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So it would seem that everyone is in a race to become as transparent as possible.� It has become (clearly) evident that there is more revenue potential out there by opening up everything and making it available than there is by keeping it all horded and secret and [...]

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Great news this a.m. from the land of hockey … Yahoo has finally acknowledged that yes, we Canadians live in Canada. What you ask?

In essence, this means that Yahoo is finally automatically redirecting Canadians searching via Yahoo Search (ie. Yahoo.com) to Yahoo.ca, presumably based on IP. The result is more Canadian sites will be found [...]

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When you say "Local Market Strategy", most people think of local as at the city level. In search that means Google Local, using Geographic delimiters in keywords, Local Directories, etc.
But for large enterprise sized clients, a local strategy is one for a particular country. Multi nationals typically are faced with the [...]

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So I don't know if you recall in the past when I mentioned that I believed Live to be the branding where Microsoft planned on competing with Google.  (See Virtual Reality – Microsoft Office Live).  Well, we should look at some of the things that they are doing from the User perspective.

Nice and clean, free [...]

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According to the ComScore figures, growth in paid-search clicks happens to be slowing down.  Is it because of the economy?  Is it because of the "R" word that is being used in the United States?  Don't know, but there was still growth in Google.  Certainly it may not have been huge growth [...]

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Andrew Goodman, of Traffick.com and Page Zero Media, and I are if not friends, well, at least peers with a mutual and healthy respect for each other both knowing exactly how long the other has been at this Search (whether paid or otherwise) stuff in this country. Over the years we've lunched, coffee'd and [...]

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There is no sales tip in the world that will make your blog convert if it's not a quality blog.
Next week I'll write about How to get your Blog Traffic to Convert (part five in a 5 part series on Blog Strategy with a focus on clients). But before we can cover that, [...]

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HOLY SMOKES!  I am completely blown away by the moves of Yahoo this week, in an effort to stave off the Microsoft takeover.  As of yesterday for a two week trial, Google will handle advertising for a tiny piece of the searches carried out on Yahoo.  In fact, Google will place ads alongside [...]

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Ever heard it said … "to have a good friend, you've got to be a good friend"?

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Well its absolutely true! A group of friends with similar interests but complementary skills is beneficial for all involved, especially where each works to help the others in the group. If each member is an authority in [...]

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Full Disclosure Confession: I don't get the whole social networking phenomenon. Perhaps it is because I am a gentleman of a certain age. MySpace is mine and I have no real desire to share it with anyone beyond my other half… and my dog. I leave the Twittering to my parrot. [...]

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