Wasiq Ansari’s World

Analysts keep bringing it up. Reporters do, too. How much money is Google losing on YouTube? And can they afford it? The lingering question that affects Internet marketers the most is what happens if Google decides they can’t afford it. If you are using YouTube for marketing, should you be worried? First off, no one [...]

PASADENA, California (Reuters) – Twitter plans a marketing campaign starting in the next few days to educate users, individual and corporate, about ways to make money off the popular microblogging site. Co-founder Biz Stone also told Reuters the company is not interested in acquisition talks with Google or any other company. Documents that were posted [...]

You have come across number of links more than a dozen times whenever you surf net. Many people out there do not understand the basic functions behind such links but there are people for them these links are very important, as they understand the essentiality of link building. Now what is link and how does [...]

Search engine optimization is the very process by which you can improve the traffic to a website from search engines. It can be improving the volume or improving the quality of traffic. Organic or algorithmic search results can be there. Generally the targeted site will appear in the search results list and the more visitors [...]

It’s happened to all of us. You wake up one morning feeling like a million bucks, you stretch and if you’re like me, you notice the eye-rolling as once again your significant other catches you with a toothbrush dangling from your mouth and a laptop or iPhone in front of you while you check rankings [...]

Please be warned: While there is talk of Yahoo and Microsoft getting close to coming to terms on a search ad deal this is not done. People in the Internet space love to see some information then make assumptions and turn it into a reality. Over at All Things Digital, Kara Swisher is reporting on [...]

Large Internet companies spend millions on consultants and technology trying to get their sites to rank among the highest results on Google. Everyone else has to rely on the poor man’s search-engine optimization: the link exchange. If you’ve ever hung up your own shingle on the Web, you’ve probably gotten an e-mail to this effect [...]

In what could be a positive sign for online advertising, Google said on Thursday that its second-quarter revenue rose from a year ago as ad spending in certain areas recovered and the company did well at managing expenses. In what it termed “a very good quarter,” Google posted revenue of $4.07 billion for the second [...]

Yahoo will launch a new tool on Tuesday to help people organize research they do on the Yahoo search engine. The Yahoo Search Pad will automatically save search results when it notices the user is doing research, which should make it easier for people to come back to a project on subsequent days to do [...]

For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.” I know that sounds mean, but come on — the list of commercial hits/Microsoft knockoffs is as long as your arm. PalmPilot/PocketPC. Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer. Mac OS X/Windows Vista. Apple iPod/Microsoft Zune. [...]