Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Google Sites led the explicit core search market in November with 66.2 It actually looks like Google’s sites are going up in market share. In comparison, in August 2010, I reported that Google Sites led the explicit core search market in August with 65.4 Google Sites led the U.S. Sites with 16.4 Sites with 3.4

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 6, 2011

As you probably know by now, Google , Bing , and Yahoo! Does this mean that at some point one of the patent owners, Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo!, What if some website owner or webmaster comes up with the idea for a type of website and uses some of this code as part of their site. Share it on StumbleUpon. Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 6, 2011

Honestly, I have not seen so many social media experts flock to a social media web site since all of my social media and search engine marketing buddies flocked to Twitter. So, I started my quest to find out exactly if Quora.com is the next social media web site to go mainstream. Not much else to let you know what the site is about.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 22, 2010

According to comScore, “November marked the official start of the holiday shopping season, sending Americans swarming retail and coupon sites to take advantage of early deals and promotions. Retailers offered attractive discounts and free shipping to draw early shoppers to their sites for purchase. percent reach, Yahoo!

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Google Sites led the explicit core search market in August with 65.4 Google Sites led the U.S. percent market share, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 17.4 percentage points) and Microsoft sites with 11.1 N/A Google Sites 65.8% Microsoft Sites 11.0% Google Sites ranked first with 10.3 Sites with 3.6

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 10, 2010

billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.5 percent of the searches conducted online, followed by websites owned by Yahoo! Google Sites 65.4% 16.8% -0.2 - - - Microsoft Sites 11.3% Google Sites accounted for 9.5 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! billion), Microsoft Sites (1.7

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 25, 2011

Social media, online PR and user-generated content sites open up a new world of places to be “found.&#. Promote your content (though not only your content, but other content your readers/followers/fans may be interested in) on popular social bookmarking sites like Digg , delicious , Reddit and StumbleUpon.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.3 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! N/A -- -- -- - Google Sites 64.7% 64.6% -0.1 - - - Yahoo! Microsoft Sites 8.9% user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five. user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 20, 2009

Google has 65 percent market share, Yahoo! According to comScore, “In June 2009, Americans conducted more than 14 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.0 Microsoft Sites grabbed 8.4 N/A -- -- -- - Google Sites 65.0% 19.6% -0.5 - - - Microsoft Sites 8.0% Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 31, 2011

Search Engine Optimization is a discipline within Internet Marketing that helps ensure that our client Websites’ show up in the Search Results of Google, Yahoo! – Help identify new linking opportunities by reviewing potential websites to ensure they are relevant to our client and are a quality site. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 17, 2011

Google’s web sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com , ranked as the top online video content property in February with 141.1 Microsoft’s web sites captured the #2 ranking (up from #7) with 48.8 million viewers, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 46.7 Share it on StumbleUpon. million viewers.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 18, 2009

percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! N/A Google Sites 64.2 Microsoft Sites** 8.2 Google Sites accounted for 9.3 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.9 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1.1 Share it on StumbleUpon. In May 2009, Americans conducted 14.3

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 18, 2010

billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.7 Microsoft Sites grabbed 10.7 Google Sites 65.6% 17.3% -0.2 - - - Microsoft Sites 10.3% Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 18, 2011

He/she is charged with optimizing various site elements, including site structure, linking, and keywords, as well as effectively reporting on both qualitative and quantitative trends for ongoing SEO efforts. – Conduct periodic site audits. – Aid in the management of content-site related projects. Tweet This!

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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

link] FriendFeed [link] LinkedIn [link] MySpace [link] Twitter [link] Digg [link] Seesmic [link] Stumbleupon [link] Ning – Create Your Own Social Network [link] Squidoo [link] Social Tools & Apps Hootsuite – Our Fav!! Buzz Index – Today?s Does anyone else share my same frustration or is it not really an issue for you?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. Answers Yahoo! It tells you what they like …and what they don’t like.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Examples range from Google News and Yahoo! to topic-focused niche sites such as (using social media as an example) Social Media Today and Social Media Informer. The site also makes it easy to promote your newspaper through Twitter and Facebook. Share it on StumbleUpon. Share this on Facebook. Share this on FriendFeed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. Even though this may speak to underlying customer service issues that have nothing to do with social media,it is easy to assign the blame for any damage caused to the social sites that provide exposure for negative comments.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 3, 2010

Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google , Yahoo! , In fact, Yahoo! There’s some issue with the real-time feed data that is causing Google and Yahoo! I have seen this happen before with other sites like Twitter. Post this on Diigo.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

web sites, images, videos, etc.) When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users. It also allows you to share your bookmarks on other social networking sites. A site that wants to educate the folks who land on it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 15, 2008

Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM has compiled his own list of the “best posts of 2007″ in a site with a brilliantly and cleverly chosen title, the SEMMYS (Search Marketing Emmys). Answers Yahoo! Well, unfortunately, your reading list has just lengthened. robots.txt, IP questions for hosting, etc.), Seriously, it rocks.

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Idaconcpts

JANUARY 25, 2011

based startup’s core strength was its ability to create a strong network of referal sites and until this date it was able to have more referral traffic than the leader of this industry, Groupon. Share it on StumbleUpon. Until October 2010, the Washington, D.C. Groupon: A Bubble in the Making? Email this to a friend? Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

In the past, if you found something of interest (or something that was really, really cool), you would need to switch over to a bookmarking site like Digg , or StumbleUpon in order to share your findings with others. The new look of LeapFish is a cross between Yahoo! Share it on StumbleUpon. and Google’s homepage.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 9, 2010

Measuring the ROI of social media is challenging for several reasons, the most significant of which is the problem of “last click attribution;&# just because a sale or lead “came from&# Twitter or Facebook as the last click doesn’t necessarily mean that site deserves all the credit. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 27, 2009

It includes a ranking of the most “engaging and visited Internet site categories and properties, based on the comScore World Metrix service, and the top search properties, based on the comScore qSearch service. Microsoft Sites followed in second with 1.9 million visitors (77 percent reach), while Yahoo! Sites 1,757 69.7%

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 15, 2009

Google’s web properties continued to be the most visited web properties in April 2009, with more than 155 million visitors, followed by Yahoo! Table 2 comScore Top 10 Gaining Site Categories* by Percentage Change in Unique Visitors (U.S.) 1 Platform-A** 176,455 91% 2 Yahoo! million visitors. million visitors.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 16, 2008

Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Gab Goldenberg and Steven Bradley came to the party and donated their site stats for analysis, thereby providing three data points for observable trends (along with my own site). While some argue that StumbleUpon traffic is targeted, the broad nature of content categories and misclassification of content means this is rarely the case.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 14, 2011

If you are looking for a web site called “ Cake Central “, then you probably don’t want to perform a Google search today. Apparently Google thinks that a web site called Beerby.com is ranking Cake Central, a popular wedding cake web site, first in the search results for this brand search. What do you think?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 11, 2010

Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

account, and a full, multi-channel viral contest supported by both offline and online media assets, to drive awareness and potential consumers to a fully socialized micro site. That resulted in a lot of potential customers leaving the site and never getting around to taking a tour of the spa facilities.

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Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2010

Sites like these usually have their own private groups for the contributors to the blog, which is definitely a great idea. Or, you can even include direct links to the post on social sites or add your preferred tweet text in the group. For example, if I were to have a list for promoting posts on my own site, it would look like this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

How can I navigate the millions of questions on Yahoo! What content works best on StumbleUpon ? Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! How can I market effectively with Flickr ?

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Idaconcpts

DECEMBER 28, 2010

It is a simple browser bookmark that opens the application within your website, making it easy to create sprites, even if you already have a fully-functioning site in place. Originally developed by Google, the foundation that supports the project is now supported by Hi5, MySpace, Yahoo, and many others. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

How do you think this knowledge applies to site development and marketing? Beyond the core of people who want to demonstrate their expertise in a niche by blogging, will blogging continue to grow, or will community-oriented sites become more popular? Answers Yahoo! In any case, I can’t see any obvious lessons.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 2, 2009

Parents with young children can choose the “Parental Control” mode which blocks access to sites that contain pornography or other adult content. Web of Trust offers Internet users preventive protection against Web-based attacks, online scams, identify theft, and unreliable shopping sites. Share it on StumbleUpon. Tweet This!

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