Venturebeat.com just wrote a post about A study released today by a UC Berkeley project called Netalyzr, which revealed that some Internet users on some ISPs, who search for a word or term are being redirect the user to websites rather than to a page or search results about the keyword in question. "The Berkeley project, called Netalyzr, was created to measure DNS behavior. However, over the … [Read more...]
Buyer Of YouPorn.com Takes Over Operation of Certain Playboy Online & Entertainment Businesses
According to a Press Release, the company that bought YouPorn.com Manwin out of Canada, has agreed to be an operating partner for certain Playboy-branded online and entertainment businesses under the label Playboy Plus Entertainment. Under the terms of the agreement, PEI will retain oversight of brand management. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Alta Loma … [Read more...]
Borders.com Maybe Auctioned Off As Soon As September 14th
According to PublishersWeekly.com, all the Intellectually property of Borders may be auctioned off as soon as September 14th including the domain name Borders.com "If the sales procedure is approved at the next hearing on August 10, a bid deadline will be set for September 8 at 5 p.m., followed by an auction on September 14 at 10 a.m. for all of Borders trade marks, trade names, logos, Internet … [Read more...]
Justin Rachwalski, Strategy Lead at Google: How To Improve Landing Page Conversions
Justin Rachwalski, Strategy Lead at Google wrote a guest post on hubspot.com which I think is pretty interesting The post is entitled "10 Easy Ways to Improve Landing Page Conversions" and while you will have to read the full post on hubspot to read the full explanation here are the highlights of the tips Mr. Rachwalski says will improve your landing pages and conversions "immediately" 1. … [Read more...]
New Study: How Do Click Through Rates Vary On SEO Position: How Many More Clicks Does #1 Ranking Get You?
MediaPost.com is reporting on A study released Monday from Slingshot looks at how SEO position effects click through rates (CTR). According to a Press Release by the Company it is the biggest study on the subject in 5 years. The study found that having a No. 1 rankings in A search engine results on average in 18.20% CTRs Having the number 2 position, results in a CTR of almost half of the … [Read more...]
Study Of 7.5M Searches : What People Type In The Address Bar
A new blog post entitled "What Do People Type In The Address Bar" was published today by Chris Finke. Its a study using the information Mr. Finke collected on 7.5 million searches. You really should check out the full post but here are some of the results I found most interesting: "(Note that this data does not include bookmarked links or links that users click on in websites. It is … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Cloud.com Being Bought For $200 Million – $250 Million
According to TechCrunch, Citrix Systems is buying Cloud.com for between $200 million and $250 million. TechCrunch says the deal should be announced within the hour. Just a couple of months ago that the TechWorld took notice of iCloud.com sale of $4.5 million as being over the top. And it was just back in February 2010 that my friend & fellow domainer Larry Fischer wrote on his blog … [Read more...]