Men Are From Google, Women Are From Yahoo
On the Internet, as in life, men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities. Men tend to see it as an office, a library, or a playground--screw the community, this is about function not family.
Date: 2005-12-29

Advertisers get more effective results with Media Traffic
MediaTraffic.com’s advanced contextual advertising platform is up to 6x more effective than traditional online methods.
Date: 2005-12-28

Google Ads Helping Non-Profits
A little giving by the search advertising company has gone a long way for several charities, as Google waives its usual ad fees for non-profits that qualify for its program.
Date: 2005-12-27

What’s An Ookle?
Former Feedster CTO Scott Johnson has a new mistress. Her name is Ookle. Less than a week after his sudden exodus from Feedster, Johnson and Australian IM buddy Michael Air (yes, he's never met him in person) have set up Ookles.com, a stealth mode webpage with an information sign-up screen.
Date: 2005-12-22

Google Lyrics Search - Deja vu?
At what point has the music industry's fierce guarding of it's content gone too far? And how far does Fair Use protect Google as it seeks to index the world's information? The biggest blow-out of the year was between Google and publishers over the Google Book Search project.
Date: 2005-12-20

Easily Prepare Datafeeds for Shopping Comparison Sites
Channel Management is a breakthrough in datafeed marketing, empowering online retailers to distribute product content without the need to build and continually update time-consuming datafeeds.
Date: 2005-12-18

Structured Blogging Concept Shot Down
The short time it took for the idea of structured blogging to be brought back to Earth makes the 18-month timeframe of Moore's Law look like a glacial epoch.
Date: 2005-12-16

Weird Elevators, Syndispheres, & Keynotes
Doc Searls wrapped up his Syndicate Conference in a keynote that discussed the Live Web of content, and some strange elevators in New York's Marriott Times Square property. Only in California.
Date: 2005-12-15

How To Get Exactly What You Want From Your Hosting Provider
Customize your own promotion with Rackspace Managed Hosting! This December a sales representative will>customize a promotion just for you.
Date: 2005-12-14

One Application to Create, Deploy and Manage Your Web Sites
Ektron's Web Content Management system gives you all the tools you need to create, deploy, and manage your Web site - all rolled into one application.
Date: 2005-12-14

Technorati's In the Kitchen
David Sifry, the man behind blog search and tagging engine Technorati, has launched an alpha version of a new feature called Explore.
Date: 2005-12-13

Did you know postage rates are
With a built-in scale, mailstation™ digital postage meter makes mail processing faster and more efficient for your small business. It weighs your mail and calculates the exact postage with just one touch of a button.
Date: 2005-12-12

Double Sales - Turn Browsers into Buyers
More than half of all buyers get frustrated, distracted or just lose interest when using shopping carts. But with an SCI Live Operator, you and your customers can finally be on the same web page.
Date: 2005-12-11

Site Submission 101: Getting Listed Fast
Wpromote provides a suite of search engine submission and promotion services that is unmatched anywhere.
Date: 2005-12-10

Just Say No To SEO Copywriting?
While a handful of speakers at SES Chicago emphasized the importance of keyword placement in pages, a copywriter thinks it's the wrong approach.
Date: 2005-12-09

Danny Sullivan Cutts Up
SES Chicago conference attendees enjoyed the give and take at the question and answer session, where search expert Danny Sullivan led an enjoyable and spirited group in discussing the world of search.
Date: 2005-12-08

Taming Cost Efficiency and Revenue in Customer Service
Customer relationships are the new growth engine. "To remain competitive, you must figure out how to keep your customers longer, grow them into bigger customers, make them more profitable, and serve them more efficiently, " state Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D. But maximizing the value of every customer interaction is a two-way street, stress Peppers and Rogers. There must be a value exchange between the company and the customer.
Date: 2005-12-07

How AdSense Lowers Site-Self-Esteem
While AdSense makes it easy to monetize a Webpage or a weblog, are Webmasters selling themselves short by putting their prime real estate on sale for a fraction of its worth? Google has the luxury of exploiting not only their own effectiveness and reach, but also the ignorance of the online marketer.
Date: 2005-12-06

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The affordable alternative to costly web conferencing applications is now even more affordable!
Date: 2005-12-05

Unlimited Meetings From WebEx
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Date: 2005-12-04

How to get exactly what you want from your hosting provider
Customize your own promotion with Rackspace Managed Hosting! This December a sales representative will customize a promotion just for you.
Date: 2005-12-03

Integrated Content Works ... Ask Trump
Microsoft won this evening's Apprentice hands down. In today's TiVo happy world content integrated marketing is the future and we all better get used to it. Not just for TV either.
Date: 2005-12-02

Wikipedia Is The Next Google
Fear. You can just feel it in the air, can't you? There is fear everywhere that Google has become too powerful. As John Battelle notes, the tide of public opinion is starting to turn from loving Google to fearing them.
Date: 2005-12-01

Secure, flexible credit card processing for retail and ecommerce merchants
Your customers may not always be able to come to you, so why not go to your customers? The Internet is a valuable tool for expanding your market opportunities.
Date: 2005-11-30

Blogs Can Help Affiliates
A lot of people write blogs and place affiliate links on their sites, and we have a few suggestions to help make them work better. It's easy enough to create a blog and toss some affiliate links into the blog's site template.
Date: 2005-11-29

Access Your PC With WebEx PCNow
Use WebEx PCNow free for 30 days and see how easy it is to stay connected to your information, your files, and your business.
Date: 2005-11-28

Mastering the Art of Adwords
AdGooroo’s data makes you the expert. It details all of the competitors in your industry with easy-to-read charts and graphs.
Date: 2005-11-27

Microsoft Schooled By eBayers?
Ah, the holidays. There's nothing like that pesky giving and charitable spirit being kept in check by greed, violence, and opportunism. Have the Xbox 360 muggings, price gouging, and all around hysteria taught Microsoft a valuable lesson in pricing? Maybe, but as bids on eBay reach $5,000 for the new $400 console, Microsoft has taught everyone a lesson about timing.
Date: 2005-11-25

400 Free Sales Leads from BidVertiser
Browse through our categorized directory of quality sites and choose only the appropriate ones for your ads.
Date: 2005-11-24

Streamline your order processing
The Stone Edge Order Manager is the leading order management system for small-to-medium Web merchants. The Order Manager makes it easy to import orders from your shopping cart and then gives you the tools you need to manage your business efficiently.
Date: 2005-11-23

Giggity-Giggity Google Base
Yin and yang, man. If one were to accept the task of indexing the world's information, it would seem right and proper to index the good, the bad, the ugly and the pornographic-as long as it's not illegal. As par for the Internet course, Google Base has become an online porn store in record time-or maybe a bad neighborhood directory.
Date: 2005-11-22

Building Website Loyalty
Want to encourage repeat site visits? Capture and easily process visitor information? Do you want to make information more findable? Are you looking for a more efficient way to deploy your Web site?
Date: 2005-11-21

WebProNews PubCon Wrap-up Edition
PubCon 2005 in Las Vegas is over and done. While it's entirely possible that a 'wrap up' post is premature due to the fact that one of our primary hosts was borked for several hours this afternoon and our writing team may yet have notes to bring to the table, I'm gonna do one anyway. The following are some of thoughts and impressions from your friend and humble forum admin.
Date: 2005-11-18

MSN Search Gets Chippy At PubCon
Microsoft's Eytan Seidman, a product manager for MSN Search, came out swinging at Google during the ‘Search Engine Smackdown.'
Date: 2005-11-17

Yahoo Blasts Into The Shoposphere
Just in time for the holiday shopping rush, Yahoo has made a "social commerce" update to its site to add community feedback on products to the shopping experience.
Date: 2005-11-15

Site Submission 101: Getting Listed Fast
In 48 hours or less (many times the same business day!), your site will begin to show up in many of the web's most important search engines and content sites including Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Excite, InfoSpace, NBCi, C|Net and many others. No other service is able to match this claim.
Date: 2005-11-14

Innovative Web Content Management Solution
SiteExecutive is a comprehensive web site development and content management software application that allows content managers to directly create, update and manage a web site in an efficient and timely manner, while reducing dependency on web masters for routine content migration and updates.
Date: 2005-11-13

eBay Says You Should Wise Up
In response to user requests, eBay launched a new service giving buyers and sellers access to listing, bidding, and pricing trends in the marketplace to help them make more informed selling and buying decisions.
Date: 2005-11-11

Google is Building Yahoo 2.0
In his posting titled Reading the Google Tea Leaves, Tristan compares various product offerings from Google against those of the "big three" (AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) and concludes...
Date: 2005-11-10

Welcome To The Googleconomy
Information is power. Google knows that. It also knows that information is money, lots of it. The up-until-recently-only-a search company has the world's most powerful and wealthy corporations reexamining how they see life, the universe, and everything.
Date: 2005-11-08

Google Plane Boarding Soon
The search engine company has some big plans for its 767-200 passenger jet; two staterooms and plenty of leg room for 50 passengers will be among its features.
Date: 2005-11-07

Where To Look For A Qualified Audience
LookSmart offers more options for your advertising dollars. Whether you want to build your brand, launch a new product or drive traffic, LookSmart's online advertising programs can deliver the results you're looking for. Advertisers reach demographically relevant audiences on LookSmart's growing family of vertical search sites through keyword-targeted products, as well as banners and other ad units.
Date: 2005-11-07

Building Website Loyalty
Want to encourage repeat site visits? Capture and easily process visitor information? Do you want to make information more findable? Are you looking for a more efficient way to deploy your Web site?
Date: 2005-11-06

Combine Project Management with Help Desk Software
By blending project management, help desk, and document management software into a fully integrated suite, TeamHeadquarters™ enables realistic resource management by consolidating proactive project work and reactive support work.
Date: 2005-11-05

Google Plane Boarding Soon
The search engine company has some big plans for its 767-200 passenger jet; two staterooms and plenty of leg room for 50 passengers will be among its features.
Date: 2005-11-04

Try One Click Web and Video Conferencing for 15 days
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Date: 2005-10-31

WebProNews Halloween Edition - The Undead Thread
People like things to make sense. As a species we tend to find comfort and security in order and the routine. Ironically, (or not) we also have a tendency to be fascinated, if not preoccupied, by the strange and the unknown. We delight in the bizarre and if nothing else, the Internet is chock full of the bizarre. Who cares, you ask? The magic 8 ball says to finish reading this article and ask again later.
Date: 2005-10-28

eBay Wants Customers To Get It
Just in time for the holidays, online auctioneer eBay has made an intense marketing push to let people know where they can get "it."
Date: 2005-10-27

The Search That's Better Than Search
Every so often, it dawns on you that the whole Internet environment has traveled too far from that quiet, information-oriented era that got you so interested in the medium in the first place.
Date: 2005-10-25

Enhance Productivity and Visibility for Your Organization
With Web-based QuickBase, everyone from project managers to sales reps to staff has a central place where they can access, manage and share status updates, budgets or new promotions. Plus, it's so simple to use, your entire team will embrace it. How are you managing your business processes today?
Date: 2005-10-24

Turbocharge Websites with Live Chat and Online Meetings
Turbocharge the websites you build and/or host by adding live chat and online meetings to the list of services you offer for no cost to you.
Date: 2005-10-23

The Google Feedback Loop For Quality Traffic
For this to work, you need some kind of tracking for your website/web pages that tells you which search engines send people to you for what keyword searches. Now truly, for a website owner there is nothing more fascinating than their own stats, so if you don't have good tracking software yet, do go out and get some.
Date: 2005-10-21

Talking To Google About Jagger
Yes, it's a for-real, honest to goodness update going on at Google, and Matt Cutts wants you to contact Google if you have feedback about it
Date: 2005-10-20

Ten Successful Web-based Customer Service Secrets
Effective customer service is actually a very achievable goal—even for companies with relatively limited resources. It simply requires the right principles, practices and tools.
Date: 2005-10-19

10 Ways to Make Managing Your Website Much Easier
Ektron CMS400.NET is an easy-to-use Web Content Management Solution (CMS) with robust out-of-the-box features to help you build and manage your Internet, intranet and extranet sites.  It helps you control every aspect of your Web initiatives and eliminates complexity.
Date: 2005-10-17

Easing The Burdens Of SEO
If you're on an online marketer with a limited budget, then you're in luck. I've compiled a list of online or downloadable SEO tools that I recommend and use on a regular basis. Each of these tools has to do with the organic or "natural" search engine rankings of websites.
Date: 2005-10-14

SEO - The Joys Of Reselling
As a facet of the Internet economy, search engine optimization is a specialized service that shares several characteristics with other web-based businesses. While the objects of our labours might be seen and used by millions of unique people in millions of unique places, our workspace consists of a 17" - 24" monitor, a miniature window on an exponentially expanding world.
Date: 2005-10-13

Site Submission 101: Getting Listed Fast
In 48 hours or less (many times the same business day!), your site will begin to show up in many of the web's most important search engines and content sites including Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Excite, InfoSpace, NBCi, C|Net and many others. No other service is able to match this claim.
Date: 2005-10-12

No Place Like MySpace
In less than two years, MySpace.com has morphed from unadvertised haven for young bards to share their musical talents to a youth-oriented social networking phenomenon with upwards of 32 million registered hipster members. The insight into the young mind has never been so accessible.
Date: 2005-10-11

No download Web Conferencing with Click&Share
Click&Share is a full-featured web conferencing platform that allows you to deliver powerful web presentations online. Share documents, applications, and websites using Click&Share, the most intuitive interface on the market.
Date: 2005-10-10

Online Meetings Have Never Been E-easier
The affordability of Linktivity's web conferencing solutions may surprise you. For years, this technology was cost-prohibitive and therefore available only to large-scalecorporations. Finally, Linktivity has created dynamic, affordable web conferencing with the secure and easy to use product known as WebDemo.
Date: 2005-10-09

Search Engines Don't Understand You
Heh, while I was stuck in traffic on the way home tonight my brother called. We had one of our usual heated conversations -- this time about search engines (he had read my post about PLAYing with search and thought I was nuts for wanting search engines to display stock quotes for terms like PETS, PLAY, etc).
Date: 2005-10-07

64% Of SEMs Fail To Follow SEO Recommendations
The most unique aspect of the Internet, the very thing that makes it different from every other communications medium is, in many cases, one of its least understood characteristics. Unlike print, audiotape or video recordings, the Net is an interactive medium requiring an ongoing investment of time, knowledge and capital.
Date: 2005-10-06

Professional Online Content Made Easy
To ease your transition to ePublisher Pro for Word, we've included import functionality for legacy RoboHelp projects: ePublisher Pro for Word will directly open your RoboHelp projects and quickly load your legacy Help projects into the main preview interface, while creating a fresh, new MS Word document as your new content source for the future.
Date: 2005-10-05

Taiwan Disagrees With Google Maps
The government of Taiwan, which rules the island nation, has complained to search engine company Google about how Taiwan is represented on Google Maps. That product refers to Taiwan as a province of China.
Date: 2005-10-04

Yahoo Ups Ante With Site Explorer
Yahoo launched their much-anticipated Site Explorer on Thursday. Yahoo discussed the Site Explorer during SES San Jose but at the time, it was just talk. Now, intrepid explorers may hack through the jungles of URL by visiting both the sites and the inlinks.
Date: 2005-09-30

Search Engine Advertising Choices
Search advertisers are offered two basic marketing models, paid-ads and free organic ads. While there are advantages and disadvantages to both models, one clearly stands out as a better advertising option than the other.
Date: 2005-09-29

A New Business Postage Solution
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Date: 2005-09-28

Affiliates: Make API Love The eBay Way
Sean Crotty from eBay discusses their Affiliate Program, discloses the one API call that affiliates demanded the most, and lets us in on a big secret: a product category just waiting for someone to turn it into some serious cash.
Date: 2005-09-27

Get Value With Lower Prices for Your Top Keywords
By being able to afford the keywords that are relevant to your website you are ensured that your site will appear in front of users who are actively searching for sites like yours, providing you qualified leads interested in your products or services.
Date: 2005-09-26

MSN Search Relevance Roiling Microsoft
Microsoft asked Keynote Systems not to make a survey of search engine users available to the public. The numbers didn't look good for the home team in Redmond, the Wall Street Journal reported, and that may have led Microsoft to request the suppression of a search engine study. In the study, MSN Search fell to 5th from 3rd among 2,000 users surveyed in the second quarter of 2005.
Date: 2005-09-23

Google Print Has Legal SupportGoogle Print Has Legal Support
Though copyright law predates the Internet, case law has been established regarding the indexing of copyrighted material, and it has come out in favor of the indexer. Publishers who have issues with Google's Print for Libraries project may end up with little more than hurt feelings.
Date: 2005-09-20

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Date: 2005-09-19

Engage via Click&Share
Click&Share is a full-featured web conferencing platform that allows you to deliver powerful web presentations online. Share documents, applications, and websites using Click&Share, the most intuitive interface on the market.
Date: 2005-09-18

Google Wants To Be Ma Bell
Providing wireless Internet looks like one potential for all the fiber Google has bought, but maybe they want to be more than that.
Date: 2005-09-16

Instant Search With Yahoo
Yahoo searches while you type, saving countless nanoseconds wasted by pushing a Submit button.
Date: 2005-09-15

Insider's Guide to Customer Service on the Web
Companies that don't develop effective Internet customer service wind up spending far more on customer support than their competitors—as much as 20 times more per incident. That’s because, without effective customer service, companies must rely on their over-burdened, high-cost call centers to answer even the most routine and repetitive customer inquiries.
Date: 2005-09-14

Google, Yahoo Crushing Print Ad Revenue
The migration from print to online for news and business information has pushed down the money made from print ads.
Date: 2005-09-13

WebProNews Feature: Upgrade to Dreamweaver 8
The new version includes improved CSS editing and rendering, drag-and-drop integration of XML data feeds, better code editing with code-collapse and more.
Date: 2005-09-12

Get Value With Lower Prices for Your Top Keywords
By being able to afford the keywords that are relevant to your website you are ensured that your site will appear in front of users who are actively searching for sites like yours, providing you qualified leads interested in your products or services.
Date: 2005-09-11

Combine Project Management with Help Desk Software
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Date: 2005-09-10

Google Could Upset Advertising Model
Greater extensions by Google into traditional advertising media could mark a sea change in ad buying.
Date: 2005-09-09

Google Adjusts Site Targeting
In a recent issue of Page Zero Advisor, I argued (in part) as follows on the subject of Google's new Site Targeting version of the content targeting program ...
Date: 2005-09-08

WebProNews recommends Ektron CMS 400.NET
Ektron announces the release of CMS400.NET Version 5.0 with enhanced search capabilities, new calendar functions, Macromedia Dreamweaver extensions, and integrated document management. PLUS, it now also supports ColdFusion, PHP, ASP and JSP sites in addition to ASP.NET.
Date: 2005-09-07

Time To Check Your Google Ranking
One of the more important tasks in relation to search engine indices involves the keeping this content fresh and up to date. To accomplish this, search engines have developed a number of procedures designed to refresh and update their respective databases. In all likelihood, the most popular of these events has to be when Google performs a backlink and PageRank update, which happens throughout the year at determined intervals.
Date: 2005-09-06

Quickest Search Engine Listing With No Per-Click Charge
Wpromote provides a suite of search engine submission and promotion services that is unmatched anywhere.
Date: 2005-09-05

Seeing Into Google's Future
Google may plan to redefine the term PPC to mean "pay-per-call" as it focuses on dominating local search markets.
Date: 2005-09-02

Yahoo! And Google Meet A Fork In The Road
With all the literature generated regarding the great battle between Yahoo! and Google, it is easy (and misleading) to assume the two search giants are heading in the same direction. But in light of recent events, 2005 seems to be where the road forks. One path is a virtual on-ramp, while the other is the expressway to everywhere-if everywhere is where you'd like to go.
Date: 2005-09-01

Google’s New World Order
No doubt about it, Google has Gates-like ambitions. Bill Gates told Fortune magazine in a discussion about Google, …"they are more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with." Clearly, Google is the biggest threat to Microsoft dominance that Microsoft has ever seen.
Date: 2005-08-30

Get Value With Lower Prices for Your Top Keywords
ePilot’s Search Distribution Network allows website owners like you to target customers who are actively searching for your products or services.
Date: 2005-08-29

Linking Strategies: Do's And Don'ts
In the first part of this article we learned some techniques to build a solid potential link partner list for your website. Those sites aren't any good to you if you don't use a strategy for writing the textual content of those links. Yes. I mean those few little words that are underlined in blue.
Date: 2005-08-26

CRMGuru: Turning Customer Loyalty into Profitability
Learn why listening to the voice of the customer is so crucial to CRM success-and how genuine customer loyalty impacts corporate profitability. You'll also find out what the latest research indicates about the gap between potential and actual CRM benefits, and the four key drivers of ROI for CRM projects.
Date: 2005-08-24

Web Design Templates And Search Engine Optimization
Reader Question: Our Web developer uses page templates for our Web site. I am worried that "code bloat" and other template issues might interfere with our search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Are Web page templates good or bad for search engine optimization?
Date: 2005-08-23

Does Your Shopping Cart Do This?
Volusion shopping cart software is packed with useful features to automate your entire business. From building & managing your website, to processing orders, to marketing and even creating your own affiliate program... you'll find Volusion to be your ONE complete INTEGRATED solution.
Date: 2005-08-22

Size Less Important Than User Utility
Last week saw the resumption of the search engine size wars in which one major search engine claims to be larger than its rivals, prompting those rivals to rapidly upsize themselves. Yahoo fired the first round at Google, claiming to have over 20 billion objects accessible in their database.
Date: 2005-08-19

EBay UK Bids On Affiliates For Expansion
Wherever your site may be found, you can enjoy the benefits of membership in the eBay UK Affiliate Program. Webmasters, bloggers, and hobbyists have an opportunity to enjoy a piece of the eBay action. A new eBay Affiliate Programme permits site owners to enjoy a piece of the action when a visitor registers with eBay, or places a qualified Bid or Buy It Now.
Date: 2005-08-18

Yahoo Open Or Yahoo Closed?
Well, it seems that I get to quote Greg Linden a second time today. He points to the Yahoo's Personality Crisis article that's been stirring up a bit of discussion about whether Yahoo! will be opened or closed.
Date: 2005-08-16

Opening New Global Markets through Localization
If you need help supporting international sales or are looking to penetrate new global markets, xFactor is your key to success. Traditionally, website localization has been cost prohibitive and difficult to maintain. In addition, the ongoing expense and tedium of keeping multilingual sites in sync with the main English site has been a barrier to website localization.
Date: 2005-08-15

A New Business Postage Solution
With a built-in scale, mailstation™ digital postage meter makes mail processing faster and more efficient for your small business. It weighs your mail and calculates the exact postage needed with just one touch of a button.
Date: 2005-08-14

Are You A Natural? Organic SEO
A nice Q and A session with those in the know at SES San Jose shed some light on organic listings and the various methods that can be used to improve them. As site owners pelted the forum panel with questions, it became clear that a site's best weapon is pure legitimacy.
Date: 2005-08-12

Getting The Kinks Out Of Links
Links to and from your site can make a big difference in your business. The "Buying and Selling Links" session gave a lot of great information with an informative Q&A session at the end. The chairs were full and the crowd was quiet at the masters of SEO bequeathed their wisdom to eager students.
Date: 2005-08-11

The Scoop On Search Based News
One of the final sessions of the day was the "Meet The News Search Engines" and I decided to check out the session. While there weren't huge numbers of people like at some of the other sessions, the information gave some great insight into how the news gathering aspects of the search engines come together.
Date: 2005-08-10

Make your own search engine
Make every web page a community. Drive people to a site of interest or make them aware of your views. Tagging gives you the ability to add your own keywords to any page on the web.
Date: 2005-08-10

The Fourth Network Of Search
A party and a keynote figured prominently from Ask Jeeves at Search Engine Strategies 2005 in San Jose.
Date: 2005-08-09

Quickest Search Engine Listing With No Per-Click Charge
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Date: 2005-08-08

Get Value With Lower Prices for Your Top Keywords
By being able to afford the keywords that are relevant to your website you are ensured that your site will appear in front of users who are actively searching for sites like yours, providing you qualified leads interested in your products or services.
Date: 2005-08-07

Surviving The Search Wars - Local Directories
Innovation in the competitive search engine and directory markets: how the internet is the perfect medium for David to take on Goliath. The pursuit of online information has become an increasingly dynamic and competitive marketplace during the past three years.
Date: 2005-08-05

Discussing The Google Sandbox
Monitoring how your site performs with respect to the search engine industry is a key aspect of business in today's era. As a result, the growth of SEO-related services has been tremendous in recent years. Once SEO services are administered, being the creatures of instant gratification that we are, site owners expect to see results immediately.
Date: 2005-08-04

Fully optimize CRM to increase revenue
Businesses initiate CRM projects for a variety of reasons. Many do so because they can increase revenue by better understanding their customers. By gaining insight into both individual customers and target market segments, these companies can boost sales and optimize top-line business performance.
Date: 2005-08-03

Microsoft’s Google Challenge
The defection of Dr. Kai-fu Lee to Google is the first digit to fall from the leprous giant, Microsoft-the outward manifestation of a bigger problem long in the making. That which made the software giant tall, the nourishment of cutting edge engineering, is also the chief repast of the unexpected rival in Google. The nervous tapping of billionaire fingers can be heard all the way from Redmond.
Date: 2005-08-02

Mastering the Art of Adwords
As more and more companies turn to search engine advertising, only the most well-informed and savvy advertisers will continue to earn above-average returns. AdGooroo SEM Insight™ makes you one of these well-informed advertisers by mapping out the search landscape and arming you with the strategic insight and quantifiable metrics you need to stay ahead of the competition.
Date: 2005-08-01

MSN, Google Searchers More Likely To Buy
Just in case you were wondering which search engines had users with money in the bank (and I know you were), comScore Networks, Inc. reports that in the month of June, MSN searchers...
Date: 2005-07-29

Local Search Getting More Granular
In doing a quick search for the San Jose Hilton, I noticed there was a fair bit of info available through Google Local, like how many rooms, whether pets are accepted, parking situation, etc.
Date: 2005-07-26

Gain Qualified Leads With Targeted PPC
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Date: 2005-07-24

Stats, Facts, and Organic SEO
Everybody loves lists and statistics. From the annual Top100 movies of all time lists to the Top10 cities in which to live, even the simplest comparative studies can captivate people and inform pop-culture opinions. Folks use lists to prove points, gauge their own successes and get a reckoning on what's going on around them.
Date: 2005-07-22

The Future Of Search: Finding Your Place In The Hive
The Internet is changing. In the near future, the "web" concept may prove too primitive to properly describe the evolutionary nature of the beast. Something more abstract perhaps, like Jung's collective unconscious model-a digital beehive of collective information, honeycombs stacked high and deep with information. And so, searching the nectars of the hive should also change as spiders evolve into honeybees.
Date: 2005-07-21

Collectively Manage All Contact Channels
It is critical to collectively manage both online and traditional contact channels to provide the best possible customer experience. Yet, many companies have created both organizational and technological islands. The result? Internal inefficiencies and customer dissatisfaction.
Date: 2005-07-20

How Do We Make Blogs More User-Friendly?
Have you read the Catalyst Group study about blog usability call Net Rage? If not, you should. Those of us who spend inordinate amounts of time using these things, evangelizing, and otherwise doting over them seem to forget (at least I do) that most people still don't have a clue as to what a blog is or how they should react to it. In fact, most people probably could care less. They just want information.
Date: 2005-07-19

Project Portfolio Management Made Easy
Budgets are tight, end users' demands are high, and the number of initiatives you're managing can be overwhelming. Most organizations are faced with the same dilemma - which initiatives to invest into first, and which ones can wait.
Date: 2005-07-18

Combine Project Management with Help Desk Software
By blending project management, help desk, and document management software into a fully integrated suite, TeamHeadquarters™ enables realistic resource management by consolidating proactive project work and reactive support work.
Date: 2005-07-17

SEO Sales And Services - Consulting Cuts Complexity
Over the past two years, both the business and practice of search engine marketing have become much more complex. The same is true of the websites search engine marketers work with. The evolving design techniques and technologies that have made the website of today far more versatile than those of previous years, have also made them harder to work with for third party service vendors such as SEOs.
Date: 2005-07-15

Google Print For Libraries Proves Challenging
Details, details-such is the Achilles' Hell of the visionary temperament. When Google put forth a massive online literary digitization effort, the scholar, the literati, the purist self-educator, the mousey, bucked-toothed, four-eyed little girl in all of us cheered the soon-to-be nearer reach of all those words. But visions, especially the grandiose, face the speed bumps, the hurdles, of real world logic-or worse, lawyers.
Date: 2005-07-14

Getting the best possible ROI from your CPC advertising
Through TargetFirst’s Value Rank System your per-click bid receives the greatest ROI opportunity, delivering higher return on investment for higher bids. Choose the ad network with the system built around ROI: TargetFirst.
Date: 2005-07-13

Yahoo, The DMCA, And Blackhat Techniques
Apparently, through the use of a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) complaint, you can have sites thrown out of Yahoo's search index. If you file a DMCA report against a site, Yahoo will remove the "offending" site from Yahoo Search altogether, leaving no trace of the site in its index.
Date: 2005-07-12

Getting Listed in Yahoo and MSN Within 48 Hours
In 48 hours or less (many times the same business day!), your site will begin to show up in many of the web's most important search engines and content sites including Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Excite, InfoSpace, NBCi, C|Net and many others. No other service is able to match this claim.
Date: 2005-07-11

Gain Qualified Leads With Targeted PPC
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Date: 2005-07-10

WebProNews recommends Ektron CMS 400.NET
Ektron announces the release of CMS400.NET Version 5.0 with enhanced search capabilities, new calendar functions, Macromedia Dreamweaver extensions and an integrated document management module.
Date: 2005-07-09

Yahoo And The Quest For Mobile Search Supremacy
It appears as if the mobile communications sector is the next frontier for the search engine industry. As more and more users discover the abilities many of these newer mobile phones have, mobile Internet use, and therefore mobile search use, will continue to increase.
Date: 2005-07-08

Zen And The Art Of Viral Marketing
Let's begin with some simple tenets we can agree on. Free is better than paying. Cheap is better than expensive. An invitation is better than a command. A smile attached to the eyeballs you want scanning your site is better than a disappointed scowl.
Date: 2005-07-07

WebInteractive Remote Support
Linktivity's WebInteractive is a leading web-based, real-time remote support software application that facilitates an immediate connection between your PC and that of your client, enabling you to provide on-demand, spontaneous technical and sales support.
Date: 2005-07-06

Using External Coding To Improve Search Engine Placement
Do you have lots of JavaScript coding in the header section of your web pages? Do you re-list your CSS styles at the top of every page? Do you have JavaScript coding spread throughout your web pages? If you answered yes to any of these questions your site may be driving away search engine spiders and losing search engine position ranking.
Date: 2005-07-05

Christmas Time For Search Marketing
Christmas is coming. Six months from [June 25th], retailers and E-Tailers relying on a strong holiday season will be assessing the bounties of the season. The winter holiday season is the most important segment of the year for North American retail businesses, often accounting for more than half of annual revenues.
Date: 2005-07-01

Google Sued For Click Fraud
A class action lawsuit was filed in US District Court against Google alleging breach of contract, negligence, unjust enrichment, and unfair business practices-all involving charges of click fraud. Click Defense Inc, a click fraud protection firm, filed the suit in California in the name of an unknown number of plaintiffs for an amount not less than $5 million.
Date: 2005-06-30

Professional Online Content Made Easy
New WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word is the next generation of online content delivery, leveraging the power of XML to make quick work of every common online format and Help system.
Date: 2005-06-29

Introducing Google Earth
Late last/early this morning, Google launched the highly anticipated full version of Google Earth, the search engine's stand-alone global map utility. The following is a detailed, blow-by-blow description of the launch provided by Nathan Weinberg.
Date: 2005-06-28

Top Rated Customer Support Tool: Download Today
First your customer clicks on a "Help" button on your website to access your ezSupport-powered customer support window. Next the customer support pop-up window appears. Finally depending on your customer's need, they select from the "self-help" and escalation support features.
Date: 2005-06-27

Gain Qualified Leads With Targeted PPC
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Date: 2005-06-26

Managed Hosting Essentials
Relieve your IT stresses with a full range of extra managed services utilizing tools from industry leading vendors as well as custom developed, proprietary technology.
Date: 2005-06-25

Different Uses For The Upcoming Google Wallet
Is Google targeting eBay and PayPal? That is exactly what people thought when news of Google's payment service was leaked. In today's WebProNews, we feature a couple of stories that take a look at the possible uses and implications for Google's upcoming e-wallet.
Date: 2005-06-24

MSN Search Increases Relevance Focus
What good is a search engine if the results it provides aren't relevant to the query being performed? The answer? Not much. The largest search index in the world doesn't amount to much if you don't have an algorithm that can successfully provide results related to the question being posed.
Date: 2005-06-23

Secure, flexible credit card processing for retail and ecommerce merchants
Your customers may not always be able to come to you, so why not go to your customers? The Internet is a valuable tool for expanding your market opportunities.
Date: 2005-06-22

New Google Patent May Be Less News for Small News
Google's never ending search for providing a quality end user experience has culminated into a bullet with patent number WO 2005/029368 imprinted across the side. Unfortunately for smaller news services, the bullet may strike the heart of aspiring upstarts—a casualty of Google's friendly fire.
Date: 2005-06-21

PageMatch: PPC ads on the Web’s most high-traffic pages
It’s entirely up to you! This choice in cost-per-click advertising has given businesses unprecedented control in who sees their online ads, and where those ads are placed
Date: 2005-06-20

Online Meetings Cost Less than Offsite Meetings
Linktivity provides efficient and effective Web conferencing solutions for delivering the comprehensive sales presentations and complex technical information demanded by your prospects and customers.
Date: 2005-06-19

A Blow-out Introductory Giveaway from Web CEO
Web CEO is a full-range search engine marketing and optimization software with advanced site troubleshooting and web analytics functionality.
Date: 2005-06-18

"Significant Enhancements" To AdWords
Search engine-based PPC advertising is probably the hottest technique of advertising in the marketing available, largely because it is the most employed method on the Internet. With an estimated 40% of online advertising revenue being spent on search engine ad, the numbers bear this out.
Date: 2005-06-17

Yahoo Provides Glimpses Into Hidden Web
While search engines may have mapped a large portion of the content found on the hidden web (content is considered hidden because users normally have to pay to see it), bringing this information to users is usually not allowed. The bulk of the content found in the hidden web is usually reserved for paying subscribers, hence the moniker. Unless you pay the subscription fee, the content remains hidden from the average users' eyes.
Date: 2005-06-16

Managed Hosting Essentials
Now is the time to upgrade your hosting provider. More start-ups to enterprise businesses are choosing Rackspace over any other managed hosting provider. It's easy to see why.
Date: 2005-06-15

Hidden Links Raise Eyebrows
Isn't it interesting the places Lady Drama chooses to drop her robe, spinning everybody into gawking with covered mouths and gossip to spread? The whispers immediately crescendoed into a web-rattling holler across the servers-Financial Times was busted for hidden links.
Date: 2005-06-14

Getting Listed in Yahoo and MSN Within 48 Hours
In 48 hours or less (many times the same business day!), your site will begin to show up in many of the web's most important search engines and content sites including Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Excite, InfoSpace, NBCi, C|Net and many others. No other service is able to match this claim.
Date: 2005-06-13

Suffering from Data Backup Trauma?
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Date: 2005-06-12

SEO Roadmap Carpooling With Content
If you're reading this then chances are that you're not an Internet purist. You don't build websites for artistic reasons, spilling your guts about what is philosophically, transcendentally, or intrinsically eminent to your soul and being. You build sites to make money, pure and simple.
Date: 2005-06-10

Take Control Of Your Search Engine Space
Do a search on your favorite search engine for your company name. Look at the results. Hopefully your company web site is at the top of the pile. But what about the other 9 results in the top 10? What do they say about you?
Date: 2005-06-09

Convert PowerPoint to Flash in seconds
With PowerCONVERTER you can convert any PowerPoint presentation to web-friendly Flash files in seconds. The most accurate converter on the market, converts all of PowerPoint XP’s multimedia features - audio, video, transitions and animations - for more compelling web content.
Date: 2005-06-08

Using Your Blog As Your Job Agent
The work world has evolved past beating the pavement with a handful of carefully crafted paper résumés. While old world press the flesh and kiss some babies type of personal marketing can be invaluable, employers are ever-increasingly looking toward the Internet to find prospective employees. And if you ain't on the net these days, you ain't anywhere.
Date: 2005-06-07

Managed Hosting Essentials
Now is the time to upgrade your hosting provider. More start-ups to enterprise businesses are choosing Rackspace over any other managed hosting provider. It's easy to see why.
Date: 2005-06-06

Google Sitemaps: RSS For The Entire Website?
Well, not really. But Google Sitemaps does employ XML technology in order to provide its program members the opportunity to have their site crawled after they make updates or alterations.
Date: 2005-06-03

Google Guy Spills Bourbon
Ol' Mr. Anonymous himself, Google Guy, addressing the concerns of Googlites everywhere spilled a few hint-drops about the current algorithm update, codenamed "Bourbon." This here Kentucky boy accepts the nod.
Date: 2005-06-02

Eliminating Random Acts of CRM
As companies gain visibility into all of the ways they interact with customers, they tie marketing, sales and service together to deliver superior customer experiences. Random acts of CRM— which intensify costs and encourage fragmented experiences— are replaced by seamless experiences across the customer lifecycle.
Date: 2005-06-01

Are You A Google Dropping...
The e-commerce world is a tricky one. If you have an online business, then there's no doubt as to the importance of obtaining a high ranking on search engine results pages-especially on search master Google, whose popularity has led to a command of 85% of the search world.
Date: 2005-05-31

Google's A Librarian... You Betcha
Google Print Beta goes live today furthering Google's attempt at their goal of organizing the world's information on the Internet. Problems may exist however with copyright problems and culture wars abroad and whatever happened to Gutenberg?
Date: 2005-05-27

Ask Jeeves Zooms Towards Web Answers
With the majority of us who follow the search engine industry focusing on Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search, quite often; the "second tier" engines remind us they are still a viable alternative to the big 3. Such is the case with Ask Jeeves.
Date: 2005-05-26

Add a post office to your PC
Do you spend a lot of time boxing, labeling, carrying, shipping and insuring packages? Become more efficient by using Shipstream™ Manager and Scale, a one-stop postage solution for all your shipping needs.
Date: 2005-05-25

MSN VS. Google: Searching Earth
Bill Gates announced the launch of MSN's Virtual Earth mapping tool yesterday in a continuing effort to expand its MSN product line as part of the ongoing battle with Yahoo and Google to capture the search engine services market.
Date: 2005-05-24

Lower Your PPC Costs AND Improve ROI
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Date: 2005-05-23

Effective Tool For Managing Your Customer Support
First your customer clicks on a "Help" button on your website to access your ezSupport-powered customer support window. Next the customer support pop-up window appears. Finally depending on your customer's need, they select from the "self-help" and escalation support features.
Date: 2005-05-22

Google's Personal Evolution
Google took another step yesterday in their personal evolution by offering an easy-to-use personalized homepage called Fusion for its users. The new service marks the latest offering in Google's ever-expanding catalog of products to help users find information quickly and easily.
Date: 2005-05-20

Google To Feed You Ads
Google's AdSense for Feeds gives advertisers placement in popular web site feeds everywhere. RSS and Atom feeds of web sites showed so much promise. No more going from site to site to see the content you want. Just fire up a compatible feed reader and there's the content from as many sites as you like, aggregated in one place.
Date: 2005-05-19

Convert PowerPoint to Flash in seconds
With PowerCONVERTER you can convert any PowerPoint presentation to web-friendly Flash files in seconds. The most accurate converter on the market, converts all of PowerPoint XP’s multimedia features - audio, video, transitions and animations - for more compelling web content.
Date: 2005-05-18

Study: Search Engines Increase Coverage
As we go through existence, we find there are great questions in life: What is life's meaning? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? And finally, just how big is the Internet? A recent study attempted to put some of the Internet question into perspective and they discuss how much is covered by the big search engines.
Date: 2005-05-17

Combine Project Management with Help Desk Software
By blending project management, help desk, and document management software into a fully integrated suite, TeamHeadquarters™ enables realistic resource management by consolidating proactive project work and reactive support work.
Date: 2005-05-16

Google, The French, And World Domination
"[T]he Internet [is] the most recent and the most sinister facet of American cultural imperialism to emerge: the Internet is anchored in the United States; the vast majority of World Wide Web sites are based in the U.S and are in English; most software used to navigate the Internet is in English; and search engines are in English (Kim, 1998)".
Date: 2005-05-13

Yahoo Music Creates Unlimited Pain For Competition
With an aggressive pricing strategy and years of brand recognition, Napster and Real will be hard-pressed to face the Yahoo machine.
Date: 2005-05-12

Are you thrilled with your hosting provider's support?
Other companies say support is a priority. Rackspace shows it. They are committed to providing the customer with amazing managed hosting services backed by a policy they call Fanatical Support™. 80% of Rackspace's resources go directly to Fanatical Support™.
Date: 2005-05-11

Can a Search Engine Be Biased?
Is there a conspiracy deep in the belly of the Internet beast? Are corporate entities secretly driving the information available to you-subtly stroking toward a global political opinion matching their own agenda? Maybe they are. Maybe they're not.
Date: 2005-05-10

Getting Listed in Yahoo and MSN Within 48 Hours
In 48 hours or less (many times the same business day!), your site will begin to show up in many of the web's most important search engines and content sites including Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Excite, InfoSpace, NBCi, C|Net and many others. No other service is able to match this claim.
Date: 2005-05-09

Be Your Own Hosting Company
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Date: 2005-05-08

Yahoo Brings Video Search Out Of Beta
Yesterday, Yahoo Search did something that may be considered quite foreign to other search engines: they brought one of their search features out of its Beta stage and officially launched it. I am referring to Yahoo Video Search and according to Yahoo; it offers "the most comprehensive video search product on the Web."
Date: 2005-05-06

What Constitutes Search Engine Relevancy?
Relevancy. It's something that drives the search engine industry in almost every aspect. From providing quality search results to contextual advertising, relevancy is crucial to any search engine's success. The question is how do you define relevancy? More importantly, how do search engines define relevancy?
Date: 2005-05-05

Customer-Centric CRM Creates Profit Source
Businesses initiate CRM projects for a variety of reasons. Many do so because they can increase revenue by better understanding their customers. By gaining insight into both individual customers and target market segments, these companies can boost sales and optimize top-line business performance.
Date: 2005-05-04

Which Search Engine Drives The Most Traffic To Business Sites?
Which search engine has the biggest share of monthly searches? That was the sort of question panelists from web measurement agencies attempted to shed light on in the Search Landscape Panel at Search Engine Strategies New York, as I reported in a recent guest article for SearchDay.
Date: 2005-05-03

SightMax Live Chat for your website
SightMax is a live chat and real-time monitoring software package that allows online businesses to proactively interact with website visitors
Date: 2005-05-02

Site Publishers Unaware of Residual Income Opportunities
Internet gaming has become the fastest growing segment of web-based commerce today with revenue growth increasing from 1.5 billion in 2000 to 4.6 billion in 2002. Projected growth estimates indicate revenues will climb to 10.7 billion by 2005!
Date: 2005-05-01

Effective Tool For Managing Your Customer Support
First your customer clicks on a "Help" button on your website to access your ezSupport-powered customer support window. Next the customer support pop-up window appears. Finally depending on your customer's need, they select from the "self-help" and escalation support features.
Date: 2005-04-28

Improve Your Search Engine ROI with Web CEO
How many tools do you use to improve and track your search engine listings, analyze your traffic and keep your site trouble-free? If it's more than one, get Web CEO
Date: 2005-04-27

Google Updates PR: Is This Still Meaningful?
It used to be like this: when Google conducted an update of their search-related services (PageRank, backlinks, or SERPs), everyone who followed the search industry would rush to the first forum they could find to post how the update affected them. There was normally a great deal of excitement mixed with stark disappointment (for those who lost ground).
Date: 2005-04-26

Web-based Project Management
Are you managing projects with e-mails, spreadsheets and desktop applications? Calling team members for status updates, copying and pasting information to create separate reports, and sifting through e-mails to find the latest documents?
Date: 2005-04-25

Now is the time to change hosting providers
Are you serious about your company's data? Then it's time you found a managed hosting company that feels the same way.
Date: 2005-04-23

Google Personalizes Their Search Experience
Yesterday, Google officially (beta-wise) removed the wraps on their venture into the personal search arena. Judging by early impressions, Google's personal search service appears to be receiving a warm welcome.
Date: 2005-04-22

Google AdWords: Are Changes In The Format Afoot?
Recently, there have been rumblings about upcoming changes in the AdWords presentation format. There are reports and examples of structural alterations in AdWords placements, as well as upcoming changes in the way people view Google's advertisements.
Date: 2005-04-21

Get Top Three Ranking & Bonus Clicks with Mamma Classifieds
If you've always been thinking about joining Mamma Classifieds, but haven't, now is the time! Mamma Classifieds has changed from a flat rate pricing model to an auction based one, allowing you to set your own keyword price and determine the volume of traffic you want.
Date: 2005-04-20

It's About Content, Stupid
Public relations, PR, communications, marketing communications. No matter what term you use, it always comes down to one thing: content.
Date: 2005-04-19

Combine Project Management with Help Desk Software
TeamHeadquarters unifies your work on project management, help desk support, and whatever else comes along.
Date: 2005-04-18

Google Video Is Like Flickr On Steroids
Google Video lets you search through transcripts of television content, and if what you are looking for is found it will show you the relevant transcript sections along with a still image clip of the broadcast.
Date: 2005-04-15

Targeting Through Tagvertising
Tagvertising = Blogging 2.0... Already? As you read this, millions of individuals are working under their own volition to create a new Dewey Decimal System for the internet. In the process -- perhaps without even realizing it -- they are laying the groundwork for a new contextual online advertising paradigm called "Tagvertising."
Date: 2005-04-14

RSS is NOT the next big thing
Thanks to Nick Bradbury, I was in San Diego today giving a hands-on tutorial in blogging and news feeds to a group of foundation execs at the Council on Foundations' annual conference.
Date: 2005-04-12

Boost Site Traffic Today With Targeted PPC
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Date: 2005-04-11

Win with world's fastest color!
The Xerox Phaser 7300 large format color printer packs maximized power, superb reliability and superior single-pass speed to meet every office printing need. Designed to quickly print high-volume documents in-house, on media up to 12" x 18" - including special projects like labels, business cards and brochures
Date: 2005-04-09

Google United - Google Patent Examined
Google's newest patent application is lengthy. It is interesting in some places and enigmatic in others. Less colourful than most end user license agreements, the patent covers an enormous range of ranking analysis techniques Google wants to ensure are kept under their control.
Date: 2005-04-08

Google's New Link Filter
New incoming links are much sought after by every website owner and blogger. It's generally agreed that having abundant relevant incoming links provide a boost to a site's search rankings. Conventional search engine optimization wisdom, coupled with experience with incoming link power, would seem to bear out that fact.
Date: 2005-04-07

Latest Research on the gap between Potential and Actual CRM Benefits
Achieving high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty compared to your competition is a powerful engine for growth and profitability.
Date: 2005-04-06

Is Podcasting For Real?
In less than an hour, Neville and I will record the next installment of For Immediate Release. One of the issues we'll discuss is a post from Darren Barefoot's blog titled, "Why I'm Not Smoking the Podcasting Dope."
Date: 2005-04-05

SightMax vs. LivePerson
SightMax is a live chat and real-time live monitoring software package that allows online businesses to proactively interact with website visitors.
Date: 2005-04-04

Now is the time to change hosting providers
Rackspace offers 24x7x365 Fanatical Support™. That means when you need to talk to someone, you'll find level 3 technicians available--anytime you call. These are the techs that can give you real answers, not just write up a ticket and pass you along the chain of command. You can always expect Rackspace to answer the call and go beyond.
Date: 2005-04-03

Searching TV Shows with Google Video
No, the Google Video search tool is not for finding naughty videos-use Yahoo Video for that (please, if you have kids, set on it's filter). Google Video, on the other hand, is a product of Google Labs and it enables you to search their growing archive of televised content, by looking for words in the transcript.
Date: 2005-04-01

Yahoo 360 Reviewed
While, I like what I see so far and I think 360 is very compelling as a personal blogging tool, it has some serious shortcomings that most veterans will not like. Also, I am wondering if I gave Yahoo! the idea for this project way back last June when I speculated how Google might merge Blogger and Orkut into a "trusted network" of bloggers. Hmmm...
Date: 2005-03-31

Effective Tool For Managing Your Customer Support
First your customer clicks on a "Help" button on your website to access your ezSupport-powered customer support window. Next the customer support pop-up window appears. Finally depending on your customer's need, they select from the "self-help" and escalation support features.
Date: 2005-03-30

Yahoo Has Its Mojo Back
I've seen numerous folks commenting on Om Malik's recent posting about Yahoo: How Yahoo Got Its Mojo Back. In it he credits several things...
Date: 2005-03-29

Combine Project Management with Help Desk Software
TeamHeadquarters, a practical, cost effective, collaborative solution that uniquely combines project management with help desk. To run your organisation as effectively as possible, it is important to balance the workload related to planned project initiatives and unplanned support requests. Entry Software understands the ongoing challenges you face.
Date: 2005-03-28

Simplifying Enterprise Search Software
Fulfilling the promise of enterprise search The fundamental objective of enterprise search couldn't be more straightforward - help people find information fast. Unfortunately, some vendors continue to speak in tongues, proffering technology that requires a PhD to understand and a team of them to implement.
Date: 2005-03-27

Advertisers Want To Pay To Be On Your Site
ePilot's Search Distribution Network (SDN) Partner Program provides website owners the ability to easily integrate our paid-search listings into their site. Our partners earn a share of each cost-per-click bid generated from traffic on their site.
Date: 2005-03-26

RSS & Integration - The Next Big Play
Richard MacManus at the Read/Write Web posts some thoughts and observations on the integration of RSS and Search - Among other things, he notices that Bloglines, that now belongs to IAC's ASK, has had a very Search focused makeover.
Date: 2005-03-25

Firefox Extensions For Google Users
It seems 39% of my website's readers are browsing with Mozilla Firefox, with a dwindling 49% on Internet Explorer. In light of this, I thought it would be useful to list all the Firefox extensions I could find that perform some sort of function relating to Google.
Date: 2005-03-24

Drive Sales. Pay Per Click with Mamma.com.
Mamma Classifieds, Mamma Media Solutions' Pay-Per-Click service, provides advertisers with over 1/2 BILLION searches per month, and exclusive top 3 placement on Mamma.com and within the result set of Mamma's network partners
Date: 2005-03-23

How Will IAC Purchase Change Ask?
When the week began, those who follow the search engine industry were greeted with news of Ask.com's impending purchase by IAC, owner of Internet properties like Ticketmaster and Expedia.com. The sale was made for a reported at about $1.85 billion, not a bad sum for the 4th place search engine.
Date: 2005-03-22

Convert your web traffic to cash
Once you have a Co-Branded Search account with GenieKnows, you can place a search box on your site, offering your users an area to search without leaving your site.
Date: 2005-03-21

Hottest Trends in Web Site Conversion
Segment your results on the fly and see how specific customer groups are responding to promotions.
Date: 2005-03-20

Blogs Equal SEO Power In Searches
They are truly search engine optimization powerhouses. Before your eyes glaze over, and you start to yawn, keep in mind that many of your brand new blog visitor traffic arrives from search engines.
Date: 2005-03-18

Another Look At Linking Technologies
I've taken another look at linking technologies (Microsoft's failed Smart Tags in a beta of IE 6, Google's Autolink, and now GreaseMonkey are examples).
Date: 2005-03-17

Want more Traffic visiting your site?
The Zytext contextual ad network combines the latest innovations in business and technology to help create an increase in ad awareness, brand recall, and higher response rates. This translates to more quality traffic visiting your site.
Date: 2005-03-16

Microsoft To Announce AdWords Competitor
Since Microsoft embraced the search industry, they have been committed to making MSN Search a relevant and viable alternative to other industry leaders like Ask, Google, and Yahoo.
Date: 2005-03-15

SightMax vs. LivePerson
SightMax is a live chat and real-time live monitoring software package that allows online businesses to proactively interact with website visitors.
Date: 2005-03-14

Better Marketing Investment Than AdWords
Reach qualified leads. Generate increased sales. Optimize your ROI with ePilot. Searching for targeted web traffic? With more than 3 billion monthly searches on our network, targeted customers are looking for your products and services right now.
Date: 2005-03-13

Relieve your IT Stresses
Rackspace Managed Hosting is a rarity in the IT sector, they believe in looking after their customers. They have no answering machines, no voicemails, no forwarding, no press 1 to be taken seriously, press 2 to be sent to the completely wrong department…
Date: 2005-03-12

I Say Use The Controversial Google Toolbar
The Google Toolbar Beta 3 has been stirring controversy and outright anger by many web site owners and advertisers since it was launched.
Date: 2005-03-11

Google Considers Changes To AutoLink
Walt Mossberg weighs in on Google Autolink in today's Wall Street Journal. Basically his stance is consistent with what he wrote in 2001 on Smart Tags.
Date: 2005-03-10

New CRM Research shows key drivers for ROI
Achieving high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty compared to your competition is a powerful engine for growth and profitability.
Date: 2005-03-09

What Traffic Google Giveth, AutoLink Taketh
In late 2000 Google introduced two innovative services that revolutionized the web. The first, Google AdWords, was a breakthrough advertising paradigm that enabled thousands of online marketers to attract more traffic to their websites.
Date: 2005-03-08

Find and Fix Application Performance Problems
Reduce the time to resolve application performance problems from 26 hours per problem to only a few, and save your company $10,000 a minute in downtime costs.
Date: 2005-03-07

Relieve your IT Stresses
Rackspace Managed Hosting is a rarity in the IT sector, they believe in looking after their customers. They have no answering machines, no voicemails, no forwarding, no press 1 to be taken seriously, press 2 to be sent to the completely wrong department
Date: 2005-03-05

Daisy Duke Needs A Blogger
While a lot of the blogosphere debates the nature of marketing, public relations and blogging - particularly the PR bloggers - here comes an ingenious campaign that melds marketing and blogging, and is fully transparent (you know, the big requirement in blogging that not enough corporations get).
Date: 2005-03-04

MSN To Use Your Files To Personalize Search?
Seattlepi reports on an MS research event that showcased a system to use your desktop files to personalize MSN Search rather than use a user submitted profile, cookies etc ...
Date: 2005-03-03

On-Demand Content Conversion Service
WebWorks' online publishing expertise has produced the best ePublishing tools in the industry, enabling authors to automate the delivery of content in every major online format and professional online help system, in over 45 languages. Now for the first time, WebWorks Services brings that expertise to your project, to produce your online content, directly from your source files.
Date: 2005-03-02

Rank And Page Position Still Rule
The Search Engine Strategies conference kicked off in New York yesterday. As usual, there are a number of panels featuring some very useful and educational information.
Date: 2005-03-01

What's Your eBusiness Worth?
Since the year 2000, eBizBrokers, Inc., is North America’s first merger & acquisition outfit dealing exclusively with small to mid-market Internet-based companies. Possessing unique insight into the anatomy of an e-business acquisition, eBizBrokers provides a wide range of M&A services to both sellers and buyers with revenues ranging from $500,000 to $50 million.
Date: 2005-02-28

WebAssist - Dreamweaver eCommerce made Quick and Easy
Whether your product pages are built on-the-fly from a database or constructed by hand with static data, you can easily integrate the shopping experience into any existing website.
Date: 2005-02-27

The SEO Game Is Getting Harder
Aaron Wall has an interesting article detailing how his SEOBook and SEOGuy websites have been dumped in the recent Google update.
Date: 2005-02-25

What's Up With Google Calendar?
There are rumors circulating that Google is contemplating the release of web-based calendar, which would perform much like a personal date book or organizer. The source for these rumors seems to be increased Googlebot activity to a site featuring a web calendar.
Date: 2005-02-24

Effective Tool For Managing Your Customer Support
First your customer clicks on a "Help" button on your website to access your ezSupport-powered customer support window. Next the customer support pop-up window appears. Finally depending on your customer's need, they select from the "self-help" and escalation support features.
Date: 2005-02-23

GM Talks Blogs, Podcasting And RSS
Editors Note: Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz conducted an interview with General Motors' Michael Wiley and kindly transcribed the contents for us. The basis for the interview was to discuss the future impact of blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasting (the medium used for the interview).
Date: 2005-02-22

Forum Systems: The Leader in Web Services Security
Forum XWall Web Services Firewall has been used by the largest Forum 1000 corporations to limit their exposure using deep content inspection technology to scan XML traffic for corrupt data, embedded viruses and data-level threats. Forum XWall is easy to deploy in either software, Appliance or PCI-Card and comes pre-integrated for Microsoft ISA Server 2004 as well as other third-party network security vendors.
Date: 2005-02-21

Getting better results from your PPC advertising
Unless search engine marketing is your full time job, you're probably not getting the best results possible from all search marketing opportunities. Most marketers only have a couple of hours per week to keep up with their keyword buys and that's just not enough time to really get the best results.
Date: 2005-02-20

I Love Linux, Google, And Apple
Just for fun, I started typing in "I hate (brand)" in Google to see what comes up. I then got curious about the findings for "I love (brand)."
Date: 2005-02-18

Google Gets Away With What Microsoft Couldn't
Google today launched a new version of its toolbar that employs a new feature called Autolink that turns non-linked content on Web sites into hotlinks back to Google properties and other sites.
Date: 2005-02-17

Mamma.com Adds Auction Component to PPC Ads
Mamma Classifieds, Mamma Media Solutions' Pay-Per-Click service, offers advertisers exclusive top 3 placement on Mamma.com and within the result set of Mamma's network partners
Date: 2005-02-16

Serious Podcasting For Business
It's been interesting reading some of the reactions by business bloggers to General Motors' first experiment with podcasting last week.
Date: 2005-02-15

Savvy Web Content Management
Put web site management into the hands of the people responsible for content. Savvy will enable employees from all departments to take control of their web site destiny. Just click on an area of your web site in Savvy's browser-based interface, edit the information and publish to the web. No coding, no file transfers, no outsourcing and no rising IT costs.
Date: 2005-02-14

Get new customers in 15 minutes
goClick.com is an established pay-per-click search engine, delivering more than 750 million targeted searches a month to our advertisers. Ranked among the top pay-per-click advertising providers in the industry, goClick.com is committed to delivering high-quality, vertically-focused traffic at a low cost.
Date: 2005-02-13

All About Podcasting
Podcasting, the practice of making downloadable broadcasts for the iPod (or other mp3 players), is growing in popularity.
Date: 2005-02-11

A Talk With Mark Jen About Google Firing
John Battelle asked some good questions about the Mark Jen controversy. Believe it or not, I met Mark tonight (err, "last night" to most of you at this point) and had a chance to chat with him about his brief time at Google and various other things.
Date: 2005-02-10

Killer App for On-Demand CRM
During the past two years, user adoption of access-anywhere, hosted solutions at both small and large enterprises significantly increased. IT departments continue to avoid the high cost and implementation times of traditional packaged software.
Date: 2005-02-09

Ask Jeeves, Bloglines Merger Creates Stir
One of the more resilient residents of the search engine industry, Ask Jeeves, completed its acquisition of Bloglines, confirming the chatter circulating in the blogosphere and press.
Date: 2005-02-08

Combine Project Management with Help Desk Software
TeamHeadquarters, a practical, cost effective, collaborative solution that uniquely combines project management with help desk. To run your organisation as effectively as possible, it is important to balance the workload related to planned project initiatives and unplanned support requests. Entry Software understands the ongoing challenges you face.
Date: 2005-02-07

Yahoo YQ Contextual Search Rocks
The new Yahoo contextual search feature [dubbed Y!Q] rocks! It's like vivisimo without all the annoying crap getting in the way of your search and there's no flash to bog down your pc. Clean and simple interface that doesn't require any downloads and allows you to drill down into search results in an easy to use manner.
Date: 2005-02-04

Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL Moving Towards Convergence
February has come in like a lion with a multitude of major announcements from several major players in the past 48-hours.
Date: 2005-02-03

Microsoft Officially Launches MSN Search
It's time to welcome another search engine into the family. This morning at 12:00 am, Microsoft removed the beta designation from MSN Search and officially launched, complete with an improved index and a redesigned MSN.com homepage.
Date: 2005-02-01

Does Your Shopping Cart Do This?
Volusion shopping cart software is packed with useful features to automate your entire business. From building & managing your website, to processing orders, to marketing and even creating your own affiliate program... you'll find Volusion to be your ONE complete INTEGRATED solution.
Date: 2005-01-31

Enterprise Secure Instant Messaging
According to a recent study by the Radicati Group, in the next four years 88 percent of instant messaging (IM) users in the business world will rely on public networks. Enterprises relying on public networks for their IM needs are not only at risk from outside threats, but will find these kinds of unprotected IM systems simply don’t meet the compliance standards of today.
Date: 2005-01-30

WebProNews shows how to increase traffic and sales
The Zytext contextual ad network combines the latest innovations in business and technology to help create an increase in ad awareness, brand recall, and higher response rates. This translates to more quality traffic visiting your site.
Date: 2005-01-29

Google Offers AdWords API
So Google played dumb and we all went along with the official statement, that there would be "no comment" on rumors of a Google AdWords API (definition). It now appears, sometimes, you can believe the rumors….
Date: 2005-01-28

Blogs Mean Business
Blogs are becoming essential for business. Steve Rubel is one of our publishing partners who is on the cutting edge of this marketing and communications revolution. today's insider report includes comments and pointers by Steve that will help you use blogs to enhance your business success.
Date: 2005-01-27

Online Meetings. Bottom Line Results.
Web meetings can help you generate more leads in a shorter amount of time with less money. And these leads are warmer than ever because you are able to better engage prospects in a live, interactive session.
Date: 2005-01-26

Video Search The Next "Big Thing"
Ladies and gentlemen, today, the role of "desktop search" will be played by "video search". It seems that barely had the buzz surrounding desktop search subsided, the search engines hit us with video search options.
Date: 2005-01-25

Sophisticated Customer Support For Every Website
First your customer clicks on a "Help" button on your website to access your ezSupport-powered customer support window. Next the customer support pop-up window appears. Finally depending on your customer's need, they select from the "self-help" and escalation support features.
Date: 2005-01-24

Improve the usability of your applications with RoboHelp
Offer your users the help system they need without spending a lot of development time.
Date: 2005-01-23

Streamline your order processing
The Stone Edge Order Manager imports orders directly from your shopping cart, then gives you the tools you need to manage your business efficiently and cost effectively. The Order Manager streamlines the entire process of reviewing, processing and shipping orders: Handle backorders, returns and exchanges with just a few button clicks. Print invoices, packing slips and shipping labels.
Date: 2005-01-22

Would You Buy a Car from this Blogger?
As blog readership rises, some smart marketers are wisely dipping their toes into the blog marketing waters. However, they’re overlooking perhaps one of the most attractive and untapped opportunities -- signing bloggers to product endorsement deals.
Date: 2005-01-21

Firefox: The IE Killer
Yes, you heard it here first. If Internet Explorer doesn't make some serious changes in short order they'll face certain extinction to the hands of Firefox. Why you ask? Isn't it obvious?
Date: 2005-01-20

2005 PPC Special: WebProNews recommends Mamma Media Solutions
eMarketer predicts that in 2005 search advertising will reach 4.7 billion dollars. Shouldn't you make sure that your marketing strategy includes search?
Date: 2005-01-19

Folksonomies: A New Opportunity For Marketers
One of the most important social media trends to watch this year is the increasing influence of tags, also known as folksonomies.
Date: 2005-01-18

How to create traffic and convert it into cash
At GenieKnows.com we transform your wishes into reality by attracting valued repeat customers and clients, bringing a positive return on your investments, and by working with you to develop a successful pay per click keyword marketing campaign.
Date: 2005-01-17

Rackspace Managed Hosting may save your vacation
With Rackspace you have your own dedicated support team that knows your company and is motivated to quickly solve any problem. A significant piece of each employee's compensation is tied directly to the customers' satisfaction.
Date: 2005-01-16

Is Google Slipping?
Getting to the top of anything is tough. Whether it's business, sports or anything else; the race to number one is never easy. There's typically only one thing tougher than getting to number one and that's keeping it. Google, long recognized as the top search site, has enjoyed immense growth, popularity, and capital as a result.
Date: 2005-01-14

Daniel Versus Gooliath
I spoke to Daniel Brandt of Google-Watch today about his latest article about Google Print and possible privacy implications. Daniel's long-standing issue with Google is its collection of individual user data which he believes could be used against people.
Date: 2005-01-13

New CRM Research shows key drivers for ROI
Achieving high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty compared to your competition is a powerful engine for growth and profitability.
Date: 2005-01-12

Yahoo Desktop Search Superior To Google & MSN
Late yesterday, Yahoo announced the launch of their desktop search application that will compete directly with offerings from Google and MSN. At first glance, YDS appears superior in features and performance to Google and MSN desktop search apps.
Date: 2005-01-11

Does Your Shopping Cart Do This?
Volusion shopping cart software is packed with useful features to automate your entire business. From building & managing your website, to processing orders, to marketing and even creating your own affiliate program... you'll find Volusion to be your ONE complete INTEGRATED solution.
Date: 2005-01-10

Making Speech Recognition Work For Your Customers
Do you want to use speech recognition software to increase your call center automation rates and improve customer service without breaking the bank on custom development and tuning?
Date: 2005-01-09

Rackspace Managed Hosting may save your vacation
With Rackspace you have your own dedicated support team that knows your company and is motivated to quickly solve any problem. A significant piece of each employee's compensation is tied directly to the customers' satisfaction.
Date: 2005-01-08

I don't believe the search numbers...
A whole bunch of people at work today asked me if I had seen a recent posting on the Google Blog News Channel: What Search Engines Do Search Engine Companies Use?
Date: 2005-01-07

With Readership Growth, Blogs Continue Marketability
Since blog readership continues to climb, blogs are steadily solidifying their position as viable advertising real estate. Not only are traditional web advertising methods effective, but because of their word-of-mouth potential, blogs can also be used to introduce new items and therefore, actually becoming the advertising medium.
Date: 2005-01-06

Why Blogs Rank High In Search Engines
To me blogs are a strategic business communication tool. I usually consider the fact that blogs rank high in search engines to be a positive side effect. But I also recognize that for some people search engine optimization, SEO, is a major reason for blogging - and I have found it to be a good reason for others to start thinking about blogging at all. Here's a list of explanations to why your blog probably will rank high in search engines. And it's more to it than just the links.
Date: 2005-01-04

Rackspace Managed Hosting may save your vacation
With Rackspace you have your own dedicated support team that knows your company and is motivated to quickly solve any problem. A significant piece of each employee's compensation is tied directly to the customers' satisfaction.
Date: 2005-01-03