Web Poll Leader Launches Vizu Vote Maps Powered by Google and Records Conversion Increase of 69%

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 12, 2007

Vizu Corporation, a leader in providing free web polls and do-it-yourself market research, today announced the addition of vote maps to its poll results. The launch of Vizu vote maps concludes a series of redesign initiatives that resulted in a registration conversion increase of 69%.

“Like chocolate and peanut butter, polls and maps just go together,” says Vizu CEO, Dan Beltramo. The new interactive vote maps are a mashup powered by Google and allow Vizu users to see exactly where votes are being cast. The color-coded responses can be viewed from a world view all the way down to the zip code level. “Our users are curious by nature so adding maps to our polls was a natural fit for Vizu,” added Beltramo.

The Vizu free poll widget lets users create customized web polls and put them on sites, blogs or social networking pages. The polls are compatible with major blog platforms such as Blogger, TypePad and WordPress as well as popular social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Friendster.

The implementation of Vizu vote maps capped off a month of redesign development which also included user interface improvements and integration of Gigya’s Wildfire which allows one click posting of polls to social networks and blogs. These efforts produced a 69% increase in registration conversion, fulfilling the goal of making it easier to create and export polls.

“Vote maps are sure to entertain and engage our users,” says Wetpaint CEO Ben Elowitz. “The implementation of vote maps is just another example of Vizu’s commitment to innovation and exemplifies why Wetpaint selected Vizu as our polling partner for our consumer-friendly Wiki platform.”

To experience Vizu vote maps, go to http://www.vizu.com/index.html and create your own free web poll.

About Vizu

Vizu is an innovative service that combines an easy-to-use polling platform with a diverse network of websites. The technology allows anyone to conduct affordable market research or to provide interactive content through a free polling widget. Vizu users include Glamour, Sephora, Popstar! Magazine, Jobster, Orbitz, Cozi, Second Life, TeeBeeDee, TripWiser and is the polling partner for all Wetpaint Wikis.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company is privately held with funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and angel investors including Bill Hambrecht, Esther Dyson and Ron Conway. To learn more about Vizu, please visit Vizu.

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Web Poll Leader Launches Vizu Vote Maps Powered by Google and Records Conversion Increase of 69%

Google Monitoring Service Now Available from ArnoldIT

Harrod’s Creek, KY (PRWEB) November 17, 2008

ArnoldIT.com is offering free demonstrations of Overflight, an intelligence tool and Google monitoring service available at http://www.arnoldit.com/overflight.

An internal tool developed by Arnold Information Technology to monitor Google content, Overflight culls important Google news and headlines from more than 70 Google web logs. The service is valuable because publicly available information about Google and its innovations isn’t always readily available through news services like Microsoft Live, Yahoo! or Technorati.

An overview of the service’s convenience is available at http://www.arnoldit.com/overflight. The numerous Google blogs and groups are sorted under the categories Google Wide, Products, Ads, Developer and Region.

ArnoldIT.com develops specialized Oversight intelligence services. For more information about customizing the service for you, e-mail sa [at] arnoldit.com.

About Arnold Information Technology

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make the Beyond Search web blog at http://www.arnoldit.com/wordpress/ useful to those who want to go “beyond search.” Contact Arnold at sa [at] arnoldit.com. For more information about Arnold IT, contact Stuart Schram, chief technology officer, at (502) 228-1966. The company’s Web site is http://www.arnoldit.com.

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Perfect Search Opens Access to Google Patent Repository

Harrod’s Creek, KY (PRWEB) February 10, 2009

Perfect Search Corp., http://www.perfectsearchcorp.com/, an online search innovator, recently indexed the Google Patent collection assembled by ArnoldIT.com from open sources.

In indexing the patent collection, Perfect Search’s technology exhibited fast response, an index of the more than 450 Google USPTO patent documents and hot links to PDFs of the documents.

The Google patent search system, a service of Arnold Information Technology, is available for tests at http://arnoldit.perfectsearchcorp.com/.

“The Google Patent Demonstration illustrates the versatility of the Perfect Search system. Response time is fast, precision and recall are excellent, and access to Google’s inventions is painless,” Tim Stay, CEO of Perfect Search, said.

“Our tests of the Perfect Search system revealed remarkable content processing speed. Our tests revealed that the Google patent corpus was indexed in less than two minutes. Precision and recall, plus query processing time, were quite good. Perfect Search’s technology warrants a close look,” Arnold, managing director of ArnoldIT.com, said.

Arnold explained that there is a growing interest in search and in Google. “I wanted to make my Google patent document collection available with a search and retrieval engine that allowed one-click access to the full patent document,” he said. “Perfect Search was one of the first vendors of advanced information retrieval to express interest in this project.”

Now users anywhere in the world can examine Google’s patent documents without the headaches created by broad patent collection systems from commercial vendors like Derwent or governmental entities like the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

“Google’s technology disclosures are too important to be hidden behind complex systems and often unreasonable costs. ArnoldIT.com wanted to change this situation with its new free service,” Arnold said.

Perfect Search’s software uses semantic technology and allows clients to index and search massive data sets with near real-time incremental indexing at high speeds without latency. It is meant to augment the Google Search Appliance.

Perfect Search technology, explained in depth at http://www.perfectsearchcorp.com/technology-benefits, provides a very economical single-server solution for customers to index files and documents and can add the capability of indexing large amounts of database information as well.

“Perfect Search delivers excellent content processing and query processing speed without the hardware imposing the often onerous server requirements needed to make certain data management systems usable,” Arnold said in his analysis of the company’s products.

About Perfect Search

Perfect Search is a software innovation company that specializes in development of search solutions. A total of eight patents have been applied for around the developing technology. The suite of search products at http://www.perfectsearchcorp.com/our-products is available on multiple platforms, from small mobile devices, to single servers, to large server farms. For more information visit http://www.perfectsearchcorp.com/, call +1.801.437.1100 or e-mailinfo (at) perfectsearchcorp (dot) com.

About ArnoldIT.com

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go “beyond search”. Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. For more information about Arnold IT, contact Stuart Schram, chief technology officer, at (502) 228-1966. The company’s Web site is http://arnoldit.com, and the Beyond Search blog is at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/.

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Overflight Service Adds Google Social Media Blog to Monitoring List

Harrod’s Creek, KY (PRWEB) February 17, 2009

ArnoldIT.com recently expanded and updated its Google Web log news stream service, Overflight, with Google’s Social Media blog and more.

Overflight is an very useful news monitoring tool developed by ArnoldIT.com to track certain content from Google’s more than 74 “official” blogs. Overflight is available for use at http://www.arnoldit.com/overflight/ at no charge. The splash page for this free service includes directions on how to test it.

“Most of the people with whom I speak are familiar with one or two of these publications,” ArnoldIt.com Managing Partner Stephen E. Arnold said of Google’s blogs. “However, when monitoring Google’s innovations, it is important to be able to get a quick view of what’s new on each of these publications.”

The Overflight service allows users to review news from Google’s own group of topic areas such as companywide news and announcements, product and developer information, social media roundups and much more. Combined with ArnoldIT’s new Google Patent search service at http://arnoldit.perfectsearchcorp.com/, Overflight can be used to triangulate Google activity.

ArnoldIT.com can develop an Oversight service tailored to client needs. To discuss a customized intelligence service, contact Arnold at sa [at] arnoldit.com.

About ArnoldIT.com

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go “beyond search”. Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. For more information about Arnold IT, contact Stuart Schram, chief technology officer, at (502) 228-1966. The company’s Web site is http://arnoldit.com, and the Beyond Search blog is at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/.

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Trio of Google Monographs Now Available

Harrod’s Creek, KY (PRWEB) June 23, 2009

Infonortics Ltd. has announced “The Google Trilogy” by search industry analyst Stephen E. Arnold, a comprehensive review of the web giant.

The first volume, “The Google Legacy,” is an overview of Google and of its technology. It provides a look at the foundation technologies and their use within Google and at such core Google services as maps, search and data management. A summary is posted at http://www.infonortics.com/publications/google/google-legacy.html.

The second volume, Google Version 2.0, drilled down into Google’s technology as revealed or suggested by its patents and describes key Google technical innovations developed between 2005 and 2007, a period that Arnold describes as the thrusters for Google’s current line up of products and services. A summary is posted at http://www.infonortics.com/publications/google/google-predator.html.

Google: The Digital Gutenberg, the third and most recent monograph, looks in depth at Google’s potential outside of its classic and traditional search origins. It explains how a publisher, developer or innovator can use Google to build a business that “surfs on Google.” The reference to Google’s Wave is not an accident, because “Wave” is the first of the digital bundling services that Google will deploy. A summary is posted at http://www.infonortics.com/publications/google/google-gutenberg.html.

Portions of these studies have been published by such organizations as BearStearns and IDC, the Boston consultancy. The trilogy comprises about 500 pages of text, technical diagrams and tabular material. Unique in these monographs is the analysis of Google’s patent documents and technical papers spanning the period from 1998 to 2009.

These monographs are an essential guide to those interested in knowing how Google delivers its products and services. For a competitor, these monographs provide a long view of Google’s scope and impact. For a person wanting to make money using Google as a platform, these studies provide a forward-looking, informed view of what Arnold calls a “new type of company.”

The cost of the three books in PDF download versions only is US$ 650/490. To preview the entire trilogy, go to http://www.infonortics.com/publications/index-goog.html.

About Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his office in Kentucky. He works with colleagues worldwide on a wide range of online and content-related projects. The company’s Web site is http://arnoldit.com, and the Beyond Search blog is at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/.

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Third Video: Developing Google APIs a Big Money-maker for your Online Business

Louisville, KY (PRWEB) November 8, 2009

The third video of the six-video series called “How to Make Money with Google” premiered today at http://www.arnoldit.com/video. This video, released by Arnold Information Technology, http://www.arnoldit.com, focuses on developing program interfaces using Google resources and leveraging those applications for business use.

The purpose of this short video series–watching all six videos takes about 30 minutes–is to give clear, factual information on four specific ways an enterprising individual, a services company, or a diversified company can use the Google platform to produce revenue while meeting the needs of their customers and prospects. The videos are available for personal and educational use with no fee.

This newest video highlights how using and developing Google APIs–application programming interfaces–can be a big money-maker for your online business. It also describes Google’s certification program, which is beginning to take shape. Arnold characterizes how a third-party developer can put technical skills to use to build a large business around Google.

“Keep in mind that Google is a moving target. The company is evolving and changing policies and procedures very rapidly,” Stephen E. Arnold, president of Arnold Information Technology, said. Arnold has published three Google monographs and these videos are based on the information compiled for The Google Legacy, Google Version 2.0, and Google: The Digital Gutenberg. The monographs are available from Infonortics Ltd., in Tetbury, Glos., at http://www.infonortics.com.

Other videos include an overview of money-making opportunities, including why the Google opportunity is similar to the opportunity Microsoft created with its MS DOS software in the early 1980s; using Google’s Adsense advertising module; search engine optimization consulting and services; the Google partner and reseller program; and a video titled “Google Creates Opportunity,” which emphasizes the opportunity to grow with Google as the company strives for $ 100 billion in revenue.

“I wanted to provide some basic, factual information about what I see as the Google revenue opportunity. Information about Google is everywhere, but the upside of Google as an opportunity is not widely known,” Arnold said. “The increase in ‘get rich quick’ with Google e-mails I was receiving convinced me that a more measured discussion of the opportunities was needed. I will make these videos available without charge in the hopes that the Google revenue opportunities get broader dissemination.”

The series will be posted at http://www.arnoldit.com/video. Videos will be released on a seven- to 10-day cycle from today to Nov. 20. ArnoldIT.com has no relationship with Google. The information presented in the video represents the views and findings of ArnoldIT.com’s analyses of Google. The videos were directed by Chris Forrester, Perceality Productions, at http://twitter.com/perceality. The samba music is courtesy Sounddogs.com. For information about other uses of the videos, contact ArnoldIT.com at seaky2000 [at] yahoo.com.

About Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his office in Kentucky. He works with colleagues worldwide on a wide range of online and content-related projects. The company’s Web site is http://arnoldit.com, and the Beyond Search blog is at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/.

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Google AdSense Expert Serves Up Website Templates On A Silver Platter

Edmond, OK (PRWEB) June 29, 2006

Best-selling author and Internet entrepreneur Joel Comm has announced a July 5th launch date for his latest product, Instant AdSense Templates.

After the success of his recent book, The AdSense Code (Morgan James Publishing, 2006), which was a “top seller” in three categories on Amazon.com, Comm decided to branch out and develop a hands-on system to coincide with the methods taught in the book.

Instant AdSense Templates is a collection of website templates and tools, designed to enable webmasters to quickly and easily launch websites with Google AdSense integrated into them.

Included in the package are templates for niche websites, WordPress and Blogger blogs, Invision BB, PHPBB and VBulletin forums, as well as specialty templates designed to be used with XSitePro software.

While many of Comm’s readers have found success, some have struggled due to the technical aspect of online business.

“What I’ve found is that there are a few obstacles involved (in earning income from AdSense),” says Comm. “Particularly for those who aren’t webmasters or don’t know how to build a website. That’s why I created Instant AdSense Templates.”

The premise of the product is to make it simpler for webmasters and aspiring marketers to earn money with AdSense, and to cut down on the learning curve that comes with the territory.

According to Internet marketer Liz Sherwood,

“His templates make it dead easy to not only get your sites on the web, but to get the benefit of his experience in their layout.”

In order to avoid market saturation, Comm will be releasing Instant AdSense Templates in a limited run of 2000 copies, which will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

For additional information, visit http://www.instantadsensetemplates.com

Joel Comm is a socially conscious Internet entrepreneur and technology visionary who creates family friendly web experiences while showing people how to earn income online. Recognized by many as the leading expert in Google AdSense, Comms materials have helped thousands discover the strategies to multiplying their income with AdSense. For more information contact InfoMedia, Inc. at (405) 348-2800 or visit http://www.joelcomm.com.

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Google Takes User Experience Into Consideration - Website Design Plays Critical Role

Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) July 07, 2011

Google’s move to amend existing search engine optimization practices has affected online businesses in more ways than one. The algorithm, intended to determine whether content on websites are optimized for consumers rather than search engines, also takes into account the design of that which houses the content. Google like a site layout that is user friendly: in other words ‘pleasing to the eyes and easy to navigate’. Australian internet marketer James Schramko, CEO of SuperFastWebsites – a division of SFB, has been developing custom websites for clients for years, and shares his opinion on the Panda update:

“There are tons of websites out there with great content that are being pulled down the rankings due to poor design and overall structure. Panda update or not, design has always played a critical role in online marketing. It makes perfect sense. Given two sites of equal quality content, consumers will automatically favor the better looking site – it’s human nature.”

Designing websites, aside from the messy technical aspects like CSS and HTML coding, requires a great deal of creativity. Studies show that people are more responsive to certain colors and shapes because of specific emotions they provoke. Balancing data like these are among the many factors taken into consideration when coming up with a good design.

Another aspect taken into account is site layout. A study shows some of the common mistakes web developers make, one of such is unclear navigation options. “People are there already looking for something”, said Schramko, “if you give them a hard time finding their way around your site, they’ll leave for good” he added.

The algorithm tracks how long visitors stay on websites, as well as how many pages they visit before leaving. A good design, coupled with great content encourages people to read on and visit other pages on the site as well. A low score in that area may cause the website to tumble down the rankings as this would signify low consumer satisfaction.

“Design talent can take years to perfect. There is science behind everything seen on high quality websites. The reason they convert isn’t attributed to quality content alone – even before the update. You are wasting valuable resources by building websites based on bad designs. If you are having trouble setting up your site the way you envision it to be, drop by our Custom WordPress Website Development at http://www.SuperFastWebsites.com. I’m sure we’ll find something that will suit your needs.”

More information at http://www.SuperFastWebsites.com

About SuperFastWebsites

A division of James Schramko’s SuperFastBusiness which specializes in custom website development for the WordPress platform. With thousands of websites under its belt, the SuperFastWebsite team offers a variety of customized and pre-made designs, as well as seamless social media integration.

About James Schramko

Former General Manager of a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Sydney, Australia, Schramko started SuperfastBusiness 6 years ago. James has since become one of the most sought-after Internet Marketing Coaches in the world. Author of the tremendously successful Traffic Grab as well as the FastWebFormula live event series, James provides search engine optimization services to hundreds of clients around the world.

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Awesome Calendar 2.0 for iOS Now Includes Sync To Google Tasks Feature

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 01, 2012

Los Angeles, CA – Announcing that Yunasoft Inc., the developer of Awesome Calendar, has just released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Awesome Calendar 2.0 retains its original features, such as auto syncing to Google Calendar, photo embeddable note making, localized current and forecasted weather, todo list management and sharing from within the app. This update, however, includes the long awaited sync with Google Task feature, a map displaying appointment locations and several other new features that take efficiency and productivity to a new level.

Since its original release, Awesome Calendar has found great favor in the App Store. So far, users have complimented the elegant interface, speed, ease of use, and comprehensive all-in-one functionality, as well as the impressive host of features offered. People have also taken note that this developer listens to their clients, and considers their suggestions for future updates. With the newly added features, this update has garnered even more enthusiastic feedback than previous versions.

Awesome Calendar began with an extensive list of features, including automatic Google Calendar syncing, diary notation with embedded photos, localized weather reports, holiday notations for 35 countries, and much, much more.

Users are able to add, edit and view their calendars in a multitude of ways, can create and group todo tasks, and can now cancel events when in “Edit” mode. Awesome Calendar is an efficient organizational tool for mobile workers, team projects, and individuals.

Brand New Awesome Calendar Features Include:

Sync with Google Task. * Custom theme color and Calendar color support * Add unlimited alarms * More recurring rule (8 days repeat, nth Monday) * Set repeat end date by date or occurrence number * Badge alarm on icon. Number of todays events, todos * Underline with completed task * Map displaying with appointment location * Cancelable when editing event

In addition to the original features, the features included in this update ensure that users can work more efficiently than was ever believed possible.

About Yunasoft Inc.

Yunasoft Inc. is dedicated to creating social mobile applications that better peoples lives. A young company founded by Robert Kwon, Yunasoft has a vision of reaching and helping people across the globe with their products. To that end, the Yunasoft team keeps their minds open and stand ready to hear what people have to say.

Device Requirements: * iPhone, iPod touch and iPad * Requires iOS 4.2 or later * 9.0 MB

Pricing and Availability

Awesome Calendar 2.0 is only $ 2.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Report: Chatwing Launches Simple Shoutbox Effective for Websites Monetized by Google Adsense

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 15, 2012

Many people are now looking forward to monetize their blogs through the famous and infamous Google Adsense. According to Internet statistics, beginners are now flocking the blogging industry, hoping to get approvals from Google Adsense. The Chatwing research team has concluded a thorough research and realized that a lot of these beginners are not getting the proper visibility that they need. To deal with this dilemma, the Chatwing team has recently launched a shoutbox in prominent blogging communities such as WordPress, Posterous, Livvejournal, Windows Live Spaces, and Blogspot.

The Chatwing chat box is known in the blogosphere for its high rate of global connectivity. Adding to that, it has a social media integration feature wherein users can log in with their Facebook and Twitter accounts. This allows a user to expand his social network to a certain degree. Aside from interesting content, an active web chat tool can help a blogger reap profits from Google Adsense. Trueit may take a long chunk of time to make formidable income, but Chatwing assures high spikes of visibility as long as the blog contains interesting content.

Chatwing has offered a way to monetize a blog, few months ago. However, the dev team has taken it down so that the chat platform will run faster and accommodate more people from various communities. After a couple of platform tweaks, the Chatwing http://ww w.chatwing.com [shout box __title__ shout box] has managed to accommodate up to 600 users in real time. The team, however, is planning to upgrade it to 1000 so that more users will be able to take advantage of Chatwings communication effectiveness.

The developers of Chatwing are always looking forward to help bloggers all over the world, especially those who want to make decent income through Google Adsense. By empowering the premise of website chat, the Chatwing tool can raise the visibility of any blog. This may take time, but it is a wiser move rather than have users pay for external advertising campaigns.

About Chatwing.com

Chatwing.com has developed live chat software for websites and blogs. It caters to different online communities due to its high rate of connectivity. Everyone can create a customizable live chat box feature in 1 minute or less. Users have the ability to customize the size, color, and fonts of the chat product. The ability to chat via social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter enable Chatwing to offer a personal and unique real-time experience to all sites. Chatwing is 100% free and very easy to use.

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PageOne Curator by Paul Clifford Puts Publishers and Google Back on Good Terms

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

Page One Curator review just went live on MayDayReport.com and takes a close look into the most popular content curation tool on the market today.

Content curation is being employed by a growing number of web publishers who want to improve search engine results using high-quality, authoritative content while abandoning the murky SEO practices that left thousands of websites on Googles hit list after the Penguin update.

Google and content curators have one thing in common: they both want to make more money by offering the Googling masses something new: the information they were actually looking for in the first place.

People can see the official website by going to

http://maydayreport.com/page-one-curator-review/

Its hard to find a content guru out there who isnt singing the praises of curating content, said a spokesperson for MayDayReport.com. We wanted to take a close look at the most popular tool on the market to determine how it is helping publishers increase traffic and revenue.

For many, the latest trend in improving SEO is doing exactly what Google wants, but in an efficient, streamlined and profitable way. The makers of Page One Curator say curating content can be enormously profitable, as long as publishers have the right time-saving tools to get the job done.

The latest Page One Curator review covers the various features, including added SEO tools to help bring more traffic and select the most effective keywords.

It also covers the all important curation features, such as an easy in-dash search feature that makes it easy to pick the highest-quality, most relevant content from hundreds of thousands of options.

Any tool that can help drastically cut down the time spent searching for text, photos, video and social posts is worth looking into, MayDayReport.com spokesperson said. Especially one that can do all of that and publish right to your WordPress site.

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Want to Knock a Competing Business Off of Google? A New Study Shows that $45 May be All it Takes

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) June 24, 2012

TastyPlacement, an Austin-based search engine optimization firm, recently released a study that highlights the potential for businesses to negatively impact the search engine positions of competitors through the purchase of inexpensive spam links.

Negative SEO (search engine optimization) has emerged recently as a malicious technique employed by businesses that seeks to harm the Google search rankings of a competitor’s website. The principal method employed by practitioners of negative SEO is to purchase hypertext links from poor quality websites and direct those links to point to a competitor’s website. While digital marketing practitioners disagree on the effectiveness of negative SEO, the theory underlying the practice is that Google’s ranking algorithm interprets the low-quality links as an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings and responds by punishing the target website by lowering its ranking position.

Specifically, the study began with a sample website that enjoyed consistent favorable search rankings for a popular search term. Operators then purchased over 50,000 “spam” website links through online forums and from practitioners of negative SEO techniques over the course of several weeks in May of 2012. The total cost of the purchased links was $ 45. The operators then monitored the search engine ranking position of the target website over the course of the study.

The results revealed a drop in ranking position for the test website’s principal search phrase from position 3 to position 14 in Google search results within the 30 days covered by the study.

Michael David, who conducted the study, noted, “We only tested one website, but the short period of time and the correlation between the dates we got the links and the dates the website moved lower in search results seems pretty clear to us that negative SEO is very real, and is likely to become very popular as a result.”

An infographic covering the study, as well as a detailed methodology, are available here: http://www.tastyplacement.com/infographic-testing-negative-seo

About TastyPlacement

TastyPlacement is an Austin based firm specializing in search engine optimization, web design, social media promotion, and Pay Per Click campaign management. It was founded in 2009 by the author of WordPress 3.0 Search Engine Optimization, Michael David.

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Getting Started With Google Website Optimizer: Future Now, Inc. Supports Launch With Seven Freebies

Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) April 4, 2007

Future Now, Inc. has launched a suite of free and paid products and services to support Google’s customers. Google Website Optimizer customers who want to get started can read Bryan Eisenberg’s non-technical technical guide “The 10 Minute Guide to Testing with Google Website Optimizer” at http://www.grokdotcom.com/googlewebsiteoptimizer.

Jeffrey Eisenberg, CEO of Future Now, Inc. said, “In the past companies spent thousands of dollars a month for the services Google Website Optimizer is offering for free. While the cost savings is exciting to several of our larger customers it is dramatic to small and mid-size companies who couldn’t afford to test effectively before. One mid-size company, MattressLiquidators.ca, we helped during the early beta test would never have been able to afford testing software and our services together. With Google Website Optimizer we were able to help them achieve a 5,100% increase in sales in the first few weeks! And that’s just one of many new case studies.”

Bryan Eisenberg, CPO of Future Now, Inc. said, “Being able to test is only half the story. Knowing what to test is the other half. Sure people will test randomly and get some improvements. Since ‘Call To Action’ hit the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists people thank us for teaching them about what variables improve online conversion rates. They tell us how they went from a 1% to a 3% conversion rate with what they learned. My decade long crusade has been for CEOs to understand that an increase like that is not just two percentage points but rather a 300% increase in sales.”

Future Now, Inc. revamped an entire conversion and landing page optimization service line dedicated to Google Website Optimizer. It has also developed several products including: two Quick Start guides, one for online retailers and one for lead generation; a comprehensive Conversion Experts Workbook; and Save the Sale for shopping cart optimization; they are available at http://shop.futurenowinc.com/shop/.

Seven Free Google Website Optimizer Free Resources http://www.grokdotcom.com/googlewebsiteoptimizer

1) Free: The 10 Minute Guide to Testing with Google Website Optimizer –

Google Website Optimizer customers can read Bryan Eisenberg’s non-technical technical guide “The 10 Minute Guide to Testing with Google Website Optimizer.”

2) Free: 3rd Party WordPress Plug-in For Google Website Optimizer – Future Now, Inc. collaborated with Blog integration specialists ContentRobot (http://www.contentrobot.com) to enable blogs and blog-powered websites to create a WordPress plug-in which integrates Google Website optimizer to their WordPress website. Using the plug-in makes it easy for anyone with a WordPress powered blog or website to test headlines, copy or images. This download will also be available at http://www.grokdotcom.com/googlewebsiteoptimizer .

3) Free: Webinar About Google Website Optimizer – Bryan Eisenberg is presenting a free Webinar, hosted and sponsored by WebEx, the Web conferencing leader, titled: “Which Sells Best?: 7 Landing Page Optimization Tips Improve Your ROI with Google Website Optimizer.”

4) Free: Podcast of Interview of Tom Leung, Business Product Manager of Google Website Optimizer – On GrokDotCom.com Tom Leung discusses the ins and outs of Google’s latest product to help websites and advertisers.

5) Free: 64 Tips for Getting Started with Google Website Optimizer – Need some testing ideas? Anthony Garcia, co-author of Which Sells Best? and Contact Me or Submit? provides you with 64 Tips for Getting Started with Google Website Optimizer.

6) Free: Subscribe to the Conversion Rate Marketing Blog – GrokDotCom – Subscribe by RSS or Email GrokDotCom is a marketing blog that is focused on marketing optimization, improving online conversion rates, search engine marketing, web analytics, word of mouth, persuasive website design, and of course landing page optimization. You have many subscription options; you can get the latest content by email (your choice of daily, weekly or monthly) or by RSS.

7) Free: A/B Testing: Too Little Too Early? Whitepaper – Download the whitepaper on A/B testing by Future Now’s Chief Thinking Officer, John Quarto-vonTivadar.

About Future Now, Inc.

Google, Inc. has selected Future Now, Inc. (http://www.FutureNowInc.com), the online conversion rate specialists, to be an Authorized Consultant for the Google Website Optimizer program. Future Now, Inc. is a New York City based consultancy that assists client increase their conversion rates and optimize landing pages to make more sales, increase leads and subscriptions with a wide range of conversion rate optimization services since 1998.

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Jeffrey Eisenberg or Bryan Eisenberg (877) 643-7244 or email dawnd (at) futurenowinc.com

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WordPress Plugin Displays Google Analytics Stats in Dashboard

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 15, 2009

A new plugin for WordPress displays tracking data from Google Analytics, WordPress and MailChimp, all integrated together into a single WordPress dashboard. The plugin is provided free of charge by MailChimp and can be downloaded at the wordpress.org plugin directory . A MailChimp account is not required to access the Google Analytics information.

The Analytics360 Plugin provides a comprehensive view of a blog’s performances, allowing publishers to quickly identify which posts are enjoying the most inbound traffic whether from web site referrals or by email. The traffic-over-time chart shows when a post was published or an email campaign was sent in relation to the numbers of site visits, giving a clear view on cause and effect.

Google Analytics is rich with information. This plugin accesses the most relevant information for a blogger and displays it in an actionable way. For example the plugin displays all blog referral sources and provides a drill down path showing the most popular posts. The plugin also includes a world map. Hovering over a country shows the number of blog visitors from that country. Analytics360 provides real-time access to both Google Analytics and MailChimp allowing for instant date range changes.

“Bringing WordPress and Google Analytics together is like mixing peanut butter with chocolate. A natural fit and prefect to the tastes of power bloggers,” says Ben Chestnut, Co-Founder of MailChimp. “We use both applications heavily and wanted to share our tools with the blogging community at large.”

MailChimp supports email for many blogs with a free RSS-to-Email option that updates subscribers whenever a new post is published. MailChimp also developed a simple to install WordPress plugin to manage email list signups.

The Analytics360 plugin was developed for MailChimp by Crowd Favorite using the Google visualization toolset for rendering the dashboard charts. The plugin will work in the self-hosted versions of WordPress including the multi-user version.

In order to take advantage of this plugin, subscribers need to be running Google Analytics on their WordPress site already. Then all they have to do is download and install the Analytics360 plugin and enter their MailChimp and Google Analytics login info. MailChimp takes care of the rest.

About MailChimp:

MailChimp, a leading do-it-yourself marketing service, provides tools to over 80,000 small businesses, design agencies, non-profits, restaurants, and e-Commerce organizations worldwide. Customers can create professional, eye-catching HTML emails in minutes with easy-to-use web based tools. MailChimp offers a completely free account for users with 100 subscribers or less, and for larger accounts offers two affordable pricing programs: monthly and pay-as-you-go.

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Intown Web Design Releases Site Overview Google Dashboard Guide

Atlanta, Ga (PRWEB) September 04, 2012

Intown Web Design (http://www.intownwebdesign.com) released their first of a series of guides to help Google Analytics users build their own Site Overview Google Dashboard. The release of this guide comes along side a Google Analytics update that allows users to share dashboards with each other.

Intown’s Web Design’s information covered in the guide gives people the opportunity to use the dashboard as a template for their own site. Intown Web Design came up with several ways of viewing different metrics and statistics to present relevant site information about site usage and history.

The guide points out several different elements of the Google Dashboard that are called Widgets. The guide goes through each of the main widget showing how to create them.

Using design that is easy to read and graphics that are easy to follow, Intown Web Design hopes may visitors will find the tutorial useful. Steven Johnson, Owner of Intown Web Design, said, “With this new feature release of Google Analytics, we found the shareable dashboards to be so helpful we created this post to help our team, clients and anyone else that want to get more information about their website. As we develop new dashboards we plan to write up the process and share it on our blog.”

About Intown Web Design (http://www.intownwebdesign.com) — Located in Atlanta, Ga, they are a web design and development firm with a focus on creating functional websites for business. Clients range from startups to corporations traded on the NYSE. Founded in 2007, with a specialty in open source technologies including PHP, Joomla and WordPress. They have continued to expand their expertise into improving site performance, usability and search engine rankings.

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Active Web Group, Inc. Initiates Google Grant for Non-Profit Angelas House

Hauppauge, NY (PRWEB) September 28, 2012

Active Web Group, Inc. (AWG), a leading Internet marketing company headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, today announced that its client Angelas House (angelashouse.org) has been accepted into Googles grants program for non-profit agencies. For over 20 years, Angelas House has assisted families to care for their medically frail children who may live with their parents or in special homes that offer 24 hour nursing support. The initial grant is scalable and will be used to contact and engage the agencys supporters and donors through Googles AdWords online advertising.

Active Web values and is committed to our clients. We strive to find ways to enable them to grow their online businesses, states Pat Norton, Vice President and Director of Business Development, Active Web Group, Inc. Recently while attending a seminar, an AWG staffer saw the opportunity to assist Angelas House in its fundraising initiatives by applying for a Google grant, he notes. Once the Company had secured the non-profits permission, AWG guided them through the tedious application process. The first hurdle involved clearance by Googles Not for Profit foundation, then the Google Grants (the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Googles online advertising tool) panel reviewed the non-profits application. Upon their consideration, Angelas House soon received a scalable grant which is awarded and designated to promote their mission and initiatives on Google.com.

Active Web realized the leverage this grant would provide our client allowing them to reach donors, volunteers and others when they are searching on Google, Norton explains. This way Angelas House can further raise awareness for their worthy cause by selecting relevant keywords and creating unique advertising to highlight and promote their charity, he adds.

Other features of the AdWords grant include the ability to track online donations, newsletter sign-ups and volunteer registrations thereby both tracking and streamlining this administrative process. Essentially, Google is enabling the expansion of Angelas House mission to provide for the needs of medically fragile children and their families on Long Island. Active Web is very proud to assist them to expand their donor, volunteer and fundraising base through this award, Norton concludes.

Active Web Group, Inc. Initiates Google Grant for Non-Profit Angelas House

Tim & Anthony Buchalka Have Released an Easy To Follow System To Increase Your Search Engine Ranking And Get Your Web Pages To Page One of Google in 24 Hours Or Less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (PRWEB) October 22, 2008

If there’s one thing that every online marketer with a website needs; it’s a page one search engine ranking so that their website benefits from the huge surge in increased targeted web traffic that occurs.

Without this targeted traffic, an online marketer’s hard work and investment in their online business is wasted. After all, having the best product or service is useless unless one has a horde of hungry visitors stampeding their way to their website.

And with search engine pay per click advertising becoming both more expensive and competitive, and traditional organic search engine optimization becoming too time consuming or just too hard for many people, affordable search engine ranking has been out of reach to the vast majority of website owners.

All that has changed today.

Tim and Anthony Buchalka have released a brand new unique program called the “Page One Total Control Formula”, that claims to be able to get an individual’s website pages to page one in Google in as little as 24 hours.

This is achieved using a combination of smart web 2.0 marketing coupled with traditional seo optimization to achieve often staggering results.

As their free website videos show, they are able to go into a new niche, and within 24 – 48 hours, begin dominating page one in Google with a wide variety of keywords. Additionally, they are often able to occupy up to 7 or more listings on the first page of Google!

This is truly remarkable considering that traditional website search engine optimization could take 6 months or more to achieve these types of results, even with the use of the latest search engine ranking software.

Their guaranteed search engine optimization techniques use the power of web 2.0, and special link building strategies all aimed at an improved search engine ranking for the user’s website. The system has been extensively tested in numerous niches over the past 12 months and it has been shown to work virtually every time without fail.

Their rapid Google page one results are built around keyword search engine optimization and the system they have put together does not require users to be technical. Rather, the Page One Total Control Formula is a step by step system that can be even the relatively inexperienced Internet online marketer.

They use a series of video tutorials, ebooks and audios to teach users how to rapidly get their web pages to page in Google. The search engine optimization tips available here are second to none, and take users from the identification of a niche, detailed keyword research right through to seeing their first keyword hit page one in Google.

There is a Quick Start Guide that makes it so easy, for even the novice, to take advantage of their system.

Their website, TakeOverPageOne.com also offers customers weekly webinars coaching them through the entire process, helping customers attain rapid results and avoiding the pitfalls so often associated with search engine software.

So for anyone interested in a guaranteed search engine ranking improvement, Tim and Anthony’s formula offers the chance for users to rapidly propel their web site to page one and thus to maximize their online success.

Tim Buchalka who is well known on the Internet as a search engine consultant, and his brother Anthony Buchalka, who has been a successful internet marketer for many years, together offer a unique and powerful combination of powerful web 2.0, SEO and online marketing stretegies, delivered in a detailed but easy to follow blueprint.

For a limited time, all visitors to their website receive a special free Web 2.0 Tips ebook and powerful RSS WordPress software plugin, that functions as an automatic backlink tool. The plugin works by automatically submitting RSS feeds to major RSS aggregators every time a post is made from a WordPress blog. A simple but effective way to get backlinks to your website on auto pilot!

To take advantage of their genuine limited time free offer and for further information please visit takeoverpageone.com today.

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Plans to Develop Innovative Case Management System for Attorneys with Automated Court Docket Integration Announced by ENiche Solutions for Google Apps Platform

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 29, 2012

On Thursday, November 29, 2012, ENiche Solutions, a Los Angeles web development and marketing company, announced plans to launch an application designed specifically for small law firms practicing on a contingency fee basis. In particular, the app is be designed for small firms practicing in the areas of personal injury, employment law, class action, wage and hour, overtime, securities and consumer fraud.

Jon Zacharias, president of ENiche Solutions, was the director of marketing at a wage and hour class action law firm in La Jolla, California for over four years. According to ENiche Solutions, the application is designed specifically for the Google Apps marketplace and will change how law firms operate- everything from organizing documents to lawyer marketing.

The app is innovative, according to Mr. Zacharias, in that it can automatically track a court docket and link it to Google Calendars and Google docs through the application programming interface, also known as the api. The lawyer case management app changes the way small firms operate because there is no longer going to be a need for manual calendaring and document filing systems, which law firms have struggled to take control of historically. Now, once a case is set up in the system, whenever a document is filed in court it will automatically be placed in the associated folder on Google drive, which is accessible anywhere on the cloud. When events, such as court hearings or motions, are placed on the court docket, the app will grab the data and automatically put the event on the attorneys’ calendar. Firms can decrease overhead and increase case load.

ENiche Solutions is a leading Los Angeles online Marketing Company that specializes in search engine optimization for lawyers and custom web development on platforms such as social engine and wordpress.

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Page One Infiltrator Review | Supporting Website In Ranking On Google - Business Review Center

Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) September 29, 2012

Page One Infiltrator is a new internet checking software, which has received much positive feedback. Before this online marketing program is launched into the market on October 3rd 2012, internet marketers have raised many questions whether it is trustworthy or a swindle. To response to these questions, the website Business Review Center has received a trial version from the author and has completed a full review about it.

The full Page One Infiltrator Review on BusinessReviewCenter.com exposes that page one infiltrator is innovative software, which helps websites get high rank in the top of search engines. Tony Marriott and Anthoni Gardner are two creators of this product. In general, way to use it is easy. Firstly, people provide any websites or pages and keyword, and then this program analyzes what they provide, and compares the results to the top 10 rivalss on Google. Finally, this system generates a SEO report for users, so users can know how these competitors rank up their website on Google.

The author claims that page one infiltrator generates a report, which has PDF or HTML format. This report helps marketers see the difference between their sites and their competitors sites. They can know weak points of their websites through this report. Moreover, it also helps users see what they need to do to overcome their rivals. It indicates 25 data such as keyword in title, in URL Page, in Header Tags; Social Network; Page Load Speed; Site Popularity; SEO Link Analysis; Tabular Keyword Count; Table Word Count; and more.

Elton Danes of businessreviewcenter.com states: Page one infiltrator includes many sections such as Members Area, Tools, Tutorials, Penguin and Panda, Owners Area, Web Tools, Software Tutorials, Help Section. For example, In the section of Page one infiltrator download tools, users can download many free and useful SEO tools to support them in ranking up their websites on Google such as HTML Header Checker, Search Engine Spider View, Backlink and Anchor Text Analysis, Keyword Density Analyzer, and Meta Tag Generator, and more. In addition, people can deeply learn SEO and SEO tips by using some useful Tutorials in section of tutorials such as SEO Basics, On-Page SEO, Off-Page SEO, Identifying Penalties, and more. Users also can free download a WordPress plugin such as Page Load Speed, XML Sitemap Generator, Broken Links Checker, SEO for New Websites, Branding Instructions and more in the program owners area.

To get access directly to the complete Page One Infiltrator review that has a comprehensive list of advantages and disadvantages of Page One Infiltrator, one should visit: http://businessreviewcenter.com/page-one-infiltrator-review/

For those, who expect to get instant access to Page One Infiltrator, should visit the official page here.

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