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Within A Year, Facebook Triples Its Advertiser Base

I know you’re tired of hearing the same old “the economy is going down the tubes” sob story, so I brought you something different today—a company that’s actually increasing its advertiser base. And not just any company—a social media company (and you know how tough it is to really make money there—you know, other thank from VCs).

Google Base Gets New Bulk Upload Dashboard

Buying in bulk is great until you actually have to transport and store 50 gallons of peanut butter or whatever else is at stake.  Uploading in bulk also has its share of problems, but Google Base has introduced a new bulk upload dashboard to make things simpler.

MySpace Still Has Committed User Base

The casual social networker has probably figured out that Facebook, or even LinkedIn, is the place to be.  A number of people remain committed to MySpace, however, and that number actually appears to be growing.

Building Your Attention, Traffic, Trust, & Subscriber Base

Some Things Only Spread Because Who is Behind Them I recently created an Internet marketing mind map and published it on my tools subdomain with a link to it from tools.seobook.com, but nobody mentioned it. A few days later I blogged about it on SeoBook.com and dozens of webmasters linked to it. Same publisher, same content, drastically different results...because one channel has attention while the other does not.

Google.org Supports Believe Begin Become

Last week, Google announced its plans to set up shop in Kenya.  Now Google.org is showing an interest in Kenya’s southern neighbor, Tanzania, and has made known its plans to participate in “Believe Begin Become - Tanzania’s National Business Plan Competition.”

Global Terrorism Database Made Public

It isn't an accident; the world's largest database of terrorism attacks has been made available for researchers of all types.

Google Analytics for Tracking Google Base Referrals

Tracking referrals from Google Base can be difficult and confusing.

Google Base Changes Vertical Search Results

Google Base has a bunch of search verticals, mini search engines built on data uploaded to Base, and they’ve changed the results format of those search engines. The old:

Froogle Shops For A Frugal Experience

Google has rebranded their moribund shopping engine from Froogle to Google Product Search, and changed its look to match other Google pages.

SES: Making The Most Of Shopping Search Feeds

Let's be blunt: Getting your products listed in the shopping search engines is a tedious, cyclical, pain-in-the-butt process. But it's also necessary if you want to get the most out of online retail. At the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York, those in the know spill what they know about shopping search optimization.