Search Engine Journal

Azoogle’s NEW Affiliate Programs Network - Breaking News
Sometimes AdBumb prints rumors that are funny but not true - yet I have seen a number of times when they turned out to have the inside scoop before anyone else. So I followed a lead from a story they printed and found that AzoogleAds is indeed ready […]

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Google’s Matt Cutts Basically Says Do Not Buy Links
The Link Selling O’Reilly Debate continues and a new thread popped up at WebmasterWorld with the catchy title, Google Says: Buying links not allowed? In that thread, he the thread creator quotes a statement by Matt Cutts; top Google engineer as saying; “Google’s view on this…Selling links […]

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Affiliate Product Landing Pages - Three Tactics That Sell
Today’s “Affiliate Industry Watch” newsletter includes a pretty good article with tips for building 3 types of affiliate landing pages. I strongly recommend the use of customer testimonials, which is not mentioned in this article, but you can also read my quick, easy tips for building affiliate […]

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RealPages Yellow Pages Gets 20 Million Searches in July
Want proof local search is growing beyond Yahoo Local and Google Local, look at the Internet Yellow Page sites for an example. In a hey look at us” type announcement, BellSouth has alerted the media that their RealPages.com Yellow Pages site experienced over 20 million searches last […]

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Google AdSense Ad Links Reviewed
Google AdSense released Ad Links on June 09, 2005 and publishers had plenty of time to test them out. A thread at WebmasterWorld named AdLinks bringing most of the revenue? Can anyone confirm? shows how for some it does well, and for others, it does not to well.
One member reports that […]

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Technorati and Newsweek Partner for Blog Roundup - Yeehaw!
Technorati and Newsweek are now working together to bring blog posts and links to relevant blog stories into the Newsweek.com website. The partnership centers around the Newsweek Blog Roundup which will be shown on all Newsweek.com pages. According to Dave Sifry, the “widget” will act just like […]

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Yahoo Publisher Network to Distribute Yahoo Content Beyond Ads
Something that rang a bell during Search Views’ Erin Bradley’s 5 question interview of David Zito, Sr. Manager, Development for Yahoo! Publisher Network Online, is that Yahoo Publisher Network is not all about Yahoo Search Marketing. When asked about the Wall Street Journal story that mentioned Yahoo […]

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Google Sued By Soft Porn Site Perfect 10 Over Copyrighted Photos
Google is being sued by adult magazine (soft porn) publisher Perfect 10 due to Google serving images of copyrighted material which is illegally posted on third-party sites. Unlike Playboy or other nudie mags, Perfect 10 specializes in photos and videos of “naturally” built women who […]

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Flickr Extensions for Firefox - Flickbar and FlickrFox
For those of you who have Flickr photo blogging and sharing accounts and use the Firefox browser, there are two extensions which are of interest to you. Amit at Digital Inspiration identified the Flickr extensions which “let you harness the full potential of Flickr photos in your firefox […]

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MSN Testing Simple Search Oriented Homepage
MSN is beta testing a new homepage which takes a simplistic approach to marketing MSN services, MSN Search, and other MSN partners to their user base. The new beta design takes the Yahoo and Google approach of centering the page around the search engine, with large dominant search boxes featured […]

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