Consumers Submit To Yahoo Local

Yahoo turns to its continued growth in social media to help fill its business listings in Yahoo Local with more relevant and timely information about local companies.

Techniques for Gaining Consumer Trust

When speaking of website optimization practices, it is often associated with SEO and the goal of achieving high search rankings. While this certainly is important to a site's overall visibility, gaining and retaining user trust should also be a primary focus of any company looking to bolster its virtual presence.

Google Continues to Push Toolbar Usage

Google's Toolbar is a commonly utilized browser add-on for both Internet Explorer and Firefox users. With its search box, ad blocking, page rank features, and ability to track user behavior -- its no wonder the company continues to aggressively market the tool in its search results

ComScore To Introduce New Metrics In 2007

In an effort to further improve the accuracy of measuring the rankings of the busiest websites comScore has announced they are planning on unveiling a new set of metrics for 2007. They believe that the number of page views does not reflect how much a site is used or valued by users.

Amazon Has Record Holiday Sales

Amazon.com had a record-breaking holiday season. Their 12th season surpassed all previous sales records according to the company. The busiest day of the holiday season was December 11. On that day customer orders were over 4 million.