http://ironvine.com/blog SEO, SEM, Online Marketing, Paid Search, PPC and Search Engine Information. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:55:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazon Webinar - September 10, 2008 ChannelAdvisor will be hosting a webinar this Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at 2 p.m. EST on how to build and grow your Amazon business.Listen to Scot Wingo and Sam Wheeler, Director of Merchant Services at Amazon Services, as they discuss the various Amazon programs ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/amazon-webinar-september-10-2008/ Below is the latest press release from ChannelAdvisor about the securing of a new round of venture capital funding. CHANNELADVISOR SECURES $20 MILLION IN FUNDING Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Leader in E-commerce Channel Management ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/channeladvisor-gets-new-funding-20m/ 32 Most Important SEO Tips By Edwin Reyes (c) 2008 Following these simple tips will definitely boost your traffic and search engine rankings for free. 1. Make sure your site is not under construction or incomplete with little or no unique content. 2. When your site is ready, submit it to Google, ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/32-most-important-seo-tips/ CHANNELADVISOR ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF RICHFX Acquisition Helps Internet Retailers Offer Increased Usability, Improve Conversion Rates with Fewer Clicks via Rich Media Applications Research Triangle Park, NC– July 16, 2008 – ChannelAdvisor, the leading provider of e-commerce channel management solutions, today announced the acquisition of RichFX, further increasing its multi-channel offerings to online ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/channeladvisor-announces-acquisition-of-richfx/ As I posted last week over at SearchMarketing.com, Yahoo has done a good bit to give more insight into what it is doing to combat click fraud. While there is not a lot of everyday usefulness in the update, they are making a good faith effort to combat the very ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/yahoo-on-click-fraud/ Here's an eBay PayPal coupon promo code for someone to use: eBay/PayPal Coupon: 10% off purchase up to $100 Here's how to redeem this offer: 1. Start shopping on eBay. Be sure the seller accepts PayPal. 2. Pay for your item with PayPal before the expiration date: June 30, 2008 11:59:59 PM PDT. (Make sure ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/ebaypaypal-promo-code/ Back in March Google announced that there would be a new factor in the Quality Score algorithm, landing page load time. With this, not only does the quality of the page content affect your ranking, the speed of which it is displayed will come into play.Last Thursday (May 8, 2008) ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/google-landing-page-load-time/ I know we've probably all used these but I thought I would toss them up here when I found an article with them all included. Word Tracker http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ With Wordtracker you type in one keyword and can get up to 100 top keyword variations and approximately how many searches each one receives. They ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/keyword-generation-resources/ Erin wrote a nice reminder about getting your paid search accounts ready for Mother's Day. This is typically a great period for female demographic targeted sites. My typical advise is to give holidays a 1 month lead time in marketing (more for larger holidays). Don't wait for those last minute ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/mothers-day-is-coming-soon/ Here is a first look at a new visual search engine at searchme.com.Searchme does look good, resembling a mashup of Google with Apple's popular Cover Flow three-dimensional graphical user interface used on its iTunes service, with a little of Ask.com's categories thrown in.For now, Searchme is only going into private ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/new-search-engine-searchmecom/ Google Closes Acquisition of DoubleClick MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (March 11, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick, a company that offers online ad serving and management technology to advertisers, web ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/google-closes-acquisition-of-doubleclick/ Today CNN published an article about some major changes in the way Ask.com is going to be doing business moving forward. They are changing their focus from an all inclusive, interactive search engine and adapting it to target a specific audience. With the change it will return to its roots by ... http://ironvine.com/blog/index.php/archives/askcom-downsizing-and-refocusing/