Variable Markup

I’ve been playing around with the data visualization tools at IBM’s Many Eye’s project and came up with a visualization in a treeview that shows the top 500+ ecommerce sites split by category of retailer with google page rank.  It’s an interesting way to look at the data as you quickly see that apparel & [...]

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Google just release Google Checkout Trends.   Similar in nature to Google Trends where you can compare the popularity of search terms, here Google is allowing you to compare sales of products or brands that were paid for through Google Checkout. 
After playing with it a bit, I started to think about how it might be used by retailers [...]

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Brandon over at “The life and times” wrote up a great article on Optimizing for Google Product Search (Formerly Froogle).   Definitely worth checking out. 

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By far, the best tactical oriented presentation I saw at shop.org was the Advanced Search: Part Art, Part Science - The SEO Secrets Most Agencies Won’t Reveal given primarily by Stephan Spencer, President of Netconcepts with the help of Elaine Wu of Victoria’s Secret, and Steve Spangler of SteveSpanglerScience.com.  Stephan walked through the presentation sharing [...]

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I saw this over on Web-Strategist.com back from February and had to add it. It’s a viral video made by Push On an online marketing and SEO company.
The video is at 4,251 views so far on Youtube after 6 months. I would be curious [...]

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