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Zvents Names Paul O’Brien Director of Marketing

      Zvents, a local search engine for events, has named Paul O'Brien as Director of Marketing. Mr. O'Brien will lead Zvents' corporate communications, corporate and brand marketing, their go-to-market strategy and planning, and Zvents' search and internet integration. Paul O'Brien was previously the head of interactive marketing at ...

One Simple Way to Protect Your WordPress Plugins

      I'm amazed that so many popular bloggers use WordPress and don't protect their WordPress plugins. Here's one simple way to protect people from seeing exactly which WordPress Plugins you're using. First, here's a little background about it: If you don't have a default web page (usually index.html ...

Blog Philadelphia Unconference Taking Place in July

The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) and Philly blog uwishunu.com is "Calling All Bloggers, Podcasters, Vloggers and Social Media Gurus to Blog Philadelphia". The The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) and Philly blog uwishunu.com are having a social media "unconference" in July. This inaugural BlogPhiladelphia, an "unconference" for those ...

The New Rules of Marketing and Public Relations

According to David Meerman Scott, corporate blogs are the "ideal tool to bypass the media filter". Corporate blogs are emerging as one of the most effective means by which businesses of all types can bypass the traditional "media gatekeepers" to tell their stories directly to their market. David Meerman ...

Yet Another List for You: Name in My Domain Name

I was scouring digg today (like I do all day every day), and found a list that you might be interested in. Well, if you're a blogger like me then you might be interested in the "name in my domain name" list of bloggers who, yes, have their names in ...

More Visibility for Your Blog with an Accurate Ping List

As you may or may not know, I've been "blogging" for several years now. And I'm one of the first that will tell you that not only do you need to have great content on your blog that people will want to read on a regular basis, you need an ...

b2bYellowpages.com Offers Businesses Free Directory Listings

b2bYellowpages.com is now offering businesses free directory listings. Their B2B directory will display business-to-business websites at no cost or obligation to their members. According to Andrew Wax, President and CEO, "Our local search capabilities have greatly expanded over the past year. The success with this has our members requesting greater ...

Pay Per Post Rejects Me

Yes, you are reading the headline correctly. I just got an email from Pay Per Post that they flat out rejected a blog I submitted to their system. The blog that I submitted about a week ago has been rejected due to the fact that there is no way for ...

Answers.com Releases Free AnswerTips Tool for Websites and Blogs

Answers.com has just started offering AnswerTips to websites and blogs. AnswerTips allow sites to provide visitors with instant access to Answers.com's comprehensive information on four million topics, without having them leave the site or blog. If you want to take a look at how it works, I've just implemented it on ...

Duane Forrester aka SportsGuy Signs a Book Deal

I'd like to be one of the first to congratulate Duane Forrester, aka Sportsguy, on getting an official book deal from McGraw Hill/Osborne. Commenting on the book, Duane told me, "The focus is on building a blog and how to effectively monetizing it...the book includes basic information for anyone who is ...

Bill Hartzer is the head search engine marketing, social media, and website marketing expert at Vizion Interactive, a Dallas marketing firm that offers search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, and other interactive marketing services. . Do you need online marketing services? Let's talk!
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May 20th 2008
Tags: Ask.com, Search Engines 2 Comments

Ask.com Releases List of Top 25 UK Bank Holiday Destinations

This is a cool list. And a great reason to put out a press release, I might add. Ask.com, one of the top leading search engines on the web, has come up with a list of the top twenty five United Kingdom bank holiday destinations for this weekend. According to ...

Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don’t Understand Social Networking

Eric Lander has a great blog post about Sphinn. If you have not heard of Sphinn.com, Sphinn is a "News, Discussion Forums & Networking for Search & Internet Marketing Professionals" site. It's Danny Sullivan's social networking site for internet marketing professionals. Since Eric has written a great post and has ...
May 2nd 2008
Tags: Search Engines 7 Comments

OBG Management and Convera Launch OBGfindit ObGyn Search Engine

OBG Management has teamed up with Convera(R) to create OBG FindIt, a vertical search engine for the ObGYN specialty. OBG Management is a leader in obstetrics and gynecological patient care and practice management communications. Convera Corporation is a leading provider of vertical search for trade publishers. OBG FindIt provides search results ...

Search Engine Workshops Now Offering Online Search Engine Marketing Resource Center

Search Engine Academy is now offering a networking community for search engine marketers. This new networking community is the first on the internet to offer a place where search engine optimizers can meet and share strategies, access other online areas, and get the latest updated material on a regular basis. Search ...
April 15th 2008
Tags: Internet Usage 9 Comments

comScore Releases March 2008 United States Search Engine Rankings

As a follow-up to yesterday's comScore post, I thought I would update you on the United States' search engine rankings. comScore has released the search engine data for March 2008. This is part of their monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search engine marketplace in the United States. During March 2008 ...

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