Mahalo Making Social Improvements
Mahalo, everyone’s favorite human-powered search engine and Jason Calacanis venture, has announced a few more “socially” improvements to its site. One of the major updates leverages other social media sites; the other is frankly patterned after another.
Link Expert Slams Linking Strategies
Eric Ward doesn’t mind pointing out that of the top ten Google results for "link building expert" his name pops up six times. Call it good keyword branding if you like, bust most in the SEO industry will tell you he’s earned his title. Because of that, it might sting a little more when he pens a lengthy I told you so about linking strategies.
Local Search Offers Consumers Control
The appeal of local search to people wanting to buy comes from a basic need to control their environment.
How to Create a Podcast
The word that was made famous a few years ago, now seems to be a necessary tactic for marketing. “In today’s world, just about anybody can record their message, whether it’s educational, entertaining, or whatever, and get it disseminated to millions and millions of people at almost no cost,” said KFC Blanchette of Podchick.com and Skydivergirls.com.
Yahoo’s Future: Smarter Email And Mobiles
CEO Jerry Yang told the CES 2008 crowds about Yahoo’s plans to make its Mail client a social tool with all the widgets one could want.
What is Social Media Traffic Worth?
Fake Businesses Today I came across an AdWords ad for an automated ebook business model website. Their screenshot highlighting their Paypal account was: hosted on another site named powersell_paypal2.jpg did not show payments but showed withdrawals Fake Business Statistics A lot of (mis)marketing techniques are more covert though, through the use of
Mobile Resources Go To The Feds
The mobile web is not just the playground for big Internet firms like Yahoo and Google. The federal government has access to its resources available to mobile browsers too.
Google Not Following its Own Paid Link Rules
One of the more entertaining aspects of the entire paid links debate is Google is pretty quick to dole out the punishment, even though in many cases they haven’t taken the time to get their own house in order.
Facebookers Go After Cat Killers
Remember Barabbas? That’s why we don’t let the mob make judicial decisions anymore. Awful things tend to happen. These days, rather than a formal public gathering, a social network is all that’s really needed to stir up the masses.
Talk Show Host Gets Bank Account Hacked
Hackers turn the tables on the talk show host “Top Gear” who made an outrageous claim that no one could do anything evil if their banking information was stolen. The humor part comes in that when he checked his bank account, someone had done a 500 pound (1000 dollar) donation to diabetes UK.