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2009 November 5
Internet marketing news from around the web:
Startups.com Becomes a Q&A Site For Business Questions on TechCrunch
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“A year ago, KillerStartups bought the killer domain name Startups.com for a few hundred thousand dollars. The company didn’t do anything with it other than redirect to the KillerStartups blog. Today, it realunched as a Q&A site for…” |
Click Forensics Unveils Online Audience Verification Platform for Shopping Engines on Search Engine Watch Blog
| “At ad:tech New York this week, Click Forensics unveiled a new online audience verification platform for comparison shopping search engines. The technology evaluates traffic to determine its value to merchant partners. “Comparison shopping engines…” |
Should You Bid All Brand Keywords To The First Position? on Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
| “A common way of managing a brand in paid search results is to bid all brand terms to the first position. While this strategy may seem correct from a brand management standpoint, it misses out on many of the nuances of search engine marketing(SEM)….” |
9 Digital Trends For 2010 on Branding Strategy Insider
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“1: Facebook replaces personal emailQuestion: Google has it, Hoover has it (in the UK anyway), TiVo had it, lost it and has somewhat got it back. Xerox had it, but nobody really cares anymore. So what is it?It’s when a brand name becomes the verb…” |
Dan Siroker: CarrotSticks, Google Chrome, and Obama on Google Blogoscoped
| “Dan Siroker is the founder of kid’s learning games site CarrotSticks.com. Before that, he was involved with the Obama campaign transition as deputy new media director; prior to that, Dan was a product manager for Google Chrome. This email…” |