What do you get when you integrate Ask’s maps service with CitySearch, Ticketmaster, Reserve America, ServiceMagic, TicketWeb, and TripAdvisor? You get AskCity, which was launched today. The easy-to-use interface is shown below: a search panel on the left, the results in the center, and a map view on the right. For now, the company intends…
Danny Sullivan Leaves BUT He Won't be Gone for Long
Many are calling it “the end of an era” in the Search Engine Marketing blogosphere. Danny is in fact leaving Search Engine Watch, but soon heading into a bold, new land of his own – Search Engine Land — which launches on December 11th. Along with Danny comes the committed Chris Sherman, Barry Schwartz and…
VerizonTube Comes to a Cell Phone Near You
Got Verizon? Your cell phone multimedia experience is about to get much better. In a partnership with Verizon, Google has agreed to deliver YouTube content to Verizon-serviced cellular phones (subscription required). It was only two weeks ago when CEO Eric Schmidt stated that “Your mobile phone should be free,” indicating Google’s desire to reach into…
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft: The Competition Unites for Sitemap Submission
Oftentimes in the SEO business and even in personal website endeavors, we run into the question of why only some pages are indexed in the search engine results and others not. Waiting is a big deal — returns just never seem immediate. We wonder how to make our pages indexed faster and consider submitting directly to the search engine to expedite the crawl. We wonder when the site is finally partially indexed if Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft will ever reach those pages that are clearly linked on a page that was already indexed.
ReviewMe Launches – Get Paid to Write Blog Reviews about Products (or Advertise Your Service)
Yesterday, two very well-known search engine optimization industry leaders, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans, announced the launch of ReviewMe, a service that enables blog writers to write reviews about products. ReviewMe intends to address fundamental problems in Internet marketing, including the difficulty in driving people to a new product (especially from a new company), the concern that website ads are often ignored, the fact that product development can be time consuming and costly, the “unwanted” exposure to ads, and the inherent problem that you might have to seek out unwilling reviewers to give you feedback on your product or service.
How to Create a Screenshot
Last week, I wrote about how you can check the format of your website through a variety of browsers. Today, I want to focus on how you can generate a screenshot of your own, especially if you are seeing something that cannot be reproduced on another computer.