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Intellectual Property Domain Name Scam Changes to Brand Registration Scam

A well-known intellectual property protection domain name scam that has been going on for at least 10 years has taken a new twist--the scammers are now calling this a "brand registration" rather than "intellectual property". In any case, though, the scam is the same, really: Some unknown company from Asia contacts ...

Microsoft Registers Outlook Domain Names: A Lesson In Protecting Your Brand

Microsoft recently launched Outlook.com as a new online email service, to rival Google's Gmail. Hotmail.com will be replaced by Outlook.com. On the same day that Microsoft rebooted Outlook.com, they registered a whole slew of similar domain names--in a move that looks like it's mainly to protect the Outlook brand. By looking ...

Is The Era of Loyalty To Consumer Brands Over?

Darlene Quinn knows what it’s like to be loyal to a brand name. Quinn, a former senior executive with the Bullocks Wilshire department store chain understands the inner workings of the fashion retail industry as well as she does consumer trends, and her conclusion based on what she’s seeing in the ...

Why Do Customers Tattoo Themselves with the Brands They Love?

By BJ Bueno, guest author Harley-Davidson, Nike, Playboy, Coca-Cola, VW, and Apple logos have been permanently etched into the skins of customers worldwide. Why do they do it? Why do these raving fans, or Brand Lovers, scorch their bodies with a company’s mark? And what can marketers and brand managers ...

AOL to Change Name to TMZ

  First, it was "America Online". Then, in 2006, "America Online" changed its name to "AOL". Now AOL will reportedly change its name, yet again, to TMZ. In April, 2006, America Online announced that after 15 years it was "retiring the name America Online and will now officially be known ...

100 Best Global Brands; Google, Zara, Apple, and Nintendo Top Gainers

According to the BusinessWeek/Interbrand annual ranking of the top 100 best global brands released today, Google, Zara, Apple, and Nintendo are among this year's top gainers. Google ranks 20th in the list. Yahoo! ranks 55th in the list. This is the seventh year that BusinessWeek has teamed up with ...

Search Engine Marketing Helps Boost Your Brand

By Guest Writer Steve Waganer Success and failure of a particular business depends upon the kind of publicity done. This is true in the case of online and other businesses also. There are different methods that can be used for the promotion of any goods or services, but the key lies ...

May 16th 2013
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comScore April 2013 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I try to remember report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” ...

Penalized or Banned in Google? Don’t Issue a Press Release Like IGXE Internet Gaming Exchange

If your website is banned in the Google search engine or if your website is penalized, then I don't recommend writing and distributing a press release about it. IGXE the Internet Gaming Exchange, a company that specializes in selling MMORPG currencies, items, power leveling, and CD-keys, such as World of ...

It is Still Possible to Spam the Google Search Results

Breaking News: It is still possible to game the Google search results, even for commercial keyword phrases. In fact, you can even put up low-quality, low-content, spam web pages and get them to rank well in Google. Not only that, it is still possible, even when the Google Penguin and ...
May 8th 2013
Tags: Marketing One Comment

On Making Your Own Cost Efficient Business WordPress Websites

By Dean Chester Sure, many businesses believe that getting a website will usually involves a large investment and involve too much time just to keep it updated. Years ago, that statement may have been true...but in recent years technology has advanced to the point that you can now setup your website ...
May 7th 2013
Tags: Domain Names Comments Off

Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center ADNDRC Publishes UDRP Findings; Includes Complainant’s Credit Card Number

The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center ADNDRC today published their findings on a UDRP Domain Name Dispute for the domain name 6543.com, which was reportedly a stolen domain. In the process, they had a total disregard for the complainant's financial safety and security. In the findings documents, the Asian Domain ...

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