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Internet Marketing News: Social Networking Return on investment Will get Serious, Know Your Metrics, Facebook Internet Search Engine, Twitter Gossips & The Things They Mean For You Personally

on Apr 6, 2012
Internet Marketing News: Social Networking Return on investment Will get Serious, Know Your Metrics, Facebook Internet Search Engine, Twitter Gossips & The Things They Mean For You PersonallyAre The Social Networking Efforts Well Worth The Money? This infographic lately launched by Radian6 dives into how online entrepreneurs are presently calculating social networking results in addition to questions many entrepreneurs are asking.  Some from the highlights include: Equation for identifying Return on investment Customer Engagement Need for Return on investment 3 Rules for Building Business Associations Building your network both offline and online requires effort.  In order to

Yahoo Visualizes Its Content CORE

on Feb 10, 2012
Yahoo Visualizes Its Content COREYahoo has always been proud of the algorithms that drive its choice of personalized content, but it’s hard to grok exactly what they do behind the scenes to make the magic happen. Today the company released a visualization of its “C.O.R.E.” (Content Optimization and Relevance Engine) technology, and the result is pretty cool. From a release sent to me by Yahoo:

New Backlink Analysis Tool

on Feb 8, 2012
New Backlink Analysis ToolSince Yahoo! closed the Site Explorer service bloggers and webmasters (myself included) were left without any solid alternative. I have been looking for similar tools since then, and an interesting one I found recently is called ahrefs.com. It’s a paid service, but there are many free tools you can use on their website as well. For instance, right on the homepage you can type your domain name and click on “Explore Links” to get an overview of how your website is doing.

Nothing Like a Phishing Trip to Bring Enemies Closer

on Jan 30, 2012
Nothing Like a Phishing Trip to Bring Enemies Closer

If you were asked what it would take to get Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Aol and other to come together, agree on something and work together to accomplish something that would benefit most of the online world, what would it be? That is a pretty short list of option for sure but one thing has worked: a push to eliminate phishing scams in the e-mail space.

Yahoo Ad Sales Still on the Decline

on Jan 25, 2012
Yahoo Ad Sales Still on the Decline

It’s ironic that the top story on Yahoo’s front page is about how J. C. Penney is reinventing the brand. Perhaps the higher ups at Yahoo should read their own article, then maybe sit down with the retailer for a round of commiseration and cheering up.

Yahoo! Site Explorer Is Dead – What Are the Alternatives?

on Jan 13, 2012
Yahoo! Site Explorer Is Dead – What Are the Alternatives?This post comes from our SEO channel sponsor Link Assistant In the SEO world, November 21, 2011 was quite a day for many. In case you didn’t know, this is the day Yahoo! Site Explorer, a free and awesome backlink research service, ceased to exist.

Bing Tops Yahoo for Search Share in December

on Jan 12, 2012
Bing Tops Yahoo for Search Share in DecemberMicrosoft’s Bing search engine grabbed 15.1% of the total search pie in December, a rise of .01% over November. Nothing to write home about? Actually, it is, because with that .01%, Bing slid past Yahoo to become number two on the charts. Here are the numbers straight from comScore:

Yahoo To Announce Original Series Deal with Tom Hanks

on Jan 9, 2012
Yahoo To Announce Original Series Deal with Tom Hanks

So what’s this have to do with Internet marketing you ask? Everything is the correct answer. Yahoo is announcing a deal to bring its first original scripted “series” to the online content producer and they are using a pretty big name, Tom Hanks, to make the splash.

Blekko Is Becoming A Nice Backlinks/SEO Tool

on Dec 6, 2011
Blekko Is Becoming A Nice Backlinks/SEO ToolA couple of weeks ago I wrote a post announcing that Yahoo! Site Explorer was gone. After that I started looking around for some alternatives, and one impressed me: Blekko. If you don’t know the story, Blekko is a search engine which the goal of filtering spam from its results. They do that by using a list of trusted sites and then crawling the web from those sites as starting points.

Yahoo! Site Explorer Is Gone

on Nov 23, 2011
As you might know/remember, Yahoo! Site Explorer was the best online tool to check the amount of backlinks a certain website had. Well, Yahoo! announced a while ago that it would be shutting the tool down, and this week it finally did. So what alternatives do we have? Unfortunately none that adequately substitutes what Yahoo! Site Explorer used to offer, and that is a reliable count of the backlinks of a site (including a list of said backlinks). Google has the “link:domain.com” query, which is
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