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Get Lasting Results With Ethical SEO

With the Internet functioning as another venue for all sorts of businesses, the competition on how to get noticed and how to attract as many customers are possible is getting tougher and tougher. Anyone remotely associated with online businesses is aware of how SEO is at the forefront of online business issues. Recently, SEO has been getting some bad rap. It may deserved or undeserved, but that really shouldn?t concern you if you stick within what is called ethical SEO. Experts would say that this is the best way to get search engines to ... 0 Comments

Yahoo Mail Reaping Profits

Yahoo Mail's 41.4 percent share of all display ads was more that three times that of closest competitor MySpace's 16.1 percent, according to Nielsen/NetRatings AdRelevance data. MSN Hotmail was third, with 7.8 percent of display ads. Yahoo's share increased significantly from the previous month's 32.9 percent and the 7.6 percent in August 2005. Financial services companies accounted for 28.0 percent of online display ads in August, followed by retail goods and services with 18 percent and web media with 14 percent. The total number of CPM display ads tracked by Nielsen (not pre-roll, partnerships and sponsorships) totaled ... 0 Comments

Adcenter To Challenge Adwords

Microsoft's adCenter has sent out a limited number of invitations to advertisers for the pilot test of the program - ContentAds - which will initially place contextual ads on Microsoft properties such as MSN Money, MSN Real Estate and Windows Live sites, among others, reports MediaPost, citing a post on the JenSense blog. The pilot is expected to launch in the fall and will likely be extended to other publishers' sites. ContentAds will be capable of using demographic targeting, geo-targeting and incremental bidding tools, according to JenSense. The new offering would bring Microsoft's adCenter platform in ... 0 Comments

Google AdWords vs Yahoo SM

Formerly know as Overture, Yahoo SM (Search Marketing) was unveiled last year, to rival Google?s AdSense in the world of pay-per-click products. How do they compare? What are the pros and cons for each product? And in the end, what?s the better program? Read on: Click Through Rates Google: Despite your bid, if your keyphrase CT is well-above average, you should get a high ranking. If Google believes it could be low, they?ll drop it immediately, without giving it a chance. Yahoo: If your keyphrase?s CT shows low levels for a significant length of time, only then will ... 0 Comments

Google Offers Coupons to Bolster Local Search

Marketing Vox came out with a noteworthy story this week about Google, which is bound to affect all of us interested in the "smoke and mirrors" of SEO... Google will allow businesses to upload coupon information, including images, and will then display a link to those coupons when the business's name is displayed in response to queries by users, who can then print the coupons, according to online press reports. Google has also agreed to distribute ValPak coupons, with no money exchanged between the two companies. Google is not charging merchants, either, similar to ... 0 Comments