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Groupon Pages Part Of Company Evolution Into Local Search Site

Published on 2014/10/29 By admin

Depending on your viewpoint, Groupon’s new Pages offering is either a helpful new tool for local business owners or a bid by the company for more search exposure and a new way to gain sales leads. Indeed, it probably qualifies as both. Groupon stresses Pages’ value for business owners…

Experiment Shows Up To 60% Of “Direct” Traffic Is Actually Organic Search

Published on 2014/07/08 By admin

Everyone knows that browsers don’t always report where visitors came from when they arrive at a website. When they don’t report where they were in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) referrer header, often the traffic is considered “Direct” — which really means,… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Newly Launched Bing Offers Pulls Deals From Across The Web

Published on 2013/04/25 By admin

Bing is appealing to fans of daily deal sites with the launch of Bing Offers, a one-stop shop for online deals and coupons. Boasting one of the largest collections of local deals on the web, Bing Offers pulls deals from various partner sites. Users can search by business name, category or keyword…

Groupon Makes Bid To Become Local (Deals) Search Engine

Published on 2012/11/19 By admin

Late last week Groupon announced that it was going to make a growing inventory of less perishable deals accessible to consumers. Calling this the Groupon “Local Marketplace” the new functionality is live in Chicago and New York, soon to be available across Groupon cities: In the last… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Groupon Buys Travel Search Site Uptake Mostly For Headcount

Published on 2012/02/29 By admin

Uptake was an ambitious travel site that never quite broke through.

The Group Buying Effect

Published on 2011/02/23 By admin

Group buying and daily deals have increased exponentially in the past year or two- and they will only grow larger. The benefits on both side of group buying a daily deals are what have made this become to wildly popular.

Yext Takes Google Tags Idea Across Web

Published on 2010/12/30 By admin

Local advertising provider Yext has spearheaded the launch of a Google-like “tags” product that receives distribution across a vast array of local sites including Yelp, Yahoo, Mapquest, Superpages, Topix, Patch, Citysearch and others. It’s being characterized as an… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Social Media Advertising on Twitter

Published on 2010/12/15 By admin

Advertising is Dead. SEO is Dead. The list of provocative linkbait goes on and on but savvy practitioners realize that few things just die out.

Google To Buy Groupon This Week In $5 To $6 Billion Deal?

Published on 2010/11/30 By admin

Whew. The rumors of a Google-Groupon deal are getting hotter. Yesterday, there was a report the deal was done for $2 billion.

Google To Buy Groupon This Week In $5 To $6 Billion Deal?

Published on 2010/11/30 By admin

Whew. The rumors of a Google-Groupon deal are getting hotter. Yesterday, there was a report the deal was done for $2 billion