Hello, Yahoo reorganization, goodbye Lloyd Braun! Due to a strategic conflict within the company, Braun has been ousted by the company. When he was originally hired, partially due to his successes at Disney’s ABC Entertainment Television Group and tremendous popular series, “Lost,” the company was speculated to become a lead television player. However, his hiring … Click to Read More →
Google Radio Waves Coming To Your Local Station
You might want to hold onto your MP3 files and CDs for just awhile longer, because your local radio station is about to play Google Adwords commercials. Yesterday, the company announced that it would be selling advertising to over 730 radio stations in nearly 260 metropolitan US markets, with the intention signing up 5,000 additional … Click to Read More →
No Website, No Problem. Introducing Google Hosted Business Pages
Wow it sounds like one of those awful used car radio commercials, doesn’t it? No credit – no problem. No money down – buy now, pay later!!! Well not exactly but you get the drift… Have you ever had this problem? AdWords advertisers know that online advertising is an effective way to promote their businesses. … Click to Read More →
4 Essential SEO Firefox Plugins
SEO itself is a daunting task, but thankfully there are tools to make it a lot easier. Here are some of the essential tools that I recommend. Each performs different tasks, and therefore these tools are all unique to each other (with some overlap): Inbound Link Quality (ILQ) Rating Tool: This Firefox plugin displays in … Click to Read More →
Yahoo Shares its Most Popular Searches in 2006
Yahoo has announced their top searches for 2006 a few weeks short of the year’s end. The year in review shows that some things change, while some things stay the same. On the note of staying the same, Britney Spears has been #1 on the top overall search for five out of six years. (Her … Click to Read More →
Major Executive Shake Up at Yahoo
In a move to become a nimbler, more Google-like company, Yahoo Inc. today announced the departure of Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo’s chief operating officer and also the resignation of Lloyd Braun, the former ABC executive who ran Yahoo’s media group in Santa Monica, Calif. According to the Wall Street Journal, the executive shuffling awards a key … Click to Read More →
December 2006 Survey Says: The World Wide Web Keeps Growing
According to Netcraft, 3.8 million new domains were registered in the last month. There are now over 105 million distinct domain names registered. Last month, the Internet hit the 100 million website milestone. With the ease and cheap price of domain name registration, this growth spurt is not going to be stopping anytime soon. Here … Click to Read More →
Fringe Domains, Blurry Brands
What’s in a Domain Name? Your brand, your business! There are thousands of websites living on the internet that hold fringe domains for major brands. These sites take an internet user who types in the wrong domain in the address bar for a well known company name and send the traffic to other websites — … Click to Read More →
Danny Sullivan Announces New Conference and Webcasts
Another day, another Danny announcement! After months of waiting and speculation, Danny Sullivan has come out blazing. First launching SearchEngineLand along with an all-star lineup of bloggers. This morning Danny announced the launch of two sister sites the Search Marketing Now webcast series and the Search Marketing Expo conference. As I was hoping for back … Click to Read More →
While Baidu Prepares to Enter Japan, Google Lags
Google and Yahoo’s overseas competition is strengthening. Baidu.com, China’s largest search engine, plans on offering Japanese search services beginning in 2007 and will compete with Yahoo and Google. According to Robin Li, Baidu’s Chief Executive, the company has been studying the Japanese market for approximately six months. In an article with the Wall Street Journal, … Click to Read More →