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Ecommerce sites face their busiest days at the end of the week, so before we break for turkey, it's a smart idea to go through a basic checklist to make sure you're ready. Have you added changes to homepage announcing your specials? Regardless.

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A tradition as American as apple pie, Google has decided to give thanks this year by paying homage to the turkeys that elementary school kids make by tracing their hands. The Thanksgiving Doodle, their holiday Google logo, has gone up on the .

There is a new Chosen One. It alone will stand against Apple, Google, and the forces of darkness. It is the Facebook phone, code-name: Buffy. Coming in 12-18 months. The much-rumored Facebook phone, which will run on a heavily modified version o.

Optify has launched new landing pages and one-click social sharing features, designed to help marketers improve campaign tracking and ROI. Marketers are able to create customized or template landing pages, hosted either on Optify or their own.

Last month, we wrote about how Google's human search quality raters assign URL ratings, based on their leaked 120+ page training manual. PotPieGirl, the blogger who found the original manual, did some more digging to learn more about who the.

Over the past couple weeks Microsoft adCenter has been making several changes for the 2011 holiday season. Most of the changes are centered around their user interface and making the account easier to use. In their most recent update, exact match .

Google last week tweeted another of their algorithm Weather Reports. While it's supposed to only affect less than 1 percent of searches, the results could be more impactful than that small number suggests. Given 11.9 billion searches&nbs.

One of our stated goals in the Search Engine Watch redesign was to increase traffic from Google News in order to establish ourselves as an authoritative publication on the search marketing industry. The results of our project are below: Averag.

When we talk about website testing, we mostly talk about what to test: unique selling propositions, headlines, calls-to-action, etc. It's equally important to understand howto test )i.e., the process that produces better results(. The more.

Is there any real value to directory-based link building? The answer to this question depends on how you define "value". There's still a general place for marketing your online business on good quality directories. Such directo.

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In response to complaints from the European Union, Google now allows any router to be opted out of the location-based tracking of access point. The router can be opted out by changing the SSID to end in "_nomap." The Change and How to Implement .

An Australian doctor has brought a defamation suit against Google over Ripoff Report listings claiming she stalked psychics, the Australian reported. Dr Janice Duffy, a former senior South Australian Health Department researcher, told the newspa.

Information on how Facebook tracks its users behaviors both on and off site has been released. Most worrisome is that Facebook keeps a running log of the sites a user has visited in the past 90 days. Facebook Tracking Details Released The info.

Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility is stepping further toward finalization with the shareholder vote on the topic. Shareholders who voted supported the Google merger almost unanimously, with 99 percent approving the deal. While Google made .

The federal government has cracked down on mortgage scams that claimed they could lower payments through government-backed programs. As 85 such companies are shut down, Google is coming under scrutiny for allowing them to post AdWords ads. The M.

Google's social network is quietly adding more advanced search options, including the ability to filter results by poster and browse through trending topics. These features allow users to hunt down popular topics and get involved in conversations.