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By Allie Mims
We’ve got a short edition of Komodo Links this week. Two posts from the Google Webmaster Central Blog and a humorous post from Techdirt regarding companies EULAs.
The Google Webmaster Central Blog had an interesting post from earlier this week about taking advantage of universal search. The post has some good tips for [...]
By Allie Mims
Yesterday YouTube announced the launch of Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. Currently Insight offers a few key metrics, including a breakdown of video views by geographic location, a video’s popularity in a market relative to [...]
By Allie Mims
Today we have a short but very sweet edition of Komodo Links. This week’s edition is all about online consumer data, those who track and sell it, those who use it to target ads, and those who want to stop it. Read on and let us know what you think.
In January, Google invited [...]
By Dan Rogers
Another great reason to use YouTube for your business…
We logged into to the Google Local Business Center today to edit the listing for our search engine optimization company SEO Komodo. We were excited to see that Google now allows you to add up to 5 videos to a business listing. This feature is [...]
By Allie Mims
We’ve got some interesting and humorous links from the past week for this installment of Komodo Links. So sit back and enjoy while you wait for the weekend to begin.
RealSelf.com, an independent site for consumers to discuss anti-aging treatments, has accused plastic surgery corporation, Lifestyle Lift, of breach of contract and computer [...]
By Allie Mims
Miami.com is a site dedicated to showing you what there is to see and do in Miami and South Florida. Miami.com staff and users can write reviews of restaurants, nightclubs, lounges, hotels, best beaches, museums, movies, best places to shop, celebrity sightings, and more. Users can also rate and comment on businesses [...]
By Allie Mims
MediaPost published a great article yesterday about the increasing costs of paid search and how marketers are coping by investing in natural search. The article includes many quotes from Tim Kauffold, director of business development at Oneupweb.
The following are some of Mr. Kauffold’s quotes from the article along with some of my [...]
By Allie Mims
The European Commission announced today that Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick can proceed without conditions. Google proposed the deal back in April to increase its sales of online display ads. Microsoft had vigorously opposed the deal saying it would hinder competition in the global online ad market. In the end Microsoft [...]
By Allie Mims
It’s Friday and its time for some Komodo Links. Google, Yahoo Maps, and an interview with Mark Zuckerberg are on the list.
The Google Blog posted Why Data Matters a couple days ago. A great read including “a brief history of search.”
In the next few weeks Google’s AdWords will begin to factor landing page [...]
By Allie Mims
Ask.com, one of the major players in the search engine space, has announced that it will be cutting 8% of its workforce and focusing on its core user, married women. The Wall Street Journal article outlining ask.com’s new strategy (free preview) goes into greater detail. The San Francisco Chronicle touches on the ask.com [...]
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