John on July 26th, 2010

Japan is a major internet market and it has its share of regional search engines. Getting information on Japan search engines is little more of a challenge because most of them are written entirely in Japanese with no English option. They usually accept web pages written only in Japanese as well. Another factor that adds [...]

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John on June 13th, 2010

Many countries have search engines directed at servicing their native community of users. For example, in China, there is Baidu and in Russia you have Yandex. Regional search engines such as these provide advantages in that results are in the local language and competition for top spots in results pages is greatly reduced. Like China [...]

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John on February 12th, 2009

Adwords is the name for Google’s pay-per-click (PPC) advertising program. It creates a way for companies to post their web site’s link along with a short pitch on the search engine’s results page. There are basically two ways to get your site ranked on the first page of a search engine query: use Google Adwords [...]

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