http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:34:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For many people, their favorite feature of the search engine Bing is the beautiful photograph featured on the homepage. Now Bing is having a contest to select a users photograph for their homepage for 24 hours. The winner will be selected based on user ratings and by the Bing homepage ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/07/bing-homepage-contest/ Interested in using Twitter as a business tool but concerned that you don't have the time to check your friends updates? If you answered yes, there is a new site called Twitter for Busy People that you might want to try out. This site requires you to enter your ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/twitter-for-busy-people/ A recent study performed by TechCrunch compared search usability on Bing versus Google. To sum up the study, most people prefer the design of Bing, but will stick with Google due to familiarity, the fact that they already use many other Google applications, and Bing's new features are not large ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/focus-group-on-bing-versus-google/ Google has once again rolled out more updates to their PageRank Toolbar. Typically Google makes PageRank updates about every 3 months, but this update comes very close to it's last update in May. So if you are engaged in SEO on your site and see a change in your PageRank, ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/june-2009-pagerank-update/ Are you wondering how Microsoft's new search engine Bing is going to affect your organic rankings? Microsoft now offers a white paper for webmasters outlining Bing and it's new features. After reading through the white paper, it appears that Bing is still following the standard SEO practices. Click here to download ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/bings-new-features/ With the continued buzz of Bing, Google is taking precautionary measures to make sure they maintain their position as being the #1 search engine. Google hasn't had to do much to hold this spot in the past. They have now added to their homepage a link saying: Discovering the web: ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/google-places-discovering-the-web-link-on-their-homepage/ Looking for a way to view search results across different engines without having to switch back and forth between windows (or tabs)? There are many tools that give you the opportunity to type in a search query and will show you search results for the top search engines all ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/show-search-results-across-engines-in-one-window/ Dell outlet uses Twitter as a marketing tool to “tweet” specials on their dell outlet website. This strategy has led to a direct $2 million in sales, and another $1million as a result of attracting large numbers of customers to the dell.com site. This is a prime example of how micro-blogging ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/dell-uses-twitter-as-a-powerful-marketing-tool/ Over the past couple of weeks I have seen a tremendous amount of Bing television commercials. I have been impressed with the commercials that position Bing as the first ever decision engine. What have you thought of these commercials? Do you think they will entice people to start using Bing over ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/bing-tv-commercials/ Google has added a new feature to their Google Webmaster Tools where you can notify Google when you are moving from one domain to another. For example, let's say that Getupdated.com was going to move to GetupdatedUSA.com, we would now be able to login to Google Webmaster Tools and specify ... http://www.getupdatedinternetmarketing.com/2009/06/google-webmaster-tools-adds-change-of-address/