Archive for May, 2008

Google Races Ahead of Yahoo in Ad Clicks

Google emerged as a leader yet again and raced ahead of Yahoo, its major online competitor, in the segment of paid advertisement clicks.


What is Social Media Optimization

Social Media Optimization (SMO) is a planned process of using social media, social networking websites and online communities as a means for generating publicity. It is one of the forms of Search Engine Marketing (SEM), which helps in promoting websites on a comprehensive basis.


Text Links for SEO or Search Engine Optimization

Text Link is a part of a blog or website which helps in referring the user to other websites or web pages. People often use text links for building links or internet advertising. There are many websites or SEO firms that sell text links. You need to do a lot of research before you go [...]


Social Bookmarking

Bookmarks are the favourite pages that users like to visit very often. If you like any website you can add it to the favourites by clicking on the ‘add to favourite’ button. With the help of this particular function, the user does not need to type the URL in the web address box.


Importance of CSS

Cascading Style Sheets or CSS, as it is commonly known, is a style sheet that enables you to link to any other document present in your website. Thus it helps you in retaining control over various other elements in different pages of your website.


Blogging Tips

Blogging tends to be a unique technique of SEO. SEO blogging techniques have proven to be very successful as more and more people visit blogs for information. The increased traffic on blogs has given internet marketing and SEO companies a new toll for their marketing strategies. Blogs are completely legitimate and can help in improving [...]


Yahoo Files a Lawsuit against Lottery Spammers

Yahoo has sued unidentified spammers who were trying to deceive people into disclosing personal information through e-mail scams by claiming they had won a prize or lottery from the Web portal. The personal information included social security as well as credit card numbers.


Facebook Tightens Privacy, Blocks Google’s Friend Connect Program

As the competition heats up between the social networking sites, Google continues to face severe challenges from the likes of MySpace and Facebook, the top two community websites over the internet.


Adobe Launches Latest Version of Creative Suite Software

Adobe Systems Inc., maker of the renowned Photoshop and Acrobat software, has made available beta versions of three of the latest tools for free download that its Creative Suit 4 will comprise of: Soundbooth, Fireworks and Dreamweaver.


Ask.com Acquires Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com for $100 million

Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp, the owner of Ask.com has acquired Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of prominent sites like Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com for $100 million.