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ShoeMoney Raises $10000 for Affiliate Summit Charity

Jan 1st

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ShoeMoney Raises $10000 for Affiliate Summit Charity
AffiliateTip.com – Summit,NJ,USA
Named to Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest growing companies in America, Train Signal’s affiliate program is perfect for any IT related website.
Grand Prive Screws All Affiliates
RecentPoker – New York,NY,USA
… could have a solution in store, according to a progress report this week from the head of the Casino Affiliate Program.com community, Lou Fabiano. …
eNewsChannels

Travel Affiliate Program on Commission Junction Launched by CheapOair
eNewsChannels – Torrance,CA,USA
by Aria Munro NEW YORK, NY — CheapOair is proud to announce the official launch of their travel affiliate program through Commission Junction, …

Alibaba

Left With No Options
Economic Observer – Beijing,China
With the success of Baidu and Alibaba, China’s leading e-commerce platform, fresh in her mind, she opted for the latter. Though she would only receive 25% …

Amazon

A Look Into Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc, Google Inc, and Yahoo Inc
Schaeffers Research – Cincinnati,OH,USA
Last, but not least, we have Amazon.com which I would rank as the most interesting chart. Like the others, the stock has dropped but it is still holding …
Amazon is Not Alone – LightInTheBox.com Sets Record Holiday Sales …
PR Newswire (press release) – New York,NY,USA
Such results coincide with an earlier announcement made by Amazon.com for its record holiday sales with a 16% increase from last year. …
Amazon No Longer Accepting BillMeLater: The Fight Against eBay …
Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USA
At the time of the acquisition, BillMeLater was an integrated payment method at Amazon.com. Amazon.com announced yesterday in Seller Central, however, …
ComScore: Online Holiday Shopping Falls 3% In 1st Decline
CNNMoney.com – USA
Visitors to Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) grew 7.4% to 76.2 million visitors, followed by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), up 3.9% to 51.5 million; Target Corp. …


eBay

eBay Provides Light to 15000 Children
San Leandro India West – San Leandro,CA,USA
The idea of the gift by the auction giant was initiated by Anna Sidana, director of financial products at PayPal and a member of the eBay Green Team. …
Reports: Amazon no longer accepting eBay’s Bill Me Later
Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA
Amazon.com Inc. has stopped accepting payment through eBay Inc.’s Bill Me Later system, according to reports Wednesday. Seattle, Wash. …
eBay Doesn’t Fit the Bill for Amazon
TheStreet.com – USA
But in early October, eBay went for the whole company, agreeing to pay nearly $1 billion to acquire it. As FBR points out, the move by Amazon to boot …
Terminal report: Internet sales slip 3%
Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA
But the greatest total number of visitors flocked to eBay (NasdaqGS:EBAY), which saw 85.4 million, an actual decline of 4 percent from the year-ago figure …
EBay Watch 2008: The Year in Review
ECommerce-Guide – United States
By Vangie Beal There is no doubt that 2008 will go down as eBay’s most controversial yet. The auction giant rolled out one policy change after another …
Macabre ‘n’ roll: Bopper’s casket to go on eBay
Fort Worth Star Telegram – Fort Worth,TX,USA
Jay Richardson, the Bopper’s son, plans to sell the empty casket on eBay to raise money for a musical show about his father and to keep the Bopper’s memory …
Holiday E-Commerce Sales Fall Flat
Washington Post – United States
A simple look at US traffic to retail sites in December through Christmas Eve (see table below) shows that eBay had the most unique visitors (85.4 million), …
AuctionBytes Blog

The Numbers Don’t Lie. eBay Losing Collectibles Listings
AuctionBytes Blog – Natick,MA,USA
Some sellers may still be holding out hope for a US holiday listing promotion from eBay. If eBay does accommodate with a CLD, it won’t be because they need …

AuctionBytes Blog

eBay’s Bill Me Later Loses Amazon Business
AuctionBytes Blog – Natick,MA,USA
Amazon had owned a stake in BML – 10 percent, according to one analyst – until eBay’s recent acquisition of BML. eBay completed the acquisition of BML last …

PayPal

Amazon Drops eBay’s Bill Me Later Payment Service (AMZN)
Silicon Alley Insider – New York,NY,USA
And likely gone is the notion that working together on Bill Me Later might someday encourage Amazon to offer eBay’s PayPal as a payment method.
Sarah Imbach, Mark Lewis
Pharmacogenomics Reporter – New York,NY,USA
Imbach formerly was VP of revenue and customer operations, and she previously was a senior VP of customer service operations and fraud at PayPal. …
Appreciate your support of Gedakina
News from Indian Country – Hayward,WI,USA
We would also like to mention that we have added a PayPal feature on our website: www.gedakina.org, for people that would like to make contributions at any …
Wasn’t It Obvious All Along? Simple Explanations for eBay’s Decline
Traffick – USA
Some of their other brands (particularly PayPal) have strength and don’t suffer from, well, the “eBay problems” listed above. As the eBay business declines, …
Tudou.com, Hulu, YouTube and Other Online Media Providers
Associated Content – Denver,CO,USA
Founded by three PayPal employees in 2005, YouTube quickly grew into the internet’s biggest video sharing website. Its social impact has been extraordinary. …
Amazon No Longer Accepting eBay’s Bill Me Later: The Fight Continues
Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USA
As most now know, eBay/PayPal acquired BillMeLater earlier this year to augment their growing payments business (and likely to head off a potential …
eBay: The PayPal Factor
Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USA
Also, we cannot forget the recent partnership between PayPal, a company owned by eBay, and Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart recently began allowing online customers to …
Genoa Twp. man reports fraudulent purchases
Livingston Daily – Livingston,MI,USA
As a result, he completed the form and returned it only to discover that someone had used his information to make a $33 purchase through PayPal and a $280 …
Ask Dave Taylor: Don’t be scammed selling your stuff online
Daily Camera – CO,USA
Another said he was happy to pay via Paypal if I just sent him my Paypal account ID. Were either of those legit? If not, how do the scams work? …
NetQwik, a Web Design firm in Loudoun Makes Selling Online Easy
The Open Press (press release) – USA
PayPal Express Checkout has also been added. This new service makes paying with PayPal a seamless experience. Shoppers don’t even know they’ve left your …

Bruce Clay, Inc. and Search Marketing Expo – SMX Continue …

Jan 1st

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Bruce Clay, Inc. and Search Marketing Expo – SMX Continue …
MSNBC – USA
Search Marketing Expo – SMX West Will Feature SEOToolSet(R) Training From Bruce Clay, Inc. in 2009 SIMI VALLEY, CA – Search engine optimization and Internet …
Examiner.com

Use public relations to drive search engine optimization (SEO …
Examiner.com – USA
Specifically, PR for search engine optimization (SEO) is often a missed opportunity. Maybe it’s perceived sticker shock. Maybe it’sa fundamental …

New approaches to search engine optimization
Central Valley Business Times – Stockton,CA,USA
To do that, more and more businesses are engaging SEO (search engine optimization) specialists to achieve high search rankings. …
Killer Startups

BusinessServicesUK.com – Search Engine Optimization
Killer Startups – Miami,FL,USA
A provider of Internet marketing services that is based in the United Kingdom, Business Services UK can be reached online at www.businessservicesuk.com. …

Google

Google Defends Privacy of Gmail Service
TMC Net – Norwalk,CT,USA
Officials with Consumer Watchdog say they want to see Google Inc. store personal search data for less than its current nine months, following Yahoo! …
PC World

Android App Market Gets Down to Business
PC World – USA
Google’s Android App Market will begin selling applications in early 2009, according to blogger and app developer Martin Drashkov. …

Has Chrome Pushed Google Over The Evil Edge?
eWeek – New York, NY
One real quick: he predicts Google’s search guru Marissa Mayer will leave, which is timely considering ValleyWag’s Owen Thomas furthered the rumor last …
New Androids march into view
NetworkWorld.com – Southborough,MA,USA
By Peter Judge , TechWorld , 12/31/2008 New vendors are lining up to deliver an Android phone in 2009, while Google is planning an update to the software …
WELT ONLINE

VP Marissa Mayer rumored to leave Google
WELT ONLINE – Germany
There are rumors that Google VP Marissa Mayer will be leaving the company in 2009, Gawker reported. Mayer, vice president of search products and user …

Google’s Top Ten Products (More Or Less)
Washington Post – United States
Can you name Google’s top ten products? If you look at how Quantcast ranks Google’s subdomains, you can get a sense of which Google products are the most …
VentureBeat

A $3 billion buried treasure found via Google Maps?
VentureBeat – Fremont,CA,USA
Between my computer and my iPhone, I use Google Maps to find just about everything these days. But I never thought about using it to find buried treasure …

Libraries ‘in the Age of Google‘
Abington Suburban – Abington,PA,USA
… earlier this month at the Scranton Cultural Center to comtemplate the future of libraries “in the age of Google,” as presenter Carlton Sears said. …
Apple, Microsoft and Google sued over file previews
TG Daily – USA
Cygnus is seeking an injunction as well as royalties from the Apple, Microsoft and Google. Apple’s OS X uses thumbnail previews to show content of documents …
Landowners say treasure hunter has wrong site
Houston Chronicle – United States
By MARY FLOOD Treasure hunter Nathan Smith testified Tuesday that he not only used Google Earth to spot buried treasure in South Texas but he also checks …


MSN

Mass Microsoft Layoffs Confirmed?
G4 TV – Los Angeles,CA,USA
No word on what departments will be hit yet, but fudzilla is reporting that “MSN might be carrying the brunt of the layoffs” with large staff cuts at …
Bristol Herald Courier

Resolve to Quit Smoking This Year
Bristol Herald Courier – Bristol,TN,USA
… addiction to tobacco, and we want all Tennessee smokers to know they don’t have to go it alone,” said Health Commissioner Susan R. Cooper, MSN, RN. …

SEC Forms Help Investors Investigate
MSNBC – USA
… and, in more advanced cases, checking out the financial information presented on websites such as The Motley Fool, Yahoo!, or MSN Money. …
MS in mess: Is Microsoft headed for layoffs?
Economic Times – Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Apparently, MSN might be carrying the brunt of the layoffs and there are rumours about the possibility of somewhat larger staff cuts at Microsoft Europe, …
A young Marine falls
Kentucky.com – Lexington,KY,USA
21, he exchanged jokes with one friend’s wife on MSN Messenger. Later that day, he was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade struck the vehicle he was …
The skinny from Morgantown, Tulsa, etc.
Charleston Gazette – Charleston,WV,USA
Those arguing on the other side say it’s better for the individuals running MSN, and WVU can make more money if the work is outsourced. …
Facts, people, bear out my faith in Augusta
Augusta Chronicle – Augusta,GA,USA
In the past month alone, the metro Augusta area has been recognized by both Forbes magazine and MSN Money for appreciation in home values, ranking No. …
New credit score formula for 2009
South Carolina Now – South Carolina,USA
According to MSN, the new formula ignores small collection accounts less than 100 dollars. A good example of this would be unpaid library fines, …

Yahoo

Yahoo, Intel have high hopes for Internet TV
CNN – USA
By Stephen Shankland (CNET) — Yahoo and Intel built their success upon widespread use of personal computers, but the two companies hope products to be …
PC World

Psychic Predictions for Tech in 2009
PC World – USA
Psychic Celia: The chief Yahoo-turned-CEO-turned-chief Yahoo will take on some sort of fresh role. “I see that he will be going into a new field, …

A Tough Year for Yahoo
New York Times – United States
By Miguel Helft It’s no secret that this has been a tough year for Yahoo. For investors, the company’s two major setbacks were the failed merger …
Top Social Media Sites of 2008 (Facebook Still Rising)
Washington Post – United States
Note on this list the stubborn persistence of Yahoo’s Geocities at No. 6, the rise of Yahoo’s Flickr at No. 7, Six Apart at No. …
WaMu and Yahoo ranked as year’s top business stories in the valley
Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA
About the same number of readers rated the extended drama at Yahoo Inc. as this year’s biggest story, from the opening salvos of Microsoft Corp. …
Cheap (or Free!) Protection for Your Stocks
Motley Fool – USA
We’ll explain) Let’s use Yahoo! (NYSE: YHOO) as a general example. Suppose you own 1000 shares of the $13 stock, and you want to protect it against further …
Like this story? Share it with Yahoo! Buzz
USA Today – USA
The US airline industry is forecast to turn a tiny profit in 2009, but some carriers could face questions about survival if the economy falters more than …
SGGP

Ministry to work with Yahoo, Google to regulate blogs
SGGP – Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
The Ministry of Information and Communications will work with US giants Yahoo and Google to regulate blogs, its deputy minister Do Quy Doan said at a media …

Yahoo previews YSlow 2.0 in China
CIOL – Bangalore,Karnataka,India
BANGALORE, INDIA: Yahoo recently previewed their next iteration of performance tool YSlow at a conference organised by China Software Developers Network …
Dear Yahoo Board: C’mon, Get On With It (A CEO By Tomorrow Would …
All Things D Blogs – San Francisco,CA,USA
I am talking about the Yahoo CEO search, which is either being done by the Internet giant’s board in such elegant secrecy and with such amazing stealth that …

December: The month in search and a look ahead

Jan 1st

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Internet Marketing News

December: The month in search and a look ahead
Internet Marketing News – Lichfield,Staffordshire,UK
Finally, David Berkowitz of Search Insider said that a number of changes could impact the search engine marketing industry in the coming year, including the …

The Free E-Commerce Ride Is Over
E-Commerce Times – USA
Winning will be less about scooping up souls from the search engine marketing soup and hoping that a few will purchase something, and more about paying very …

Careful what you search for
CNNMoney.com – USA
The search engines argue that user data is crucial to their ability to innovate and stay competitive. Earlier this month, Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) said it …
Senior PPC Manager
ClickZ News – New York,NY,USA
If you love technology, search marketing, data analysis, and want to work in a small but very profitable technology company, this is the job for you. 1. …
SearchViews

The Year in Search and Social Media: Predictions 2009
SearchViews – New York,NY,USA
Yahoo is Broken Up – No year-end list is complete without a gratuitous Yahoo swipe – here’s ours: Microsoft reunites many Yahoo search refugees’ posteriors …

Writing the Web’s Future in Numerous Languages
New York Times – United States
In the last two years, Yahoo and Google have introduced more than a dozen services to encourage India’s Web users to search, blog, chat and learn in their …
Top 11 Money-Wasting AdWords Mistakes
Alibaba News Channel – New York,NEW YORK,USA
In my daily interaction with search engine marketing clients, I come across bad habits that businesses and individuals continually repeat. …
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/30/08
Marketing Vox News – USA
Chad Stoller, former Executive Director-Emerging Platforms at Organic, returned to the firm after a five-month stint as VP-Marketing at Drop.io. …
PR Web (press release)

Canada’s Largest Internet Marketing Firm Co-Founders Named Top 40 …
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
The two have also forged partnerships with Google and Yahoo, as a part of their business strategy, becoming one of only three internet marketing companies …


adCenter

Microsoft Readies Windows 7
Investor’s Business Daily (subscription) – USA
… Yahoo basically guides users to Microsoft’s search engine and the ads are served by Microsoft’s AdCenter platform, and then they split the revenue. …

adSense

Work from Home through professional blogging
Meadow Free Press – Meadow,ID,USA
Sign up with Google AdSense and other web how to write a press release for a book sites. If you think ads may clutter up your blog, then offer spaces for …
istockAnalyst.com (press release)

10 Predictions For The Internet for 2009
istockAnalyst.com (press release) – Salem,OR,USA
AdSense will grow due to the increase in number of blogs (see item #1). Nevertheless, look for Google revenue to stagnate in the first half of 2009 as bids …

Google AdSense Now Pushing Fat Ads: Is this Offensive?
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
If you’re fat and get offended easily, don’t use any service that uses Google AdSense. That’s what WebmasterWorld members are spotting — ads targeting the …

adWords

From print to digital media
GulfNews – Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Instead, the company offered advertising programmes called AdSense and AdWords. AdWords allows advertisers to create text-based advertisements which can be …
Google AdWords Requiring Some Advertisers to Login Twice
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
A WebmasterWorld thread reports that advertisers are having to login twice to the Google AdWords console to gain access. I have confirmed the issue on my …
Increase Quality Or Bid $5.00 To Activate – Solutions For Google …
Meadow Free Press – Meadow,ID,USA
What this message is also saying is that, if you don’t know how to use Google Adwords, you should be paying 5 times more than necessary. So what do you do? …

Google Webmaster Helps Tries Live Lively Event, Before Lively …

Jan 1st

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Japanese Version Of Webmaster Central
Search Newz – Lexington,KY,USA
Nav is the founder and CEO of PageTraffic, a premier search engine company known for its assured SEO service, web design and development, copywriting and …
Google Webmaster Helps Tries Live Lively Event, Before Lively …
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
Googler, JohnMu, suggested in a Google Webmaster Help thread that they give Google’s Lively, Google’s failed attempt at a SecondLife virtual world, …
Search For Child Day Care Site & Google Suggests Porn Site
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
Yes, Google’s “did you mean” results are purely algorithmic, but I agree with the webmaster here. The webmaster complained in a Google Webmaster Help thread …
3.7 Billion External Backinks To Google.com
Mediapost.com – New York,NY,USA
Similar to Google Webmaster Tools, the service provides reports on competitors’ Web sites for a fee. Providing insight on the amount of available data, …
Receive text messages from 14 News
WFIE-TV – Evansville,IN,USA
Make sure to watch 14 News for chances to text in your opinion on controversial news stories! If you have any trouble, email the webmaster at …


Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Recruiting & the Latest Trends
Talent Management Tech – Peterborough,NH,USA
You will learn the latest recruiting trends in the web 2.0 space from top experts in the field. This is your opportunity to discover new ideas and build …
Also In The News: Obama and Web 2.0
FCW.com – Falls Church,VA,USA
President-elect Barack Obama might have Web 2.0 fever, but there’s no guarantee that the rest of the government will happily go along. …
Transition Watch: Will Web 2.0 win over the feds?
GCN.com – Washington,DC,USA
The challenge for the Obama administration will be transferring the Web 2.0 expertise of
Google on the prowl, Web attacks increase, social networks unravel …
NetworkWorld.com – Southborough,MA,USA
“At the risk of offending Web 2.0 enthusiasts, most firms, especially those hardest hit in

Gordon Brown speaks of optimism for 2009 in New Year’s message

Jan 1st

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The road ahead: John Herlihy, European…
Siliconrepublic.com – Dublin,Ireland
… as a location and if we can capitalise on the opportunity presented by the digital economy, then, yes, we can emerge stronger from the current downturn. …
Telegraph.co.uk


Gordon Brown speaks of optimism for 2009 in New Year’s message
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
There will also be help for what Mr Brown called “the digital economy.” David Cameron, the Tory leader, this week criticised the Prime Minister for his …

Online Business


Why You Should Have A Part-Time Online Business Aside From Your …
Inventorspot – USA
by Donna Pacheco The recession is not just the only reason why you should have a part-time online business. You should have an online business because it is …

Hey You, Get onto My Cloud
Redmondmag.com – CA,USA
“If you’re an IT buyer, you’re going to trust the enterprise software vendor you’re already working with over a company whose online business is being an …

New online business TV show explains Twitter for business
NewDesignWorld (press release) – Oxford,Oxfordshire,UK
Bristol, UK ( NewDesignWorld ) December 30, 2008 -Social networking and
microblogging site Twitter is one of the big new online phenomena of
this year. …

Bad news for workers is good news for LinkedIn
USA Today – USA
With fewer jobs available, Hoffman and others expect a rush in online business networking. “Many people — employed or not — will do project work as …

Wimax


Sampling WiMAX & Clearwire
The Oregonian – OregonLive.com – Portland,OR,USA
Clearwire doesn’t formally launch its Portland WiMAX ’til next Tuesday, but its service has been available online since the start of the month. …