I just got my official notice this morning that Yahoo! MyBlogLog is being discontinued effective May 24, 2011. Of course they don’t say much else in their email notification, but I did not really expect they would. It seems to me that MyBlogLog was pretty much put on the back burner once Yahoo! bought them a few years back (or was it several — it has been so long since I paid any attention). I can recall the first time...
Read MoreFollowing its failed $6 billion acquisition bid for GroupOn, the fast-growing social shopping and coupon provider, search engine giant Google remains committed to boost its footprint in the online and mobile local ad markets. Post-GroupOn. Susan Wojciki, Google’s senior vice president of advertising, told the Wall Street Journal that, “cracking the local ad market is her biggest priority.” This assertion and the appointment of Marissa Mayer, one of Google’s key executives, “to head up a new business focused on location...
Read MoreWhile I would love to say that every idea I have ever thought of regarding SEO are my own, I must confess that the majority are amalgamations of great ideas I find all over the net. Surely I don’t spend my days hunting out grand SEO ideas by surfing the net. If I did, I would never get to client work. I have subscribed to pretty much every SEO related RSS feed I can find over time. Sounds easy enough...
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