A study by the University of Southern California’s Center for the Digital Future reports search engine users shows that people don’t believe everything that appears in the top 10 results. The survey found that only 51% of people trust information provided by search engines, down from 62% in 2006. Google, as the most popular search…
In a bid to boost it’s search features and try to reverse its fortunes Yahoo partnered with Paypal to provide payment icons in the search results. Google has been displaying their Google Checkout icon in their sponsored search results for one year, and once again Yahoo is having to play catchup with its search featureset.…
We just got back from the 3rd social networking group Twiistup, held at the Air Conditioned Club in Venice, Los Angeles. Twiistup is a for technology focused networking group that lets startups, web 2.0 companies and tech firms mingle and display their businesses. It was a very fun event, and I made some good connections…
Stompernet Mastermind search engine optimization coaching and web based classes is about to change. The biggest change is a price increase, so you better signup now. Read more for the stomper press release to the online SEM’s: Checkout the discount price on SMARTS sem system. Only The Stomper gives you access to this multi faceted…
Stompernet has created a new video player to display search engine optimization tutorials and seo training clips. Unfortunately they call this SquamBido, which sounds like “spam libido”. Fortunately the video player works much better than it’s name, and the content is very helpful. The best part of the SEO video player is it allows you…
What would happen if your ecommerce shop cancelled all advertising and offered customer free shipping instead? You may be petrified at the thought of stopping all pay per click ads, online banner ads and targeted ads but there may be better ways to virally create business and fortify your sales. Offering customers something special can…
Many web development websites and search engine optimization blogs are posting year end statistics, and who am I to not be a slave to convention, so the Naked SEO guide will be baring all. Below is a graph showing traffic increases and I must say I’m extremely pleased at the increasing trend line. Month Number…
The good folks at XKCD.com created an illustration of web 2.0. This is a representation of the current state of the social internet represented by a cartography style of 15th century map makers like Amerigo Vespucci. See a hand drawn map showing all your favorite websites, with size displayed by prominence. Displayed is a list…
Videos are and up and coming component to a good search engine optimization campaign. Online video optimization can help drastically increase product sales and increase site exposure. Website traffic does not come directly from videos or clicks, but from extraneous links, references and typed in domains from references in the video clips. The goal of…
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