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2009’s Top Canadian Internet News Stories

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, Web Design, Web Development on 2010-01-06

Here’s our annual listing of Canada’s top news stories relating to the Internet in 2009.  Note that we’ve included some non-Canadian items as well due to their global significance to the web. Let us know if we’ve missed anything.

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Bing, Organic Search Traffic On The Rise?

Posted By Gary Gorelik in Internet Marketing on 2009-12-09

As we all know, the top major searching engines on the Internet today are Google, Yahoo and Bing. It’s a no brainer that Google is at the top of the three.  But what about Bing (MSN)?

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As an Internet Marketer for a web design and development firm, one of our main objectives is to use different analytics to monitor the amount of users visiting the websites from all three search engines. Full Article

Email is not enough for effective marketing campaigns

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Efficient Web, Internet Marketing on 2009-12-02

We all know that email is an efficient, low cost, and tractable Internet marketing medium.   But if response rates are of utmost importance to your marketing campaign, you will need to do more.

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Holiday Themed Logos Bring More Than Just Good Cheer

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, Web Design on 2009-11-10

Often around the holidays or changing seasons major search engines will modify their online logos to reflect customarily celebrated occasions and events.  Could corporate websites benefit from doing the same? We believe so. Full Article

Farewell to One Degree

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2009-10-22

We are sad to hear about One Degree’s recent departure.  It will be missed. Full Article

Diminishing brand recognition with online feeds

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2009-09-23

When interviewing new candidates for web related positions in our company, I often ask them how they keep up-to-date with what’s going on in the industry. Of those who do read regular news publications, blogs, websites, etc., most can’t name the publisher. Full Article

Canada’s Privacy Act – the World’s standard for social networking sites?

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, What's Buzzing on 2009-09-15

Over the last 14 months much discussion has stirred up about Facebook’s privacy policy and its non-compliance with Canada’s privacy act, PIPEDA. Full Article

Internet Marketing ramp up in August

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2009-08-24

If the holiday season is important to your business, than it’s important that Internet marketing initiatives like Search Engine Optimization (SEO) get started in August. Full Article

Getting on Google’s “pages from Canada”- is your website worthy?

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2009-06-03

There are two ways of conducting a web search on Google.ca. You have a choice between searching “the web” or searching “pages from Canada”.   The options are located directly under the search bar. You will notice an immediate difference in the search results between searching the web and searching pages from Canada. But what determines this difference and why could this matter to you? Full Article

The value of Not using no-follow

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2009-04-30

I believe Internet marketers to be some of the most influential online website advocates.  Why?  Because we are avid promoters of other websites.  Internet marketers will often suggest to their clients the use of other websites that add value to their own business.  This added-value being links, but not just any links will work. Full Article

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