Search Engine Journal

A collegue and Search Engine Journal reader emailed me over the weekend, to let me know that the Yahoo Paid Inclusion (Yahoo Search Submit) feed for his business, and that of his competitors have been experiencing problems, and dropped from the rankings.
Apparently, there is a major shifting going on of Yahoo rankings, which has been […]

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The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a YouTube Video of the day in the life of the Google Webmaster Support team. It’s a really cool account of the daily routine of the different members of the Google Webmaster Central team.
Just when I thought the video couldn’t get any cooler, Matt Cutts whips out his […]

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Yahoo is launching the new version of Delicious.com (del.icio.us) today and with or without the dots, the company seems to be moving on with its social bookmarking platform, even without Joshua Schachter (the original founder of del.icio.us who left Yahoo in the Spring) behind the wheel.
Delicious was supposed to rebrand about a year ago, but […]

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Google and Yahoo spent a combined $1.36 Million last quarter in lobbying according to the Associated Press, with Yahoo spending $630,000 and Google topping off at $730,000.
Google spent their lobbying funds the following political efforts :

The agreement to let Google serve advertising on the Yahoo network and regulation of online advertising
Net neutrality rules that would […]

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Google has been given the go ahead to begin their StreetView project in the UK, which will capture images from Google cars with cameras perched on the top, and publish those images on Google Maps.
Privacy concerns surround Google StreetView because of photos published of vehicles, license plates, private property and individuals online.

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Google has acquired Omnisio, a social video mashup service which lets its users splice and edit online videos found on YouTube, Google Video and Blip.TV, adding balloons and annotations to the videos while also mixing segments together in a remix type setting.

Omnisio, a Y Combinator company, will now join the YouTube family to allow YouTube […]

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Comparing quotes from financial services is a big market in the UK, as sites which deliver quotes from unsecured loan, car insurance and even pet insurance providers battle for top rankings in both paid search and organic search on Google UK. For an example, search on Google UK for secured loans.

Back in May, Google.co.uk stepped […]

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Google’s Matt Cutts issued the announcement that Google [Toolbar] PageRank was going through an update over the weekend, and it seems that the rollout of the update began Friday night or yesterday, with the PageRank of some sites rising in value and others dropping.
Sure, Toolbar PageRank is not a valid indicator of everything that goes […]

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Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts announced on his blog that a new Google Toolbar PageRank update is on the way, and thatas part of the PageRank update, Google will be expiring some of the older [PageRank] penalities on websites.
Good news for sites which were hit with a PageRank penalty last year? In the comments (all […]

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Combatting complaints sites in Google results has become an ongoing issue for many companies, as consumer complaints from years ago can appear on the front page of Google results when a brand name is searched upon.
Sites like RipOffReport, Pissedconsumer.com and Complaints.com are also no slouches when it comes to SEO and public relations, which […]

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