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Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines...   |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Free Listings Gone At LookSmart In mid-May, LookSmart ceased accepting free submissions to the US-edition of its directory. The company says that this is not yet a permanent move. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
LookSmart Launches Express Submission Service LookSmart is currently testing a new submission service where by paying a fee, you can get a fast answer as to whether your site will be listed. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings. In addition, the revenue-generating move appears to have helped LookSmart win back its former position as AltaVista's directory provider. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Ups Basic Submit Price The price of LookSmart's "Basic Submit" service has been increased from $79 to $99. Basic Submit guarantees that a site will be reviewed within eight weeks for possible inclusion into the directory... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Overhauls Submission Process, Increases Prices The good news is that over the past month, LookSmart has given site owners greater flexibility than ever before to get listed with the service. The changes make getting listed more complicated, but are especially beneficial for those with non-commercial content... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changing To Cost-Per-Click Basis Next week, LookSmart plans a shift to a model where most new listings in the commercial portions of its directory will be sold a cost-per-click basis... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changes To Cost-Per-Click Listings Pay -- and keep paying -- or don't appear, LookSmart told existing and new listing customers last month, in a significant change to how the human-powered search engine lists web pages from commercial web sites... |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Growing Pains At Volunteer Directories The use of volunteers generates a different set of problems that webmasters may encounter during the submission process at the Open Directory and Go Guides. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Free Search Engine Submission Is Still Alive! Despite the rise in paid participation programs, it is still possible to get listed in search engines for free... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
LookSmart Live Looks-Up Answers Looking for an answer? Look no further than LookSmart, which is providing custom research to frustrated searchers through its new LookSmart Live program. |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Hit With Potential Class Action Lawsuit Over Submission Program A proposed class action lawsuit claiming breach of contract, fraudulent business practices and misleading advertising has been filed against LookSmart over a recent change in how the company sells some of its commercial web site listings |
Search Engine Watch
November 16, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Drops Free Submit For Commercial Categories Yahoo is now charging for all sites that wish to submit to certain commercial categories of its directory... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Letters About LookSmart's Cost-Per-Click Change A sampling of letters received by Search Engine Watch relating to the change by LookSmart to cost-per-click pricing... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Cuts Staff But Gains Big Amazon Deal LookSmart cut its staff by nearly one-third last month, but this was due primarily to the continuing refocus at LookSmart on selling listings that are distributed to partners, rather than trying to sell advertising on its own site... |
Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Adds Paid Listings Option For Small Businesses A new program from LookSmart has made it possible for small businesses and others with low publicity budgets to get listed within the paid placement area of its search results... |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Opens Paid Inclusion After months of talking about it, AltaVista finally unveiled a paid inclusion program last week... |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Go Gains Paid Inclusion System Go.com has become the second major crawler-based search engine to roll out a paid inclusion program. Its new US $199 "Premium Service" will add any URL submitted to its crawler-based results within 48 hours and revisit that URL on a weekly basis, for one year. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Iconocast Poll Sheds Light On Search Engine Optimization Issues In November, the respected Iconocast newsletter surveyed its readers on search engine optimization issues. Here's a summary of key findings, based on 404 responses... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Debuts Self-Serve Paid Inclusion In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi index... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
European Search Engine News Yahoo makes paid submission mandatory for businesses in the UK and a new option for those in Italy. LookSmart UK begins powering former rival UK Plus and has launched a paid placement service. And Excite is back -- at least in some European countries, powered by FAST. |
Search Engine Watch
May 11, 2009
Ron Jones |
Search Engine Submission 101, Part 1 This two-part article will look at developing a healthy relationship with search engines so they can become aware of your site and then stay up to date as your site grows. |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Acquires Zeal Community Directory LookSmart has purchased the Zeal.com community search site. Similar to the Open Directory, Zeal.com uses volunteer editors to organize web sites into categories. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Extends Credits LookSmart is extending the period of credit given to those who failed to activate LookListings Small Business accounts. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
July 2000 Search Engine Briefs Brief items on changes to Snap, web mapping research, a new news resource, a chat search engine and more. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart To Buy WiseNut LookSmart announced last month its intention to purchase the WiseNut search engine, which it hopes will turn LookSmart into an all-in-one solution for portals, internet service providers and others who need a search solution... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
Entrepreneur
June 2009
Guy Kawasaki |
Website Marketing Turnoffs 13 things not to do when adapting your product to an online model. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Monetizing The Search Monetizing the search means making money in some way off the search results you present. More than ever, monetizing the search is a concern for the search engines. |
Information Today
June 5, 2000
Barbara Quint |
Gale Full-Text Content Free on LookSmart? Well, Some of It ... LookSmart announced that the company had signed an exclusive agreement with Gale Group, a leading full-text aggregator. However, information professionals may find the quantity of material actually delivered through the service to be, at least initially, a lot less than the press release leads one to believe. |
InternetNews
February 4, 2011
Stuart J. Johnston |
Hotmail Adds Support for Multiple Aliases Microsoft gives users of its free online email system "aliases" so that they can have disposable email addresses. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2005
Tom Taulli |
LookSmart's Dim Outlook Looking at these results, it's hard to believe that LookSmart is in the online search business. Isn't this an industry in hypergrowth? Given the severity of its losses, it will take time for LookSmart to turn the corner, if at all. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities As we ship URLs to each other and use them in citations, unlocking some of their stranger secrets, along with knowledge of URL shortening tools, can make it easier to actually get to the appropriate Web page. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses LookSmart has expanded its LookListings paid inclusion program so that small businesses can purchase "deep listings" previously only offered to large businesses with big budgets. |
CRM
January 2012
Judith Aquino |
Don't Count Out Email Yet New advances make email a smart choice for marketers. |
Bank Technology News
February 2007
John Adams |
Email Mistakes: Giving Away the Store, Without Knowing it Inside jobs don't have to be the work of disgruntled bank employees. New research suggests most email-related exposure of sensitive data is accidental. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Offer Paid Submit Option In the wake of LookSmart's new pay-for-consideration system, Inktomi has just announced that it will offer a pay for inclusion service later this year. |
CRM
January 26, 2004
Patrick O'Neal |
Customers Prefer Self-Service When companies empower customers to transact how they want, when they want, the majority of customers will choose the lowest cost option.. |
Bank Technology News
August 2007
Joe Bernik |
The Harm Behind Spam SPAM has now become the favorite tool of online criminals. |
InternetNews
February 6, 2004
Janis Mara |
LookSmart Beats Street, But Lowers 2004 Guidance The struggling search listings provider said it will have a yearly loss worse than expected in 2004. |
InternetNews
June 15, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook's Land Grab Off and Running After opening the floodgates to its highly-anticipated vanity URLs, Facebook has converted the addresses for millions of its users from a random string of numbers to a personalized Web address. |
Job Journal
December 14, 2008
Craig Harrison |
Deliver Better Customer Service Via Email There are many ways you can deliver great customer service through your use of email. Consider the following. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2008
Deena Katz |
Reining in Email There is probably nothing more problematic in our professional lives today than our ability to use and abuse email. |
CRM
September 2012
Judith Aquino |
Avoid the Spam Folder How marketers can save outbound emails from the dreaded fate. |
