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Now you can get your blog posts on Yahoo.com

Posted in » Blogging Tips, Marketing, SEO & Promotion, Social Bookmarking, Yahoo - by Ades

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Finally Yahoo has opened its doors to publishers to submit their blog posts to Yahoo! Buzz (buzz.yahoo.com). This means higher traffic to those who write exceptional posts, and you could even get millions of visitors if your blog post is featured on yahoo’s main page yahoo.com.

How it works?

You go to http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons and get a button of your choice. Integrate it into your blog. And finally keep doing what you are doing - writing good stuff!

Well, you could go ahead and start submitting your own contents (blog posts) to Yahoo! Buzz. But that’s not really a sustainable strategy for bringing in the traffic. Rather you should concentrate on writing quality posts and let your readers promote your posts.

So, after you have integrated the button in your blog. For the first time, someone has to submit it to Yahoo! Buzz, then the rest of the people will just vote for that post. The more the post gets votes, the more it will have a chance to be top news in Yahoo! Buzz. And if your post gets to be the best content, then it may be featured in Yahoo.com — potentially bringing in millions of visitors to your blog!

So why wait, go to http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons and get your buttons! I have got mine already (done my part), now it’s for you to vote for my posts ;) (see button below)

Yahoo! Mail: Now with (web) messenger

Posted in » Yahoo - by Ades

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If you have email account with yahoo, then you have probably been greeted with a similar window like below. It says: “Now you can chat inside Yahoo! Mail”. Finally!

I was expecting this to happen long time ago, since Yahoo Mail introduced new improved (optional) version. I hardly login to my yahoo messenger, most of the time I login when my friends ask me to come online. Or if I have a messenger conference with some clients. Otherwise my yahoo messenger just stays idle. Since I check my mail everyday, this new feature will allow me to keep in touch with my friends and people in my contact list more frequently (without logging into messenger).

You can set your status to any status and also see who are online from your contact list (address book). It shows the the number, upon clicking it will show the details of the contacts.

This is how the web chat looks inside the yahoo mail.

You can read more about this new feature at Yahoo! Mail Help.

Microsoft eyeing deal to buy Yahoo

Posted in » MSN, Yahoo - by Ades

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Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo for $50 billion and asked Yahoo to resume acquisition talks. Yahoo! reportedly agreed.

Following the news Yahoo shares jumped 17.96 percent to $33.24 in Nasdaq trading on Friday, while Microsoft shares fell 1.26 percent to $30.58. The two companies have held informal talks over the years, but the latest approach comes as Microsoft seeks a deal to counter Google’s rapid growth.

If the deal goes through, how would MSN and Yahoo search engines operate? Would they stay separate or become one Search Engine? These are the questions bloggers would like to know, because different blogs have different search rankings in Yahoo and MSN results. Well, let’s wait and see.

Yahoo Acquires Social Network Del.icio.us

Posted in » News, Yahoo - by Ades

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. - In its latest acquisition of a social networking service, Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) on Friday devoured del.icio.us Inc., a startup that enables people to more easily compile and share their favorite content on the Web. Del.icio.us will continue to run its own Web site, which allows users to create a personal account so they can create a page devoted to their favorite online articles, music and reviews. The material can be shared with others simply by sending along the Web link. The content also can be identified with labels, or “tags,” to make it simpler to find. via yahoo news

Yahoo adds RSS Advertising

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Yahoo Publisher Network has added RSS feed advertising. Currently it supports Wordpress and MovableType powered blogs. Yahoo Publisher Network is still in beta testing and open to only US citizens at the moment.

publisher.yahoo.com/portal/AboutRSS.php

Yahoo! Podcasts (Beta)

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Yahoo has launched their own a Yahoo! Podcasts service, check it out podcasts.yahoo.com

Login to Flickr using your Yahoo ID

Posted in » Online Tools, Yahoo - by Ades

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Now you can login to Flickr using your Yahoo ID, as you may remember Flickr has been acquired by Yahoo recently. flickr.com/signin/