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It’s Official (But Still Debatable) – Facebook Overtakes Google

Year-end data just released from Experian Hitwise indicates that Facebook was the most-visited website in the U.S. in 2010, surpassing longtime holder of the top spot, Google. Hitwise previously reported that Facebook’s monthly traffic had overtaken that of Google back in March, but this is the first time the social networking site can be… [[ […]

eBay's Mobile Apps Ring in Historic Holiday Sales

Much of eBay’s attention and resources the past year have gone into its mobile commerce development, and on Wednesday the world’s largest online marketplace publicly released the fruits of those labors. In doing so, eBay also provided a helpful overview of the mobile shopping trends that took place throughout 2010. The company reports… [[ This […]

Check Out These LinkedIn Groups If You're in PR

If you work in PR, chances are you have one of three needs: * A need to build or grow your network. * A need to acquire new skills or hone existing ones. * A need to find a new job. While you could argue many social networks meet these three needs adequately, I might […]

Five Tips For More Efficient Business Blogging

“Why should we have a blog?”  It’s a reasonable question. Nevermind the fact that millions of businesses are blogging and multiples of those millions of customers are reading said blogs. In fact, 23% of the primary Fortune 500 corporations have an external corporate blog. Blogs as a content management system make it very easy for […]

Google Adds Nearby Shops to U.K. Product Search

Google has announced a new feature for online shoppers and merchants in the U.K., called Nearby Shops. The feature is already available in Google’s U.S. Product Search, and was rolled out in the U.K. on Wednesday. Consumers searching for items on Google Products are now shown a map that indicates the locations of nearby stores […]

Optify Enhances International SEO, Real-time Lead Scoring

Optify, a leading provider of hosted, enterprise search engine optimization (SEO) and social media software, has introduced some upgrades to its real-time marketing solution. New features include the extension of Optify’s international SEO capabilities, the addition of marketing ROI dashboards for Salesforce.com, and improvements to… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website […]

Bing Launches Destination Pages for Cities

Bing has launched “Destination Pages” for city searches. If you go to a city’s page, you will find information about events, weather, flights, news, etc. related to that city.  You can find them by simply searching on Bing for a city and clicking the "Destinations" tab.  "The new feature assembles all of the relevant information […]

Big Day for Bing: Massive Upgrades, Miniscule Gains

Microsoft’s Bing introduced a wide assortment of new search features on Wednesday, the same day that the latest report from comCast revealed slight gains by Bing for the month of November. In fact, though the overall movement was miniscule, Microsoft was the only company to increase its share of the search market last month. Google […]

Search Queries Update in GWT

Google has made a noteworthy improvement to the "Search queries" and "Links to your site" features available in Webmaster tools. Once the domain of hard core SEO’s alone, anyone responsible for improving search marketing campaigns will be able to benefit from the new features and will need to get familiar as the data is… [[ […]

Gmail to Provide Backup for Microsoft Exchange Users

Just as Microsoft’s Bing has made the search environment a little too crowded for Google’s tastes, Google is doing the same thing to Microsoft with office productivity tools. Thursday’s launch of Google Message Continuity reiterates…(read more) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

MasterCard.com (and Visa.com) Taken Down By Wikileaks-Supporting Hackers?

Update 2: The group (Operation Payback) credited with bringing down both MasterCard.com and Visa.com has had its Facebook Page removed for violating terms of service. Update: Visa.com is now down as well. MasterCard.com is still down. (As of 4:30pm Eastern) Original Article: MasterCard.com is down. It’s reportedly been down for hours now.  It would appear that […]

WordPress Plugins for Affiliates

Every affiliate marketer has his or her own goals that require the best tools designed to meet those specific needs. Some tools, however, are more difficult to live without than others, such as the following plugins for any affiliate operating a blog or website on WordPress: 1. All in One SEO Pack An out-of-the-box plugin […]

Rocket Clicks Taps AdGooroo's Link Insight Platform

Welcome to the new age of link building – a time when we should all be greatly reliant on the quality of data.  SEM intelligence vendor AdGooroo and Internet marketing agency Rocket Clicks announced a partnership today that connects Rocket Clicks’ link building service, Link Publicity, with AdGooroo’s link building tool, Link… [[ This is […]

FBI Launches Online Tool For Recovering Stolen Art

The FBI has introduced a free online tool aimed at allowing people to search a database of thousands of stolen artworks and contact the agency if the have information about the items. The tool called the National Stolen Art File has about 7,000 images in its database and allows people to search a variety of […]

Search and Social Media: Who Can You Trust?

The New York Times published a very interesting (and very long) article over the holiday break that raises a lot of questions about Google and search in general. I’ll let you read the 8-page story yourself if you want all the details, but what it boils down to is that Google doesn’t always point you […]