Yahoo! Search Includes New SearchMonkey-Enhanced Results

Yahoo! has announced it will be expanding its SearchMonkey results to include enhanced search results for more categories including Products, Local Businesses, Entertainment, Reference, Social and Tech sites.

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Real-time search engines grow in popularity

Investors seem to be backing the popular notion that real-time searching is going to be a growing sector. Industry leader OneRiot announced on their blog on Aug. 27 that they have raised an additional $7 million in Series C funding from existing investors, including Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Appian Ventures and Spark Capital.

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What Is Backend Internet Marketing

Backend Internet marketing is any form of Internet marketing that takes place behind the scenes. Your meta tag information is a major component of your backend Internet marketing plan. If you are planning to market a website effectively, you are going to have to take part in some form of backend Internet marketing. First off, your meta tags must be completely optimized. Your title tags, keyword tags, description tags and author tags should be well-written and relevant to the content contained in your website. The search engines recognize your meta tags and the information that they provide.

All forms of backend Internet marketing are highly effective. You can take advantage of backend marketing power through the use of blogs. There are two ways you can take advantage of backend Internet marketing through blogs. In the first method, you can pay a blogger to mention your website casually in his blog. This is a form of advertisement that will be noticed by the blogger’s fan base and by the search engines. Search engines love useful and well-written blogs.

Some bloggers will naturally mention your product. If this happens, this is wonderful for you because this provides you with an excellent form of free advertising. Blogs are personalized forms of web content. Because of this, they can provide a highly useful medium for you to market your product. There are individuals that follow good bloggers. There are also many readers that value blogger opinions. Having a good blogger in support of your product can be like having a celebrity endorse your product on television. When a blogger endorses your product though, it doesn’t seem like such an obvious form of advertising.

YouTube Opens Partnership Program to More Users

Just about anyone can now get paid for creating a video on YouTube, as long as it attracts viewers. Google has announced they are extending the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to include individual popular videos on the site. While the YPP was initially created to help YouTube’s more popular users make money from their videos, such as prolific users like Fred and ValsArtDiary, the company now plans to invite individual users with amateur-made videos that have accumulated a lot of viewers.

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Retailers coming around to search engine advertising

Data released by search marketing firm Performics shows that retailers are gaining confidence in the power of search advertising, a sign that retailers are beginning to ramp up their spending as the holidays approach.

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Yahoo! Expands to Arab Countries

Yahoo! today announced its decision to acquire Maktoob.com, a major online community in the Arab world with more than 16.5 million users. The acquisition (expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2009) will enable Yahoo! to expand its products and services with Arabic-language content and services

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A Good Blog That Will Take Internet Promotion Over The Top

Blogging has become one of the fastest growing promotional tools in e-marketing today. A Blog can be used exclusively as a social networking tool, or as a business tool. However, a Blog is most effective when used for both purposes.

A Blog is simply an essay or short online entry on a web site that helps business owners connect with their audiences. Internet blogs should be somewhat personal and information when used to drive sales, participation and disseminate information. The most effective Internet blogs are updated a minimum of three times per week and contain information pertinent to product, service or cause it addresses.

Internet promotion is a powerful and effective form of advertising. An Internet Blog will:
•attract search engines with the repeated use of keywords, links, and regularly updated content

•establish an element of credibility when written properly with valuable information that is useful to the target audience

•convince readers of the value of products and services offered by the online marketer or encourage readers to participate in a cause or event advertised through a Blog

•create a loyal following by regularly connecting with people who will eventually “come to know the blogger” through continued Blog posts

•offer target readers a platform to share and exchange views while keeping them engaged in the communication process as they comment on Blog entries and other readers’ observations

•provide feedback from target audience members who are most invested in the topic as demonstrated in their willingness to comment

•drive readers to a target web site to trigger further intended action

Linux users favor Google search by massive margin

Users of the Linux operating system are definitely a particular breed, as evidenced by their (some would say stubborn ) support for an OS that is largely ignored by the rest of the world. This has forced them to create many unique Linux-only applications giving free options to established Web apps.

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Google Enhances Enterprise Labs

Google has added two new tools for Google Enterprise Search: Side-by-Side search comparison and new connectors for the Google Search Appliance (GSA), both available in Enterprise Laps.

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Internet Marketing Fundamentals

Marketing in today’s world is much different from years past with the advent of social networking and blogs. By implementing the fundamentals of internet marketing to promote and sell, you have a greater chance of success. Social networking, blogging, radio and television interviews, book signing events and news releases are among the most valuable marketing tools available. By joining social networks, you have the opportunity to contact more people and promote yourself to more people than ever before.

Host a website, post short content about your product or services several times weekly. Many traditional authors and self-published authors self promote on website months before a book release to the public. Promoting on your website offers many benefits. Blog about what you know, present yourself as an expert on your product or services and post short content daily or several times a week. One of the most important benefits to the blogger is gaining consumer confidence. Consumer confidence equal dollars spent at your website on products or services. Self promote on social networks. Post on websites as a guest or expert. Request and accept online interviews.

News releases, considered among the top five marketing tools is simply a mail-out of promotional sheets, and newsletters promoting products, services. Solicit interviews by contacting either internet or local radio and television stations, verbally give the station manager a short bio, your product or services and let him, or she know you are available for an interview. Consider internet radio as a source for marketing.

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