Social Media News: Facebook Acquired FriendFeed

Facebook has announced today that it agrees to acquire another innovative program service for sharing online – Friendfeed. If you haven’t been using FriendFeed yet, there is still time for you to catch up on the experience and get to know what attracted Facebook to it. The press release states that “FriendFeed.com will continue to…

Social Media Marketing Tips: Eight (8) Steps to Building Friends on Facebook

Social Media Marketing has gone a long way not only on Twitter, but also on Facebook. To make friends on Facebook, you need to know which market you are targeting. The best way to find like-minded people is to identify what industry you are in. Once you’ve decided on your target market, just follow the…

SEO News: Search Engine Dominance, Yahoo-Microsoft Deal

Microsoft has finally announced it’s 10-year deal with Yahoo! Yahoo probably decided to ride Bing‘s (formerly Live Search) wave which both companies foresee to overtake Google‘s for the fact that Bing is “getting mostly positive reviews and picking up slightly more traffic”. Oh, is a slight success now a measure equal to a hundred percent…

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Search Engine Optimization on Twitter

In case you haven’t signed out of Twitter recently, they have a new front page! From now on, those who are new to Twitter will be seeing this… …instead of this… On a Search Engine Optimization perspective, this new front page is not consistent with the rest of Twitter. However, it’s good that the logo…

Hot SEO Tips: How to Translate and URL Submit on Baidu

Chinese search engine, Baidu, is said to be a “sleeping giant that awakened” recently. China’s population is more than four times the size of the US. Internet users in China comprise 11% of their population. It makes a lot of sense to submit your website to this giant. To be able to do that, you…

All About Cybertegic, Inc.’s New Voice Intelligence System

One of the most difficult tasks e-commerce business owners face is knowing which advertising medium works and which do not. Oftentimes, hard-earned advertising money is placed on all possible Internet advertising channels just to cover all bases. Cybertegic’s new Voice Intelligence Service puts an end to this never-ending guessing game. The VIS is a powerful…

How to make Billy Mays’ pitch work for you

Just read this very interesting semi-tribute to Billy Mays’ memorable As Seen On TV ads written by Search Engine Watch’s Herndon Hasty. Hays took Mays’ marketing pitch and made it applicable to search engine optimization marketing. Hasty maintains that as mock-worthy as Mays’ pitches were, there’s plenty that can be used to develop a successful…

Search Engine Classifications

There are different classifications of search engines, namely: Crawler-based search engines, e.g. Google, Yahoo & Bing, are those that use programs called spiders who crawl web pages to gather information that are sent back to their respective servers for storage and future indexing. Directories such as www.DMOZ.org, a.k.a Open Directory Project or ODP (DMOZ stands…