Bill Hartzer

The 11 Types of Alexa Hot URLs and How to Get There

Alexa is a subsidiary company of Amazon.com typically known for its rankings of websites. The Alexa Toolbar collects data on the web browsing behavior of those who have it installed. That data is then used for its rankings of the top 500 websites and showing traffic details of sites like ...

KeywordSmash Free Keyword Research Tool Launched

As a blogger, online marketer, writer, and a shameless self-promoter, I am always on the hunt for content and ideas for creating online content. I totally agree with whoever coined the phrase, "content is king". I have to admit that sometimes I get writer's block or, as I like to ...

Paris Hilton Fires Back at John McCain; Stays At Top of Search Phrases

Paris Hilton fired back at John McCain in response to Presidential Candidate John McCain's recent television ad. John McCain's TV ad compared Senator Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Paris Hilton stayed atop the Lycos to(TM) Top Search Terms for the week ending August 2nd, 2008. Every week ...

Alex Rodriguez and Madonna Surge in Searches on Lycos Network

According to Lycos, the rumors of an affair between Alex Rodriguez and Madonna caused a huge surge in the number of searches for their names last week. Other searches that surged last week were searches for Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl, Nicole Kidman, Jesse Jackson and the iPhone. Lycos maintains The Lycos ...

We Searched for the iPhone 7 Million Times During April 2008

According to comScore, the company that measures searches on the web, we searched seven million times for the Apple iPhone during the month of April, 2008. They also are reporting that Google delivered a disproportionate number of iPhone-related clicks. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released a study on "iPhone"-related keyword search phrases ...

Ask.com Reveals Top Search Phrases for 2007

Ask.com has revealed it's Real Deal list of the top keyword search phrases for 2007. They said that it has been a MySpace year, and are revealing other interesting findings such as Barack Obama beating Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, the Boston Red Sox took the playing field, and Hannah ...

Lycos 50 for Week Ending July 14, 2007 – Al Qaeda and Emma Watson Are Tops

Lycos, a leading internet community destination for entertainment content (formerly known as the Lycos search engine), is reporting their "Lycos 50" for the week ending July 14, 2007. According to Lycos, the search activity for Al Qaeda jumped 700 percent in the past week, perhaps due to the USA's Chertoff announcing ...

Lycos Reveals Top Search Phrases for Week Ending June 30, 2007

Lycos, the former-search-engine-turned-internet-portal, has come out with their list of the top keyword searches for the week ending June 30, 2007. The death of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s Chris Benoit continued to drive a record number of searches, and the top iPhone searches include searches for iPhone accessories and reviews. Lycos also ...

Hitwise Says Searches for Global Warming Going Up

According to Hitwise, one of the companies that tracks these sorts of things, is saying in a press release today that searches for the search phrase "global warming" are "heating up": The number of search queries containing the words 'global warming' increased 173 percent year over year -- growing from ...

February 9th 2010
Tags: Social Media No Comments

Offerpal Launches Offerpal Tasks to Earn Virtual Currency

Offerpal Media has launched "Offerpal Tasks," a new way you can earn virtual currency to use in online games and social networks. You can earn virtual currency through Offerpal Tasks by completing easy online tasks through Amazon Mechanical Turk. I took a look at some of the tasks and they ...

Report Ranks Reputation and Exposure of Brands Across News and Social Media

Across the Internet, in news, blogs, tweets and other social media, millions of people are talking about major brands. This “buzz” can be produced by product launches, ad campaigns, PR events, earnings reports, a single consumer‘s product experience, and many other triggers, even scandals and rumors. The volume and character ...
January 28th 2010
Tags: Social Media, Social Networking 5 Comments

MashedIn Social Media Friend Finder Application Launched

Social Connections has released MashedIn.com, an application that allows you to identify mutual connections across multiple social networks. MashedIn provides a widget that you can add to a web site or blog where your users can authenticate with either Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn to reveal common connections to the widget ...
January 23rd 2010
Tags: personal blog 9 Comments

Where to Get Ideas for Website Content

I colleague of mine recently wrote a great blog post about website content and how it relates to search engine optimization. It's all about a developing a content strategy whereas great content is added to your website on a regular basis, showing the search engines (and those who are reading ...
January 19th 2010
Tags: SEO Training 5 Comments

Online Marketing and Search Engine Optimization Training in San Francisco Bay Area

The Bay Area Search Engine Academy has officially opened their enrollment and registration for approaching Search Engine Optimization classes and internet marketing training for companies. Registration is limited to fifteen people in each of the training classes being held in San Ramon and Santa Clara (near San Jose), California. The Bay ...

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