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Did you know you could add coupons to your Google Local listing? If you didn’t, you’re not alone.
Recognizing the how important coupons are in driving foot traffic for small businesses, Google started allowing users to upload coupons to their Google local listings back in 2007.
Well this week, just in time for the holiday season, they’ve enhanced their local service by pushing coupons to mobiles. From the release…

As I mentioned last week, Google has spent a large part of 2009 testing various changes to their Search Engine Results Page, and the AdWords area is no exception.
Where AdWords was once easily recognized as the simple text ads at the top and right hand side of the organic results, over the last few years – this common description has become less and less correct.
This week, Google…

This week, Microsoft announced its new money saving enhancement to the Live Search shopping site with Cashback being added to the mix.
Live Search Products, which serves as a shopping comparison and product search service, will now have permanent integration of the Microsoft Cashback program, incentivizing shoppers for purchasing through the site.
The Cashback program was initially introduced to encourage greater usage of Live Search, and to provide advertisers…

It seems that although we are in the middle of the economic crisis, people are still keen to spend even more so than ever before.
According to comScore online sales for Cyber Monday were up 15% reaching $846 million, making it the second highest online spending day recorded.
Below is a breakdown of the 2008 holiday sales period up to Cyber Monday compared to 2007.
With Christmas Day only a…
Want to know how to reach female shoppers online? Well a recent study might just give you a bit more of an insight into how.
A study by Microsoft with Ogilvy Chicago and Mindshare has given us some insight into the behavior of women online.
Beth Uyenco, Global Research Director of Microsoft’s Advertisers and Publisher Solutions explains more:
“We sought to answer the burning questions keeping brand managers and…
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 of all sizes. The acquisition will give eBay’s many sellers…