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Discovery Channel To Focus On E-Commerce

Discovery Communications has plans to close all 103 of its mall-based and stand-alone Discovery Channel stores in order to focus on its e-commerce platform. Discovery Channel To Focus On E-Commerce

Confusing Search Engine Bots?

There are two primary factors to getting a page ranked - discovery and relevancy. By and large, search engines are clever creatures, but the very best webmasters will always send out the right signals to gently guide the search engines, and in return receive great rankings for their content. Search engines discover content using their bots (or ‘crawlers’), and determine relevancy (and by extension ranking) using advanced algorithms.

Six Ways to Find Keywords

Keyword research is one of the most important parts of a pay per click campaign so how do you go about identifying as many relevant words and phrases as possible? Here are some techniques:

EFF Goes YouTube Ambulance Chasing

If a YouTube user feels one of their videos was an unfair casualty of Viacom's recent war on copyright infringement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to know about it. The nonprofit organization has posted its call to the user-generated disenfranchised on their home YouTube turf.

Accurately Predicting Potential Website Traffic

Wouldn't it be useful if your SEM company could accurately predict how much organic search traffic they could get your organization?

How Can I Attract More Visitors To My Site?

Dear Kalena...

Government Tracking Electronic Communications

A press release from FaceTime Communications stopped me cold today.

Microsoft Closes bCentral Directory

Could it be? Have we just lost one of the three valuable directories (Yahoo, DMOZ and bCentral) - recommended by many when launching a new site?

Creative Discovery Comes To Search

It's probably entirely appropriate that if a supercomputer is going to be set up to strive for creative answers to tough questions, that hardware will consist of Apple Xserve G5s.

Social Media and Content Discovery

I'll admit I do little to dilute the concentrate of social media kool-aid, I'm a big believer in its power and potential, but there seems to be a disproportionate level of attention and posturing around content discovery these days -- specifically, how you use social tools to help with content discovery.