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MS and Yahoo Come Close – Bing To Power Yahoo Search

July 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Microsoft and Yahoo have made a strategic alliance to create a stronger rival to the industry powerhouse Google.

The Microsoft-Yahoo pact is a measured step that represents a pragmatic division of duties between the two.

Microsoft will provide the underlying search technology on Yahoo’s popular websites. The deal provides a lift for Microsoft’s recent overhaul of its search engine, renamed Bing, which has won praise and favorable reviews.

For Yahoo, the move furthers the strategy of the company on its strengths as a producer of web media sites, from finance to sports, as a marketer and a leader in online display advertising that accompanies published websites. [Read more...]

Popularity: 30% [?]

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Twitter 101 – Official Guide To Twitter Is Here

July 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

twitter-logoTwitter has come out with its own Twitter using manual and has called it Twitter 101 – A Special Guide. It is a short guide that you can read online. Twitter has also released downloadable slides of the same guide and there is a print version too.

Coming directly from Twitter it is called as most definitive guide on twittering.

The format of the guide is pretty simple and so is the language. It has been created for non technical person as well. If you are a Twitter user you may find “Oh! i know that” moments but it is a good read. [Read more...]

Popularity: 32% [?]

Filed Under: Social Marketing Tagged With: , ,

Burdened By Social Media Labor

July 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Social media can be hardwork

Social media can be hardwork

Social media is new revolution of the internet and internet marketing is trying to harness it fully. According to one study every two of three marketers are using social media now a days.

That means roughly 67% and that is quite a lot.  But how many are using it effectively?

Or how many can afford to?

I am not a great enthusiast of social media. Not only it is time consuming but interruptive too. First you need to be present at many places, you need to listen to the kind of stuff that you may not want to.

Why would I want to know what color the the shirt Mr A is wearing today. With people twittering everything they can think, imagine and spit, all you are left with is lot of tweets with few worth listening too. [Read more...]

Popularity: 30% [?]

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Quit Your Job In 90 Days – An Ebook By Tony Shepherd

July 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This $97 ebook is free for while. Click on the image to download it

This $97 ebook is free now.

Tony Shepherd from Laycock publishing has come out with a wonderful ebook called “Quit Your Job In 90 Days”.

In this ebook Tony discusses how did he quit the job in 3 months. Actually he took some more time 97 days but the plan is for 90 days.

I have beem following Tony’s work fo rsome time and he has always impressed upon new ideas and strategies in my mind. [Read more...]

Popularity: 24% [?]

Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: , ,

Adsense Adds local Currency Reporting In Denmark and Sweden

July 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

adsense-local-currencyAdsense hasadded a new feature for publishers residing in Denmark and Sweden. These publishers would now have the ability to see the reports in their local currency. Switching to these new reports means that all earnings generated from advertisers paying in other currencies will be converted to local currency each day.

If you receive payments in your local currency, there won’t be any additional conversions at the end of the month.

To enable these local currency reports, Google recommends following

If you’re located in one of these countries, we recommend that you first download and save copies of your past reports in U.S. dollars for your records. Once you’re ready to switch to local currency reports, sign in to your account and look for the green prompt in the upper right hand corner of your Reports Overview page.

Click on the link, and you’ll then be asked to agree to a new set of Terms and Conditions. If you have questions or need legal advice on interpreting the new Terms, please don’t hesitate to contact your attorney.

Google is likely to make switching to local currency mandatory in future. [Read more...]

Popularity: 24% [?]

Filed Under: Google Adsense Tagged With: , ,

Want To Master Press Release – Get This Free Ebook

July 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

free-ebook-press-releaseA press release is a very effective way to create publicity for your website, product launches and services. The main aim of the press release is to get eyes rolling over your offer. A press release is an effective method to create publicity and get visitors to your website.

However, I have always found a press release to be a tremendous job. You write one and then press release companies ask you to modify. The free ones are not that effective and paid are quite expensive.

They are very good when it comes to traffic building and back link creation but they also intimidate people.

That is why I have found people using it less as compared to other forms of marketing. [Read more...]

Popularity: 16% [?]

Filed Under: Press Release Tagged With: , ,

Before You Click Add To Cart…

July 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Define Whether You Need The Product

Is There Something In Really!

Is There Something In Really!

Internet marketing world is always bubbling with new products. No I used wrong word. It actually explodes everyday with some or other product.

Attractive and promising products.

With eye catching graphics!

Enticing sales letters!

Mountains of promises!

Army of affiliates promising and pushing their own bonuses to make the package even more magnetic.

Plus there are well orchestrated talks in the forums, well thought and executed posts in the blogs to create a frenzy.

The media too covers it like anything.

So that you see it everywhere. It seems that whole internet is talking about it and swearing by everyone they worship and know. [Read more...]

Popularity: 13% [?]

Filed Under: IM Tagged With: , ,

Update Your Plugins After You Upgrade WordPress 2.8

July 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

You need to upgrade the plugins after you upgrade to WordPress 2.8.

Yeah I know. I too hate upgrades but they make WordPress better. Moreover they are making it simpler by one click upgrade from your admin interface and they do not cost any thing.

I recently ran into a trouble after WordPress 2.8 was installed on my previous version. i used automatic upgrade from admin panel.

After the upgrade was successful I started receiving errors on trying to access website.

Even I could not log into admin panel.

The error was related to Redirection plugin [Read more...]

Popularity: 14% [?]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: , , ,

Clickbank Contextual Ads Are Not Effective

July 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

At least they did not work  here

In an experiment, I had started putting Clickbank contexual ads, a new feature introduced by Clickbank. After six weeks of observation, I have concluded that they are  not effective.

There could be many  reasons for that.

For one they resemble Adsense ads and it has not good CTR  on this blog. May be the readers are overexposed. [Read more...]

Popularity: 16% [?]

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing Tagged With: , ,
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