Google tends to trust websites that have been around longer, and these websites have had more time to build good back links, which can make them difficult to compete with. Fortunately there are ways to compete with good Automotive SEO techniques, if you happen to have a brand new website. Also remember that people who search for longer keyword strings are usually people who are further down the sales funnel and might be ready to buy very soon. Websites that have been established for a while always have the advantage over a new website when it comes to ranking with Google. MORE >>

Edelman is in trouble again…this time over a media request from Ragan about  Best Buy On. Mark Ragan , who most of you know if you’re in the PR industry, asked one of his reporters to contact Best Buy to interview them about their new On, the new “magazine&# they’ve created for customers. Mark, like a lot of us, see the trend of companies becoming publishers and wanted to know more about what Best Buy is doing in order to provide a case study to his readers. 5 : Reporter Matt Wilson sends an e-mail to address on Best Buy’s media contact page. MORE >>

The age-old guidance of buying low and selling high has appeared to escape the halls of Yahoo! Compete, whose traffic graphs are anything if not suspect, still manages to display some trendlines right, showing a decrease in traffic of nearly one half in the last year. Buy high, kill. AddThis Yahoo Stats Delicious CompeteIf we ignore the Microsoft and Yahoo! acquisition dance of 2008 , which ended up in Yahoo!'s Yesterday's news leaked that Yahoo! had plans to kill or spin off a number of Web services, including Delicious , Alta Vista , MyBlogLog and others. Yahoo! MORE >>

QR Codes, Email, and Mobile Marketing: Tools for Small Businesses to Compete Digitally is a post written by Tamar Weinberg. ]. Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. This is a guest post by Julian Rockwoord, a product manager at  Signal. For small businesses, marketing often takes a back seat to day-to-day operations. They acknowledge that marketing is important; yet there are only so many hours in the day. Good Things Come on Packages. They’re not alone in this field.  MORE >>

“Group Buying” was an idea that first surfaced during the “dot com” boom and ultimately failed to build any momentum. Why can’t there be one cell phone store where I can buy anything for any mobile device? Suppose the group buying experience could aggregate packages of products. Nobody can compete with an iPhone without also offering iTunes, iMovie, iPad, and all the social trappings of the iStore. Perhaps Google, with its social commercial network can compete resulting in a duopoly. Ditch the gatekeeper, axe the marketers, lose the spam. Product Networks? MORE >>