500 Publishers Onboard With Journalism Online
Journalism Online, the start-up that plans to monetize newspapers websites by charging readers for content, has announced that more than 500 publications have signed onto to its platform, which is slated to launch in the fall.
Social is Only Going to Become More Important to Search
Are you ready for the future of search marketing? It’s going to creep up on you if you are not. In fact, it’s already creeping. How long have you spent worrying about keywords? Is that all you worry about? Hopefully not, because there’s a lot more to successful online marketing than that, even search marketing.
Twitter Finally Giving Users Retweet Feature
Twitter announced that it intends to add a retweet option to its service as well as the API. Retweeting has basically become a huge part of the Twitter culture, but it is not a function that is readily available on Twitter itself.
Users have to actually take the time and to enter the information themselves. Co-founder Biz Stone acknowledges that this can be "cumbersome". Twitter is calling the initiative "project retweet." Stone explains on the Twitter Blog:
Running A Quality Ad Campaign
If you advertise in paid search listings you want to rank well, but how do you go about achieving a quality ad campaign? In the session "Ads in a Quality Score World" the panel looked at quality factors and gave tips about increasing the relevancy of your campaigns.
What Blogs, RSS Feeds Bring To The SEO Table
Tending to a website can take a lot of time and energy, and the people who run them deserve nothing but applause. At the same time, though, blogs and RSS feeds can really benefit an SEO campaign, and so a session at SES San Jose focused on how and why to incorporate them.
Coverage of the SES San Jose conference continues at Murdok Videos. Stay with Murdok for more notes and videos from the event this week.
Google Wants Authors to Submit Creative Commons Books
Google is now offering a way for authors and publishers to offer content for free under the Creative Commons license on Google Books. Rightsholders who want to distribute their books can let users download, use, and share them.
Searches For Health Insurance Information See Gains
The number of visitors to major health insurance provider websites has declined during the past year due to the increase in U.S. unemployment, according to a new report from comScore.
There has been a corresponding increase in the number of searches related to obtaining health coverage during the past year.
Missouri Asks For $142M In Stimulus For Broadband Access
Missouri is applying for $142 million in federal stimulus money to help expand the reach of broadband Internet access to rural areas in the state.
The initiative would expand broadband accessibility to 91.5 percent of the total population, a significant increase from the current projected accessibility of 79.7 percent.
Opera Releases Beta 3 Version of Opera 10
Opera has announced the release of its Beta 3 release of the Opera 10 browser. The company says this version is ready for "heavy work" on the web.
Opera has run over 10 million tests on the beta and has received plenty of feedback. They say performance and stability were prioritized in this version.
Google Does Some AdWords Experimenting
Google has been messing around with AdWords ads on search results a bit this week. Earlier this week, you may have started noticing that the ads have been pushed into the left, making for results pages feeling a bit more compact.
Presumably, the move was to inspire more clicks. The sponsored results are now closer to the organic results, and may be noticed by searchers a little more. The growing adoption of wider screens may also play a role.