just re-launched their site and have a new blog. Add to your feed reader now! read more »
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Digg has made some new changes today worth noting, including “simplifying the navigation”, updating the Candidates section, and adding an Olympics section to the site. read more »
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If you are looking for a particular video, an old friend from high school, or the perfect handbag, a niche search engine can help. They can make life even better if you can use them in a pinch. read more »
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Are impressions more important than relationships with social media users? Many of the branding and social media strategists raised their hands in agreement when asked if their motives were to build relationships. read more »
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Reddit's has announced that they will be going Open Source and allowing users to access their code at http://code.reddit.com. read more »
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Taking what little hassle there is out of installing WordPress. read more »
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Reddit has added the ability to tag your submissions with related keywords. read more »
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Above the regular submissions, a new box has been added that shows a random new and upcoming story. The stories shown are selected based on various factors and it is designed to give more attention to the newer stories that have not reached the fron read more »
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A really good post detailing 3 simple ways to increase click through rates ... not just on ppc ads but also on listings in organic results.

Really good advice! read more »
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Tony Spencer discusses the issue of Google posting to forms and indexing the results, with a real world example of his Craigslist style classified site. read more »
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