LiveDeal, Inc. has signed an agreement relationship with local review site Yelp.com to feature Yelp’s 1.8 million customer reviews on its online classifieds and yellow pages platforms. The move willl bring LiveDeal users an enormous wealth of user-generated content about local area businesses. The move will also help secure LiveDeal’s drive as a local yellowpage [...]

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knows how to blow the hot air and use evasive methods to feed the media misinformation when on the acquisition trail; like calling Facebook a fad only one month before investing $240 million in a 1.6% stake in the company to secure an advertising deal.On Monday, Ballmer used his Jedi mind [...]

  Adding to today’s announcement of MySpace SelfServe Ads and AOL’s acquisition of Quigo, Facebook just released the news about its much anticipated and overly hyped social ads program.The official press release highlights three components of the Facebook ad programs.Facebook Pages – where businesses can create their own pages with the Facebook network to showcase [...]

  Finally, the days of generating new Adsense and then getting inside blog/site’s code whenever you want to change something in your Adsense units, is over. Adsense is rolling out a simplified way to manageme Adsense units by letting publishers to do their changes right into the Adsense management tab and it will [...]

  Last week when I first noticed PageRank values changing and propagating out to tool bars, I made it a point to tell some others who may be interested. In the process, I got a great comment from Vanessa Fox that I’d like to share here…“Why should I be so bitter about a mythical made [...]

  Taking a page from their search partner Google and main competitor in Facebook, MySpace plans to launch their own ‘do-it-yourself’ contextual targeting & advertising platform : MySpace SelfServe Ads.MySpace is now letting its current advertisers test their contextual and group targeting system, which lets advertisers target direct groups and sub-groups, with targeting broken down to [...]

  It would be safe to assume that everyone reading this article, is in some way familiar with the popular social bookmarking site Digg.com. You might use it to promote your articles, or maybe you just go to find articles and inspiration for future writing, either way you’ve used the service. Overtime, having had articles [...]

  The B2B audience: we know their needs are not being entirely met by general search engines and they are the buyers with the largest budgets. But do we truly understand their needs and tendencies? With the results of a recent survey by Enquiro, “Marketing to a B2B Technical Buyer” we are now closer to tapping [...]

  Remember weeks ago when Wall Street Analysts felt that Ask.com was not as important to Google as it once was in terms of a sponsored search partner? Well think again.Yesterday Google and IAC (the parent company of Ask.com) extended their sponsored search and advertising agreement in a move which is worth an estimated $3.5 Billion [...]

  If you still take the time to actually submit new sites to search engines (as opposed to informing their bots that the new site exists via linking to it, bookmarking it, leaving a comment on a blog or registering it), mark down on your to-do list that Microsoft’s Live Search Site Submission Form is working [...]