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News in blended search

by Jiyan • March 29, 2010

For those of you interested in how news appears in blended search results, I’ve put some thoughts together in a guest post for Lee Odden on the Online Marketing Blog.


Analyzing influence in Twitter

by Jiyan • February 1, 2010

There are a variety of perspectives on how best to analyze influence in Twitter and it is not the goal of this post to present another approach.  Rather, I want to take take account of the existing ones, spend a few minutes presenting a perspective and hopefully get a few subsequent subsequent perspectives on this. […]


Getting indexed in Google News

by Jiyan • December 30, 2009

I chatted with CT Moore from NVI Interactive Strategy at Pubcon a few months back about several topics including some of the things we’ve seen from Google News in the past year or so. Note to self: Remember to take off that ridiculously large event badge next time.


SEO Value of a Press Release

by Jiyan • October 1, 2009

Several weeks ago, Mihaela Lica from Everything PR presented a critical perspective on a news release we had issued in which she raised some good questions about the goals and target on a news release.  Her posting prompted me to give her a call and there were two outcomes from that discussion.  First, the discussion […]