A Look At Search Behavior At SMX West
How people search and interact with search engines was the subject of the session "Just Behave, A look At Searcher Behavior."
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Social Media Marketing Tips From SMX West
Social media marketing can be extremely effective. Compared to other advertising options, it can be extremely cheap, too, which is perhaps more important than ever. So a session at SMX West focused on what’s new and how to succeed in this field.
Gmail Makes Changes to Contacts
Google has announced four changes to Gmail’s contact manager. Each change is a feature to enhance the service’s usability.
Super Bowl Gives Hulu Big Brand Awareness Boost
Hulu is making quite the name for itself. Super Bowl ads will do that. According to Brandon Eshman with Nielsen online, from November 1 to February 1, 2009, Hulu averaged about 300 mentions per day in the online community.
Tips For Getting Your Content Crawled by Google News
Getting you site’s content crawled by Google News is not the easiest thing in the world. Luckily, Google has a number of guidelines that can help you get your content in. Furthermore, today, on the Google News Blog, Abe Epton of the News Online Operations Team posted 8 tips to help Google News better crawl your site. These are:
1. Keep the article body clean
MySpace Users Embrace Game Apps
Various people will say that you can tell a lot about somebody by looking at their clothes, bookshelves, or DVD collections. If we’re to apply the same idea to a website’s user base, applications might provide that window. And for better or for worse, games tend to be extremely popular with MySpace’s users.
5 Microsoft adCenter Performance Tips
Advertisers who use Microsoft adCenter were treated today to some tips on getting ads up faster and improving their performance. Obviously these are essential factors to the success of a campaign.
Yahoo Upgrades BOSS, Asks For Pennies In Return
The idea behind Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is to let developers combine Yahoo’s search index with their own applications. Now, a few tweaks should improve the process, and Yahoo has also made it more "professional" by moving away from the idea of offering everything for free.
Why We Blog
Anyone dealing with reader commentary has probably had second thoughts about the wisdom of allowing just anybody to have a moment on their stage. Flamers, haters, idiots, bigots, and crazies—we get them all. But reader commentary on my recent editorial about A-list bloggers hanging up their jerseys was so thoughtful and passionate, I thought they deserved a brighter spotlight.
Blogging Hits Crossroads: A-Listers Giving Up
An old colleague of mine used to joke he was one of millions whose job it was to “feed the internet.” This past November, an alumnus of a prestigious writing program in Louisville, Ky. told soon-to-be-alumni his blogging career was short-lived because, like a bad girlfriend, his blog constantly needed him.