Justin S.

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Startup idea? Research, research, research.

Justin S. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 5:16 am
Competitive research is an absolute must with any business, however even more important for a startup. Far too often, handfuls of cash are sunk into startups just to find that someone else is already ...
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Sency Overview

Justin S. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 5:02 am
We mentioned some hot new real time web startups last week and today we’re going to walk you through Sency, which offers websites a free feed for their websites and blogs that allow site owners to p...
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Why .org's provide SEO benefit

Justin S. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 4:56 am
In a recent post, we wrote about the backlink value of .edu and .gov sites. This has a lot to do with why .org’s can be so powerful for “link juice.” Many .org’s are affiliated with government...
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Social networks are for communication, not solicitation

Justin S. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 3:42 am
Many marketers and brand ambassadors are still trying to figure out this whole social media marketing thing. Yeah, we all know about  Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Myspace, but how do we use them? ...
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Emarketing Newsletter Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01

Justin S. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 8:19 pm
RT @Andrew303: Obama & Google (a love story) http://bit.ly/1Sr1rT Good article about the President's relationship with Google. # RT @sengineland Five Tips To Avoid Getting Burned When Starting So...
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Market Samurai Review Part Four: Monetization, Promotion and Finding and Publishing Content

Justin S. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 11:17 am
Monetization This is a great feature that allows you to search through four of the top affiliate networks (ClickBank, Commission Junction, Amazon and PayDotCom.com) right through the software. You ca...
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Free .edu blog finder

Justin S. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 6:40 am
We recently wrote about the value of .edu backlinks. Well there are tools out there for that, and as a resource for great tools, it is our responsibility to tell you about them. Check out this tool, a...
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Value of .edu and .gov backlinks

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 3:36 pm
It is fairly well known that a backlink from a .edu and .gov url can have huge potential SEO value. However there are a lot of misconceptions as to why they are valuable and exactly how valuable they ...
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Market Samurai Review Part Three: SEO Competition

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 1:00 pm
SEO Competition Market Samurai does a great job displaying an index of the top 10 results in visual representation that makes it very easy to understand whether or not you will be able to compete for...
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Future of Ask.com – Microsoft?

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 7:12 am
According to Search Engine Land, Barry Diller CEO of IAC, parent company of Ask.com – said that he would be open to selling the fourth largest search engine, which only has approximately 4% of today...
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10 exciting "real time web" startups

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 5:50 pm
Guest Post by Evan Britton The real time web is hot, and many companies are entering the space.  The reason so many companies are entering is because the real time web has the potential to change ho...
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Real time search engine OneRiot talks merger with Yahoo

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 4:58 pm
Google and Bing recently introduced real time search in their search results, including showing relevant twitter feeds in the results. The major search engines are trying to keep up with today’s inf...
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Market Samurai Review Part Two: Keyword Research and Rank Tracking

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 3:38 pm
Keyword Research This tool actually remains free, even if you don’t purchase the full version of the software. When it comes to doing keyword research, Market Samurai provides more insight and the...
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Market Samurai Review Part One: Intro and User Interface

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 3:36 pm
We have had several requests to do a comprehensive overview of Market Samurai, one of the leading software programs for market research.  This first review will be a general introduction to the produ...
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A number one ranking for a term with no traffic has no value

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 2:49 pm
This is a rather simple concept, however I see it over and over, so I figure it’s worth mentioning… When doing keyword research, one of the first things you need to look for is whether a not a key...
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Web 2.0 – AOL Working on Someting "Big & Secret"

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 5:58 pm
The Web 2.0 Summit has been providing a lot of highlights. First Microsoft’s announcement of Twitter Search, then Google’s Sergey Brin’s comments on Yahoo “abdicating search” and now AOL CEO...
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Google Launches Agencyland – A Free Resource for Agencies

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 3:02 pm
Google has recently launched Google AgencyLand – a learning and resource platform to help agencies stay current: Targeted online training learning plans to help you launch and manage your AdWords...
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Swine flu iphone app relesaed by Harvard Medical School

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 1:31 pm
Harvard just released a swine flu app in the Apple itunes store, selling for $1.99. The app was designed to educate people about the rapidly spreading flu virus. It provides information on how to redu...
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Emarketing Newsletter Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 8:19 pm
Why it's cool to be a nerd right now – http://bit.ly/1zg6aL # @israelimom Best keyword research software on the market, adding features daily. Well worth it. emarketing-newsletter.com/marketsa...
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10 reasons to start an Ezine newsletter

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 8:18 pm
Guest Post by Steve Veloudos Creating an Ezine newsletter is one of the most cost effective ways to market your small business on the Internet. Here are ten great reasons to start an ezine: Very c...
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Whitehouse.gov goes open source with Drupal

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 1:01 pm
Yes, you’ve read it right, the web site for the White House is open source as of yesterday. At first, you may ask “wouldn’t that open us up to security threats?” Well, not necessarily. The tec...
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Bing to Integrate Facebook Status Updates

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 1:21 pm
In our last post we talked about Bing’s new Twitter Search. There has also been a lot of talk back and forth regarding the integration of Facebook status udpates and Bing search results as well. Fac...
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Announcing Bing Twitter Search – Bing & Twitter Join Forces

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 9:12 pm
From rumors around wine to their estimated $1 billion price tag we find ourselves blogging about Twitter quite often and for good reason.  The idea of accessing data in real time has been an elusive ...
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How to monetize a blog

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 12:54 am
One thing that many website and blog owners struggle with is how to monetize a website or blog. There are so many sites out there that don’t make any money. They have tons of content, plenty of traf...
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Emarketing Newsletter Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 9:19 pm
Another reason I love Veeedub! Viral video at its best!! http://bit.ly/3CkHWk # Google's take on the Yahoo + Microsoft deal "Size Doesn't Matter" http://bit.ly/ii9ex # Have you seen the new...
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Apple enables in app purchases in free apps

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 11:28 am
Apple just announced that they are now allowing free apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch to include the ability for in app purchasing. This free-now-pay-later-to-upgrade  business model has worked on ...
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YouTube Comment Search Feature

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 11:08 am
It appears that YouTube is currently testing out a comment search feature, however it isn’t available in the user interface just yet. You can test it out at the following url: http://www.youtube.co...
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Twitter wine rumor

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 2:03 am
The rumor is true… Twitter is really launching a wine, or two for that matter in a partnership with Room to Read, a non profit that helps improve literacy rates. The joint venture is called “Fledg...
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Does yahoo use Meta Keywords tag?

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 6:33 pm
Nope, not any more. According to Cris Pierry, Senior Director of Search Yahoo, Yahoo has finally dropped the use of the meta keywords tag in their search ranking algorithm as announced at the recent S...
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Twitter coming in four more languages

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 5:57 pm
Twitter is currently only in English and Japanese. The Twitter Blog just announced they will be rolling out support in French, italian, German and Spanish. This means more people will be able to use T...
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Will Twitter add video technology?

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 4:59 pm
There have been rumors flying around about the possibility of Twitter adding video to the sites functionality. Well, Founder Biz Stone shot that idea down, in less than 140 characters. In a response t...
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Flash Pro CS5 to include Action Script 3 for building iPhone apps

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 3:46 pm
Adobe plans to release a beta of Flash Professional CS5 later this year, which will include Actionscript 3 to give developers the ability to build iPhone and ipod touch apps as well as submit them thr...
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Interactive advertising among least affected forms of marketing in recession

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 3:13 pm
An interactive advertising survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and sponsored by the interactive advertising bureau was just released: 2009 advertising revenue report. We’ve read the report, h...
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Emarketing Newsletter Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 9:19 pm
Finally an easy way to research trademarks! http://www.trademarkia.com/ # I just entered to win some great SEO prizes from @seoboy and @ppchero: http://bit.ly/FH1te Please RT! # 3 New Facebook Strat...
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Emarketing Newsletter Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 9:19 pm
Finally an easy way to research trademarks! http://www.trademarkia.com/ # I just entered to win some great SEO prizes from @seoboy and @ppchero: http://bit.ly/FH1te Please RT! # 3 New Facebook Strat...
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$1 Billion Twitter Valuation

Justin S. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 7:21 pm
Twitter just entered its fifth round of financing for $100 million, increasing share value to almost $16 per share. Twitter’s first round of financing in July 2007 was $97,500 for shares valued at $...
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Wave invite for sale on eBay

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 11:57 am
Now this doesn’t surprise us one bit. Someone is selling their Google Wave invite on eBay for more than $150 receiving 31 votes so far. Google Wave has been highly anticipated and there are many tha...
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Google WAVE opens doors to 100,000 lucky beta users

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 11:42 am
Google WAVE rolled out their first major round of 100,000 invitations to test out the new collaborative communication tool. We promised to cover the launch, and rather than reinventing the wheel, we...
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Emarketing Newsletter Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 27, 2009, 8:19 pm
Do you want to see Windows 7 before the rest of the world? Head to the Link@Sheraton http://bit.ly/2NT7Y # 5 reasons to switch from Google to Bing! http://bit.ly/8B4Jh # RT @ppcforhire Search Engine...
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Google launches YouTube channel for marketers

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 12:58 am
Google partnered with Wharton Business School to develop and launch “Fast.Forward.” a You Tube channel dedicated to helping marketers manage change in an evolving business climate. “Fast.Forward...
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Just Announced at Mixx – Yahoo Launching Global Brand Campaign

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 11:03 am
Live blogging from the Sold Out MIXX Conference & Expo in NY … Yahoo just announced they will be launching a global brand campaign today with the tagline: It’s Y!ou (clever use of the “!”) T...
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FCC Chairman openly supports Net Neutrality

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 1:05 am
Net Neutrality has been a hot battle for the past couple years between the major phone and cable companies and small businesses, website owners and the general public. Earlier today, FCC Chairman Juli...
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Highest reported hyphenated-domain sale

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 10:03 pm
Most domain investors are apprehensive when it comes to hyphenated domain names. All things being equal, a non hyphenated domain will rank higher in search results than the hyphenated version. We obvi...
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Fastest growing search engine… Bing!

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 20, 2009, 5:00 pm
Microsoft’s Bing is now the fastest growing search engine according to a recent Nielsen report. Through the month of august, Bing is processing 10.7% of searches, just short of yahoo! at 16%, which ...
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Apple Store is currently down

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 20, 2009, 12:46 pm
The Apple Store is down right now, with no major announced changes on the horizon. Our sources are telling us that it’s likely just a minor scheduled maintenance because its the weekend and NFL Sund...
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Picture messaging finally coming to the iPhone

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 11:27 am
Apple will finally enable Multimedia Messaging Services on their 3G and 3GS models officially on September 25th, however they have begun to roll out the functionality to select users. The ability to s...
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Big mistake, Skype.

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2009, 7:58 pm
Skype was just acquired by a group of private investors. One of the first major decisions they’ve made is to remove the extras, or “certified plugins.” These plugins are basically Skypes version...
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Google will help 100,000 WAVE goodbye to "old fashioned" e-mail by months end

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 11:40 pm
Our favorite search engine is rolling out the Beta launch for Google Wave Septemeber 30th to 100,000 lucky customers. For those of you who haven’t heard the buzz, Google’s new revolutionary “per...
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Search engine Ranking Factors 2009 Released by seomoz

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 11:54 pm
Seomoz just released their bi-annual report for the latest search engine ranking algorithms based on surveys from 72 SEO experts around the world. This is the most comprehensive free report I’ve see...
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Worldwide Search Traffic Up 41%

Justin S. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 1:01 am
Recently announced data from comScore shows that more than 113 billion searches were conducted during July 2009. The total amounts to a robust 41% increase over July 2008. Google held its significant...
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