Archive for October 29th, 2009

Google upgrades custom search feature—will this affect SEO? – Last Click News

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Bing Buzz and the Holidays: Bing Travel

In my last Bing Buzz and the Holidays post, I pointed out how the marketing momentum surrounding Bing’s release over the summer is only increasing as it reaches more and more people, encouraging them to “Bing and decide” for themselves over the holiday season.  Given the metrics surrounding Bing’s success thus far, there is ample [ READ MORE ]

Mashable Readers Vote: iPhone Wins the Smartphone Smackdown

As you may know, we’ve been conducting our weekly Lunchtime Poll and getting Mashable readers’ opinions on the topic of the week. This week we pitted six smartphone platforms against each other in our Smartphone Smackdown and asked you lovely folks to cast your votes. [ READ MORE ]

Droid vs iPhone: The Comparison Chart [PIC]

The Motorola Droid is certainly one of the most discussed new non-Apple smartphones to come out in some time. It launches November 6th on Verizon, but you can already pre-order it from Best Buy. [ READ MORE ]

Facebook Revamps its Privacy Policy

Earlier this year, Facebook was hammered for changes it made to its Terms of Service. The result was an uproar that eventually led to the Facebook Democracy, an initiative by Facebook to let users vote and comment on its governing documents. [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Lists: Share Yours in the Comments!

As we noted last night, Twitter has significantly expanded the rollout of its new “Lists” feature over the past day or so. [ READ MORE ]

The Facebook Application Renaissance Is Coming Soon

Yesterday we wrote about the Facebook platform roadmap unveiled to application developers that included a lot of detail about the direction the company would be taking with its hugely successful application platform. This morning Facebook published a follow-up post aimed more at the average user that describes the changes we’ll start to see on the [ READ MORE ]

Facebook Warns of New Viruses [Alert]

Earlier this week we reported on a new type of Facebook scam making its way around the Web that masks itself as an email from Facebook but actually contains a virus as an attachment. [ READ MORE ]

The Science Of Scoring Your SEO – Search Engine Land (blog)

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New features for Google custom search expanding boundaries of SEO – Brafton

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Droid vs iPhone: The Comparison Chart [PIC]

The Motorola Droid is certainly one of the most discussed new non-Apple smartphones to come out in some time. It launches November 6th on Verizon, but you can already pre-order it from Best Buy. [ READ MORE ]

10 Essential Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter

This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Follow Grasshopper co-founder David @dh. [ READ MORE ]

US Senate Candidate a Victim of Latest Twitter Hack

Yesterday’s Twitter phishing attack seems to be lingering on in to today, with numerous reports of DMs linking to dubious weight loss products. [ READ MORE ]

Pre-Order Motorola Droid From Best Buy Starting Today

Verizon’s answer to the iPhone, the Motorola Droid hits Verizon stores next Friday, for 9 after a 0 mail-in-rebate. [ READ MORE ]

Facebook Warns of New Viruses [Alert]

Earlier this week we reported on a new type of Facebook scam making its way around the Web that masks itself as an email from Facebook but actually contains a virus as an attachment. [ READ MORE ]

SEO Company—How Can It Help You – BigNews.biz (press release)

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Web Analytics and Your Website – What You Need to Know

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Twitter is Important for Businesses; Need Convincing?

Google and Bing announced big news last week that they are going to start indexing Tweets in search results. If you didn’t think Twitter was important before, it definitely is now. It is now another way to command more real estate on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Though we’re not sure how Google and Bing [ READ MORE ]

How to Earn Respect in Social Media

Just because you and your company are a big deal in the offline world doesn’t mean you’ll win friends and influence in social networks. … [ READ MORE ]

From Bloomberg to Small Hoboken Campaign, Social Media Matters

Despite budget disparity, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s and Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s campaigns consider Facebook and Twitter key components of their election strategies. [ READ MORE ]