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JUNE 5, 2013

Even Yahoo! Every now and then you have to take a second look at your website and decide if it’s time for a redesign. has redesigned its search results pages. When you redesign your website, you want to stay true to your brand and image. You don’t necessarily need to change the content, although that may be necessary as well.

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MARCH 12, 2011

Yahoo had originally said it was going to fold the site, but then the groans started. Nevertheless, if it’s true, it could be a big boon to Yahoo. If it’s anyone with half the clout that Yahoo! Yahoo hasn’t done anything with it since owning it and there is certainly a lot of potential there.

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MAY 28, 2011

At one time, it seemed that no one could topple Yahoo! But don’t take from this that Google is taking Yahoo!s from the top of its mountain as king of online display advertising. It seemed that nobody really wanted to. And that somebody is, of all entities, Google. Last year, Google owned 13.3% of the display ad market online.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bing and Yahoo tend to be favored by specific demographics: slightly more women than men. The Yahoo Bing Network has some impressive numbers in certain categories, too. search engines bing SEO yahoo' If those Bing-users are in your target market, you should look at Albert Costill’s 10 Ways to Optimize a Website for Bing.

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JULY 11, 2013

On July 15, 2013, Yahoo! Send out an e-mail to all of your Yahoo! If you get no response, you should delete the e-mail from your list or set up a separate list for your Yahoo! E-mail Marketing for Small Business e-mail list e-mail marketing list cleaning yahoo' That could spell trouble for you.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

That was when Yahoo! Even those search marketers who gloried in the death of Yahoo! at one time sang the praises of Yahoo! Yes, you can use Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools, but neither one of them shares the same information on links that Yahoo! R.I.P. Yahoo! actually tried to be a search engine.

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MAY 20, 2011

You can find that information through Yahoo!s That’s because these two search engines don’t report all their links. They prefer to keep that information secret. on the other hand, has always been open about letting website owners (and the whole world) know what it considers to be a good inbound link. s Site Explorer.

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MAY 21, 2013

Social Media blogging Flickr photos videos yahoo' has decided, after eight years, to spend some energy improving Flickr. This is great news. Specifically, there are three new improvements to Flickr that I think make it worth sharing photos (and videos) to again. Here they are (in a nutshell): 1 terabyte of space for storing photos and videos.

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JULY 8, 2011

Google or Yahoo! Q&A websites like Yahoo! Your own blog’s comments – What questions are people asking? Article directories – Which articles are most popular? Keyword research tool. Answers, Answers.com, and Quora. What are they talking about?

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Have you seen Yahoo! Here is a list of successful websites that aren’t all that pretty or do not have a great deal of graphic design work going in their favor: Google – It’s pretty simple with a white background and a search box. Craigslist – Just a page with a bunch of links.

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JUNE 4, 2011

It’s not often that all three major search engines (Google, Bing, and Yahoo!) team up together on a project, but this time the project is well worth the mutual cooperation. The three search giants have partnered to launch the site schema.org , which helps webmasters define structured data for their websites for easier searchability.

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APRIL 5, 2012

However, Yahoo!, We expected as much from Yahoo! If you thought search was dead and that social was taking over, think again. Search has grown a massive 68% since 2008 with Google and Bing experiencing good annual growth. Ask and AOL probably think the opposite as their share of the search market gradually diminishes.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Many SEOs still believe that it does, and many of them teach their clients that it does. However, many websites have been successful without exact match domain names. Here are a few: Google. Small Business Mavericks. And of course there are plenty more! Small Business Mavericks is not exactly a perfect example, however.

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JULY 17, 2011

One use recommended by Gab Goldenberg is to block Yahoo! A lot of content scrapers are in third world countries where U.S. law won’t reach them. You should also use the disallow command in your Robots.txt file to stop any robots that you know are content scrapers. Gab also has other neat tricks you can try to get the content scrapers.

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MARCH 12, 2014

A few years ago the three major search engines – Google, Bing, and Yahoo! – got together and created Schema.org. This is a microformat markup language that allows webmasters to further define important elements on a web page so that search engines can catalog it easier.

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MAY 14, 2011

If you remember a website by the name of Geocities where you could sign in and build a website, then you might remember that it was just a couple of years ago that Yahoo! I’m talking about the free web-based website hosts. decided to shut the site down – for good.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

These are good reasons why you should monitor your local listings. Where, you ask, are all the places to look for your local listings? Well, there are some big ones that are easy to remember, like these: Google. Yellowpages.com. Angie’s List. Merchant Circle. and a whole lot more at CinchLocal.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Traffic from Bing and Yahoo! Here’s something interesting. this year are down. Traffic from Pinterest is up. The net effect is that Pinterest is the No. 4 traffic referrer, according to information shared by Shareaholic. Google and Facebook out-refer Pinterest as do direct referrals. So what should marketers make of that?

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JULY 17, 2012

Even Yahoo! Other social media sites scored on customer satisfaction including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. These social networks all scored 64, 63, and 69, respectively. YouTube scored a 73 and Wikipedia got a 78. and AOL outscored Facebook with scores of 78 and 74, respectively.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

One clever way to do this is to set up a ghost e-mail account at Hotmail, Yahoo! Here are 4 ways you can spy on the competition surreptitiously without spending any money: Subscribe to newsletters – Your competitors, at least some of them, likely have an e-mail newsletter. Subscribe to it. or even Gmail.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Or you can simply opt to go the branding route as Google, Yahoo! If your content is high quality content, on the other hand, your domain name can benefit from either exact match or partial match. and Bing did. And Small Business Mavericks.

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Domain Name Yahoo Small Business Course 93

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

This would include on sites like Yelp and Yahoo! Pay attention to the quality and authority of your inbound links. Third-party reviews - Just as Google+ Local reviews are important, so too are third-party reviews. Searcher location – This is one you have no control over.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Google replaced Yahoo!, Over at Search Engine Journal, Ellen Gipko has taken a look at Why Amazon and Facebook Are Gaining on Google and gives us what she sees as pivotal in this turf war. There’s only one spot at the top, and looking back, you can see how different internet giants have struggled to stay there.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Places like Yahoo! Directories – Not all directories are created equal. In fact, the search engines have de-listed a lot of them. But some of them are still valuable places to get your website listed. and DMOZ will put your website in the spotlight without putting it at risk.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

At the same time, the survey also suggests that 70% of all small businesses do use Facebook over any other social media like Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Myspace just to name a few. More small businesses are utilizing the SEO marketing tool over any other type of marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

If you want a “no risk” social media strategy, perhaps Foursquare is the place to be, but if you want “slightly risky” or better, then Quora, Yahoo! These are interesting numbers. Answers, Google+, and Foursquare (in that order) are likely to be your cup of tea.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

of users while Yahoo dropped to 15.5% And now, you can usually find what you are wanting with a very simple term, such as cell phones. The search engines then pull several pages of cell phones. Google is the most used search engine with 65.3% according to SearchEngineWatch. Google even uses auto-complete to finish the search for you.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

In the early days, companies joined traffic rings and wrote articles for each other’s websites, or paid for display ad space. It didn’t take long for directories to pop onto the scene. was one of the first, and was the first commercial success story. From there, search engines, forums, and pay-per-click advertising took over.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Unloads Delicious Kudos To HubPages » Revamping Old Content About once a year or so you should go through your old content and update it. This includes your static content, blog content, and maybe even your social media content.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Get you a basic website, make sure your physical address and phone number are on it, claim your business in Google Places and Bing and Yahoo! You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars for Internet marketing. Local, then do some modest Internet marketing. But do it in conjunction with traditional marketing tactics that still work.

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APRIL 9, 2011

Google Places, Yahoo! And if you’d prefer to receive good reviews, just provide good customer service and you are more likely to attract positive reviews rather than negative. Local, and Bing all offer reviews of local businesses. Let your customers know you have a listing at these sites (you do, don’t you?)

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MAY 5, 2011

1 most important thing for any local small business to do is to claim their listing in Google Places (and in Bing’s and Yahoo!’s No matter what innovations the search engine introduces, it will likely involve Google Places in some way. This is why I think the No. ’s local directories as well).

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MAY 1, 2011

If you’ve claimed your business listing in Google Places, Bing Local, and Yahoo! A Web citation is any place off of your own website that mentions your business, web address, or Local business listing information without an accompanying link. So how can a non-link affect your search rankings?

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JUNE 14, 2011

Local business listings in directories such as Yahoo, Google, and others. The very best mobile marketing strategies are those that are integrated with your overall marketing program and can include: A website designed with mobile device access in mind. Use of social media to build location-specific relationships.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Unloads Delicious » The Perfect Website For Off-Line Marketing Ever wonder how you can use online sources for off-line marketing? There actually is a website that is perfect for this and that was created specifically for that purpose.

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JANUARY 14, 2012

General sites include Yahoo Answers and Quora, and they do receive the bulk of the traffic. Q&A websites take three formats – general questions and answers, specialist (as in genre) and the newish kid on the block – local question and answers.

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MARCH 26, 2011

The alternatives were Yahoo!, It has a competing advertising model. For the longest time, serious advertisers online went to the pay-per-click line, and Google was the beginning of that line. Bing (or Windows Live), and smaller PPC search engines.

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