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Repo Men Promotion Latest to Use Barcode Tech
Repo Men, which opens March 19, is using barcode technology in its promotion - the latest example of a growing number of ad creatives and technology to do so.
As SocNets Get Serious About Geo-Location, What Else Needs to be Done?
Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook have all stepped up their location-based services. The most comprehensive - just by its size and presence - is Facebook. The social networking site will be...
Local Reviews Gold for Advertisers - If They Have a Plan in Place for the Disgruntled
Smart Momma, a baby gear and gifts retailer, started tracking visitors to its site when it did a redesign in 2008 - which wa
Moonves Predicts Double-digit Increases at Upfronts
CBS chief Les Moonves told investors at the Credit Suisse conference in Florida yesterday that he has “never seen the scatter market as strong as it is right now.” Scatter prices are up 30% over last...
Developers VS Users
Anyone who
‘Mad Men’ Inspires Four High-End Barbie Dolls
Mattel is licensing the rights to bring out four Barbie- and Ken-style dolls based on characters from the popular Mad Men series on AMC.
Facebook Search Gains Boost Bing
Google Adds Sidewiki Control to Google Webmaster Tools
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Outrank Your Competition By Taking One More Step
I love competition. I compete against just about anyone, at just about anything. For the last few years, competitive webmastering has been my focus. I like to start a site in a small to medium sized niche, and outrank everyone. There are two niches that I hold the top 5 spots [...]
Blogging Dynamite: The Power of Connections
Far too often I find that people are getting caught up with the technical aspects of blogging like which plugins are the best, which designs are the most appealing, which methods of SEO yield the greatest results while at the same forgetting about the most important aspect of all, connecting with real people.
CouponSpace.net Updates Site, Adds Coupon Sharing Feature
CouponSpace.net has just launched new version of its website with several major updates. The coupon website now features over 1000 widely known US-based merchants. The new coupon code sharing functionality allows any user to share coupon codes not found on CouponSpace.net with the CouponSpace.net community.
Stealing Google Maps
Google Maps has been a extremely important area for SEOs and SEMs to focus on for their clients. Ranking in the Google results that have a maps result is often critical to these businesses and those map results come up...
WellnessDaily.com Provides Wellness Content From Over 100 Sources
WellnessDaily.com serves as a convenient, one-stop shop for information on weight loss, healthy eating, exercise and balanced living. It delivers relevant articles and recipes collected from more than 100 leading fitness, cooking and wellness sites.
5 Tips To Get The Most Out of Your 99Designs.com Contest
I’ve always considered logo’s the realm of big multinational companies. Companies like AOL or Amazon who have thousands of dollars to throw at new designs.
TopSite.com from SimilarGroup Searches for Best of the Web
TopSite.com is a search engine is based on a unique algorithm with the capabilities of finding top websites in every category in any language.
Letterman Edges Past Leno, then Falls Back
David Letterman trumped Jay Leno in late night on Monday in the 18-49 demo, with a 1.3 compared to a 1.1, according to Nielsen. It was the first time since Leno’s return to late night a week earlier...
As Display Sank Deeper in '08, Web Giants Pushed to Gain Ground
2008 wasn't necessarily a breaking point for display, but it marked the beginning of a full-on showdown among big Web players aiming to own the shrinking display ad market.
Are You Chasing Off Topic Traffic
When your blog or website becomes successful and starts to get traffic, if you don
Bailout Drives Search Efforts for Automakers, Advocacy Groups
The use of search ads by Ford, GM, and fair lending advocacy groups could portend a shift in the way corporations and organizations use search to promote public policy messages.
Chomp: An Apps Search Engine Or “Yelp For The App Store”
Questions for BBC's Digital Media EVP
In a tough environment for display ad sales, Luke Bradley-Jones is taking the long view.
US Regulators May Be Gearing Up For Google-AdMob Challenge
SEO Health Checks - Regular Housekeeping Tasks for Your Website's SEO
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The Convergence of Nanotech, Biotech, Infotech, Cognitive Science
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SMX West 2010 - Man on the Street Interviews
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Google Forcing Some AdSense Publishers To Select a Local Currency
A WebmasterWorld thread reports that some Google AdSense publishers are being forced to pick a local currency, instead of using the U.S. dollar. Three publishers claimed it happened yesterday, where they logged into AdSense and had to pick a local...
Optimizing Search Conferences: How Differing Incentives Create Audience vs. Organizer Issues
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Three New Bugs With YouTube
There are three known and confirmed bugs with YouTube. They include not being able to save changes being made to videos, and issues playing and sharing videos in YouTube Groups and Orkut. Here are the three threads created by Liz...
Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp
In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this:
Ever Considered Launching a Membership Site?
Created by Yaro Starak, this is a 6-week program that you'll give you all the information you need to launch a profitable membership site. The program was clo
Calling for link spam reports
Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.), here’s how to send us [...
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Leaving the iPhone
I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans. It took a little while to adapt to Android, but I’m very happy with my Nexus One and I don’t plan [...
