Archive for December 8th, 2009

International Search Marketing Guide to the Holidays

Planning and succeeding with your holiday international search marketing strategy can seem daunting, but there are opportunities with this highly elusive global crowd. … [ READ MORE ]

Google and Top Newspapers Experiment with a New Way to Deliver the News

As social media and the Web have made the transmission and sharing of news and information faster and more efficient, there have been casualties. We’ve reported frequently on the beleaguered state of the newspaper industry and the efforts underway to help it survive. [ READ MORE ]

Holiday Mojo: What Kind of Seasonal Twitter User Are You?

‘Tis the season for holiday kitsch and Yahoo has embraced the spirit of Twitter and the season to bring you Social Mojo, Holiday Edition. [ READ MORE ]

Apple Unveils the Top Songs, Movies and Apps of 2009

On Tuesdays we’re typically greeted with new album releases on iTunes, and today is no different. But this Tuesday, iTunes has also gifted us with iTunes Rewind 2009: a look at the top-performing songs, albums, movies, TV shows, apps, audiobooks and podcasts of this year. [ READ MORE ]

iPhone App Offers Instant Speech-to-Text Transcription

Speech-to-text translation isn’t a new idea, but Dragon Dictation for the iPhone [iTunes Link] turns the concept into a functional reality. The app makes it easy for you to dictate notes, e-mails or text messages, which are then instantly converted to text. [ READ MORE ]

Timberlake and Eisenberg’s Facebook Movie Gets a Release Date

The Social Network, the movie based on Aaron Sorkin’s narrative about Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook, will be released on October 15, 2010, according to ComingSoon. Columbia Pictures has set the date, which means that we’ll be seeing Justin Timberlake grace the screen as Sean Parker in just under a year’s time. [ READ MORE ]

A Montreal Search Engine Optimization Firm Named in Top 10 SEO Training … – MMD Newswire (press release)

PR-inside.com (press release) [ READ MORE ]

Place Pages Bring Rich Info to Google Earth

Google brought a rich database of information to Google Maps in September with Place Pages, and now those detailed results on businesses and points of interest are available within Google Earth as well. To access the Place Page for a particular location, just click the “View more information” link at the bottom of the summary [ READ MORE ]

AdWords & Analytics Sessions at SES Chicago

Next week on December 7th and 8th, you can catch presentations by the Google AdWords team at SES Chicago. We’ll be offering practical tips on how to quickly improve your search and display ads performance in the following sessions: [ READ MORE ]

The AdWords New Ad Formats Initiative

Black Friday may be behind us, but Cyber Monday, one of the busiest days of the year for online retailers, has just begun. And just as users’ searches for Cyber Monday deals and information have increased over time, so have their expectations about the types of information they want from the ads. Last week, the Official [ READ MORE ]

SEO compliance keeps sites on the good side of the search engines – Brafton

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Google Chrome Extensions Go Live!

It’s only Tuesday, but it appears as if we’re in the midst of Google Week. Yesterday saw the launch of Google real-time search, Google Goggles and even more Wave invites. Today, it’s all about Google Chrome. [ READ MORE ]

New PRWeb Analytics Reports

Online news distribution service PRWeb released new analytics reports for measuring results from news releases. If you’ve ever used a news distribution service (the wire) before, you know how absolutely atrocious the data you receive can be.  The types of analytics, which will be provided to cusotmers at all PRWeb distribution levels,… [[ This is a [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Deal: CelebrityTweet Acquired by Russell Simmons

You would think that Web sites that simply aggregate tweets from lists of users would become somewhat irrelevant with the introduction of Twitter Lists. [ READ MORE ]

Dell Rides Twitter to $6.5 Million in Sales

Dell continues to be one of the more visible corporate behemoths actively using social media, and today they’re out with new numbers to demonstrate some of the success they are having. [ READ MORE ]

HOW TO: Start and Run a Successful Twitter Chat

David Spinks is the Community Manager for Scribnia, where the world’s bloggers and columnists are reviewed by their readers. He also blogs at The Spinks Blog about business, careers and professional communities. [ READ MORE ]

Google Launches Chrome for Mac

The day has finally come. As we were expecting, Google has just released Chrome for Mac, which can now be downloaded by Mac OS X 10.5 or later users. [ READ MORE ]

SEO India: Stand Atop Google Charts With SEO Services India – PR-inside.com (press release)

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Seo outsourcing: A new world

Seo outsourcing: A new world.Learn more about Seo companies, Seo solution, Organic search gngine optimization. [ READ MORE ]

The SEO guide to Google personalized search

Some facts to help keep your sanity If there is one area I�d consider myself an authority on, it�s personalized search. Actually, behavioural signals in [ READ MORE ]