Facebook IPO, Living and Dying on Search Analytics
February 2, 2012 by Daron Babin
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Facebook filed papers Wednesday to raise at least 5 billion dollars and begin to sell stock this spring.How to Understand Your Google Not Provided Traffic.
Jim and Dave also discuss a Search Engine Watch article from Miranda Miller entitled Google, Bing and Yahoo in Partnership to Sell Top Organic Local Listings?. They uncover some reported irregularities
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Tech and Marketing Strategies for Video
December 1, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Jim and Dave discuss Tech and Marketing Strategies for Video with with Jake Athey from Vitomy.com and Greg Jarboe from SEO-PR. Also, Judge Orders ALL Search Engines, Social Networks to De-index Seized Websites; Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, ISPs, All Served With Streaming Site Blocking Demand.
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Stop Online Piracy Act; Skywire Media Mobile Solutions
November 17, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Google, Yahoo and Facebook are joined together in opposition of the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA, which is said to help U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders fight online traffic in copyrighted intellectual property and ensuing revenue and job losses.
Jim and Dave also speak with Nicole Hurley, Sales Executive at SkyWire Media, Inc, a mobile solutions provider heavily involved with the Hospitality industry and more specifically gaming.
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RIM Evangelists; Google Encrypted Search; Bing CTR Position
October 20, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Research In Motion or RIM, losing ground in a market that its BlackBerry smartphone helped to build, is adding developer evangelists in Silicon Valley to change perceptions, plus SEOs Strike Out as Google Encrypts Signed-in Search Data and Bing Top Position Gets 9.66 percent CTR, Lower Total Page 1 CTR than Google.
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Google Acquires Zagat; Yahoo CEO Fallout
September 8, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Google has acquired Zagat, one of the most well-known names in restaurant reviews, in a move to improve its local products, which are now run by Google VP Marissa Mayer.
Carol Bartz is no longer the CEO of Yahoo. Jim and Dave discuss how she calls Yahoos Board A Bunch Of Doofuses.
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Google Gathering Nortel Patents; Digital World Expo Preview
August 4, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Jim and Dave discuss Googles recent bid of 900 million dollars for 6000 patents belonging to the bankrupt telecommunications company Nortel, plus they speak with Shawn Rorick, Author of Emerging Marketer and Organizer of the upcoming Digital World Expo.
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SEO Roundtable: Outing Other SEOs
May 26, 2011 by Daron Babin
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This two-part edition of Webcology kicks off with SEO panelists Alan Bleiweiss, Ben Cook, Steve Gerenscer, David Harry, Anthony Verre and Terry Van Horn debating the merits of Outing black hat practices to Google and the mainstream media. Does outing make the web a better place or is it just the SEO version of tattling?
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Facebook Hires PR Firm to Smear Google
May 12, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Jim talks with Brasco about news leaking that Facebook hired a large PR firm, Burson-Marsteller, to attack Google. Jim also weighs in on Microsoft buying Skype, the impending release of Google’s Chromebook and Google I/O.
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Panda Rolls Across the Atlantic
April 21, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Jim and Dave are joined by Dr. Horst Joepen, CEO of Searchmetrics to discuss UK winners and losers in the recent Google Algorithm updates.
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Google Antitrust Investigation
February 18, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Jim and Dave analyze the JCPenney SEO controversy, plus The Texas attorney general is leading an antitrust investigation of Google wants to know how Google determines the prices for its AdWords paid search advertising program and how sites are ranked in Google’s search results.
Also, tune in for a stimulating conversation on linkbuilding with SEOMoz founder Rand Fishkin.
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