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News and Tips From The Search Marketing World
Google AdWords Keyword Insertion Help
From the “It’s About Time” Department, Google has released a tutorial and documentation on using the keyword insertion feature. Now maybe the mystery and incorrect posts from wannabe experts will cease? Naw. Visit here to read the tutorial and spice up your adwords a bit. (Guess my day is planned for me now.)
eBay Introduces Neighborhoods
eBay has a new feature called Neighborhoods where people can discuss their favorite products or type of products. It’s like Facebook only with a purpose. It’s shopping social networking. The link below is to the Jewelry Neighborhood if you want to see an example. What’s missing are widgets to embed on blogs and other sites. Perhaps they’ll add this next??
What a great idea for any busy e commerce site.
It Doesn’t Twitter, It’s Jaiku – Now By Google
You have to love these web site names. Boy what the lack of domain names will do to the English language. At any rate, Google has just purchased Jaiku, a Finnish “activity stream”/microblogging service similar to Twitter. This may help them better compete with Facebook and other social sites. Of course people wonder why they didn’t buy Twitter instead and MySpace still rules the market four times over. Now I think I’ve put in enough of those funny site names for one post.
Yahoo! Update Shows High Charges
Not to panic. The error is only in the reports, not what you were actually charged. At least that’s what people are reporting. If you log into Yahoo! Search Marketing and see high charges, chances are you were one of the many who were bit by the reporting software bug. Yahoo! is working on the fix, but check your credit card balance just in case.
Newsvine Now Owned by MSNBC.com
MSNBC is now the proud owner of social news site Newsvine. Newsvine pays users for news stories they submit along with it being a place to just submit local news stories that you feel deserve publishing or link to news on other sites.
Microsoft Launches HealthVault
Store your private health data with Microsoft, a company known for security issues. Yes, there is one born every minute. Just how stupid are people? I guess very stupid. This is a major project release and Microsoft is only the first out of the gate with it. This is a gold mine of data that Microsoft, and whoever they sell the data to, will use to better market their products. So go ahead. Give away all of your personal information and do their work for them. And what do you get in return? Ever hear of file folders people?
Live Search Updated – New Index and Algorithms
It was expected and happened on cue. MSN has updated. How is your site doing today?
A Smarter Yahoo Search
Yesterday, Yahoo released a slick looking new search assist tool that includes search suggestions and related concepts to the search you’ve entered. A good tool for searching, it’s also a great tool for key phrase research.
Are You Getting Enough Content?
It’s been said over and over again, Content is King. I haven’t posted in a while, breaking my own rule. If you aren’t updating, editing, improving and adding new content to your site regularly, you are missing out on traffic that could result from the time invested. Here is an intro article on the topic to help refresh your memory.
SearchEngineWatch: Content Creation: About Journey, Not Destination?
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