A Small Business Blog and Small Business Tips Related to Growing, Marketing and Managing a Small Business.Small business blog for small business owners, includes resources for businesses, small business grants, business plans, business letters, daily business tips, online marketing advice and information. Learn ideas for your small business.Google Increases Search Share- May 28, 2008 Extending its dominance in the search market, Google grew its share of queries in April at the expense of rivals Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Ask.com. Google U.S. search query share in April grew to 61.6 percent, up from 59.8 percent in March, comScore announced last Thursday. Google accomplished this although the number of search queries dropped 2 percent overall in April to 10.58 billion, compared with March, comScore said.http://www.small-business-software.net/#593 Online Reviews a Source of Business- May 27, 2008 Picking up on a trend started by the travel industry, business-listing sites by Google, Yahoo, and others including Yelp and Citysearch let customers rave about their favorites, or complain about poor service. That helps consumers get real-life opinions about local businesses and services. For businesses attempting to reach consumers, the feedback spreads the word in a way ads can not. But perhaps more important, the reviews can dramatically raise a websites visibility in search...http://www.small-business-software.net/#592 Online Sales Tax Problems for eBay- May 27, 2008 The outcome of the case could have far reaching implications for taxes on online sales: The city of Chicago is suing eBay and its subsidiary StubHub for failing to collect city amusement taxes on concert and sporting event tickets sold through the Web sites. Chicagos amusement tax ordinance includes Internet sites that resell tickets, but eBay, which bought StubHub last year, says the 8 percent tax does not apply to it. It is not clear how much money is at stake, but when the city first.http://www.small-business-software.net/#591 CBS Buys CNet- May 19, 2008 Television company CBS has agreed to buy technology news and entertainment website CNET for about $1.75bn. CBS said that the purchase of CNET, which owns sites such as ZDNet and Gamespot, would help to boost its online presence. complete articlehttp://www.small-business-software.net/#590 A Perfect Link- May 13, 2008 Webmasters are given the advice that they must attract links, but the key is not just to attract links... they need to attract good links. But what is the perfect link The search for the perfect link need not be a quest in vain. Consider the following when attempting to attract links... A Perfect Linkhttp://www.small-business-software.net/#589 Attention Data Makes Break Through- May 12, 2008 Sounds like social network sites have finally figured out Attention Data: Social networking site MySpace said Thursday it will soon enable users to quickly share profile data with Web sites operated by Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and others. complete articlehttp://www.small-business-software.net/#588 Amazon Challenges Sales Tax Ruling- May 6, 2008 This could really change things for affiliate programs and online entrepeneurs. Amazon.com is suing New York over a new law that requires out-of-state online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New York. Officials estimated the state would gain about $50 million by requiring Internet giants such as Amazon.com to collect state sales tax. New Yorkers, like residents of many states, are currently on an honor system to report their online spending when they file state tax...http://www.small-business-software.net/#587 The Web is Still a Baby- May 5, 2008 The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor said Wednesday, on the 15th anniversary of the webs effective launch. Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that the web, which started life in the CERN physics laboratory on the Franco-Swiss border in the early 1990s, could develop in unimaginable directions but above all should be a force for good. complete articlehttp://www.small-business-software.net/#586 Yahoo Patent Application- May 5, 2008 Axandra posted this in their weekly search engine news. Very interesting to consider all the factors that can effect ranking! Yahoos patent applications provides a list of 51 web page elements that can be analyzed to determine the clutter of a web page: Total number of links Total number of words Total number of images (non-ad images) Image area above the fold (non-ad images) Dimensions of page Page area (total) Page length Total number of tables Maximum table columns (per.http://www.small-business-software.net/#585 |