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Publicizing your blog appears to be a real challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. WebProNews Reporter Kara Ratliff talked to David Meerman Scott the Author of New Rules of Marketing and PR about how to overcome some of the challenges that come with publicizing. Scott offers many helpful tips including “trying.” According to Scott, [...] Tags: Blog, David Meerman Scott, Kara Ratliff, Publicizing Blog

In late December of 2007, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) implemented new rules for live blogging. The rules set a limit on how many posts one person can make during a game, if he/she is a credentialed journalist. WebProNews talked with three bloggers, two of them journalist about the new rules. [...] Tags: Blogs, Chicago Sports Weekly, Chris Korman, Kara Ratliff, Live Blogging, NCAA, News Update, Ryan Corazza, SportsBlogsNation, The Herald Times, Tyler Bleszinski

At the beginning of the millennium, Podcasting started to hit the masses. But now it seems almost necessary to have a Podcast for your marketing plan. Well at least that’s what Creator and Podcaster of podchick.com and skydivergirls.com, Kayeffcie Blanchette said to us in an interview. WebProNews takes a look into how [...] Tags: Brian Mark, Chaz Rough, David Brown, Kara Ratliff, Kayeffcie Blanchette, podcasting

In the New Year, Google seems to be changing their algorithm and making the search results more time related. The leading search engine has been ranking items from popular sites like Digg higher than factual or historical sites like Wikipedia. Is this a move towards a Web 3.0? In other news, Kara Ratliff [...] Tags: Digg, Google, Google's Algorithm, Kara Ratliff, Steve Souders, Web 3.0, Wikipedia, yahoo

Founder and CEO of High Rankings and Co-Founder of SEMNE, Jill Whalen talks with WebProNews about site navigation and menu’s. She gives us tips and a checklist of what you should incorporate into your website. For example, make sure to do keyword research to figure out the key phrases that you want to [...] Tags: High Rankings, Jill Whalen, Kara Ratliff, menu's, SEMNE, SEO, site navigation

President of SiteTuners, Tim Ash spoke with WebProNews at the 2007 Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago. Ash gave us some information that he gave to an audience at the conference regarding landing page testing. He discusses how you need to get a user to stay on your site once they’ve visited it, [...] Tags: Kara Ratliff, landing page, landing page testing, SES, SiteTuners, Tim Ash

WebProNews talked with the Director of Research for Hitwise, Heather Dougherty at the 2007 Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago. Dougherty explains how the launch of their new paid and organic search data could help fuel search marketing campaigns and help you make better decisions regarding your website. She also talks about the [...] Tags: Heather Dougherty, Hitwise, Holiday Trends, Kara Ratliff, Paid or Organic Search Data, Search Marketing, SES

WebProNews spoke with Ofer Ronen, the Co-Founder and CEO of Sendori, at the 2007 Search Engines Strategies Conference in Chicago. Ronen discusses the direct navigation space and the developments and changes they are experiencing with it. With the holiday season approaching, Ronen says they have noticed some seasonality to search terms. Check it all [...] Tags: Advertising, Direct Navigation, Kara Ratliff, Ofer Ronen, Sendori, SES

The Infrastructure Product Manager of Ask.com, Vivek Pathak talked with WebProNews at the Search Engine Strategies 2007 Conference in Chicago. Pathak gives the audience a deeper look into sitemaps. He also gives tips as to how to improve your sitemap and tells us what Ask.com is doing to improve the overall user experience. [...] Tags: Ask.com, Kara Ratliff, SES, sitemaps, Vivek Pathak Infrastructure Product Manager

Manish Patel, the CEO of Where2GetIt, talked with WebProNews at SES Chicago 2007. Patel discusses how his company drives consumers by helping them buy products either online or offline. He also tells how consumers are now in control of the market. Check out Manish Patel’s explanation to Kara Ratliff, right here on WebProNews. If you enjoyed [...] Tags: Consumers, Kara Ratliff, Local Search, Manish Patel, SES, Where2GetIt