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Are Meta Tags Extinct?

Read complete article from SEO Chat - Search Engine Optimization How-tos And Information

A few weeks ago someone brought an interesting concept to my attention. They claimed that by not using keyword and description meta tags at all in their web pages they were actually able to get better rankings in Google and Yahoo than before when they used the meta tags….
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Undesirable SEO and What to Do with a Small Marketing Budget

Read complete article by stoney@polepositionmarketing.com (Stoney deGeyter) from ISEdb.COM - Articles

I got a lead through our website the other day with an interesting comment attached. The prospect was requesting specific information on pricing for our services but as you can read below, they simply copied the information from what another SEO provided them.
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Organic SEO or Pay-Per-Click Advertising - Which Should You Choose?

Read complete article by hello@mediumblue.com (Scott Buresh) from ISEdb.COM - Articles

When people hear about online marketing, they often think of two of the more popular methods that a company can use to enhance its visibility on the Web: organic search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising.
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Google TV

Read complete article by seobook from Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed

The Business Online reports Google aims to provide a search interface and ad system for TV:

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ClickTracks Appetizer - Free Web Analytics Software

Read complete article by site admin from Stuntdubl Business Search Marketing Consulting

I was over perusing on Lee’s marketing blog when I noticed a post Thomas had done on Clicktracks appetizer. I’m a big fan of clicktracks mainly because the people behind it rock, they have excellent support and have made analytics extremly usable and yet still highly informational.
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How Commercial is a Web Page or Search Query?

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Microsoft AdCenter Labs offers a free tool for determining if a search query or web page is informational or commercial in nature. Yahoo! Mindset alters search results based on your level of interest in informational or commercial results.
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Yahoo! Weather Report

Read complete article from Search Engine Watch Blog

Yahoo! announced late yesterday that they have begun an update to their Web Search index. You can expect some changes to your Yahoo! rankings over the next several days, and if you want to provide feedback, they supply a new form that you can use to do so.
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Growing Number of Consumers Generating Online Content

Read complete article from Search Engine Guide Blog

MarketingVox links to a ClickZ article that states “35 percent of U.S. internet users have posted some sort of user-generated content online.” That percentage works out to about 48 million adults, 73% of which are now using broadband connections….
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Google launches Picasa for Linux

Read complete article by Chris Gilmer from The Unofficial Google Weblog

Beautiful Picasa is now available for Linux Operating Systems.

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Google Checkout - Answer to Yahoo Paypal?

Read complete article by Loren Baker, Editor from Search Engine Journal

Google Checkout - Answer to Yahoo Paypal?

On the same day that Yahoo & eBay announced their PayPal and Yahoo Search Marketing oriented partnership, Google registered the domain GoogleCheckout.com, according to ZDNet’s Garett Rogers. Like any other Google domain registrations which make it to the top of the search engine blogs on a slow Memorial Day weekend, this domain registration is surrounded by mystery.

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Apple Rumored to Bring Games to iPod

Read complete article by kidmercury from Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed

Gamespot reports that Apple appears to be looking to offer games on the iPod.

An Apple hiring manager named Mike Lampell is heading up a group inside Apple’s storied iTunes division. The group is specifically hiring for “C/C++ coders with a ‘gaming background.’” The engineer says the project in question was described to him as “super secret,” and Apple would not even tell him the exact nature of it until he had been hired and signed a non-disclosure agreement.

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What’s wrong with online advertising?

Read complete article by joe@mr-seo.com (Joe Balestrino) from ISEdb.COM - Articles

I had to ask myself this question a few days ago. I’m always working on a project or two, sometimes ten. One thing that concerns me is not how much money is being made on the Internet, but even more importantly, how much is being lost.
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Dayparting with Google AdWords & Yahoo Search Marketing

Read complete article by Loren Baker, Editor from Search Engine Journal

Dayparting with Google AdWords & Yahoo Search Marketing

Jennifer Slegg reports on Search Engine Watch that Google AdWords is about to rollout dayparting and new scheduling features. Dayparting is the ability to serve ads during certain parts of the day, which is specifically nice for local businesses, targeting for morning, lunch or dinner time, and keeping contextual ads controlled for targeted branding at certain times of the daily cycle.

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EBay, Yahoo: Now It’s Interesting

Read complete article from John Battelle’s Searchblog

I’m reeling from a 12 hour (yes, 12 hour) trip from Chicago to SF last night but this morning’s news must be at least noted, for now: Yahoo and eBay are hooking up, clearly a move against Google - eBay accounts for hundreds of millions of dollars in Google’s revenue.

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Click-to-play video ads for AdWords

Read complete article by Inside AdWords crew from Inside AdWords

We’re very excited to announce the release of click-to-play video ads on the content network.
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Google and Dell Make a Deal to Include Software

Read complete article by noemail@noemail.org (Andy Beal) from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim

The WSJ reports on the expansion of a previously revealed deal between Google and Dell.

Under a roughly three-year pact, Google, of Mountain View, Calif., would pay Dell to have its desktop software for searching the content of a user’s hard drive and emails, and a Web browser search toolbar installed on the computers, the people said.
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What’s wrong with online advertising?

Read complete article by Joe Balestrino from ISEdb.COM - Articles

I had to ask myself this question a few days ago. I’m always working on a project or two, sometimes ten. One thing that concerns me is not how much money is being made on the Internet, but even more importantly, how much is being lost.
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Security risks when using search engines

Read complete article by Administrator from Pandia Search Engine News

McAfee has published a study on the security risks involved when using search engines.
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Text Link Ads Calculator: The Price of a Link

Read complete article by rustybrick from Search Engine Roundtable

Text Link Ads launched a Text Link Ads Calculator that tells you the value of a link on a particular Web site.
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Microsoft Introduces Pay As You Go PC

Read complete article by kidmercury from Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed

In an attempt to push the Microsoft software and web properties to new markets, Microsoft has introduced a “Pay as You Go” PC that allows you to pay as you use it instead of a larger upfront purchase.

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