Search Engine Journal

Determining the Value of Links from Link Renting
What is Link Renting? Link renting is a means to ‘rent’ the popularity and traffic flow of another site – you pay a monthly fee in return for a text link pointing to your site. In doing so, you can directly and indirectly drive more targeted traffic toward […]

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Well loyal readers, as the Search Engine Strategies conference looms right around the corner and I’m all geared up with my press pass, laptop, camera and notebook for making my rounds and surprise visits to different seminars, workshops, booths, bars, and search engine reps, Pandia emailed me today to let me know that I’ve won […]

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Google Search for Heineken Not Safe For Work
Google A Bit Drunk on Heineken? I find this a little bit embarrassing for Google. SearchViews reported two days ago, last Friday, that a search in Google on the keyword Heineken brings back Google Image results at the top of the main Web results. One of the two […]

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Yahoo Talks Buying Stake of IndiaTimes
The Financial Times reports that Yahoo is interested in buying a substancial stake of the IndiaTimes, the largest Indian web portal. Yahoo is reported to be partnering with Bennett Coleman, the publisher of The Times of India newspaper and other titles.
Bennet Coleman is apparently looking for a partner to […]

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New York Times acquires About.Com
The Times Company, owner of the New York Times has purchased About.com from Primedia for $410 million in cash. About.com employs approximately 500 experts or guides who create content on thousands of topics ranging from the arts to zoology, attracting 22-million visitors per month.
“The global reach of About.com and opportunities for […]

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Google AdSense Makes Sense on Blogs
Google AdSense is easy to install on a web page or blog and constitutes additional source of income without spending anything. You have to apply on-line for Google AdSense Program and generally approval comes from Google within two days. Those having AdWord account can use AdWord e-mail address and password […]

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Home Page URL 2X in Yahoo = Yahoo Penalty?
A thread over at WebmasterWorld named Home page indexed twice discusses how two members noticed that their home page URLs are listed twice in Yahoo! Search results. Same URL, same content, two listings.
Seems strange. WMW moderator, agerhart, says one word, “Penalty.”
Senior Member, internetheaven, adds by saying;
I’m afraid […]

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Internet Explorer 7 - The Empire Strikes Back
It was very much wanted but no one expected it to appear like this. Looks like a direct result of the Firefox effect on the Microsoft’s strategy as the software giant woke up and noticed that people have started moving on to a better browser (or browsers if […]

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Ask Jeeves Meets with Mozilla Firefox
Google is not the only search company which is cuddling up to Mozilla’s Firefox (albeit the only one which is outright hiring its developers), Ask Jeeves has put its foot into the Firefox door by offering to work with firefox to develop ways to for the popular web browser’s users […]

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Annodex Video Search Plugin for FireFox
Video Search has been pioneered by SingingFish, Yahoo, and Blinkx, but is now taken to a moe functional level with CSIRO’s development of the Annodex Video Search - an interactive plugin for browsing through webs of video. The Annodex plugin for Mozilla Firefox gives users the ability to use text […]

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