Entries from February 2006
Spreadshirt : Search Engine T-Shirt Contest Sponsor
The response to the Search Engine Journal T-Shirt Competition has been amazing, with over 60 t-shirt ideas listed and hopefully more to come before the competition ends this weekend.
I am also very happy to announce that Spreadshirt has agreed to sponsor the contest. Spreadshirt offers a wide selection […]
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New Tools for Press Release Marketing
Recently I had the opportunity to talk to David McInnis, founder of press release distribution service, PRWeb, where he announced some very interesting new services.
For about 5 years, PRWeb has focused on becoming the leading direct to consumer press release distribution model on the web. The PRWeb services sends out […]
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Google Driving In China Without License?
Despite operating in China without its own license, Google.cn is not breaking any local Chinese rules according to Google. A Google spokesperson told the TimesOnline that Google China is using the ICP license of their business partner Ganji.com.
“Google has a partnership with Ganji.com through which we have the required licence […]
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Big Brand SEO Company Banned by Google?
Recently we had the well-known and discussed traffic power ban and now it looks like a big name SEO company based in the UK has been banned from Google. I have never heard of them, but the forums are buzzing about BigMouthMedia being de-listed from Google.
Several current searches […]
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How to Value and Appraise Websites
If you’re looking at selling one of your old websites or possibly acquiring one to add to your network or publishing empire, Todd Malicoat has a brilliant write up on how to value or appraise sites. Todd lists appraisal tools, revenue models, site evaluation equations, and domain value.
From Todd’s Stuntdubl […]
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Google PageRank Update & Organic Authority
Over the past day word has been spreading in SEO forums about an update to Google PageRank measurement. I started noticing PageRank floating up and down a couple of weeks ago for authority sites and popular niche blogs, especially in the Search Engine industry.
For example, the top search engine […]
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MySpace : PR Nightmare in the Making
MySpace’s phenomenal popularity with the teens and early twentysomethings generated a $580 million acquisition by the seventysomething Rupert Murdoch. Here are some truly impressive recent metrics on the site (according to comScore):
* 24.2 million unique users in October 2005
* 11.6 billion page views in October 2005
* More page views […]
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Porn Spam in Google’s Froogle
Looks like the porn uploads to Google Base are having a direct effect on Froogle as Barry Schwartz reports that some innocent searches for wrist rests led to some listings of ultra cheap $.99 products. After clicking on the product listings, Barry was directed to a porn page. Yes, like Google […]
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Search Engine Journal Editor Positions Available
Search Engine Journal is looking for SEJ Editors who can contribute search engine related news from day to day. If you are a search engine blogger, or work in the search engine marketing field and would like to contribute to the Search Engine Journal, please contact me at lorenbake@yahoo.com with […]
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Google VoiceMail on GMail & Google Talk
Garett Rodgers has a nice scoop on Google possibly adding Voicemail and eVite integration into Google GMail after sifting through the GMail source code last week. In a post on the ZDNet Googling Google blog (with code examples), Garret writes about what was found.
Just when you thought everything had […]
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