Search Engine Journal

Search Engine Marketing: Internet Gardening Tips For 2005
With the major elections now behind us, we can once again concentrate on getting back to business. In Canada, we don’t even have Hockey to distract us this year. Here are a few gardening tips to help you prepare for marketing your business online in 2005.
Microsoft will have […]

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Babelplex Multilingual Search Engine - the C3PO of Search
I live in a bilingual household, well, make that trilingual. I’m an English speaker from the US and my wife is a dual Brazilian/Japanese citizen. I lived in Japan for 18 months and then spent about the same amount of time in Brazil. My Japanese is good, […]

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Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Miracle Blesses eBay
A partially eaten piece of a grilled cheese sandwich has become the most talked about item on eBay over the past week, bringing in bids of almost $19,000. Don’t get me wrong, this is not ordinary grilled cheese sandwich. You see, it’s a miracle. The sandwich is blessed with […]

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Organic Search Engine Optimization for Large Sites
Commercial websites are getting larger. Driven by the rapid evolution of content management systems, shopping carts and e-biz facilitation, and by the increasing sophistication of Internet retailers, “small” business sites averaging 500+ pages have become common.
Some large sites are very well focused and present relatively few problems for SEOs. […]

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MSN and Yahoo’s Overture Extend Paid Search Relationship
Yahoo’s Overture is going to continue to serve ads on MSN Search for the next 18 months. Overture today announced that they have extended its sponsored search distribution relationship with Microsoft Corp. in the United States and internationally through June 2006.
Under the terms of the extension, Overture will […]

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Nokodo Search Engine in Beta
Nokodo Search Engine Technologies has opened a public beta for the Nokodo.com search engine. All websites, even small/unknown sites, or those having a poor ranking on other search engines, can rank high on Nokodo.com with quality content. As a friendly new search engine, Nokodo.com “reshuffles the web.”
Nokodo.com changes how search engines […]

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RocketNews Search Engine Adds Personalization
The RocketNews current news and weblog search engine has been enhanced with the addition of personalization features. RocketNews is a technology showcase operated by Rocketinfo Inc., a supplier of real-time news and competitive intelligence software to corporations, governments and professional service firms.
Visitors to the new RocketNews will discover three new […]

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Search Engine Friendly Design and Coding (Especially Flash)
Its been almost a year since I attended a session of this nature. I was not too impressed last time, so I am hoping things have changed within the year. Brett introduces the panel, by saying its the first time WMW is doing this panel.
Ted Ulle, WMW Admin, […]

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History of Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Testing
Calum I. Mac Ceod was first up. He discussed how Google used to rank pages (title and pagerank). Now its a bit more complicated, with proximity and linkage data. He goes through the various on page factors and describes how most are not too important anymore. He then […]

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Paid Inclusion Topics and Issue
Greg Boser is the moderator and he introduced the panel. The first man up was Jim Stobb from PositionTech. He discusses what paid inclusion is: (1) new sites are usually indexed within 72 hours (2) existing pages are recrawled every 48 hours. Two programs (1) Direct Submit (pay per page, flat […]

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