Search Engine Journal

LookSmart Goes Deep Vertical
In a very interesting bid to revive its fortunes and its consumer brand, LookSmart has launched 160 vertical sites on everything from sports to city guides (here’s New York, for example).
The content comes from Furl, Web crawling and LookSmart’s Find Articles database. The company is hoping the vertical strategy will draw consumers—initially […]

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Chitika eMiniMalls Google Listing an Affiliate Link
Heard of Chitika eMiniMalls yet? Well they are one of the hottest forms of contextual advertising since AdSense or Y!PN and have stormed various blogs and publisher sites as an alternate form of garnering high click thru rates and high PPC’s. The interactive ads seem to work best on […]

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Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network’s Fight For Publishers
The battle for publishers between Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network is heating up beyond CNN and Washington Post as Google AdSense representatives are now telephoning some old AdSense users who made the switch over to Yahoo Publisher Network. Google is asking publishers to come back to […]

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Competitive Intelligence : Domains, Hosts and WHOIS
Sometimes it is hard to figure out who your online competitors are, or worse, what they are doing to beat you. Sometimes it feels like you are beating your head against a wall because no matter how hard you try you just can not figure out how […]

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AT&T-Yahoo! DSL?
Here’s a piece in the NYTimes that says SBC will take the venerable name AT&T once the acquisition is approved.
One response: Will the AT&T brand support the kinds of Internet-age services that SBC is offering and wants to offer (i.e., IPTV)? One could argue it’s really a 19th Century brand.
Another response: It doesn’t matter. […]

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Google Cozies Up To Older Sites
Patrick Gavin from TextLinkAds just posted a theory on the LinkBuildingBlog about how Google is giving preferred rankings to trusted sites which have been in existence for over three years. Such older domains have been around long enough to gain a status of being an authority based upon links built […]

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Flickr Offers Photo Printing via Mail or Target Stores
Flickr is now offering the ability to print Flickr images as photos which can be delivered via mail or picked up at Target’s one hour printing booths. To incentivize users to order Flickr Fotos, Flickr is offering the first 10 4×6″ prints for free. The program is […]

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Commission Junction’s New Spidering Detective
Brian Livingston just came out with another great article about new initiatives CJ is taking to fight affiliate hijinks and clean the network up. Cookie stuffing, forced clicks and security exploits are the 3 three kinds of prohibited behaviors CJ just contracted a company called Cyveillance to help them police and […]

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Google Base : User Reviews, Auctions, Classifieds, Real Estate & More
Google Base is coming, but what is it? Some folks have called it an eBay Killer. Others, the next Google Classifieds. Or will it be Google Auctions? And will Google Wallet launch to give all of these possible scenarios a payment system? A hub for […]

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Village Voice to Develop Portal
The best known of all weekly alternative newspapers, New York’s Village Voice has been purchased by New Times Media. New Times owns eleven other large alternative weekly papers including The Pitch (Kansas City MO) and the Houston Press. The two publishing companies will be merged into a new firm, Village Voice […]

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