While there will no doubt be tremendous demand for Facebook stock today, as it begins trading at 11 AM Eastern time, there should be plenty of it available. As David Angosti reported for Search Engine Journal, the social network raised its target IPO price range to to . The move prompted a number of Facebook’s [...]
Google NSA Relationship Secrecy Continues Despite Courts Efforts
by admin on May 17, 2012 in Article
Google and the National Security Agency’s possibly secret relationship will remain secret. The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the NSA’s decision not to release information confirming or denying if they have a relationship with Google.
Bing Launches Social Sidebar
by admin on May 14, 2012 in Article
In its blog post on the subject, the Bing team describes this as the most significant update to Bing since we launched three years ago. They’ll be phasing it in over the next few weeks. So what can we expect? Danny Sullivan got a preview of the new features to try out. He noted that [...]
Experian and comScore Differ on Whether Bing Search Has 30% Share
by admin on May 11, 2012 in Article
Many people see the 30% of overall search share for Bing as a milestone of sorts. Of course, it is still taking Yahoo and Bing’s combined shares to compete with Google but we’re pretty used to that by now. So what’s the verdict? Well, if you like Experian’s Hitwise, Bing has hit the magic number [...]
How to Maintain Social Shares After a Site Migration
by admin on May 9, 2012 in Article
One of the greatest joys of site migration is discovering that your social share counts don’t follow 301 redirects. But those Facebook Likes, Tweets and Google +1s that we’ve worked so hard to capture don’t have to evaporate with a click of a mouse.
Guest Posting: How to Find and Seduce Your Editor
by admin on May 6, 2012 in Article
I’d like to tip my hat to two people here. The first one is Matt Goffrey. He’s written articles for SEO Chat for the last quarter, and he’s done just about everything a guest poster should do. The second one is Matt Beswick. He wrote a piece for Search Engine Journal on how to cheat [...]
Survey Says Social Customer Service is Popular but Messy
by admin on May 3, 2012 in Article
There’s nothing like the spirit of competition to make a company jump on a new bandwagon. This time around it’s social media as a customer service channel. Today we’re looking at the results of a survey by two companies, thinkJar and Sword Ciboodle. First off, we must stop to appreciate how totally cool those names [...]
Penguin Joins Panda in Google Web Spam War
by admin on April 30, 2012 in Article
Google webspam guru Matt Cutts explained the rationale behind Penguin in a post on the Google Webmaster Central blog. He noted that We see all sorts of webspam techniques every day, from keyword stuffing to link schemes that attempt to propel sites higher in rankings. Penguin represents another improvement in our efforts to reduce webspam [...]
Facebook Releases Negative Report Before IPO
by admin on April 28, 2012 in Article
According to a quick item from David Angotti for Search Engine Land, Facebook reported that its net income fell 12 percent in the first quarter of 2012. Looking at the previous quarter’s total revenues, the latest quarter saw total revenues fall six percent, to .06 billion. That may not be cause for serious concern, however [...]
Google CEOs to Search Asteroids for Resources
by admin on April 25, 2012 in Article
The press release from Planetary Resources includes an impressive list of investors and advisors. In addition to Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, film maker James Cameron (of Avatar fame) is involved; so is Ross Perot, Jr., son of the former presidential candidate and chairman of The Perot Group. Peter H. Diamandis, one of the leading [...]
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