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 [Search Engines at the Small Business Guide to Search Marketing] Yahoo Auctions Axes Listing Fees: Response to eBay Acquisition?: By Ina Steiner - AuctionBytes.com - Yahoo is making it free for sellers to list items on its auction platform. Rob Solomon, Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo Shopping, said free auction listings would benefit both buyers and sellers by generating more content of a higher quality and would provide diversification for sellers.

 [123suds.blogspot.com] Sadagopan's weblog on Emerging Technologies,Thoughts, Ideas,Trends ...: Britons have more than doubled the amount of money they spend online over the past year as ever more people do routine tasks like grocery shopping and paying bills over the Internet.Credit card provider Visa said in a study released on Friday that its UK cardholders spent over 2.4 billion pounds ($4.4 billion) on the Internet in the first quarter of 2004, up 123 percent from the same period last year.One of the biggest winners was the food and drink industry, where sales more than trebled because of a "massive rise" in people doing their supermarket shopping online, Visa said. Sales of books and music also surged, up 116 percent in the quarter.Holidays were a popular item to book online, with travel and tourism sales up 159 percent over the same period. UK online industry, always considered a leader is further getting stronger with increased volume of business.

 [Inc.com] Survival of the Fastest: Technology, asked six of the brightest stars in the E-commerce world to describe the current and future state of Web business. The participants in the following roundtable discussion -- conducted entirely by E-mail -- include author Evan Schwartz; MIT professor Thomas Malone; Dell Computer vice-president Richard Owen; John Briggs, director of E-commerce production for the Yahoo Network; Mark Hoffman, CEO of Commerce One; and Greg McLemore, president and CEO of WebMagic. (Profiles of the participants appear below.)

[Wiseseo.com] SEO Blog » Yahoo! - Wise SEO: According to Yahoo, well optimized pages and sites will continue to get good results across all versions of their search engine. By opening your site to Yahoo Slurp and performing well-planned optimization services across every page, a good SEO can nearly always achieve Top placements on Yahoo. The trick is in offering Slurp the information it needs to read, record and rank your site. If that information is included on each page, a set of text-based links is woven through the site to provide easy passage for Slurp, and Yahoo is told what your business is, where your business is located, and who your business serves, your site should achieve strong rankings.

[Seotoday.com] SEO Today Article: Why Yahoo!-Overture is Good for Advertisers: Kevin Lee, CEO, co-founded Did-it.com a search engine marketing company in 1996. Did-it.com clients benefit from the increase ROI and profit that Did-it.com delivers through application of strategies and technologies that automate paid search campaigns across Overture, Google, FindWhat, Looksmart directory inclusion, XML feeds, direct listings (Yahoo, MSN, etc.), and shopping bots such as Dealtime, Picegrabber and MySimon.  Each client’s search marketing campaigns are optimized in real-time based on client conversion data, ROI and profit data and objectives. Kevin shares SEM tips, tricks and strategies weekly as a ClickZ.com columnist, as well as in other articles for magazines including CatalogAge, DMNews and his own newsletter, marketing.briefme.com. He also is a frequent speaker at marketing and investment conferences.

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