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The company Yahoo have recently introduced a new and improved version of their Yahoo Maps. This is currently available in the US and in beta stage in India. They are hoping to entice back users who stitched to using Google and Microsoft. Yahoo Maps have included a lot of new content such as colour coded street maps for cities such as San Francisco and New York. The site has also included terrain overlays, driving instructions for over 34 European countries and building footprints. Yahoo is hoping to increase the number of colour coded street maps for many more cities. Yahoo is hoping to catch up with and overtake Google who are the number one in mapping and have over forty nine million visitors.

Yahoo has recently changed their mapping technology which they hope will make upgrades to the system a lot quicker and easier. However they still may not be able to compete with Google and Microsoft’s 3-D overlays and their personal data options. Google has also recently released a My Maps feature. As well as trying to encourage visitors back to their mapping system, Yahoo also need to encourage their advertisers back too.

I logged in to my Yahoo! Messenger and this window popped out.

Yahoo is introducing Yahoo! Messenger for the Web (beta) which has a great feature I’ve been waiting. You can now save your message history to Yahoo’s servers which mean you can access your IM conversation history from any place. Pretty neat huh.

There are lots of big companies spending a lot of money on search engine optimization and search engine marketing. So how do you compete with big business online? If you are a small business owner, act like a small business owner and do some personal PR. If you find yourself in a position where you would like increase your exposure in the search engines, here are some helpful tips that will not only help you with backlinks, but you might also find that the word-of-mouth exposure will help you as well.

As a small business owner, there is something that you and there is something that you do well. A real estate agent for example would be in a perfect position to give people helpful and frank advice about buying a new home. A carpenter could comment on home repair tips. And so on. So why not take this knowledge to advertise yourself.

First you need a Yahoo! account, which will allow you to sign into Yahoo! Answers. This is a forum where you can instantly post questions that get answered by all others currently in the forum. There are many categories, and it is very easy to find one in which you are an “expert”. Then, just start answering questions. It is important that you not give short answers just to get it done, make your answers thoughtful but concise. Use “jargon”, important words for your trade, wherever possible. Remember, if you answer is noteworthy, you will soon start seeing your own answer page floating around on the search pages.

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Which Program is the Right Program for You?

There are many different programs available to a person who is interested in enhancing his or her professional standing when it comes to Internet marketing. Through this article, you are presented with a consideration of becoming a Yahoo Ambassador vs. Google Adwords Qualified individual. Armed with this information, you will be able to determine which of these two courses makes the very best sense for you today.

Through the Yahoo Ambassador program, which costs fifty dollars US to take the examination and receive the certification, you are able to utilize the Yahoo Ambassador logo as part of your own efforts to attract clients to your Internet marketing services. Through the Yahoo Ambassador certification program, you learn what tools are available to you through Yahoo to assist you in providing appropriate services to your PPC clients or customers.

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I found this from Digital Point Forums about a weird results from Yahoo! Search

How did that happen?

After winning the First Philippine SEO contest last Sept. 30, 2006, I won the 1st prize again for the Second Philippine SEO Contest. It was a very close fight between me and Marghil Macuha (marghil.blogspot.com), who won the 2nd prize.

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Starting today I’m gonna try to improve my Yahoo! search ranking for “ituloy angsulong“. As of this writing my current position is at rank 11 although it was on 10th position yesterday. It looks like its slowly going down.(i really hope not)

Heading over to Yahoo! Help for help, I found some good tips to get me started with my Yahoo! campaign for “ituloy angsulong“.

How do I improve the ranking of my web site in the search results?

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After Google’s PageRank update, which also occurred this month of January, Yahoo! also updated their search index just a week ago, January 19, 2007.

Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

We are in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may be seeing some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index throughout this process. This update began last night and should be complete very soon.

Keep the feedback coming!

Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

The update should have been completed by now as Yahoo! stated above but I’m still seeing very unstable search results especially for “ituloy angsulong” keyword.

Click on the images below and find out.

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Have you ever seen Yahoo! displaying the same page from two different position of its search results? Well, I checked my Yahoo! ranking for “ituloy angsulong” and noticed my site is in two different position, 28 and 41, for the same page.

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In today I beg advice interesting feature for domain name registration. I will say it to you, Yahoo domain name is major source for registrar now, because it’s low cost and have important features too. Such as…

Domain Name Keys: Proving and Protecting Email Sender Identity

Email spoofing - the forging of another person’s or company’s email address to get users to trust and open a message is one of the biggest challenges facing both the online internet community, and anti-spam technologists in today. Without sender authentication, verification, and traceability now, email providers can never know for certain if a message is legitimate or forged and will therefore have to continually make educated guesses on behalf of their users on what to deliver, what to block, and what to quarantine, in the pursuit of the best possible user experience.

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Flickr has been a favorite by many photographers and users alike not just for uploading photos but as a photo management and sharing application. It's a great tool for members to show off their photos to the world. With thousands of photos uploaded everyday, Flickr released "The Most Popular Cameras in the Flickr Community" gathered from members over the last year. According to Flickr, the most popular camera among Flickr members is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT. Canon PowerShot SD400 is the most popular "point and shoot" camera and Sony Ericsson K750i is the most popular camera phone.

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This is yet another milestone in making the web more simpler and better. Yesterday, in a collaborative effort to help webmasters, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft agreed to use a standard Sitemaps protocol to index sites.  It's called the Sitemap 0.90 which is offered under a Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

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Earlier this morning I was just browsing around looking for companies that offer cheap domain registration. This is for my kuya(bro) Mike, he wanted to register a particular domain. He's planning on starting his blog site. I stumbled upon this sponsored link while searhing from yahoo that offers domains for  $1.99 .I have to say it's pretty cheap but I had to make sure there were no hidden charges so I read more about this offer.

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