Yahoo! Refunds Click Fraud Without Customer Requesting Refund A thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named Kudos to YSM Click Fraud Dept shows how two moderators have received automated email notifications from Yahoo! Search Marketing that they have been refunded money (some a large amount) for click fraud. Elisabeth, Search Engine Watch Forums Editor said, …
Accoona – AI Search or Poor Search? There has been a lot of recent news on Accoona, a search engine “with interactive tools that provides users with better web, business and news results; powered by proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology.” The news is that Accoona Relaunches ‘AI Search’ Engine specifically “targeting media outlets and businesses.” So …
Google’s AdSense Margins to be “Squeezed” The news sites are buzzing on the mistaken release of figures on AdSense. Stating that profit margins in its AdSense business would “be squeezed in 2006 and beyond.” They issued a retraction of this information; The statements regarding $9.5 billion in 2006 ad revenue and AdSense margins were not …
SEO Chat Forums Delisted in Google? In recent forum news, it seems as if SEO Chat Forums has been delisted by Google. Not the main site (i.e. www.seochat.com) but the forums.seochat.com. It seems to have happened yesterday afternoon and currently, the management claims they have no idea why. Lots of wild theories out there and …
MSN adCenter Increasing Search Advertising Volume by 70% I got an email an hour or so ago from MSN adCenter representative, Carolyn informing some of us that on Monday February 27th, MSN adCenter will be “increasing traffic by approximately 70% from our current levels.” So this will effect your budgets and traffic, probably by Tuesday …
Image Search Engines in Trouble? Over at the SEW Blog I wrote about a recent ruling where Perfect 10 Photo Site Wins Injunction Against Google Image Search. I wrote; Perfect 10, an adult photo site, has proven to the court that Google’s image search thumbnail copies are a violation of U.S. copyright law. This past …
Big Brand SEO Company Banned by Google? Recently we had the well-known and discussed traffic power ban and now it looks like a big name SEO company based in the UK has been banned from Google. I have never heard of them, but the forums are buzzing about BigMouthMedia being de-listed from Google. Several current …
Tell If Your Blogger Blog Has Been Flagged A DigitalPoint thread asks if anyone knew what the referral url of bla197.prod.google.com:4040/admin_flags was. There were many guesses as to what this URL was for, but most people thought it was fake. After some research, the thread creator discovered it was from people flagging your blog in …
Google Officially Confirms Traffic Power Ban Matt Cutts writes Confirming a penalty where he specifically is talking for Google in his post. He said in a bold statement; I can confirm that Google has removed traffic-power.com and domains promoted by Traffic Power from our index because of search engine optimization techniques that violated our webmaster …
Google Test Auctioning Ads in Print Publications Taking the Google AdWords model to print publications is what we all expected when we heard Google Experiments with Brokering Print Ads. It looks like it is here. I found this at a post at our forum named Your ads in print at the price you set, which …
