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Pay search engines to display your site

Josh S Peters

There are two ways you can pay a search engine to display your site. Paid inclusion Paid inclusion is anytime you pay the search engine to include you in their results and it’s common among some directories and submission based search engines. Microsoft used to but quite a couple of years ago, and Google has never done it.

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Internet Marketing Basics: Understanding Our Search Engine Overlords

Josh S Peters

Search engines are one of the internet marketers best friends, yet they are sometimes ignored (crazy I know) or more often misunderstood. So here’s what I’d like to do, give you a quick rundown of search engine basics. B (China) Microsoft = 2.1 Search engines are powered by spiders. B Baidu = 3.2 B AOL = 1.2

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It makes me wonder if I’m sending my requests to a wall (or for your tech geeks, /dev/null) or if people really work for Apple (outside their marketing and engineering departments). I think Microsoft would be more receptive to user feedback. I’ve seen this on Microsoft’s PR depts. I thought that would change.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Spam engineer guy Matt Cutts has his own blog where he talks about his personal life and all things Google. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Since the changes smaller sites have totally been discriminated against. You may as well just subscribe to about 50 feeds and you have digg.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Or Microsoft. Kurrently is a new, free real-time search engine that combines results from Twitter and Facebook in a simple, blazing fast format. This is your chance to help shape this exciting new search engine, as Gilbert wants ideas and feedback. that’s a big deal. Good find, Jay; how'd you come across it?

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Additionally, because we feature an exclusive ad inventory from some of the biggest brands in the world including Blackberry, L’Oreal, Dominos Pizza, National Geographical, and Microsoft our ads are actively of interest to site visitors. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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SXSW: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote (the edited liveblogged version)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

What about the ad deal you currently have with Microsoft? Google and Microsoft are going after social networks and some people feel aren’t monetizable. In terms of the Microsoft relationship, we want the way people make money to be in line with the way people use the site. Lacy : You’ve created a great innovation.

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