Yahoo! and Microsoft Block Explicit Content in India

Yahoo! and Microsoft appear to be altering their search results in India to comply with the country

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Yahoo! and Microsoft Block Explicit Content in India

YouTube Promotes Global Discussion about Ongoing Iranian Protests

In response to last week’s flood of videos that were uploaded on YouTube depicting the funeral procession of Iranian reformist Ayatollah Hosein-Ali Montazeri along with the chanting of anti-government slogans, Google announced today that YouTube will continue to provide its platform for users to see and hear the political struggles of the Iranian people.

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MoneyMailer.com Launches New Online Coupon Search Engine

Are you a thrifty shopper who loves finding online coupons for the best deals on the items you need? If so, you might get frustrated surfing various sites and sifting through search engine results trying to find the right coupons for your upcoming purchases.

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MoneyMailer.com Launches New Online Coupon Search Engine

Track Santa’s Journey with Google Earth

Google has added new features to its Santa Tracker–a Google Earth tool that displays Santa’s voyage around the world on Christmas Eve using NORAD’s Santa-tracking radar.

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Keyword Generator Tool – Essential to Successful Internet Marketing

Keywords are essential for a website to succeed. They ensure that you stay in the top ranks of search engine results. Coming up with keywords, however, is not an easy task.

Back in the day, people sat and thought of keywords and that was good enough to keep you going. Then came the advent of the Keyword Generator Tool, which made everyone’s live easier and complicated at the same time. Easier, because it generated keywords for you and complicated because everyone used it and picked out more or less the same keywords.

Now, using free keyword generation tools is fine, initially. This is because as a startup you will be strapped for cash, and anything free will be of quite good use. However, as you go on it becomes essential to procure a powerful keyword generator tool. Quite simply, if you want to play with the big boys you have to have big toys. For example, cross testing and informing you about how many other competitors have similar keywords is something free tools do not do.

You need a tool that will get you to the first page of a search every time. This is essential if you are to generate leads, and leads are what eventually turn into sales. Another advantage of purchasing a tool is that a leading internet marketer will train you and show you how to get results. Of course, all of this is useless if you do not have a proper grounding in SEO. So brush up your SEO skills and get a good Keyword Generator Tool, and watch those sales grow.

How to Convert Internet Marketing Leads Into Sales

If you have done your groundwork properly and persevered, there is a high probability that you are seeing a lot of leads turning up. But what might be puzzling at this point is that the leads are not really turning into sales. If you are facing this problem you could try the following three tips to rectify it.

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Sales copy – Generally, you have about five seconds or thereabouts to grab the interest of the prospective customer. Forget all the flowery nonsense you want to put up, just get to the point. Your customer basically wants to know only three things: What are you offering? What can it do for me? How do I get it? Think about it, and it makes sense. You have done all the hard work to get the customer to that page where you want to make the sale, so why delay them? This means that the copy on the page has to be clear, concise, and compelling to the customer.

Clear message – Do not, for whatever reason, dilute your message with other offers that you might have. You must sell only the product that is supposed to appear on THAT page. If you do not do this, you can end up annoying the customer in two ways:

1. One too many products appear on the page and confuse the customer.

2. A different product appears. For example, the advertising promotes growing exotic orchids, and the landing page shows roses.

Offer – This may be the hardest pill to swallow. If you have got the previous tips right, and the leads and traffic are flowing in you should be making sales, right? In most cases the answer would be “yes”. But if you said “no”, then you must review your product. Take a look at it from the customer’s perspective. Is this something that they would want to buy? Is there really a market for it? Etc.

Try following these, tips and you will soon be able to convert those leads into some decent sales.

Real-Time Search Engine OneRiot Creates Ad Network for Social Media Apps

Search Engine Watch reports that real-time search engine OneRiot is attempting to unlock the Holy Grail for developers of social media applications – give them a way to make money off of their free apps. One Riot has recently launched RiotWise Trending Ads, a real-time ad network that allows Web and mobile app developers a chance to earn money through ad clicks.

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Yahoo! Schedules Holiday Shutdown

In an effort to cut back on expenses during the recession, Yahoo! is shutting down most of its offices from Dec. 25 through Jan. 1, according to the Wall Street Journal. Employees can use vacation time or take unpaid leave.

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Yahoo! Schedules Holiday Shutdown

Report: Yelp Walks Away from $550 Million Google Deal

Tech Crunch is reporting that Yelp has walked away from a proposed deal to be acquired by Google – a deal that many people had assumed was all but signed just days earlier. Yelp is a review site currently operating in almost every major metropolitan area of the country that lets the public vote and gives their feedback on a wide range of stores and services within a local area. For example, a person could go to the local Yelp site for Portland and search to find different listings for Indian restaurants.

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Report: Yelp Walks Away from $550 Million Google Deal

Google and Bing Increase November Market Share, Yahoo Drops

Americans submitted 14.4 billion queries to search engines in November, up one percent from October, according to data released by comScore. Once again, Google Sites came in on top accounting for 65.6 percent of the search market share (9.5 billion searches), followed by Yahoo! Sites at 17.5 percent (2.5 billion searches) and Microsoft Sites at 10.3 percent (1.5 billion.)

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