Network Solutions Sued For Domain Frontrunning
Domain name registrar Network Solutions and ICANN are named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging the former is guilty of domain frontrunning, a practice that relies on monitoring what domain names have been searched for and registering those domain names only to raise the price and resell them for a profit. The practice is frowned upon by ICANN, but the plaintiff in the lawsuit, Chris McElroy, says that ICANN has done nothing to stop the practice. Attorneys for McElroy, Kabateck Brown Kellner, are seeking to make the case a class action lawsuit and will bring anyone who has had this experience with Network Solutions in on the lawsuit. KBN is bringing ICANN into the lawsuit to dispute whether or not the agency is a government CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Google Discusses NoIndex Options
According to Matt Cutts, Google is considering others ways of handling the NoIndex meta tag, as it relates to Search Engine Optimization. Of course, if he had his way he'd make sure none of the search engines indexed a page with the NoIndex meta tag. Currently, all the search engines have their own policies regarding NoIndex. Here's the breakdown: - Google doesn’t show the page in any way - Ask doesn’t show the page in any way - MSN shows a url reference and Cached link, but no snippet. Clicking the cached link doesn’t return anything. - Yahoo! shows a url reference and Cached link, but no snippet. Clicking on the cached link returns the cached page. Personally, I'd rather a page with CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Rubel Vs. Beal: Social Media As Search Engine Optimization; Good Practice Or Evil Doing?
Wow! Andy Beal whipped out the Bible on Steve Rubel. Of course, it was warranted. Rubel is all over Search Engine Optimization experts about using social media. What I don't get is what Uncle Sam and the Good Book have to do with Search Engine Optimization or social media marketing. OK, I do understand Beal's scripture banging a bit. But what is the deal with Uncle Sam at the top of Rubel's blog post? Is he telling us it's unpatriotic to engage in Search Engine Optimization or to engage in social media marketing as search engine optimization? Just listen to Rubel's snarky mandates: Search engine optimization professionals of late seem poised to take over blogs, digg, StumbleUpon and other sites CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The EU Takes Privacy Up A Notch
The European Union is going to make all search engines - Google, Yahoo!, and MSN comply with strict privacy rules. EU rules that someone must consent to their data being collected and give individuals the right to object or verify their information apply to search engines, the regulators' group said in a short statement as they prepare a full report due by April. This could potentially open up a whole new level of discussions regarding privacy. It could also lead to some competition regarding citizenship. In this post-industrial age when flight fancy is easy to come by and migration between countries is as easy as ever, citizens of one country could migrate to another country based on laws that are more favorable to individual sensitivities CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Newspapers: An Online Marketing Category Unto Themselves
This is an interesting read about newspapers. It seems that maybe newspapers have figured out the game. That leaves open the question of the future: What will it become? I think online news is a great new marketing channel for a lot of businesses and it puts newspapers into a whole new category unto themselves. They aren't directories because they provide a service. The service is delivery of news. We could honestly see getting back to providing free news in an unbiased reporting style. Then again, it could open up a whole new door of yellow journalism as well. Whatever the case, online newspapers will need to survive financially and that will mean advertisers. Since newspapers can't be classified as directories, yellow pages, portals, or CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Local Search’s Day Has Come
This is interesting. Companies are now advertising for specialists to help them get listed in local search listings. You know that means? Local is here to stay. What I like about this, and what I think anyone should like about it, is that you can run a free Craigslist listing in any nation in this country and get a job. Bar none. Internet marketing is here. Local search marketing is here. And don't listen to anyone who tells you it isn't. If I were interested in this position, here's what I'd do. I'd e-mail this advertiser and tell them the following: I'll list their business in each major search engine's local listings. There are four of them: Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, and Ask.com. I'd also CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why SEOmoz Is A Big Fish In A Small Pond
Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz responded to an Search Engine Optimization manifesto of a former contributor. The disagreements between the two on critical Search Engine Optimization topics is quite enlightening, especially given how sharp and distinctive they are. I have to say that I agree almost entirely with Rand's take on things and feel the same way that it doesn't necessarily mean we're right and his antagonist is wrong. Basically, the gist that I got from the article is that Search Engine Optimization experts generally disagree on a number of things, but that we all agree on certain fundamentals. However, it seems that after reading this that we don't agree on enough of the fundamentals. Some of the striking things that I found CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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