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Google today announced that they have released a beta program that will increase the amount of control that site owners and search engine marketers have over which pages are indexed by “googlebot”.
The experimental program (which according to Google Engineer Shiva Shivakumar will “either fail miserably or succeed beyond our wildest dreams“) is called Google Sitemaps and aims to optimize…
eBay – the World’s Biggest Online Markeplace has announced that it has agreed to purchase Shopping.com, for $620million worth of shares. This is based on $21 per share, for all outstanding shares on May 31st 2005.
Quoting from the press release:
The combination of Shopping.com and eBay will create a premier online shopping experience for individuals and businesses
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to approve a new generic top level domain. The new domain extension is aimed at the adult entertainment web category and will be in the form of “.xxx”.
For webmasters who are promoting adult entertainment services in a responsible and legitimate way, this new extension should assist them in…
What I like about Search Engine Marketing is the facts and figures. The campaigns that are run generate real numbers and real results – no focus group studies with Search Engine Marketing. It is either performing or it is not.
ineedhits recommends Hitslink for measuring the performance of customer’s Search Engine Marketing Campaigns. Hitslink have provided some interesting…
According to Credit Suisse First Botson (CSFB) shares in Google (GOOG) to hit $300USD per share. Some analysts are even predicting $350USD per share is not that far off.
Many other companies who have hit such high share prices have “split” but there is no talk of this happening with Google.
I am sure I am only one of many…
For the past few days, the Google Tool Bar has not been displaying Page Rank. Rather, it has been blank, as if the page has no page rank what so ever.
Google was in the process of doing a backlink update (codenamed “Bourbon Update” by the people over at WebMasterWorld) and as such, no page rank was displayed…
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As many businesses start to adopt search engine marketing…