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2010 January 5
Internet marketing news from around the web:
Google Tool to Check How Much of a Page Appears in Typical Browsers on Google Blogoscoped
| “The Google Labs feature a new little tool called Google Browser Size. It just visualizes roughly how much of a page typical users (or more specifically, the users of Google) will actually see without scrolling. Just the browser client size is taken…” |
Kenshoo Branches Out with New Local Search Management Platform on Search Engine Watch Blog
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“Kenshoo is known for their enterprise search marketing technology, but the company is hoping to make its mark in an emerging niche: local search. Earlier this year, Kenshoo raised money from venture capital firms to develop their new local search…” |
ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate Now Available on ASP.NET News
| “ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully supported framework that enables developers to quickly build standards-based, SEO-friendly Web sites by offering complete control over the HTML and URLs. Apart from the enhanced Visual Studio tooling support and…” |
Company confidential: User Experience Designer on AuthenticJobs.com Job Listings – Freelance
| “(San Francisco, CA) We are a design agency that creates web applications and mobile & touch experiences for our consumer, b2b, and enterprise clients. You have 5+ years experience in user interface and visual design for web applications. You can…” |
Salesforce.com investor backs a new startup that adds Silverlight to large-scale business apps on Kid Mercury’s Blog
| “Chances are you’ve never heard of upstate New York startup Apprenda and their product, SaaSGrid. The company’s clients aren’t home consumers, they’re other IT companies like UVision Consulting and Serenity Software that build…” |
What It’s Like To Write For Demand Media: Low Pay But Lots of Freedom on Kid Mercury’s Blog
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“Editor: This is a guest post by Andria Krewson, a freelance journalist who has written for Demand Media. Given our recent focus on Demand Media and so-called content farms, we thought it would be interesting to get a perspective from a Demand Media…” |
Definition 6 Buys Leach Communications on PE Hub News: All News
| “Definition 6, an Atlanta-based interactive marketing agency, has acquired Leach Communications Inc., a New York-based public relations and Web services firm. No financial terms were disclosed. Earlier this year, Definition 6 raised $15 million in…” |
SEO Report Card: BabyGiftIdea.com on Practical eCommerce Articles
| “For this month, I am reviewing BabyGiftIdea.com, at co-owner Pat Laws’ request. Pat and her husband bought the business from the original owner in May 2008. The site has been online for about nine years, so it definitely has some history and…” |
10 Things You Should Have Done to Make Your Google Business Listing Great on Small Business Trends
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“With over 80% of people using search engines to find local information, it is impossible to imagine a brick and mortar business that couldn’t benefit immensely from local search. On the other hand, having no local search presence could…” |
How Integrated is Your Web Analytics Package and is That a Good Thing? on CMSWire.com – All News
| “According to BtoB Magazine the web analytics market is expected to hit US$ 953 mil by 2014, and suggesting that the pickings might be even juicier Adobe recently acquired Omniture for the tidy sum of about US$1.8 billion.If you’re on top of…” |
See Which Trackers Other Sites Are Using with Ghostery on Search Engine Journal
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“I have previously looks at a few tools to instantly see which analytics package(s) the current site is using. I have also shared a nice tool called “Wappalyzer” that detects which software the site is using and displays it in the status…” |
Annals of scamming on Language Log
| “Following up on my recent “annals of spam” posting, Ernie Limperis has written me about a different sort of scam, involving a site that seems to be using a sophisticated robot to generate “personal” web pages, filling standard templates with text…” |
SEO vs. PPC: Heavyweights Duke it Out at SES Chicago 2009 on Search Engine Watch Blog
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“Creative Commons Photo Credit Flickr/KayVee.INC The session title “SEO vs. PPC: The Ultimate Search Battle” insinuates some kind of inevitable victory of one opponent over the other; despite well-placed jabs delivered from both corners of the panel,…” |
Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2009: Attendee Feedback on Search Engine Watch Blog
| “One of the thing we started doing earlier this year was to hand over the microphone to SES attendees to get their feedback on the conference. And the attendees of Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2009 weren’t shy about sharing their opinions. Below…” |
Strong Sponsorship in December for CMS Report on CMS Report
| “For three months in a row, CMS Report has sold out all of its banner space reserved for our sponsors. Sponsorship helps us pay for the bills from our host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support this…” |