One of the largest online shopping days of the year, Cyber Monday brought in over an estimated $700 million in online sales yesterday, but not via Yahoo Stores (now known as Yahoo Merchant Solutions). Seems the Yahoo Stores shopping cart software crashed yesterday, leading to a dramatic loss in revenue from over 10,000 online merchants [...]
Like I always say, if a long-standing rumor has landed the pages of the Wall Street Journal, that rumor must be finally coming true. This time around looks like the long-standing rumor about Google’s hosted storage, GDrive may finally be seeing the light of day soon. As the WSJ reports that the almighty G is [...]
I’ll give you two scenarios. You tell me which is better. In the first, you get a byline article published on the cover of Time magazine, seen by millions of people all over the world, in a format that is later syndicated online as well. In the second, you get an article published that may [...]
Being that we work in an industry defined by acronyms (SEO) and have trouble sometimes determiniming the difference between SEO and SEM, SEM and PPC, or PPC and CPC; over at DP, KP started a thread listing SEO acronyms which I feel are quite useful (espcially for newbies or prepping before a meeting) and worth [...]
When in comes to achieving top search engine rankings how large of a role do keyword tags actually play? This is a simple question with no easy answer. Not only does the answer vary depending on which search engine a marketer is targeting, but it also depends upon the changing valuations search engines place on [...]
After a long extended weekend of football, overeating and hitting the malls, Cyber Monday has descended upon us as another way to get excellent discounts and holiday savings. Cyber Monday symbolizes the beginning of the holiday shopping season online and a quick search across Google, Ask.com, Yahoo and Live Search shows that merchants are addressing [...]
Was driving to the mall on Sunday and while sitting at a stop light I witnessed the passing of a rather odd SUV decked out with cameras and Windows Live Local decals. Seems the Windows Live Local team is hitting the Tampa Bay area for their StreetSide Origami project, even the Carrollwood suburbs.Without camera in [...]
Back in July, Matt Cutts made the announcement at the Wordpress Wordcamp that underscores are now treated as spaces in Google.Blogs, webmaster communities, and SEO professionals rejoiced – but why does it seem Google DOES NOT treat underscores and hyphens the same.Do a multiple word search with hyphens and underscores between the words and you’ll [...]
As expected Google once again dominated U.S. search engine rankings for October based on the recent ComScore report. The almighty Google search engine even managed to post an increase in total searches conducted during the month. Hence, automatically reducing the percentages share of the other search engines, particularly MSN, Yahoo and AOL.There’s not much changes [...]
Earlier in the month Google began its unofficial crackdown on pages which openly sell links in an effort to capitalize on their Google PageRank. Google’s crackdown; lowering the PageRank of those pages.Danny Sullivan eluded to this in October and we published the unofficial confirmation of this via Matt Cutts a couple of days after the [...]
