Yahoo! New Site Explorer Goodies
Ideas have been popping onto the Site Explorer Suggestion Board over the past year, and some of them have made it into the latest version of the Site Explorer webmaster tool.
Keyword Tools – The Changing Landscape
Recently the the seo community has been abuzz with news that the Yahoo/Overture keyword tool has not been functioning and that it may be gone permanently.
Search Overtakes Porn In The UK
It is yet determined if patterns in the UK are mirrored in the US, but Hitwise is looking into it for us. Heather Hopkins’ “lofty” look into the future of the Internet revealed that, in the UK, vice online is on the decline, while search, social media, and more utilitarian Internet activities are on the rise.
Google Australian Flyover Hits Snags
Google had announced that it would be flying over parts of Australia on Australia Day, last week Friday, in order to take photos for Google Earth and Google Maps (Microsoft was doing it, too). Australians were excites, with people planning to build giant signs and write words on the ground, or just wave at the sky, in order to live on for a while in Google’s maps of the country.
Online TV Revenue To Reach $6.3 Billion
Online TV and video are arguably still in their infancy, but are set to become a strong revenue earner on a global scale. In a new report titled “Online TV and Video: Beyond User-Generated Content” from Informa Telecoms & Media, online TV and video services stand to generate global revenues of $6.3 billion by 2012. That is close to 10 times the revenue generated in 2006.
GoDaddy’s PR problems
For a variety of reasons, I’ve been registering all my domain names at GoDaddy.
Tracking Amazon Sales Rank, Obtaining Accurate Estimates
I have been a published author for over seven years now and if there is one thing I can’t stand about the industry its waiting!
Optimizing for Yellow Pages
How many AAA companies do you know of? AAA insurance did it most notably with insurance. Insurance is competitive.
Yahoo Miles Above Google for Retention
An interesting, albeit controversial, set of statistics was provided by Compete.com last week outlining the top 20 online properties that a pool of 2,000,000 people spent the most time on in December 2006.
Sales Challenges that Prevent Executive Level Access
With the complexity of today’s business solutions and their far-reaching affects, more often than not senior level executives are actively involved in the process of assessing the issues and their options.