[meta]marketer is a search engine marketing agency, specializing in search engine optimization services for web retailers. Services include web site optimization based on analytics insights, data-driven marketing and A/B and multivariate testing; online customer acquisition consulting, including search (both paid and natural), social, and online public relations; SEO audit, including link portfolio evaluation and strategy recommendations; and landing page optimization.

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@Website Publicity provides search engine marketing services, consulting and training for both organic optimization and paid search advertising. Its search engine optimization consulting services include designing strategies for increasing a web site’s prominence in the major search engines and increasing click-through rates. The agency also offers paid-search advertising services and product feed services to Google Products, Yahoo Shopping and other shopping engines.

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360i is a search engine marketing agency that specializes in paid and natural search for web retailers. The agency produces integrated digital marketing campaigns for large brand advertisers in areas such as social media, behavioral marketing, performance marketing and display. 360i’s technologies include a detailed search engine optimization reporting dashboard, paid search auditing tools, and advanced search engine marketing bid optimization and digital media attribution platforms.

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• 360i offers retailers a playbook for social marketing

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7Search.com is a pay-per-click search engine advertising and affiliate network for web retailers. The agency’s account management system allows clients to manage their listings by reviewing reports such as keyword clicks and cost reports, daily totals reports and URL activity reports. The system sends advertisers an automated e-mail if they have been outbid by a competitor and their first position ranking is lost, enabling them to login immediately to adjust their bids.

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• 7Search and Relevad Form Strategic Distribution Partnership that Expands its PPC Reach

• 7Search Taps Sagoon.com to Form Strategic Traffic Distribution Partnership that Expands its PPC Reach

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Actonia is a search marketing and online direct marketing agency serving web retailers. The agency offers search engine optimization, pay-per-click and data feed marketing services. Actonia’s bidding and keyword management PPC campaign services differentiate between buyer queries and researcher queries. To help clients make the most of comparison shopping engines, the agency optimizes and manages product data feeds by detailed measurements on each shopping portal.

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Adknowledge is a cost-per-click network that displays text ads over a global distribution of sites, including second tier search, content publishers, e-mail and domains for web retailers. Search services include keyword and category bidding, third-party traffic validation, and targeted verticals and traffic sources. The network connects advertisers with consumers through e-mail that uses dynamically generated text ads placed within category-specific content and delivered to opt-in users.ree focused on social media.

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• Adknowledge Launches Integrated Affiliate Portal

• Online ad network Adknowledge raises $200 million

• Adknowledge Selects ThreatMetrix Fraud Network to Strengthen Fraud Protection Systems on the Super Rewards Monetization Platform

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Adlucent provides search engine marketing products and services to web retailers. The agency offers performance-based search marketing services where clients pay only for generated sales, not clicks. Its Deep Search technology enables retailers to monitor and predict how keywords will behave. Adlucent helps clients predict top-selling products, navigate tradeoffs between revenue and margin, manage obsolete and overstock inventory, conduct product research, and optimize pricing.

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• Retailers are getting more bullish on interactive marketing, report says

• Natural search still doesn`t come naturally

• How Buy.com boosted profits with new search marketing technology

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Adometry, formerly Click Forensics, provides ad analytics and traffic quality products for web retailers and others. Deployed as hosted software applications, Adometry’s offerings are designed to help clients optimize online advertising campaigns by identifying sources of unwanted or underperforming traffic, such as click fraud, and scoring valid traffic based on its value to advertisers and ad networks. Adometry provides scoring and auditing, tracking impressions in real time.

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• Adometry launches an automated web advertising tool

• Click Forensics is now Adometry

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Advertise.com is a search engine marketing agency for web retailers. The agency’s services include keyword marketing, e-mail marketing, display marketing and remarketing. Advertise.com’s keyword traffic network of search, content and e-mail publishers serves results for 700 search queries daily. The agency’s patented ClickShield technology provides 24/7 fraud protection, and its real-time keyword auction eliminates complex ranking algorithms and black-box quality scoring.

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All Web Promotion, a search engine marketing and web site design agency, provides search engine optimization, pay-per-click management, e-mail marketing applications, Yahoo store design, graphic design and product photography services to web retailers. The agency offers three customizable SEO packages, providing a combination of proprietary web site techniques and strategies. Services include web site submission to major search engines, and source code and content optimization.

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Apogee Results is an online marketing agency for web retailers. Services include search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, web analytics and conversion rate optimization, social media, online reputation management, and content development and copywriting. SEO services include campaign management, setup, audit and training. The agency offers two PPC options: full-campaign management and a la carte services, including launch, audit, testing and management.

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• Experts offer search marketing tips to quickly boost sales

• The Bing Bang

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Atrinsic Interactive is a digital marketing agency, serving web retailers and others web companies. Services include search marketing, mobile marketing, the Atrinsic affiliate network, display media, business intelligence, creative services, e-mail marketing, social media and proprietary content. A brand lock service helps prevent brand damage before it happens on multiple online fronts through a series of compliance tools, affiliate monitoring and trademark monitoring.

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BeyondROI, a search engine marketing agency, provides paid search management, paid inclusion, search engine optimization, web site design and analytics, Web 2.0 marketing, and e-mail marketing services to web retailers. The agency offers a customized, managed application for paid search marketing. BeyondTracking tracks and reports on all managed campaigns, BeyondKeywords provides keyword research capabilities and BeyondBids offers rule-based bid management technology.

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• Why Scentiments.com wants a better web store

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Bizresearch, a search engine marketing company, provides search engine optimization, paid search (cost-per-click/pay-per-click) campaign management and full-service search marketing services, including e-commerce site traffic analysis for web retailers. The company specializes in obtaining organic SEO listings, complementary with paid search engine marketing campaigns in Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other shopping search engines. Bizresearch uses analytical tools to track incoming traffic and resulting sales to determine whether the ad cost is appropriate. Products and services include Bizwatch, an SEM and analytics tool, and SEM competitive marketing analysis supporting services, including search marketing, and web analytics.

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• How attention to detail doubled Levenger’s search-related web sales

• Making organic search optimization work with paid listings

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Founded in 2003, Blue Moon Works is a marketing company with expertise in mobile search and mobile friendly web design. Services offered include search engine optimization, search engine marketing, pay-per-click campaign management, display advertising management, e-mail marketing, web analytics, social network marketing and mobile marketing. It also offers location-based marketing.

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Booyah Networks is a boutique online marketing company that provides search marketing services to web retailers and others. The company helps clients build campaigns at Google and Yahoo, tracks the data, then leverages it to create online programs. Booyah Networks researches a retailer’s business and objectives, then works with the client to design a campaign that can include pay-per-click, paid inclusions, search engine optimization, contextual and behavioral marketing, and display media.

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CardinalPath, formerly VKI Studios, is a web site performance agency offering Internet marketing, web analytics and user experience services for web retailers and others. Internet marketing services include search engine optimization, pay-per-click, e-mail, social media and copywriting. Web analytics services include consulting and strategy, and setup and implementation. User experience services include conversion rate optimization, and user, A/B and multivariate testing.

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Click Forensics Inc., a provider of third-party technology and services designed to help retailers better identify pay-per-click fraud, in July 2009 expanded its Click Forensics traffic quality management platform with a new “Block List” feature. The feature provides ad networks with the immediate benefits of a continually updated list of visitor Internet protocol addresses and publishers known to generate online advertising fraud or invalid traffic, including sources of publisher collusion fraud. The tool can be used in concert with the real-time Click Forensics platform to block bad traffic sources and to shift online advertising dollars toward sources that deliver better results. The Block List is updated daily.

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• Adometry launches an automated web advertising tool

• Click fraud reaches record high in Q4

• Click fraud rate for paid search ads remains at around 16% in Q3

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Clickable’s pay-per-click advertising application is designed to boost sales across major ad networks like Google, Bing, Amazon and Facebook. Clickable Retail Solutions is powered by pay-per-click specialists with experience managing large, complex advertising campaigns. They oversee the full campaign, including conversion tracking setup, account benchmarking, goal-setting, keyword review, custom reporting, recommendations and management. Bid management is tailored to retailers.

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ClickEquations, a unit of Channel Intelligence, is a paid search engine marketing agency for web retailers and others. Its proprietary paid search automation platform optimizes pay-per-click campaigns based on retailers’ revenue and profit goals. ClickEquations uses multivariate testing to optimize every variable in the search process, including keywords, campaign and ad group organization, text-ad creative, bids, and target landing pages. ClickEquations monitors and aims to improve retailers’ paid search campaigns.

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• Monetate Appoints a Vice President of Product Management

• Channel Intelligence buys a paid search technology provider

• ClickEquations Simplifies Text Ad Testing with New Text Ad Zoom Feature

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Clicks2Customers is a paid search engine marketing agency, providing performance marketing, contextual and display ads, business intelligence and analytics, strategic consulting, and conversion and usability optimization services to web retailers and others. The agency offers a choice of pricing models to best fit campaign objectives, from standard cost-per-mille (or cost-per-thousand) buys for volume to performance-driven models to meet specific cost-per-acquisition targets.

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Clix Marketing is a provider of pay-per-click advertising services to web retailers. The agency creates and manages PPC text and display advertising campaigns via search and social channels such as Google AdWords, Microsoft adCenter, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Yelp. PPC programs include building campaign structures; writing, testing and refining paid search ads; keyword management; testing and editing landing page content; and campaign analysis.

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• Clix Marketing finds that paid search requires careful tactical planning

• Search marketers are ignoring an important Google opportunity, expert says

• SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: How to find the payoff in search marketing

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Commerce360, a paid search engine marketing company, is the developer of ClickEquations, a proprietary paid search automation platform that optimizes pay-per-click campaigns based on retailers’ revenue and profit goals. ClickEquations uses multivariate testing to optimize every variable in the search process, including keywords, campaign and ad-group organization, text-ad creative, bids and target landing pages. Retailers can find out how much profit they’re making on each keyword or ad-group based on SKU-level margins. ClickEquations, which also is available for in-house marketers, monitors and improves retailers’ paid search campaigns on Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN adCenter

Recent Headlines

• Monetate Appoints a Vice President of Product Management

• Microsites offer a macro search marketing boost at Liz Claiborne

• New Paid Search Product from Channel Intelligence and Commerce360 Improves Pay-Per-Click Performance for Retailers

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Compendium provides search engine optimization through corporate blogging for web retailers and others. Its web-based blogging platform offers content building tools, a message meter that shows how strong a message’s content is and a leader board to help clients identify their audience’s favorite topics. Compendium’s web-to-post functionality helps clients capture stories, reviews and experiences through web forms. Clients can edit, approve and decline posts from any content channel.

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• Creative Climbing

• E-retailer GK Elite uses blogs to boost natural search results

• BabyPlus uses blogs to raise search rankings

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Conductor is a search engine optimization technology company that helps web retailers and others manage and improve their SEO efforts. Searchlight, the company’s Software-as-a-Service SEO technology platform, helps retailers scale natural search and monitor competitive market share, enabling retailers to benchmark their performance against competitors and find the best keywords to target, based on competitive intelligence. SEO Cloud extends data and workflow across other applications.

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• Conductor Reaches 1,000 Brands

• SEO Meets ASAP

• Online shoppers step up purchasing as holiday nears

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In September 2011 Converseon, a social media agency, acquired Social Graphiti, a social commerce analytics and marketing technology platform. As part of the acquisition, Vidar Brekke, founder of Social Graphiti, has joined Converseon as chief product officer. Graphiti will be integrated with Converseon’s social intelligence and analytics platform, Conversation Miner. In November 2010, Converseon integrated CIC’s Chinese social monitoring and analytics capabilities Conversation Mining.

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• Marketers miss the target in measuring social media

• Converseon Announces Agreement with Twitter for Real-Time Firehose Data

• The Big Four

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Covario, formerly NetConcepts, is a search engine optimization and paid search agency and software provider. It provides cross-media optimization software, including Broadcast Media Insight, which integrates data from key financial systems used to place ads; Display Ad Insight; Social Media Insight; and Paid Search Insight, which integrates data from search engines globally. It also measures onsite behavior to provide keyword-level, campaign-level and geographic analytics on paid search.  

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• Google’s new search feature aims to increase relevancy

• Rio SEO Debuts as Provider of Reporting and Automation Software for SEO

• Paid search spending increases 22% for technology and consumer electronics advertisers

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CueBlocks is an e-commerce design, web site development and e-commerce marketing agency with expertise in the Magento platform. It specializes in the development (Magento stores, mobile site and mobile apps, PHP, WordPress and ZEND) and online marketing of e-commerce stores for small to medium-size businesses. Its team of 50 engineers and online marketing experts manage organic, Google Panda optimization, paid search, social media, shopping feed, video marketing, online reputation management, e-mail marketing, analytics and copywriting campaigns. Its design and development services include usability studies, custom blog development, mobile-compatible sites and web-based programming. CueBlocks also works on platforms such as osCommerce, Joomla and Wordpress.

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Cybertegic is an Internet marketing consulting company that specializes in advanced Internet marketing technologies and the development of e-commerce stores for web retailers and others. Internet marketing services include search engine optimization, pay-per-click management, e-mail marketing, social media, link popularity, local search marketing, comparison shopping, video marketing and affiliate marketing. Web site design services include e-commerce development and mobile e-commerce design.

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• Cybertegic’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts Bring Clients to Top Search Engine Results

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Didit is a search engine marketing agency for web retailers and others. Products include Maestro, Didit’s proprietary bid management system, and Blizzard, a display advertising program. Didit Media is a real-time display advertising platform that uses advanced remarketing technology to convert shoppers into buyers, bidding higher for users who have actually bought goods online for a higher conversion rate. Services include campaign strategy, campaign design, testing, creative and analytics.

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• Keeping up with Google’s changing algorithms challenges search marketers

• Say hello to Bing Shopping, goodbye to Cashback

• Travel agency Thomas Cook finds an escape from excessive online ad fees

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DISC is a search engine marketing agency for web retailers and others. Primary services include search engine optimization, pay-per-click, social media marketing, web development, conversion lift, marketing plans and SEO training. Secondary services include reputation audit and management; affiliate marketing program selection and setup; web site search module installation; search for copyright thieves and unauthorized resellers; and web advertising channel return-on-investment projections.

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DMN3 is an online and direct marketing firm that focuses on analytics and uses consumer insights to generate leads, and for customer retention programs, in the retail, health care, energy and financial sectors. In February 2011 DMN3 acquired Spur Interactive, a marketing company that served retailers, energy companies and other businesses. The company uses e-mail, paid and organic search, user-generated content, social networking and technology to support the client's brand and improve sales.  

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Efficient Frontier is a digital marketing agency for web retailers and others. Services include paid search advanced campaign management, display, Facebook page management, cross-channel attribution and search engine optimization. Campaign execution services include ad copy development, testing and optimization; keyword expansion and pruning; account restructuring; match type optimization; content network optimization; landing page optimization and testing; and custom reporting and analysis.al paid search spend.

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• Oracle buys a social marketing platform provider

• IBM to acquire web analytics vendor Tealeaf Technology

• Ad spending on Facebook will nearly double this year

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Elite SEM, a search engine marketing agency, initiates, manages and optimizes pay-per-click campaigns for web retailers. It provides weekly reports outlining expenditures and highlighting a retailer’s return on investment. Elite SEM’s services include search engine optimization, online media buying, web analytics, e-mail newsletters, and web design and development. Elite works with a variety of SEM technologies, depending on the needs of its retail clients. The company’s clients include Bostonian and Tommy Bahama.

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Engine Ready, a search engine marketing company, provides web analytics, SEM services, landing page optimization and testing, call analytics and search engine optimization to web retailers. Search marketing software includes Conversion Critic, to pinpoint areas of opportunity on retailers’ landing pages; Keyword Monitor, providing competitive intelligence, keyword building and campaign automation; Call Analytics; and Conversion Analyst, providing data on web visitor behavior.

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ESearchVision is a search engine marketing agency and global technology company for web retailers and others. The eSearchVision platform offers SEM catalog management to track, update and manage campaigns; proprietary application programming interface to connect retailers’ back-end inventory directly to their campaigns for real-time updates; and five distinct keyword bidding strategies, known collectively as Beyond Black Box Bidding. The platform integrates with other analytics tools.

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EVision is a search engine marketing agency providing search engine optimization, local Internet marketing, pay-per-click search engine advertising, referral site development, link building, social media and online promotion services to web retailers and others. The agency also offers design services, including web site design and redesign using its Conversion Point Architecture design process, which includes 10 steps from customer review to site launch.

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EWareness, a web marketing communications agency, offers web-based marketing, advertising and public relations services to online retailers. The agency’s Internet applications include web hosting, web traffic analysis, online affiliate programs, online direct e-mailing lists, content management systems, e-commerce applications, blogging applications, social networking applications, media management applications and application programming interface integration.

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Exclusive Concepts is an Internet marketing agency for web retailers. Services include advanced search engine optimization, using the agency’s Potential Index; Profitable Pay-per-click, combining web merchandising and online marketing; Conversion Booster, which identifies, assesses and tests all elements that impact shopping behavior; Optimized Lifecycle E-Mail Marketing, which uses two advance e-mail options; and Site Optimizer, the agency’s conversion testing product.

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• Sports Unlimited examines the best ways to boost conversion rates

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Fathom is an online marketing agency that offers search engine optimization, paid search, e-mail marketing, video production, social media, content development and web design to web retailers. Other services include conversion rate optimization, link building, online public relations, e-commerce, call tracking, reputation management, user experience, local search, mobile, customer relationship management integration, development, and hosting and display advertising.

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• Kendall Allen Joins The Laredo Group as Vice President

• Quova appoints former Yahoo! GM as Chief Product Officer

• Geary Interactive buys search engine marketing firm Fathom Online

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Fortune Interactive LLC, a search engine marketing agency, provides proprietary search engine marketing software tools to web retailers. SEMLogic uses artificial intelligence and quantitative analysis to examine a web site’s search engine competition and analyze more than 100,000 data points. It provides a detailed analysis of all key search marketing variables and compiles a clear report detailing what specific elements most significantly affect search engine rankings for a retailer’s site as a whole, as well as for specific industry-related keywords. Search engine optimization services include a full review and analysis of a retailer’s business and competition as well as of their customers’ buying cycle.

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G2 Interactive, a global marketing services network, specializes in digital communications, direct marketing, shopper marketing and design for web retailers. The company’s mission is to take communications from awareness and preference created by advertising to consumer action. G2 Interactive offers branding and design; data consulting; direct communications; and promotional, trade and shopper marketing services across multiple customer touch points. Interactive marketing services include web site development, interactive advertising, customer relationship marketing, online marketing campaigns and online promotions. G2 Interactive is a partner company of The Grey Group.

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Google is an Internet search, cloud computing and advertising technology company that hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. Google began with search, and search is still at the heart of what the company does. The company says it devotes more engineering time to search than to any other product. The company is also working to digitize new information that hasn’t been online previously, including books.

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• A Sears subsidiary offers retailers data analytics services

• Facebook goes public

• Facebook sets its own value at $104 billion

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Gorilla Commerce, a boutique web firm based in Chicago, offers web site design services, including platform selection, search engine optimization, web store, navigation/search, product catalog, merchandising, customer accounts, site management order management, fulfillment, data and integrations, and customer relationship management applications. Other services include custom web applications, software development, mobile applications, multivariate testing and social media.

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• Gorilla Commerce Launches “In Store” Line of Magento Software Extensions

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HubSpot is an Internet marketing company that provides inbound marketing software for multichannel analytics, A/B testing and landing page tools, blogging, search engine optimization and social media tools, and behavior-driven communications. The company’s integrated software package consolidates multiplee inbound marketing methods. These include tools for search that help web retailers get found, tools to convert that visitor activity to trigger campaigns and analytic tools.

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• Marketing software provider HubSpot raises $32 million in new funding

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ICrossing is a global digital marketing agency that helps web retailers launch products, increase visibility, manage leads, acquire customers, sell products and manage their reputations. The agency’s Connected Marketing Platform offers services such as search engine optimization and search engine marketing, display and rich media advertising, e-mail marketing, mobile marketing and site development, web site development, social media campaign development, and emerging media development.

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• iCrossing buys a Latin American digital marketing agency

• What the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal means for online retailers

• iCrossing promotes two, hires one to bolster creative team

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IdeaLaunch’s products and services include WriterAccess, a marketplace connecting customers directly with 5,000 U.S. freelance writers; Content 6, a content marketing agency; and WordVision, a content marketing application that improves search engine optimization. The application also measures performance and the impact of content published anywhere, anytime on the web, the company says. WriterAccess is now integrated with the Adobe Business Catalyst hosting platform.

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Idearc Search Marketing provides proprietary technology to web retailers. Search engine marketing services include pay-per-click campaign management, with creative development, bid optimization, keyword research and management, and correct landing page choice; and a price comparison shopping engine management and paid inclusion search engine marketing. For search engine optimization, Idearc offers keyword research, web site optimization, and link popularity. Support services include bid management optimization, visibility gap analysis, integrated web analytics and tracking.  Idearc consultants create well-defined bidding rules that directly target a retailer’s specific objectives.

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The IgnitionOne Digital Marketing Suite offers technologies for ad management and optimization, cross-channel attribution, and web site conversion optimization in a single interface. The package features technology for managing and optimizing online advertising, such as search, display and Facebook. It also provides information about users, including behaviors, product interests and media exposures, designed to enable marketers to allocate advertising budgets more efficiently and tailor marketing messages to each shopper's unique interests. The IgnitionOne application is closed loop, making it easier to gather online marketing intelligence. The company also provides media advisor services in paid search management, display management, Facebook management and attribution and cross-channel analysis.

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• IgnitionOne Launches Side-by-Side Attribution

• Paid search spending increases 30% in Q1

• Retailers’ paid search spending increases 26% in Q4

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IMPAQT is a search engine marketing agency offering pay-per-click advertising, search engine optimization, social media marketing and data integration to web retailers. The agency integrates data from disparate data channels, including customer relationship management systems, offline sales and point-of-sale systems, and media spending data, to give retailers a more complete picture of their search campaign results. IMPAQT offers a customized approach to each client’s campaign.

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• Search Marketing Leader, IMPAQT, Launches New Paid Search Reporting Tool, Giving Clients Endless Access to Customized Reports

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Inceptor, formerly Idearc Search Marketing, provides search engine marketing software, including search engine optimization, pay-per-click management services, comparison shopping engine management and social media marketing strategies, to web retailers. The company’s SEO technology includes the tools to build a master keywords database, an SEO scorecard comparing optimized pages with existing competitors’ pages and an inbound links database to enable efficient link-building programs.

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• Inceptor and Sane Solutions To Integrate Pay-Per-Click Bid Management With Web Analytics

• Bluestreak teams with Inceptor to offer portfolio-based PPC bid management system

• Sane Solutions forms strategic partnerships with nine e-commerce vendors

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IProspect is a search engine marketing firm that creates customized and integrated digital marketing programs for web retailers. Services include search engine optimization, pay-per-click, local search marketing, performance display and shopping feed management. IProspect’s technology platform funnels data from multiple tools and partners into a common reporting interface. The agency’s Technology Calculator presents selected options for team members to pick from.

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• iProspect and Kenshoo Expand Global Digital Marketing Partnership

• iProspect Selects AdGooroo Competitive Intelligence

• iProspect Selects AdGooroo as Preferred Provider of Digital Competitive Intelligence for Paid Search Marketing

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Kenshoo is a digital marketing software agency offering search marketing, social media and online advertising products to web retailers. The Kenshoo Enterprise Suite is delivered in a Software-as-a-Service format, featuring open system integration; global language, currency and search engine compatibility; real-time campaigns; Kenshoo Editor desktop application; Landing Page Watchdog tool that checks landing page URLs for broken links; and retargeting to drive customers back to the site.

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• Expedia Licenses Kenshoo Digital Marketing Software to Manage Global Search Marketing and Social Advertising

• Facebook’s average ad price increased 18% last year

• Paid search spending increases 31% during the holidays

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Local.com is a local search site and network enabling local businesses and consumers to find each other online. The company uses patented and proprietary technologies to provide relevant search results for local businesses, products and services on Local.com and more than 1,000 partner sites. Local Mobile enables searches from web-enabled mobile phones and devices. SMS Local is a text-message local search and directory assistance service that enables users to conduct mobile searches.

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• Local Corp. is Granted a Patent for Geographical Web Search System

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LocalPages.com is an online business advertising company offering web retailers local keyword-targeted business listings and pay-per-click search engine advertising via the company’s consumer Internet properties, monitored ad distribution network, vertical search engine web sites and consumer web tools. When web retailers list products in LocalPages’ business directory, the company submits them to its search engine partners to display the retailer’s ad on other popular search engines.

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• ValidClick AdExchange Launches Fair Isaac Click Conversion Score 2.0

• ValidClick AdExchange announces alliance with LocalPages.com

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Location3 Media is a digital marketing agency, providing online strategies for web retailers and others. Online marketing services include search engine marketing, local search marketing, franchise marketing, Hispanic search marketing, mobile marketing, social media management, media buying, and video promotion and optimization. Other services include web analytics, Google Website Optimizer, attribution analysis and landing page optimization. The agency also offers creative services.

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LookSmart is a pay-per-click search advertising network that enables web retailers and others to reach additional audiences on its search marketing platform. The LookSmart AdCenter application programming interface is built on the platform-independent, standards-based simple object access protocol architecture. The AdCenter API integrates in-house reporting, billing and inventory management databases with LookSmart’s ad-serving platform, and is designed to securely integrate applications over the Internet.

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• LookSmart Launches Pay Per Click Search Advertising Model with Optimal Pricing

• LookSmart Elevates Award-Winning Ad Platform with Refined Targeting, Pricing Management, and Traffic Management Tools

• Click Forensics Quality Assurance Program Adds Support for Leading Search and Ad Providers to Speed Advertiser Credit...

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LSF Interactive is a global online marketing and advertising agency. LSF offers a range of services that help companies with U.S. and international brands acquire new customers, qualified traffic or leads through various targeted online ad campaigns including search engine marketing and search engine optimization, display (banners), e-mails, affiliate program management, and social media marketing. Specialties include SEO, SEM, online display advertising and social media.

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• DineWise To Broaden and Accelerate Online Marketing Efforts with a Pay-for-Performance Customer Acquisition Model

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MakeBuzz, an international online marketing and consulting company, offers Internet integration, search engine optimization, search engine marketing management and design integration services to web retailers. TrueBuzz, the company’s patented bid management product, tracks and measures the output of media and resource activity at each stage, helping clients determine how much they should be spending, where they should be spending it and what return on investment to expect at each stage.

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Marchex is a call advertising and small business marketing company, helping web retailers reach companies in mobile, offline and online channels, including on its own local and category web sites. Its Call Advertising Network helps retailers reach customers over the phone, and call analytics measure each call’s effectiveness. Marchex’s pay-per-click advertising helps retailers get clicks that produce targeted leads by placing targeted ads on top branded web sites.

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Marin Software provides pay-per-click management software that helps web retailers and others manage their paid search, social, display and mobile campaigns. Marin Enterprise is designed for customers who spend upwards of $100,000 per month on online media, while Marin Professional is for those who spend less. Marin’s browser-based online advertising platform addresses retail marketers’ needs through workflow efficiencies, flexible analytics, automated bidding and quality score optimization.

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Media Traffic Agency, a search marketing network, provides a permission-based, contextual advertising platform to its network of web retailers who can target customers by their shopping habits. The network’s cost-per-view contextual advertising works with software supported by Vomba Network. Media Traffic operates on a bidding platform that enables web retailers to control the volume they receive by their bid price. The agency’s tracking tools enable web retailers to remove non-performing targets.

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Mercent provides online marketing technology and services for web retailers and others. Its Mercent Retail platform offers on-demand applications that enable retailers to optimize their paid search campaigns and promote their products on more than 50 comparison shopping engines, as well as on online retail marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay and social media including Facebook and Twitter. The Mercent Retail price optimization engine enables product pricing and merchandising control.

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• Retail spending reports include encouraging signs for holiday e-retail sales

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MorePro Marketing is a search engine marketer for web retailers and others. Services include online search engine optimization, pay-per-click account management, social media marketing, local search optimization and web site conversion consulting. Additional services include ad campaign research and management, linking strategies, visitor sales/lead conversion research, online competition and market research, A/B testing, campaign tracking and reporting, and ongoing research and support.

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• How some specialty retailers learned to cut their cart abandonment rate

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MoreVisibility provides strategic services for search engine optimization, organic search optimization and cost-per-click to web retailers. SEO services include optimization, link-building and copywriting; search engine marketing services include pay-per-click, local search and contextual; optimized web design services include portfolio, landing pages, site usability, e-commerce, rich media and content management system. Social media, analytics and mobile services also are available.

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• Smith named Director of Campaign Management of MoreVisibility

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MRM Worldwide, a digital marketing agency, offers self-service marketing, response marketing, customer and digital strategy, data measurement, and analytics services to web retailers. For retailers who manage their own search efforts, the agency provides strategies in search, user interface design, information architecture and distributed content strategies. Response marketing services are offered across all channels including e-mail, search, web sites, communities and online advertising.

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NetElixir is an online customer acquisition company for web retailers and others. LXRRetail, the company’s online customer acquisition management and optimization technology, enables web retailers to monitor, manage and optimize online advertising and marketing campaigns. It is available as a full-service option for those with monthly ad spends below $50,000, and as an enterprise-level application for those with higher monthly ad spends. NetElixir consultants address queries within three hours.

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Omni Marketing Interactive is an online marketing agency that offers search engine optimization, web design, and usability testing and analysis for web retailers. SEO services are delivered through Search Usability, the agency’s advertising and marketing service that offers SEO, link development and site analysis. Other SEO services include keyword research, search engine copywriting and keyword placement, and link development and social media optimization.

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Oneupweb is a search engine marketing agency for web retailers and others, specializing in search marketing, social media and design. Search services include search engine optimization; pay-per-click advertising; and analytics, using Oneupweb’s ROI trax technology, a conversion analytics tool that provides customized reports. Social media services include digital public relations and reputation monitoring and management. Other services include web site design and development.

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Onward Search is an Internet marketing staffing company that offers recruiting, staffing and talent management services to web retailers and others. Services include temporary staffing, strategic consulting and executive search. Professionals include strategic marketing consultants, social media experts, search engine optimization specialists, graphic designers, search engine marketing/pay-per-click managers, web developers, mobile application developers and Flash designers.

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OptiMine sells bid-optimization software designed to improve paid search results for online retailers and marketers. The company's predictive analytics software works on the global keyword level. It models keywords individually from the head to the extreme tail, with up to 24 models and 116 variables applied to each one. For every keyword, OptiMine analyzes click, cost, conversion and value data. The software is designed to forecast the performance of each paid search ad placement daily and automatically sets optimal bids. OptiMine's software works with all digital marketing platforms. The company offers a performance-based price guarantee.

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Out of Bounds Communications is a provider of search engine optimization, local search marketing and paid search advertising to online retailers. Other services include e-mail, web usability, online display advertising, online public relations, web analytics and data analysis. SEO offerings include keyword research, content optimization, site navigation optimization, optimization of off-page factors such as inbound linking campaigns and development of online public relations efforts.

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Performics is a performance marketing agency that leverages the principles of search to create optimized marketing programs across relevant channels and screens. The agency’s Performance on Demand approach uses its technology to create performance-based marketing programs across paid search, search engine optimization, feeds, social, display, mobile and affiliate. Performics takes advantage of exclusive partnerships with publishers to help provide scale and innovation.

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• Retailers pump up paid search spending as holiday season begins

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• Mobile paid search clicks to account for 16% of all paid clicks by December, Performics says

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PrairieWeb Internet Marketing provides online marketing services to web retailers. The company offers search engine optimization and pay-per-click management services, including a monthly report of web site activity and performance. A combination of tools help retailers identify keyword phrases customized for their target market, develop a keyword strategy that accurately targets their audience, and make keyword purchases based on their actual conversion and cost-per-sales rate.

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Prime Visibility is a comprehensive digital marketing company, specializing in search engine marketing and offering additional interactive marketing services to web retailers. Search engine optimization services use PRIMEVIEW, the company’s proprietary process, to help get clients’ web sites ranked at the top of major search engines. The company’s pay-per-click process, Prime Reach, uses bid management software to drive traffic. A variety of interactive marketing services also are available.

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Range Online Media, an interactive online marketing agency, provides paid search marketing, search engine optimization, online media placement, emerging media, strategic planning and performance optimization services to web retailers. The company creates comprehensive pay-per-click strategy and campaigns for retailers, using keyword management, bid management and optimization. Other SEO services include copy rewrites, content restructuring and additional content or functionality to increase the web site’s profile and encourage other sites to link to it. iProspect, a search engine marketing firm, in September 2008 acquired privately held Range Online Media. Range Online Media has partnered with Offermatica.

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Reprise Media offers comprehensive search and social media marketing tools for web retailers. Core services include paid search marketing, search engine optimization and social media marketing. The company’s proprietary pay-per-click campaign development methodology includes keyword list generation, bid management and landing page selection. SEO services include link-building and content optimization. Social media marketing services include strategy development and campaign management.

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Resolution Media, a unit of Omnicom Media Group, is a digital marketing agency for web retailers. Services include pay-per-click search advertising, search engine optimization, web site conversion optimization, behavioral targeting, and mobile, video and social media. The agency’s digital behavior analysis process uses consumer, competitive and category profiles to help clients develop PPC and SEO strategies around key themes projected to have the biggest impact on the target audience.

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Resource Interactive is an interactive marketing company that offers web creation, e-commerce, digital marketing and advertising, mobile marketing, social media marketing, and measurement and performance services to web retailers. The company received a patent-pending status for a component of its distributed commerce platform that is designed to securely proxy e-commerce experiences between clients’ sites and third-party destinations, while adhering to the payment card industry’s data security standards.

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• Resource Interactive Opens a Chicago Office

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The Rimm-Kaufman Group provides a comprehensive pay-per-click advertising application for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com. The search engine marketing company builds keyword lists, writes ad copy, tests landing pages and uses its bid management platform to maximize sales with a retailer’s efficiency objectives. Services include paid search management and consulting, where analysts use Rimm-Kaufman Group’s in-house tools to manage paid search to the keyword level.

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Search Mojo offers search engine marketing services to web retailers. Services include search engine optimization, a retainer-based pay-per-click ad management program and e-commerce search engine visibility packages that improve search engine visibility and conversion through both paid and organic search engine results. Supplemental offerings include conversion rate optimization and Facebook marketing services. Web site resources include white papers and training videos.

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Search Revolutions is an interactive online marketing and web site development agency specializing in natural and paid search results in addition to online public relations and branding. The agency produces and manages integrated marketing campaigns that include products and services such as social media, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, content design and development, demographic targeting, display advertising and linking strategies. Search Revolutions offers a free web site analysis on its web site.

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Search-Werks is a consulting firm specializing in search engine marketing, e-commerce marketing and web analytics. Specific specialties include development and implementation of online marketing recommendations, day-to-day analysis and execution of online advertising, web site traffic reporting and analysis, and web site design and usability consulting. For paid search Search-Werks will develop and manage cost-per-click ads on Google, Yahoo and Bing.

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Searchandise Commerce is an interactive online agency for web retailers. The agency combines the concepts of in-store merchandising with the return on investment and cost-per-click bidding of paid search and applies it to retailers’ web sites. The Searchandise Commerce Operating Engine platform integrates pay-per-click bids into on-site search. CommerceNet is the agency’s retail web site network that leverages cost-per-click bids to boost visibility within search listings.

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• Searchandise Commerce Extends Services to Mobile Commerce

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SearchDex is a search marketing company, offering software and services for web retailers. Verdandi, the company’s search engine optimization platform, is a search engine optimization content management system that allows users to manage all aspects of their SEO programs, with access to meta tags, page titles and canonical tags. Verdandi is designed to help retailers create custom category pages, edit product names within individual categories, edit on- and off-page content, and create custom rules to handle deleted pages.

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SendTec Inc., a direct marketing customer acquisition ad agency and search engine marketing service provider to web retailers, last year launched SEMpc (Search Engine Marketing - Performance Consulting), a division that offer individualized strategic consulting services to medium- and large-sized companies. The service brings SendTec’s approach to managing outsourced SEM programs to companies that currently manage their SEM campaigns in-house. The SEMpc program begins with the identification of client objectives and is followed with SearchLab, a proprietary process that analyzes retailer’s current SEM campaigns.  SendTec performs a comprehensive review of virtually every element of the SEM process.

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SEOinhouse.com is a search engine optimization consulting firm for web retailers and others. Services include SEO audits, SEO for site redesigns, SEO training, SEO strategy consulting, SEO analytics consulting and building an in-house SEO program, creating an SEO strategy and in-house SEO roadmap. SEO audits include an on-site technical SEO audit, a mobile SEO audit, a local SEO audit, a link-building audit, a social media audit, an SEO organizational audit and developing a holistic SEO strategy.  

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Seperia is a search engine marketing company offering pay-per-click advertising management, search engine optimization, conversion optimization, Facebook and social media advertising, and mobile marketing services to web retailers and others. Seperia technologies include Edge.BI, an online marketing intelligence technology; Seperia Client Center analytics to manage large-scale multilingual, international and multichannel accounts; landing page serialization; and third-party technologies.  

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ShopLocal is a multichannel shopping and advertising service for web retailers and others. Retailers use ShopLocal’s software and services to tailor their online promotions to a user’s locale, so shoppers in Alaska see snowshoe ads and California shoppers see sandals ads. ShopLocal helps national retailers like Best Buy, Home Depot and Target drive research online, buy offline (ROBO), consumers to their web sites. The company also offers a comparison shopping site, ShopLocal.com.

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• Driving traffic from the web to stores

• ShopLocal names Vikram Sharma as CEO

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Sidecar provides a digital marketing platform for 100% automated paid search, comparison shopping, on-site product recommendations, e-mail retargeting and enterprise reporting. The company’s management has more than 35 years experience in e-commerce and online marketing. Sidecar’s automated processes are powered by a comprehensive data warehouse that captures all site data, external market data and consumer trends. Its technology uses the data to manage marketing campaigns with a global view of performance. Sidecar Shopping generates a new feed, multiple times a day, for each comparison shopping engine. It evaluates product trend data, competitive pricing data and external user demand, and incorporates the data into its algorithms.

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• A head’s up for site search conversions

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SingleFeed is a data feed, or comparison shopping, management agency, offering data feed optimization services to web retailers and others. Services include feed management, feed creation, feed optimization, product categorization, feed submission, analytics, product support and demonstration videos. SingleFeed is one of four Google Merchant Center partners, sending a daily data feed to Google Merchant Center, and a Bing shopping partner, designed to provide its clients high-quality traffic.

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Smart Information Systems is a search marketing company, offering the Smart Assistant and Smart Finder applications. Smart Assistant pulls product information from a web retailer’s database at regular intervals and stores the information in a semantic repository. The Smart Assistant comparison tool enables customers to customize pages to show only relevant attributes. Smart Finder allows shoppers to change product criteria and features, updating search results instantly.

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SpinShark, an online search engine marketing company, is the developer of the patent-pending AnglerFish technology. AnglerFish allows retailers to create thousands of link-rich, keyword dense pages with minimal effort, providing thousands of new on-ramps to a site. AnglerFish creates hundreds or thousands of unique, human-written pages for web retailers. Each of the keyword rich pages has a unique title, meta-data and keyword focus. The link rich pages point to the most important pages of the retailer’s web site. By leveraging thousands of new pages, all with appropriate keywords and links to transactional pages, retailers can increase their page rank and relevancy in search engine algorithms.

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• PM Digital Acquires SpinShark to Expand Natural Search Capabilities

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Spur Interactive, a full-service provider of interactive marketing service and online advertising applications, helps retailers leverage the web to grow their business by developing and managing interactive marketing programs that include strategic planning, search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, online advertising, web analytics and ROI measurement. Spur Interactive’s approach is to incorporate search, display, e-mail, social and other forms of new media to reach target audiences. The agency measures and analyzes the results to pinpoint elements that produce the best outcomes. Spur Interactive has led successful programs for FedEx Kinko’s, ConocoPhillips, and The Scooter Store. 

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• Macromedia and Speedera Deliver Flash Video Streaming to Spur Interactive Video Revolution on the Web

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Stepmiles is a search engine optimization company that helps form strategy and implements natural and paid online advertising campaigns for web retailers. The company’s keyword research and data mining services provide retailers with relevant searches in their industry, so they can target the ideal audience. Stepmiles’ web analytic consulting services help retailers improve their web site rankings, and manage and improve organic placement and Web 2.0 social media impact results.

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Submit Express is a search engine marketing and search engine optimization company, serving web retailers and others. Services include SEO, search engine submission, pay-per-click search engine advertising, social media marketing, reputation management and opt-in e-mail advertising. Free tools include submission, a meta tags analyzer, a link popularity check, keyword suggestion, keyword traffic estimator, SEO dictionary, page-rank checker and broken-link checker.

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The Rimm-Kaufman Group provides a comprehensive pay-per-click advertising application for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com. The search engine marketing company builds keyword lists, writes ad copy, tests landing pages and uses its bid management platform to maximize sales with a retailer’s efficiency objectives. Services include paid search management and consulting, where analysts use Rimm-Kaufman Group’s in-house tools to manage paid search to the keyword level.

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• The Rimm-Kaufman Group buys a search optimization firm

• Rimm-Kaufman Group hires a client development executive

• Planning a mobile ad campaign? Google says mobile search ads won’t be cheap

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TopRank Online Marketing, a search engine optimization consulting agency, offers SEO, online public relations, social media marketing, blog marketing and e-mail marketing. The agency helps web retailers increase targeted traffic to their sites by integrating online public relations, keyword-optimized press releases and SEO, designed to increase the web retailer’s brand visibility in the marketplace. Social media marketing services include blog marketing, wikis, news sites and online forums.

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Trada is a search engine marketing agency offering paid search campaign management and other services to web retailers. Trada uses “crowdsourced” pay-per-click services, where a community of more than 1,500 paid search experts, or optimizers, work on the client’s campaign and are paid based on their performance. A PPC campaign is set up, then ad groups, keywords and ads created by the optimizers are sent to the Google, Yahoo and Bing accounts created for them, where they begin running.

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Triangle Direct Media is a new media marketing and social media marketing agency for web retailers and others. Using its advertising network, Triangle uses Web 2.0 marketing technology to increase clients’ online exposure through search engine optimization, blogs, really simple syndication, podcasts and online video. Other services include product reviews, product launches, viral marketing and user-generated video advertising that help clients compete more effectively.

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TurnTo provides social commerce applications for online merchants that enable shoppers to get advice directly from stores’ customers. The technology enables dialog between shoppers and customers on the merchant site, aiming to increase conversion rates, generate fresh content for search engine optimization, drive traffic from Facebook and Twitter and deliver insights to inform merchandising strategies. The TurnTo Social Commerce Suite is a white-labeled Software-as-a-Service product.

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• TurnTo network letting shoppers tap friends for product advice

• New social shopping network lets shoppers turn to friends for advice

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UnREAL Marketing Solutions Inc. provides online strategy, search engine marketing (paid search, search engine optimization and feed management), online media and web development services to online retailers. UnREAL’s multiple listing methodology is a strategy that combines paid listings and optimization to boost response. When visitors scan a search page and find a search listing and a paid listing for the same company, they are more likely to click on one of those listings. UnREAL Marketing retail clients who have used both paid search and search engine optimization services concurrently have typically achieved at least a 20% increase in conversions, according to the company.

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V12 Group provides database management applications to web retailers and others. Retail industry services include customer profiles, modeling and analytics, consumer data, business data, data enhancement, acquisition, e-mail marketing and a data management platform. V12 Group’s multichannel consumer database is a hybrid file built from compiled and proprietary data sources and combines postal, e-mail, phone and mobile data, as well as more than 260 selects to help improve targeting.

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Visibility Factor provides search engine optimization for the dynamic/database web sites of its web retailing clients. The company offers a hands-free active server pages model to achieve 100% visibility for dynamic web pages in Google and other search engines, with database-generated content listed in the unpaid results pages. A site-crawling application improves pages to emphasize keywords, targets the retailer’s geographic objectives, operates non-invasively and is search-engine compliant. Retailers benefiting most from the company’s services are those whose dynamic web sites are not being indexed by Google, whose information technology department can’t completely retool the site, and who need consistent relevant and measurable traffic.

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Founded in 2007, Visiture is a provider of pay-per-click management, search engine optimization, social media and e-commerce web development services. For search engine marketing, each client is assigned an "onboarding" coordinator who works directly with the SEM director and account manager to ensure that campaigns perform. Services include campaign structuring, ad group expansion, ad creative optimization, keyword optimization, bid optimization, conversion attribution and bid policies. Visiture's SEO services are aimed at improving a retailer's visibility in search engine page results, including Google, Bing, and MSN, as well as second- and third-tier engines. Services include a web site audit, benchmarking, preparation of a specifications document and a specifications audit.

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Vizad is an Internet search marketing agency offering search engine optimization, pay-per-click and social media optimization services to web retailers and others. Additional services include reputation management and content development. SEO services include keyword research, and on-page and off-page optimization. PPC services include keyword selection, ad copy, bid and position optimization, and content network advertising. SMO services help build social communities.

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VKI Studios in 2008 was authorized by Google Inc. as a Website Optimizer Authorized Consultant. The Google Website Optimizer service enables site owners to set up A/B and multivariate tests on their web pages, to determine which combinations of elements (text or images, for example) most effectively convert surfers into customers. VKI Studios, a search engine marketing company, offers Internet marketing, web analytics, usability and development services to its web retailing clients. The company’s services feature search engine optimization, including link building and directory submissions; paid search management, including pay-per-click and paid inclusion; and copywriting.

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• SLI Systems Expands Partner Program to Deliver End-to-End Search, E-commerce Marketing and Usability Solutions to Customers

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Web-Ignite, formerly Visibility Factor, provides search engine optimization for the dynamic/database web sites of its web retailing clients. The company offers a hands-free active server pages model to achieve 100% visibility for dynamic web pages in Google and other search engines, with database-generated content listed in the unpaid results pages. A site-crawling application improves pages to emphasize keywords, targets the retailer’s geographic objectives and is search-engine compliant.

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WebMetro provides Internet marketing services. It offers pay-per-click management, search engine optimization, paid inclusion, content advertising, social media marketing, e-commerce development, site design, video and affiliate marketing, and comparison shopping and feed management services. The company also provides Internet consulting services, such as strategy development, web analytics and online marketing audit services. WebMetro has clients in manufacturing, retail and other industries.

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WebVisible Enterprise is an online advertising agency that combines proprietary technology, advertising strategy and digital media to help web retailing clients optimize campaigns to their target audience. Web Enterprise, the agency’s self-service set of paid search campaign management tools, is a web-based application that imports performance data from marketers’ Google and Yahoo accounts, and compares their actual performance against advertiser-defined goals.

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• Small businesses have yet to adapt to consumers’ search habits, study says

• Smalltown® Launches Webcards.com to Simplify Online Advertising and Marketing for Small Businesses

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Wordtracker offers keyword research tools for search engine optimization, pay-per-click campaigns, link building and blogging to web retailers and others. The company helps web retailers and search engine marketers identify keywords and phrases that are relevant to their businesses and most likely to be used as queries by search engine visitors. Marketers also can determine how many competing sites are using these keywords and identify the phrases that have the greatest traffic potential.

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• Keyword research drives 42% growth in natural search revenue for Park Seed

• WebTrends Launches WebPosition 4 to Offer the Industry`s Broadest Combined Organic and Paid Search Marketing Analytics

• WebTrends Delivers Faster, Easier SEO with WebPosition Enhancements

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Wpromote is a search engine marketing agency, providing pay-per-click management and search engine optimization services to web retailers and others. The agency’s QuickList service helps retailers reach their next customer as they search for the exact product or service they sell on Google, Yahoo and Bing. SocialBoost offers targeted Facebook advertising, filtering the audience by age, interest and marital status. Other services include conversion optimization and web site development.

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Yahoo Inc. in July 2009 announced that Microsoft Corp. will power Yahoo search while Yahoo becomes the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies' premium search advertisers. Under the agreement, Microsoft acquired an exclusive 10-year license to Yahoo's core search technologies, and will be able to integrate Yahoo search technologies into its existing web search platforms. Microsoft's Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo sites. Yahoo will continue to use its technology and data in other areas of its business such as enhancing display advertising technology. Self-serve advertising for both companies will be fulfilled by Microsoft's adCenter platform.

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• Alibaba.com’s shareholders vote to take the company private

• Yahoo sells part of its China stake to Alibaba

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YourAmigo, a search engine marketing company, uses a performance-based pricing model that charges web retailers only for results. YourAmigo uses its core technology to provide results-focused, search engine applications, such as its SpiderLinker application that generates new business through organic search. SpiderLinker crawls the retailer’s site, discovers all the web pages and publishes an optimized table of contents containing spider-friendly natural links.

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