Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Searching on a mobile phone means Google, although it doesn’t have the same lead that it has on computer searches. In total, 13.5% of all mobile web page views are spent using search engines.
Google — 9.0%
Yahoo — 4.3%
Bing — 0.03%
(Source — Opera Software)
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
No, we haven’t reached the point where we are buying fortune cookies to help solve the economic problems of the country.
But, the United States census bureau has a $340 million budget to promote the census this year. Included in the advertising buy is $3000 earmarked by the census to purchase…fortune cookie messages. The fortune cookies, [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
In October, the FTC announced its final revisions on the rules that will affect bloggers that give endorsements
to products.
The FTC has indicated that bloggers that make an endorsement of a product must convey if there is compensation involved for that endorsement.
I think it’s a good rule, but it’s one of those rules that is going [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
by Bob Bentz
Come on. Admit it. We all do it.
So, how often do you do it?
3% admit to doing it regularly and 74% admit to doing it “once or twice.” Yeah, right.
I admit. I do it…a lot.
According to a study by Microsoft, 42% of Americans google themselves. Or, should I say “bing themselves?”
That’s slightly less [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
We all have a lot of ways to be contacted today. We have our cell phones which are with us 24/7. We have our office phones which we often prefer to be called on since it doesn’t use up our anytime minutes and is still more convenient to speak on when we are in the [...]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
No Follow links may not be of value in terms of search engine optimization at Google, but that’s only half the battle as Matt Cutts explains.
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Google’s Matt Cutts talks about the importance, or lack of importance, in putting tags on your blog posts. Is it really worth the time?
I might have just saved you some time on your blogging.
Now, excuse me, I have to add some tags to this post.
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
The Geico commercial shows the money with the eyes and plays the song: “I always feel like somebody’s watching you.”
Find out who is following you on Twitter.
This tool will take your followers on Twitter and give you demographic statistics on the followers. It’s really cool to see the breakdown of males versus females and states [...]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
The New York Times is making a bold move to paid content for its online edition beginning next year. Many media watchers have questioned whether this would mean to the most famous traditional newspaper in the United States.
NYTimes.com has now revealed its details of the payment plan. The entire web site will be free to [...]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
If you are still employed in the newspaper industry, the future simply doesn’t look bright for you.
According to Outsell, US newspaper print circulation will decline by 3.5% per year over the next three years. By 2012, only 43 million Sunday newspapers will be sold compared with more than 62 million in the early 1990’s.
For breaking [...]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
If you are looking for links, and who in the business of promoting a web site isn’t, then a good place to look is site of the day web sites. There are numerous such sites on the web, but there’s only one real site of the day.
That’s Mike Corso’s Cool Site of the Day. It’s [...]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Google continues to dominate the landscape of search in the USA.
According to ComScore’s December ‘09 study, search engine market share in the USA is as follows:
Google - 65.7%
Yahoo - 17.3%
MSN - 10.3%
Ask - 3.7%
AOL - 2.6%
The interesting part of the search engine market share is that the combined share of Yahoo and Bing (MSN) is [...]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Thanks to Radio Nigeria for the posting of my radio text messaging video on its site. There’s a wealth of radio information on the site for anybody in the radio business.
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