http://oybuzz.com/blog Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:35:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yahoo Inc. was in the crosshairs Friday, a day after signing a search advertising deal with Google Inc., as many investors, analysts and onetime suitor Microsoft Corp. criticized the partnership. The agreement, hailed by Yahoo as a solution to its slumping finances, was alternately denounced as ego-driven, a threat to competition ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/85 The question of link baiting got a huge bump late last month when Lyndon Antcliff now notorious hoax made headlines in major news sources in both the US and the UK. The story concerned a 13 year old boy’s shopping spree that supposedly included a rendezvous at a TX motel to ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/84 KOREA TIMES -- June 9 -- Cyworld said that it has sold 300m songs after six years of service, adding 100m in only one year. Music has become an inseparable part of young Koreans' online life, the company says. Cyworld charges 500 won ($0.5) for a song, meaning it ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/83 MIAMI HERALD -- June 9 -- Miami based ad firm, Factory Interactive, launched a multimedia-rich Web platform called Veridoo.com. Veridoo allows users to completely rebrand, or ''white label,'' the Veridoo platform in exchange for sharing online ad revenue. But individuals are also being encouraged to create their own channels ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/82 MASHABLE -- June 9 --  RockYou has closed its own massive funding deal: a $35m Series C round, led by DCM. RockYou says its network now reaches 87.5m people each month, who in turn generate 2.7 billion page views. The company also points out that it's not just a ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/81 myYearbook.com, a network founded by two high school students, is now the third largest and fastest growing social network in the U.S. The teen network’s market share grew by 426 percent this past year, according to leading online competitive intelligence service Hitwise.“As a social media company, we choose the best ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/80 TECH CRUNCH -- June 4 -- If you try to buy an ad on Facebook, there are certain words that are taboo. Any ads that contain four-letter words are automatically blocked. So too are ads with the names of competing social networks "MySpace," "Friendster," "Hi5," , or "Orkut." (Curiously, ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/79 LA TIMES -- June 5 -- A feature called YouTube Insight, introduced in March, gives YouTube account holders who have uploaded videos to the site a range of statistics, charts and maps about their audiences. Until recently, "it's been hard to measure the success of online advertising campaigns," said ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/78 READ WRITE WEB -- June 5 -- The Executive Director of Europe's top Internet security agency, ENISA, Andreas Pirotti, recently called for expanding EU legislation "to cover the taking of photos of people and posting them on the Internet," noting that there's no need to obtain consent before posting ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/77 MASHABLE -- June 5 -- Twitter is working on adding the ability for users to separate their contacts into groups, support for sending and receiving messages by e-mail, and adding new IM and Internet channels for the service. They're also looking to improve the way links are handled.  One ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/76 BUSINESS WIRE -- June 5 -- ShoZu can now deliver new Facebook posts directly to the user's mobiles as well as allow users to change their Facebook status from the ShoZu interface. ShoZu supports photo and video communities ranging from YouTube and Flickr to Photobucket, Google Picasa, Buzznet, Hyves, ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/75 CHRISTIAN NEWSWIRE -- June 6 -- HisHolySpace.com founder Jeff Broderick announced that he has sold the site to Christian.com Media Group and that the site would soon take on the name Christian.com. In the announcement Broderick indicates that he has also joined Christian.com Media Group and will still be ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/74 Social networking sites are on the rise in the UK and ad spending on such sites is expected to reach £285 million ($533 million) by 2012, according to eMarketer's recently released "UK Social Network Marketing: Ad Spending and Usage" report - MarketingCharts writes. Some 11 million people, or 30 percent ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/72 WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Tuesday his company's interest in Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) hinges on developments in online advertising."The fundamental driver for us is we're looking to accelerate our moves to get scale in online advertising," Ballmer said. "We do think software technology and the scale ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/69 Greek social networking service wadja.com has been generating some interest recently, mostly because Facebook has apparently banned emails that contain any mention of the site - so they must be doing something right. Facebook said it's because of spam, while Wadja thinks it might be more to do with their ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/68 The European Parliament is to create its own social networking website at a cost of £3.2 million to taxpayers. Creating and running the new service will cost more than £4,000 for each Euro-MP over the next 18 months, even though many already belong to free and popular networking sites such as ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/67 INFORMATION WEEK -- May 22 -- Facebook will clean up users' profile pages and improve organization now that the site has more than 20,000 applications. The new applications will be organized in one of four tabbed categories for easier navigation and access. The new design is also expected to ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/66 FORBES -- May 22 -- Big phone carriers seem to be itching to get a ride on consumers' enthusiasm for social networks. Comcast agreed to acquire online address book service Plaxo on May 14, for an undisclosed sum. On May 16, U.K.-based carrier Vodafone spent $49m on its first ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/65 SNW -- May 22 -- The Social Networking Conference in San Francisco July 10th-11th is shaing up very nicely. A very highly esteemed keynote speaker has been confirmed today and will be announced shortly. Hint: If it wasn't for this man, the social networking industry probably would not exist. Watch ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/64 Google Inc. extended its share of Internet searches in April to 61.6 percent, while Yahoo Inc. sites and the other major search engines saw slight declines between March and April, according to comScore's April search rankings. Google's share of Internet searches rose 1.8 percent from March to April, from 59.8 percent ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/63 LinkedIn was the fastest-growing social networking site in April, with traffic increasing 361% to 8.7 million unique visitors from $1.9 million a year ago, according to comScore. MySpace easily remained the category leader with $58.7 million users, but has only grown 3% since last year. No. 2 Facebook is up a ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/62 Social networking has moved rapidly from teen-centric sites such as MySpace into the realm of business with career-networking sites like LinkedIn. Now the trend is picking up speed in the world of small business with sites like Moli.com. This self-described social media/social commerce site has launched the Moli Small Business Center, ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/61 Loss of productivity has been a major concern for business owners and companies all around the world. Employees have been known to spend working hours doing other things apart from work: socializing, gossiping, and the sort. With the advent of the Internet, a new time-waster could be a threat to ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/60 AOL has closed its US$850 million acquisition of Bebo, and the portal will use the social network as the basis for a new People Networks business unit. Bebo Chief Executive Officer Joanna Shields will serve as executive vice president of AOL and president of the People Networks division, which will combine ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/59 Filename, title, description. Same as above Video Files Metadata Same as above Keyword “video” Same as above Links and Backlinks Same as above Make good thumbnails, first and the last frames. A video thumbnail is what users view when they are deciding between which videos to watch. Different video search engines will grab thumbnails differently. Some will use the ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/58 HTML surrounding video. When you publish a video on a website, you will want to make certain that it is surrounded with HTML content. This way the search engines can get additional information from the surrounding page as the information contained within a video file can be limited. Filename, title, description. These ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/57 U.S.A. Bebo BlackPlanet (African-Americans) Bolt (Music and Video) Broadcaster (Video sharing and webcam chat) CarDomain (Car lovers) Care2 (Green living and activism) Classmates (School, college, work and the military) Dogears.net (US Universities) Dogster (uh, dogs!?!) Eons Facebook Flickr (pics) Friendster Graduates (School, College) Golfspinner (Golfers) Hi5 Joga (Soccer) Kaneva (3D virtual world) LibraryThing (Book Lovers) eSpin (Teens) Meetup MiGente (Latinos) MOG MSN Spaces MySpace MyYearBook Orkut Piczo Palopia (students) Panjea (music, media player) Passado Reunion Sconex Tagworld Takkle.com (Sport) Travellerspoint (Travels) Tribe Vois WAYN Xianz (Christians) Xuqa Yahoo 360 Yelp Zaadz (Change the World) Zorpia Doostang ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/56 Microsoft has provided a brief statement this evening regarding the Yahoo deal. Good gosh, will this go on all year? This time it looks like they are pursuing a "transaction" which could mean a million different things. Perhaps an acquisition of the advertising arm of Yahoo and let Yahoo focus ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/55 USA TODAY -- May 12 -- Facebook and MySpace are valued in the billions of dollars and are considered blueprints for how to build a website. Yet a deeper question lingers: How are they going to consistently produce profits to match their soaring valuations? With online ad spending booming into ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/54 Canada, Comscore ~ 3/08 /Unique Visitors (000) 1 Facebook (15,513) 2 Blogger (8,631) 3 Windows Live Spaces (6,307) 4 MySpace (4,536) 5 WordPress (4,418) 6 Yahoo Geocities (2,974) 7 SixApart Sites (2,774) 8 Flickr (2,414) 9 Piczo (2,173) 10 Lycos Tripod (2,022) 11 Skyrock Network (1,993) 12 Classmates (1,657) 13 FreeWebs (1,563) 14 Hi5 (1,521) 15 Webshots (1,494) Australia, Hitwise ~ 4/08 1 MySpace  2 Facebook 3 YouTube 4 Bebo 5 ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/53 Hitwise ~ 4/08 1 MySpace 2 Facebook 3 Youtube 4 Craig's List 5 Yahoo! Answers 6  MySpace TV 7 Yahoo! Groups 8 Yahoo! Member Directory    9 myYearBook 10 Bebo 11 Meebo   12 BlackPlanet  13 Craig's List - Portland 14 Tagged 15 Craig's List - New York   16 Craig's List - Seattle 17 Classmates 18  Hi5 19 Craig's List - Los Angeles 20 Yahoo! Message Boards 21  Craig's List - ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/52 Vodafone* today announces that it has agreed to acquire 100% of ZYB, a privately-owned company based in Denmark which operates a social networking and online management tool enabling mobile phone users to back-up and share their handsets’ contact and calendar information online. The acquisition will be made for a cash ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/51 Facebook is all about openess, right? And privacy. It’s a balance, or something. Oftentimes it’s a tricky balance, but Facebook has self-instituted standards to live up to. And those standards say that Google’s new Friend Connect is evil (in so many words). As Friend Connect supposedly shares user data in a ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/50 Amsterdam - International wireless carrier Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) announced on Friday that it has acquired Denmark-based mobile social network ZYB, for about $50 million in cash. ZYB allows users to share information, messages and media from their PCs with contacts in their phone's address book. "Using a web portal as a link between ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/49 SAN FRANCISCO - Social networking pioneer and inadvertent spammer Plaxo has been sold to cable and broadband company Comcast for between $145m and $175m. Plaxo launched in 2001 as an address-book synching tool before anyone had heard of social media. Last year, it launched its own social networking site Plaxo Pulse ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/48 Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular website in the United States, according to comScore's rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors. Google has long been the internet's leader in search, but its audience has trailed Yahoo's when counting other services such as email and photo sharing. April's numbers, ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/47 Google PageRank or PR for short is numeric value assigned by Google to pages that represents how important a page is. The more important and known your pages are, the better PR they will get. PR is a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 is an unknown page for ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/46 that I see people making. By avoiding these mistakes, you can avoid a lot of anguish and frustration in the long run.1) Optimizing your site for the wrong keywords The first step in any search engine optimization campaign is to choose the keywords for which you should optimize your site. If you ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/45 Sandboxes and Google Sandboxes are used to "quarantine" things in the real world (you keep all the sand in one place that way, in theory, but then again have you seen the trail from a kids sandbox?, still I digress), the term being also used with computers in relation to "dangerous ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/44 Top search engines do their best to provide the most relevant information, and it’s really interesting to find out which of them are most popular. One of investigations of 2006 year gives such result of usage top search Engines in USA: Google—42.7%. Yahoo!—28%. MSN—13.2%. AOL—7.6%. Ask—5.9%. Other search engines together possess 2.6% of all searching requests. This ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/43 Submitting to directories This article describes the basics of submitting to the human-edited Internet directories such as Yahoo!, dmoz.org, (the Open Directory Project) and Zeal. (For more information on submitting specifically to Zeal, please read: Submitting to LookSmart for Free Through Zeal) To get listed on a directory, you submit your front ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/42 Google, Yahoo and MSN. Most webmasters and online marketers spend a lot of their time trying to get listed in the big three search engines. But trying to figure out the algorithms and robot visits for these SE's can mean changing your site for the search engines and not for ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/41 Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. 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My nerves are shot... three years of hard work ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/25 by Tia Scott 6 cups thick content mix 1 jar word of mouth, whipped 2 tablespoons meta tags 1 cup creativity 1) In a bowl, stir content mix with 1 cup creativity. Stir. If hard, let sit overnight 2) Stir in meta tags. 3) Heat server to 100 degrees. In a 1024x768 pan ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/24 Search engine optimization tips in this category are devoted to the art of building your webpages effectively and making them interesting for the search engines. The articles under this heading describe general notions and terms of the search engine optimization field, providing you with a comprehensive introduction into SEO (search ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/23 Diamonds are forever (DeBeers) Just do it (Nike) The pause that refreshes (Coca-Cola) Tastes great, less filling (Miller Lite) We try harder (Avis) Good to the last drop (Maxwell House) Breakfast of champions (Wheaties) Does she ... or doesn't she? (Clairol) When it rains it pours (Morton Salt) Where's the beef? (Wendy's) HONORABLE MENTIONS Look Ma, no cavities! (Crest toothpaste) Let your ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/22 This list features the most popular websites based on US Internet usage for February, 2008, ranked by market share of visits across all Hitwise industries. Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.45% 2. mail.yahoo.com 4.94% 3. www.myspace.com 4.29% 4. ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/21 The terms listed below are ranked by volume of searches that successfully drove traffic to websites in the Hitwise News and Media category for the 4 weeks ending February 23, 2008, based on US Internet usage. Rank Search Term Volume 1. weather 0.69% 2. ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/20 This list features the search terms for the industry All Categories, ranked by largest relative increase for the week ending February 23, 2008, compared with the week ending February 16, 2008. Rank Search Term Volume 1. lunar eclipse 0.04% 2. 2008 tax rebate 0.02% 3. lindsay lohan 0.02% 4. jennifer lopez 0.02% 5. 2008 tax rebate ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/19 Google Received 64 Percent of U.S. Searches in October Dominance continues with a six percent increase over last year 2007 December: According to 2007 December figures from Hitwise... Google has the largest market share of U.S. based web searches at 65.98% 2007 November 65.10% 2007 October 64.49% 2007 September 63.55% 2006 October 60.94% Yahoo is second with a ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/18 Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter are the three major PPC engines. Our PPC Management Campaign essentially consists of 16 salient features. These features will provide comprehensive overview of your PPC campaigns. The most popular Pay Per Click engines are Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing & Microsoft adCenter. Successful ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/16 Creating a web community can have a synergistic effect for your website. 1) Improve your search engine ranking. Having thousands of pages, each littered with your specific keywords, does a lot to improve your visibility on the web. Having that many forum postings linked to your site tells search engines that ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/15 Our SEM process follow these steps to optimize your site. Meta Tag Optimization Optimized Title Tags Optimized Content Building Personal Consulting Services Link Popularity Building Search Engine Submission Keyword Research Competition Research Internet Marketing Strategies Web Site Analysis & Reports Monthly Ranking Maintenance (MRM) Search Engine Friendly Optimization Pay Per Click Optimization Article Syndication Directory Submission - Pay and Free both Check the listing above and ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/14 What is Reciprocal Link Building ? It's a process where we requests webmaster of different sites similar to your site to put our site's link to their site, in return we also place their site's information to our site. In this way we not only gets free visitors from their site ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/13 (1) Links pointed to your sites shall be from different sites. (2) Only 1 link will be counted from one domain (3) Links will be provided from different sites (4) Time required to get 100 one way links will be 30-45 days (5) No link from directories or article sites. (6) All links will be ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/12 DMOZ is the most respected online directory. All major search engines like Google , Yahoo, and MSN give a lot of importance to websites having links from DMOZ. Inclusion in DMOZ can dramatically increase your website ranking and traffic. Thousands of sites get submitted to DMOZ every day but only a ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/11 Are you indexed on Google yet? Does the question of how to get indexed on Google keep bothering you? Now, get your website indexed in Google less than 10 days OR we'll give you a full refund. We don't submit it to Google's add url page (http://www.google.com/addurl/). We don't simply create a link by ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/10 If your site has not been listed on all the major search engines, then have them submitted to all the major search engines. Remember, a submission doesn't guarantee a listing and a listing doesn't guarantee a good ranking. But get listed it is important to submit your site to a ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/9 Social bookmarking submission has developed into a powerful tool for SEO experts. It involves linking sites within the various forums, blogs and message boards on social networking websites, blog sites and content centric sites like Digg. Considered a better alternative to submitting a website on blogs, manual social bookmarking is ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/8 We carry out Manual submissions to High Rank Article Sites, with different anchor text and description. We submit your site to quality Article Sites, most of them require us to create a unique account for you before submission. We'll create unique email ids for you, register your account with each ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/7 Search engine optimisation (SEO) has started turning submission to directories and articles to its advantage. You could have a world-class website; you may have the latest e-commerce technology and the best graphic design work. Now comes the tricky part: choosing an SEO firm. With a long list of SEO firms ... http://oybuzz.com/blog/archives/6