The Search Monitor (“TSM”), an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid and organic search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of a new affiliate tracking software that identifies affiliate marketers who are sponsoring paid search results pages.

This powerful new tool is the first and only way for internet marketers to gain insight into the scope, strength, and breadth of their competitor’s affiliate programs. The Search Monitor is able to identify affiliates who deploy direct linking tactics and affiliates who manage and operate individual web sites.

Uses for this new tool include:

Measurement of the reach and strength of competitors’ affiliate programs on paid search.
Policing affiliates for compliance with affiliate program terms of use.
Identification of competitor’s affiliates for potential recruitment opportunities.
“Affiliate programs are a smart way to gain maximum exposure on paid search,” says Troy Lerner of The Booyah Agency. “By using affiliate programs as a tactic in our arsenal, our clients can own more page real estate on SERPs. We like the new reports from The Search Monitor because it gives us incredible insight as to where our affiliate efforts are strong and where we need to focus more time. Our clients love it because it enables them to build strength in numbers, while at the same time protecting their brands from misuse by affiliate marketers.”

“We are excited to bring this information about the affiliate channel to internet advertisers and their agencies,” says Lori Weiman, CEO of The Search Monitor. “We are a strong supporter of affiliate marketing as a powerful way to optimize online advertising in a controlled and deliberate way”

The Search Monitor offers important information that can only be gained by careful 24×7 automated monitoring, and surfaces the information in 3 easy to use reporting sections:

Competitor Monitor gives insights into competitive bidding strategies, competitor market share and visibility, ranking on sponsored search, ad copy strategies, and promotions like free shipping, trials, or sales.
Trademark Monitor eases the tasks associated with reputation management by auto-detecting advertisers sponsoring branded keywords, use of trademarks and slogans in ad copy and display urls, and negative, positive, and neutral brand buzz on blogs, news, and web sites.
Affiliate Monitor simplifies oversight of affiliate programs by auto-identification of affiliates using sponsored search to detect violations of rank requirements, keyword restrictions, ad copy requirements or restrictions, and landing page copy requirements or restrictions.
Search engine marketing has become a critical component for advertisers. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), North American advertisers spent $12.2 billion on SEM in 2007 and that figure is estimated to more than double to reach $25.2 billion by 2011. The Search Monitor was developed to provide the tools necessary to optimize the sizable investments being made in this medium and to protect brands from competitive threats.

About The Search Monitor
The Search Monitor is comprised of a team of SEM enthusiasts who uncovered a need in the market for external automated monitoring of competitive activities on paid and organic search, shopping engines, web sites, blogs, social media, and press coverage. Automated monitoring is important for reputation management as it greatly reduces the number of hours and effort required to manage affiliates and competitors infringing on brands and misrepresenting products across the web. Further, automated monitoring reveals competitive marketing strategies that enable advertisers to benchmark their own performance, optimize ad budgets, detect successful ad copy combinations, and receive advance awareness of special offers like free shipping and sales dominating their verticals. The Search Monitor is offered as a web based subscription service. To learn more please visit www.thesearchmonitor.com.

About The Booyah Agency
Based in Colorado, The Booyah Agency is a full-service Online Marketing & Advertising team packaged in a boutique firm. Armed with a funny name, these former big-agency veterans drive strategy and deliver results more quickly and affordably than the big guys. We’re experts in fundamentals and best practices with a passion for discovering the newest techniques that keep our clients ahead. Clients include Mapquest, Vitamin Shoppe, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Gaiam, Tower Records and Little Tikes.

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Post to Twitter and Search Realtime Web Directly From Firefox Address Bar

The partnership with OneRiot is a natural fit because OneRiot search delivers exactly what Twitter users are looking for – the hottest and most shared news, videos and blogs on the web today. 

Boulder, CO and San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 20, 2009 — OneRiot, the realtime web search engine, today announced that it will be the exclusive search provider for TwitterBar, one of Firefox’s most popular and recommended add-ons. TwitterBar is one of many services to recently join the new OneRiot Realtime Search Partner Program which offers developers access to the company’s API.

TwitterBar, a straightforward service that allows users to send Twitter updates directly from the Firefox address bar, opted for search powered by OneRiot to enhance the user experience by adding realtime web search capabilities. This integration enables TwitterBar users to explore the realtime web for any topic and immediately share their findings on Twitter without navigating away from their current web page. Download TwitterBar for free from the Firefox Add-On Gallery here: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664

“I am impressed with OneRiot’s fresh search results and wanted to give users a way to find the top content from the social web to tweet about from TwitterBar,” said Christopher Finke, author of TwitterBar. “The partnership with OneRiot is a natural fit because OneRiot search delivers exactly what Twitter users are looking for – the hottest and most shared news, videos and blogs on the web today.”

About OneRiot API and Realtime Search Partner Program:

The OneRiot API is for developers of browser add-ons, desktop applications, social websites and other services looking to enhance their user experience with realtime web search powered by OneRiot. The OneRiot API is free and available by request. For more information about the API or the OneRiot Realtime Search Partner Program, please contact Jayson Ayers at jayers (at) oneriot (dot) com.

About OneRiot:

Launched in November 2008, OneRiot is a realtime search engine. Users search with OneRiot to find the news, videos and blogs that are people are buzzing about right now on the social web. Uniquely, OneRiot delivers search results as they emerge, ordered to reflect current social relevance. OneRiot is a privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Colo. with offices in San Francisco. For more info, please follow OneRiot at www.oneriot.com / twitter.com/OneRiot / blog.oneriot.com

Contact:
Courtney Walsh
Director of PR, OneRiot
303.938.3054

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The Search Monitor, an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of geo-targeted monitoring. TSM now monitors 17 countries, 6 languages, and most major regions, states, and cities in each market.

Pittsburgh, PA September 9, 2008 – The Search Monitor (www.thesearchmonitor.com) (“TSM”), an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of geo-targeted monitoring. TSM now monitors 17 countries, 6 languages, and most major regions, states, and cities in each market.

Geo-targeted monitoring enables companies to watch their competition and affiliates, and to manage their reputation and brand use locally. With this launch, interactive agencies, marketers, affiliate managers, and compliance teams are able to monitor paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites around the world from a local point of view in countries including: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and many others. Monitoring can be conducted in English or in the language native to each country.

By gaining visibility into global search markets, companies will be able to overcome a key challenge in analyzing activity in their extended markets. Prior to the geo-targeting capabilities of TSM, an agency with clients worldwide could not effectively monitor locally targeted ads because its visibility was limited to its home base. TSM’s new capabilities provide the insights needed at the local level to protect brands and optimize search campaigns on locally.

The Search Monitor offers important information that can only be gained by careful 24×7 automated monitoring, and surfaces the information in 3 easy to use reporting sections:

1.    Competitor Monitor gives insights into competitive bidding strategies, competitor market share and visibility, ranking on sponsored search, ad copy strategies, and promotions like free shipping, trials, or sales.

2.    Trademark Monitor eases the tasks associated with reputation management by auto-detecting advertisers sponsoring branded keywords, use of trademarks and slogans in ad copy and display urls, and negative, positive, and neutral brand buzz on blogs, news, and web sites.

3.    Affiliate Monitor simplifies oversight of affiliate programs by auto-identification of affiliates using sponsored search to detect violations of rank requirements, keyword restrictions, ad copy requirements or restrictions, and landing page copy requirements or restrictions.

Search engine marketing has become a critical component for advertisers. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), North American advertisers spent $12.2 billion on SEM in 2007 and that figure is estimated to more than double to reach $25.2 billion by 2011. The Search Monitor was developed to provide the tools necessary to optimize the sizable investments being made in this medium and to protect brands from competitive threats.

“Monitoring both globally and locally is critical in benchmarking competitor advertising strategies and for watching affiliate activities online,” says Shaun Martinec, a TSM founder. “Many affiliates will carefully craft their campaigns at the local level in order to take advantage of better priced keywords or to avoid merchant detection when they are not in compliance with affiliate program terms. We find that major brand marketers are often outbid by competitors and affiliates on top terms at the local level.”

About The Search Monitor

The Search Monitor is comprised of a team of SEM enthusiasts who uncovered a need in the market for external automated monitoring of competitive activities on paid search, web sites, blogs, social media, and press coverage. Automated monitoring greatly reduces the number of hours and effort required to manage affiliates and competitors infringing on brands and misrepresenting products across the web. Further, automated monitoring reveals competitive marketing strategies that enable advertisers to benchmark their own performance, optimize ad budgets, detect successful ad copy combinations, and receive advance awareness of special offers like free shipping and sales dominating their verticals. The Search Monitor is offered as a web based subscription service. To learn more please visit www.thesearchmonitor.com .

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This is our reminder to you. There is a war in Iraq and there are 1.3 Million dead, most of them innocent women, children and men. There are thousands who experience worried things every day. There is and was no reason for a war against innocent people. Quit the war now!

Please, all with the same opinion, share the “Blogswarm 19 th of March 2008”. Place a clear signal against the war. Copy this text and put it in your blog. Don’t buy anything on the 19th. Don’t look television and don’t listen to the radio.

At the 19 th March 2008

- Don’t buy anything
- Don’t look television
- Don’t listen to the radio

Stop war now !!

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Market Directions, Inc., a brand performance consultancy, recently performed and analyzed a probing market study to establish a baseline of brand awareness and brand value for the Business Marketing Association (BMA).

Kansas City, MO – March 9, 2008, Market Directions, Inc., a brand performance consultancy, recently performed and analyzed a probing market study to establish a baseline of brand awareness and brand value for the Business Marketing Association (BMA). In doing so, the consultancy surveyed the B2B marketing community on numerous issues, including industry trends and future developments.

A theme that came out of the study is blending technology with an appreciation for the fundamentals of marketing and good business sense. The BMA study points to online marketing and ROI accountability as ongoing trends within the industry. Responding market leaders indicated that Web portals, webinars, blogs and other net-based media were the trade tools with the most impact today. Lead evaluation and other analysis tools, as well as Client Relationship Management (CRM) software programs, are other identified trends.

The call is for marketers to use this technology to move beyond tactical demand generation and align marketing activities with the customer buying cycle. Recent advances in software are helping make this happen. However, technology per se should not become the primary focus of the marketing industry. Maintaining an appreciation for the fundamental principles of marketing, and working toward the best interests of the customer, should remain top considerations.

About Market Directions
Market Directions is a Brand Performance consultancy that provides clear direction for brand growth through the voice of the customer. The company helps businesses through new brand acquisition, repositioning, brand extensions — no matter where the brand is in its lifecycle. Market Directions can help define a solution that will translate into business results. For more information visit www.marketdirections.com.

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Sputtr (www.sputtr.com), the leading multi-search engine with thousands of users worldwide, today announced the release of a major new feature that gives its users the ability to actively participate in building the world’s largest and most comprehensive multi-search engine.

London, UK February 4, 2008 — Sputtr (www.sputtr.com), the leading multi-search engine with thousands of users worldwide, today announced the release of a major new feature that gives its users the ability to actively participate in building the world’s largest and most comprehensive multi-search engine.

Steffen Hilgemann, founder and CEO of Sputtr.com explains: “This new feature allows our users to upload and submit completely new search engines to Sputtr’s multi-search engine. By doing so, our users will actively contribute towards building the most comprehensive and user-friendly multi-search engine on the Internet today. Sputtr already includes industry leaders such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, and many more. But in the future we would like to extend our reach to the thousands of alternative or niche search engines that today’s internet users increasingly utilize to find relevant results in an ever more complex online world.”

Charles Knight, editor at influential blogs ReadWriteWeb (www.readwriteweb.com) and AltSearchEngines (www.altsearchengines.com) adds: “I have watched Sputtr’s progress for a long time, and this is the moment that I have been waiting for, the ability to select from the vast array of alternative search engines that we enjoy so much on AltSearchEngines. Congratulations, Sputtr! ”

Sputtr.com currently holds a database of nearly 100 search engines that its users can utilize to build their own customized multi-search engine on Sputtr’s homepage. Says Steffen: “With the help of our active user base we hope to grow the number of search engines on our site to 1,000 by the end of 2008. This would mark a significant improvement in our service for our users, and would increase the reach of the site by a factor of ten.”

Sharing Or Submitting New Search Engines:

Users, who would like to share their alternative search engines with others on Sputtr, can now do so by submitting them to the site for free. Every user can submit as many search engines as he or she wishes, and after anti-spam approval these will be added to the site to be available to and be used by the public. Please visit Sputtr.com if you wish to share an alternative search engine with the Sputtr community.

Search engine owners who wish to give Sputtr’s users the choice of utilizing their search engine as part of their custom search page are also encouraged to visit Sputtr.com to submit their site for free.

About Sputtr:

Sputtr is a one year old start-up multi-search engine that offers a fully customizable multi-search service that allows users to edit and personalize Sputtr’s homepage to create their very own search engine tool. With an emphasis on individualization and personal choice, Sputtr.com answers directly to a growing trend in Web 2.0 services. For more details, please visit www.sputtr.com.

Website: www.sputtr.com

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Bloggers unite. Getting the word out to interested readers just got a lot easier. BlogReach is a new, innovative approach to help bloggers promote their blogs and boost their search engine ranking (SEO). This free widget collects current headlines from participating blogs and displays them on other blogs in related interest areas within the BlogReach network.

Brentwood, UK – January 14, 2008 — The blog community is ready and willing to bring together like-minded individuals who want to hear and be heard–the challenge is finding the right audience. Getting the word out to interested readers just got a lot easier. BlogReach is a new, innovative approach to help bloggers promote their blogs and boost their search engine ranking (SEO).

BlogReach is a free widget that collects current headlines from participating blogs and displays them on other blogs in related interest areas within the BlogReach network. This new service delivers double benefits. First, bloggers can reach a wider audience by tapping into the rapidly expanding network of blog participants. Blogs also improve their SEO ranking by increasing the number of topic-relevant links on their site.

For bloggers, BlogReach is simple to install and free to use. Installation involves pasting a few lines of code or deploying a simple plug-in. The blogger can then customize the appearance of the BlogReach widget to match their blog’s appearance.

Once installed, the BlogReach widget automatically retrieves a blog’s current headline and then displays it on other blogs within the BlogReach network. Headlines are shared between related interest areas, ensuring content enhances the value of the blog to the reader. BlogReach displays direct links to the blog, not redirects, offering maximum impact for SEO optimization.

BlogReach also offers advertising opportunities that are customizable by geographic location, interest area, and more. As a result of the internet networking culture, consumers increasingly expect highly targeted content that is specifically relevant to their interests. BlogReach is an innovative means for companies to maximize their marketing investment, focusing their efforts on a market that will welcome their messages.

Measurement is essential to creating and maintaining an effective presence online. BlogReach delivers the online statistics and tracking that bloggers and advertisers need to evaluate their impact and to adjust their approach in real-time. BlogReach offers free sign up and more information for advertisers at www.blogreach.com.

About LogicNow:
LogicNow is an innovator of browser-based software solutions that streamline client tracking, billing, and customer communications. The company’s brands, Kambee, PerlDesk, LogicBill, and LogicReach, provide a range of solutions for web monitoring, internet surveying, help desk management, and ecommerce. LogicNow solutions are used globally by over 8,000 customers including governments, universities, large enterprises, and small businesses. www.logicnow.com

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SEO Articles Drive Website Traffic

SEO Articles can help move websites up in the search engines and are often purchased by SEO Companies and webmasters. When a person puts a keyword into a search engine they expect that the search bring him or her to the exact type of product, service or information that they are looking for. Many people only click on the first few search results and by then they may have found what they were searching for. You can increase the chances of a surfer winding up on your site and this will give you the edge if you are marketing your business.

Types of SE Articles

Webmasters and SEO Companies frequently purchase unique, quality content for newsletters, website content, press releases, blogs, and more. You can even buy small articles and post them as blogs, which is known in the world of search engine optimization as “link bait.” If you publish quality blogs, other websites are likely to paste those blogs (with a link to your website in them) on their own site. This is great publicity for your website.

SE companies and webmasters often purchase content for a new website. For example, if you want to have a new website built that sells women’s makeup, you don’t need to know anything about women’s makeup to put tons of quality, unique content on your women’s makeup website. You can simply purchase one article with the topic of your choice for each webpage. When the articles are delivered to you via email, you can simply paste each one onto a different webpage.

Be Sure You Buy SEO Articles

You shouldn’t buy just any articles for your website, blog, or link bait. Your articles should be written by a professional article vendor who knows how to optimize your articles for the search engines. This will further help your search engine ranking.

Search engine optimization, or SEO is a term used to describe the popular internet marketing trend that guarantees your website at the top of a search engine search for a set list of keywords. This practice has become a very lucrative business for many involved, especially the businesses benefiting from it. SEO articles are a tool that is used for optimization that entails paragraphs of content laden with specific keywords that will attract search engine searches to your site.

Quality Search Engine Articles

SEO articles require knowledge and expertise; otherwise it could prove a waste of money for the client, who will see little benefit. Quality SEO articles must be produced on a regular basis with fresh content that is grammatically correct.

Moving up in the Search Engines with SEO Articles

One way to ensure that you get quality SEO articles is to purchase them from a professional SEO copywriter. You can find an article vendor that produce high quality SEO articles written by professionals who fill your order for search engine optimized articles and keep your demand filled. The benefits of using a professional article vendor such as ArticleHulk.com are that the article vendor must follow a style sheet provided by the client. This means that you get each article to your exact specifications. Another benefit is that by using their unique pricing system, you will also be choosing the deadline these SEO articles must be completed by.

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Randall Johnson is a professional SEO article writer for ArticleHulk.
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Increasing web site traffic is appealing to all of us who have web pages or blogs, or for those of us who promote affiliate programs. I will be showing you a few ways to increase your web site traffic with out spending a lot of money.

One free way to increase your web site traffic is to create a blog at Blogger.com or to create a lens at Squidoo. Both can be up and running in less than an hour and Squidoo also has a revenue sharing plan. Squidoo can be quite addictive and you can create an unlimited number of lenses. I will discuss lenses a little more in an upcoming article.

Facebook and Myspace also are a good way to advertise your links to the rest of the cyber world. You can post messages to your friends online to assist you in generating more web site traffic.

Another free way to increase your web site traffic is to contribute to popular threads at marketing forums with your web site address in your signature column. Warrior Forum.com is one of literally hundreds of forums which you can use to promote your site.

You can also place a free ad at the Free Ad Forum and get involved in some of the popular threads their as well.

You can post press releases at PR.web which is one of the more effective ways to promote your web site or product. It is one of the better sites to help you increase your web site traffic.

Writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com to name a few of the hundreds of article web sites on the net. Make sure to place your web site address in the authors box. If it is a popular article it will begin to appear on other web sites as well. Your articles are free to use as long as the bio box is left intact.

If you have an email list keep your subscribers up to date once and awhile and make sure your web site address appears in your signature.

You can try out traffic generating sites like Traffic Swarm or Traffic Digger. These sites are also free.

Pay per click ads from Google or Overture also work quite well but make sure you do your homework first. You could end up spending a lot of money if you don’t do proper keyword research prior to bidding on your key words.

These tips if consistently applied should help you to increase your web site traffic in a few short weeks. Good luck and keep me posted on your results.

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Craig Beckta resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
www.craigsreality.com
Web Site Traffic Secrets
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1.Submityour site&feed to listings.
This one would be an adapted exertion of time as it increases your chances of being recognized at the same time gives you a bit more introduction in the blogosphere.You can catch some directories for site and rss submission at rss-specifications.com

2.Systematize your articles.
You can pull off spell checks,change the picture positions,validate the links or add more profitable links to your existing posts. segregating extended articles into shortened paragraphs will give a modish appearance to the article.Also consider adding bookmarklets below your articles which will make it easy for your reader to execute social bookmarking.

3.Transmute the template.
Reformyour site’s template.You always wanted to carry out it,right.
Refashion the banners,backgrounds,the css buttons,sidebar positions etc.This will add a fresh look to your site.
4.Reshape the ads.
Endeavor new positions for your ads.Position them at parts where they would get maximum introduction.Reform the ads background and link colour.Try to make those unexciting adslittle
bit mesmeric.

5.Estimate your development.
Bunch up the input about your site and its traffic from Google Analytics,Feedburner,Technorati etc. and get a more desirable picture of your site’s aggrandizement.Check out how your ranks have progressed and find where your constant hearers
are from.

6.Hatch a captivating avatar/favicon.
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7.Check out the top100.
Uncover out what the top site are upto.Glance through their rendition styles,the templates,the gas numbers and the swollensubscriberships.There’s immense things to learn and higher knowledge will carry out only good in the blogosphere.
8.Design relationship with other bloggers.
Make a blogger cheerful by commenting on his blog.Commenting on sites correlated to your subject of sharpness will be a good idea,since it hands the chances of pulling inbound links.But don’t disremember to leave your site name and url along with the comments you make.

9.Surf around.
Surfing around other sites or news websites will help you find subjects you would be interested in blogging about.Make a ‘To blog’ list and execute some fishing expedition on items you’ll be blogging about.

10.Get some reason.
Reread your most noteworthy articles,the wonderful responses,the acknowledgment messages.If you still don’t get that punch, memorize that you’ve a mark* to keep up with.

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Ganesh Chandran is a tech and onlineindustry analyst.He is also a passionate blogger and he shares his knowledge @ his blog Blogger Whale-Make money online.His articles have been quoted in many ebooks and is reffered by hundreds of aspiring bloggers everyday.
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