Search Engine Marketing Blog
Newspaper Publisher Becoming SEM Providers
Going Local
March 17, 2008
SEM Agencies are going Local. With Reach Local and your local Newspaper Publisher getting into the search engine marketing game, competition heats up. Newspaper company like Houston Chronicle & OC Register in California are noticing their printed ads declining. As a result they have aquired SEM company and added another product to push for their sales department
NetSol: The Seeky Little @#$%
Stealing your Domain & Locking it up for 5 Days
March 18, 2008
Have you ever check for a domain availability on Netsol.com and discover even if you don't purchase it with them, Netsol will buy that domain, forcing you to have to purchase the name with them.
"Recently, though, they [NetSol] implemented a new “feature” that is designed to force some users to register domains with them.
As of Tuesday, if a user does a search on the site for a domain name, Network Solution immediately registers the domain in their own name. " www.techcrunch.com
I use to search for all my domain name on network solution but when i realised they did this practice through self discovery, i drop the site. Now Yahoo small business has become one of my favorite site to look up available domain. At $8.99 vs. NetSol $34.99 it makes sense.
Dynamic Pages HTML Issue
Dynamic Elements Can not be Crawled
Search engines have problems crawling links contained in dynamic HTML, Javascript and Flash based pages. These technologies use languages and commands that a search engine spider can't easily travel through. When a search engine sees one of these dynamic elements, it will usually stop crawling any deeper into your website.
