Online Marketing News

Microsoft is launching a music streaming service this month
Stream music for free and also download to own

Microsoft Office 2010 Will Be Free Online Testing Starts Today

Twitter Back on Track In June With 20 Million U.S. Visitors : ComScore

Facebook finally caught up to MySpace in unique U.S. visitors and surpassed its rival social network
Twitter Back on Track In June With 20 Million U.S. Visitors

New iPhone and Nokia N97 Traffic

Top Social Network sites of UK

Electronic Products Search Trends

Online Advertising Revenue 1Q09

Marketing Shares of Various channels in US

59% of Interactive marketing Budget Spend in SEO and PPC

Bing 15th most visitted site

Bing crosses the traffic of digg, twitter, cnn

Top 10 Most Searched and Paying Keyword of 2009

1) Paris Hilton.
2) Google
3) Yahoo
4) Ebay
5) Eminem
6) Britney Spears
7) mapquest
8) Tsunami
9) Girls
10) American Idol

Most searched term on Google, Yahoo and MSN 2009

Google
Craigslist (0.45%)
MySpace (0.41%)
Facebook (0.34%)
Yahoo Mail (0.24%)
Yahoo (0.22%)

Yahoo
MySpace (0.73%)
Google (0.66%)
Craigslist (0.59%)
Facebook (0.52%)
MySpace.com (0.42%)

Microsoft
Google (1.02%)
Yahoo (0.61%)
MySpace (0.53%)
Yahoo.com (0.48%)
Facebook (0.45%)

Search Engine Optimization

Search Trends on Google: Most Searched Celebrity, Term in India and Globally

Top 10 most searched Bollywood celebrity on Google
1. Katrina Kaif
2. Aishwarya Rai
3. Salman Khan
4. Hrithik Roshan
5. Kareena Kapoor
6. Shahid Kapoor
7. Deepika Padukone
8. Shah Rukh Khan
9. Mallika Sherawat
10. Genelia D’Souza


In India:

Fastest Rising

1. youtube
2. orkut
3. katrina kaif
4. cricket
5. irctc
6. facebook
7. genelia d'souza
8. beijing 2008 olympic games
9. sixth pay commission
10. ipl

Most Popular in India

1. orkut
2. gmail
3. yahoo
4. google
5. youtube
6. yahoomail
7. indian railways
8. rediff
9. cricket
10. katrina kaif


Global Most searched terms

1. Facebook
2. BBC
3. YouTube
4. eBay
5. Games
6. News
7. Hotmail
8. Bebo
9. Yahoo!
10. Jobs
11. whatsyourview

Source zeitgeist2008

SEO

Today Hot Topics of Online Marketing

Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome
Google Analytics on your Mobile Phone

Using Google Analytics and Website Optimizer Together




Google Adsense for Mobile launched
Google Ad Planner New Look Changed
Google's tips for speeding up your online publishing business in a slowdown.
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77805

Google's SEO guide

Bing increasing search share for Microsoft

Recently launched Bing has managed to increase the searchers and query by 3 points for Microsoft.

Search engine marketing

Technology News

Russians Spend More Time On Social Networks Than The Rest Of World: comscore
YouTube Increases File Size Limit To 2GB
Google Enhances Gmail Labeling With Drag And Drop Feature
Firefox 3.5 Hits Five Million Downloads in 24 Hours

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips

SEO Tips

Host your site in the region where you have to promote your site. Check IP address hasn't been black listed.

Increse crawl rate, Update the site's content as often as possible. Minimize page load time, remove cancolization.

Optimize images to get traffic from Google image search. Use xenu.

Do Metadata optimization, Optimize Title and description meta tags.

Write unique content, dont repeat key terms more than 3 times, use H1 tag, image alt tag and bold tag for the key terms.

use robot.txt, HTML and XML sitemap, .htaccess file, breadcrumbs navigation

Use various free tools to analyze the site from different points.

http://www.seo-browser.com/,
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
150 + Killer SEO Tips

Free Google Analytics Tools

URL Builder

Use URL builder Google Analytics Tools from Google Analytics help center to tag and track your marketing campaigns effectively. tag your online ads with campaign, medium and source.

SiteScan(http://sitescanga.com/)

Verify all pages on your site include the tracking code. SiteScan then reports each page in an easy-to-read CSV file