Microsoft and Yahoo! will be spending the next year or so bringing their new search deal to fruition. Which, for anybody interested in search engine marketing, begs the question “What are the biggest changes for SEO and how can you best prepare for them?”
Bing Shopping on the Rise:Hitwise reports Bing Shopping is showing strong growth since a Bing started a promotion to receive Double Cashback when consumers use Bing Shopping for searches and online purchases.
Pinch Those Pennies: Yahoo! announces Deals, the one-stop online bargains shop making couponing easy. Find daily deals and dollar-saving coupons for groceries and local stores. Go find some good deals.
Check the Quality: Google Adwords has released a new Search Ads Quality Guide. The introductory guide helps users understand the Quality Score and explains how it can be improved.
A category of sites that is based on user participation and user-generated content. They include social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook, social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, social news sites like Digg or Reddit, and other sites that are centered on user interaction.
For many Web users, use of online social media is a central part of their day for business and personal use. For others, it doesn’t even register. So is the use of social media a fad? Or, is it here to stay?
Equalman, in a YouTube video title Social Media Revolution, asks “Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the World of Socialnomics?” Watch the video and draw your own conclusion.
Here Gareth Davies of GSINC gives a good rundown of title tags – what they are, their importance for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and how to write them. It’s a good tutorial for beginners, as well as a reminder for those who write title tags every day.
