Feed Your Blog`s Readers Well
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Read The Rest Of This...Laying Out An SEO and Traffic Generation Strategy
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Read The Rest Of This...Almost 13,000 boycott Amazon.com
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 03:45 Written by External Post Tuesday, 27 December 2011 03:45
Read The Rest Of This...Personalized Social Search Still Years Away
Last Updated on Monday, 19 December 2011 06:00 Written by External Post Monday, 19 December 2011 06:00
To a very limited extent, it’s already happening. But if former Bing product lead Mark Johnson is right, it’s going to be a long time before we see much more progress in that area. If every user that comes [to Bing or Google] is getting a personalized experience based on Facebook data, based on the web graph, based on the social graph – holy crap, that’s a lot of processes to do, Johnson notes. He’s quoted by Austin Carr in an article for Fast Company. To Johnson, it’s a matter of economics. Interpreting all of those social signals would involve huge server costs. Neither Bing nor Google wo…
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Google Biz Dev Beats the Google Engineers Again
Last Updated on Monday, 12 December 2011 01:12 Written by a2e Monday, 12 December 2011 01:12
Since Panda has happened I (and others) have highlighted how brands have ranked doorway pages, ranked scraped 3rd party content, padded out crap “content farm” content to suck in search traffic, took their market leading position & used it to deliver inferior experiences, bought out bankrupt competitors & redirected the PageRank, engaged in off-topic affiliate extension (Barnes & Noble, Overstock, Overstock AND Barnes & Noble), etc etc etc
At the same time, independent webmasters face greater uncertainty than ever (legal, personal property rights, and from alleged “quality” algorithms like Panda & editorial crackdowns from Google engineers).
If you are not operating at scale, you are an inefficiency which must be expunged from the marketplace.
I have maintained that Panda was a joke & a diversion to re-frame the quality debate as Google dialed up on inserting their own vertical results in the search results, allowing them to monetize the “organic” search results.
Such a view may have been seen as cynical, but it is something that more people are realizing as true. Read this great article from Tom Foremski on ZDNet.
Google’s percent of downstream traffic to YouTube has more than doubled since Panda.
You know how John Stewart or George Carlin have to present reality as a joke to express it? Well watch the above video & then read this article:
“Every single leading company is waiting for user-generated content or is licensing content” in order to reach advertisers, Rosenblatt said. “YouTube was tired of waiting. They told us that they needed a home and garden channel, a pets channel and a health/Livestrong channel. They are paying us up front, plus a rev share. This is the beginning of them funding professional content creators.”
I have mentioned Demand Media’s video “efforts” before.
But my opinion doesn’t matter.
As a monopoly, only Google’s does.
And they decided to subsidize Demand Media while torching your site.
Online Advertising Costs More Than Ever
Last Updated on Sunday, 11 December 2011 10:42 Written by External Post Sunday, 11 December 2011 10:42
With online advertising being one of the fastest growing mediums for companies to use it’s no suprise that certain companies are taking it upon themselves to start cranking up the prices. A recent article published by Bloomberg shows that Google’s … Continue reading →
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2000 tweets; 1000 followers!
Last Updated on Friday, 9 December 2011 11:05 Written by External Post Friday, 9 December 2011 11:05
We’re running a competition over at Twitter at the moment to celebrate our 2,000th tweet and 1000th follower!
All you need to do to enter is re-tweet (either using RT @millersantiques or by clicking the re-tweet button) that 2,000th tweet before 4pm GMT today. That will enter you automatically into a competition to win one of three first prizes of ‘Miller’s Antiques Price Guide 2009′, ‘Miller’s Antiques Price Guide 2010-2011′, and a brand new copy of ‘Millers Antiques Price Guide 2012-2013′, which I have signed. There are also two second prizes up for grabs, and that includes the 2009 and 201 … Read this full article on the Miller’s Blog.
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Shootings pepper-spray attack mar Wal-Mart Black Friday sale
Last Updated on Friday, 25 November 2011 06:15 Written by External Post Friday, 25 November 2011 06:15
As shoppers converged on retailers around the country looking for Black Friday deals, authorities reported scattered problems.
In Porter Ranch, a woman pepper sprayed customers at a Wal-Mart in what authorities say was a deliberate attempt to get more "door buster" merchandise. In San Leandro, a Wal-Mart shopper walking to his car was shot and wounded in a suspected robbery early Friday.
Another shooting was reported at a parking lot next to a Wal-Mart in South Carolina, also a suspected robbery attempt. Officials told WMBF-TV they believe the robbery was tied to Black Friday.
At Porter Ranch, 20 customers, including children, were hurt in the 10:10 p.m. incident, officials said. Shoppers complained of minor skin and eye irritation and sore throats.
"This was customer-versus-customer ‘shopping rage,’" said Los Angeles Police Lt. Abel Parga.
The woman used the spray in more than one area of the Wal-Mart "to gain preferred access to a variety of locations in the store," said Los Angeles Fire Capt. James Carson.
"She was competitive shopping," he said.
Police are searching for the woman but said they’ve had trouble getting a clear description of her.
more.. link to news article
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