Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click Advertising
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- Harness The Sales Power of LinkedIn and Jigsaw
The Savvy Selling Podcast just released an episode on how sales people can make the most out of LinkedIn and JiggSaw. In the episode Michelle Nichols interviews Jigsaw CEO and co-founder Jim Fowler and Scott Allen, co-author of “The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online,”. Both guests provide some fantastic information about [...]
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:47:18 +0000
- Bix - A ‘Create Your Own Contest’ Social Media Site From Yahoo!
Yahoo! has launched Bix! What the heck is it? If you look at the About page they reveal Bix is a site that allows anyone to create their own contests. What a wonderful idea - I think?!
I can certainly see this having applicability to many people. In fact if you look at the home page, [...]
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:21:27 +0000
- Google Is Not As Smart As We Think - Link Spam Still Works!
Search engines are software which means they have bugs and they are not always perfect. In fact, in the case of Google - I honestly feel that we think the search engine is smarter than it really is. We’ll get to that in second.
At Spark Internet Marketing we take great care and pride in developing [...]
Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:10:45 +0000
- An Update on Advertising Widgets
On the 7th of September Marketing Magazine announced USA Today is now offering three widgets in the travel industry. We talked about this on the blog a while ago as a trend we’re watching. Sure enough it keeps creeping up.
USA Today’s first three widgets are all related to travel. The ones to be offered in [...]
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:30:59 +0000
- Cuill - A New Search Engine From Ex Google and IBM Staff
A new search engine is in the works by some ex Google staff. It’s called Cuill (pronounced “kool). Since Cuill is being developed by ex Google and IBM staff it may have a chance at having a solid enough foundation to take on the search giant. It’s also got a catchy enough name that [...]
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:14:14 +0000
- Google Appears To Be Aggresively Coming Down on Paid Link Sites
For sometime Google has been harping about paid links and the difference between a “good link” and a “bad link”. Even the debate over which paid links are OK, and which are not is confusing. For example, links from Yahoo!’s directory are OK paid links. Why? According to Google, Yahoo! is charging an “editorial fee” [...]
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:57:43 +0000
- Comments Can Be Made Without Registering & You Get A DoFollow Link!
After careful consideration we’ve decided to make two important enhancements to this blog. These enhancements, while easy to implement will make the experience of this blog far better for you our readers overall.
First, we’ve removed the NoFollow attribute on all comments. We’ve done this because we want to give some credit to those people who [...]
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:44:12 +0000
- Google Alerts & Google Reader: Two Convenient Ways To Track The Online Conversation In Your Industry
Staying on top of what’s new and happening in your industry can easily be done on the Internet. A popular radio station here in Toronto called 680 News has this tag line:
“If you’re reading it, it’s history. If hearing it now, it’s news.”
The same can be said about magazines and the internet. Most people stay [...]
Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:32:13 +0000
- Google Reader Has Released A Search Feature - Good for Internet Marketing?
Google Reader - Googles personalized RSS Reader has just received a brand new search feature. The search feature will let users do full searches on the RSS feeds the user is consuming. It’s a long awaited feature and proves to be quite useful to users of Google Reader.
I think it’s a tremendous feature and should [...]
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:26:16 +0000
- Facebook Opening It’s Members Up To Google
Facebook has announced that it’s opening it’s index of users up to search engines such as Google for indexing. To protect the privacy of members, upon logging into Facebook users will have an option to opt out of this new service. Once indexed a search on Google for a users name will show a short [...]
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:23:39 +0000