Traffic ‘Smackdown’: Yellowbook vs. InsiderPages In an admittedly self-serving email, InsiderPages’ VP Andrew Shotland pointed me to Alexa traffic data that show basically that YellowBook.com and the newer online-only site are neck and neck. YellowBook has been running a TV campaign during the Olympics, whereas InsiderPages relies on SEO/SEM, syndication and word of mouth. If [...]

Job Opening At John Battelle’s SearchBlog & FM Media Anyone passionate about search and blogging who wants to work for one of the most heralded tech journalists and bloggers in the nation should be interested in this position : Editorial Assistant, FM; Assistant Editor, SearchBlog, Sausalito, CA This hybrid position combines a half time position [...]

MSN ContentAds : Scoop by JenSense Jen Slegg will be speaking about contextual advertising at Microsoft’s Mix06 conference in Las Vegas. She also has the scoop on the new MSN Contextual Advertising ANSWER TO GOOGLE ADSENSE AND YAHOO PUBLISHER NETWORK, ContentAds after reading a session description from Mix06. MSN ContentAds is their contextual advertising program [...]

Google Results Entirely Organic? Google has made another alteration the Google Help Center, this time removing the assurance that Google’s results are completely automated. The change was first noted by Phillip Lenssen in his Google Blogoscope. As recently as February 2, the document outlining Google’s Principles stated, ” The order and contents of Google search [...]

Tell If Your Blogger Blog Has Been Flagged A DigitalPoint thread asks if anyone knew what the referral url of bla197.prod.google.com:4040/admin_flags was. There were many guesses as to what this URL was for, but most people thought it was fake. After some research, the thread creator discovered it was from people flagging your blog in [...]

Synergy of Search, Blogs, and PR : Lee Odden Interview Aaron Wall of SEOBook & Threadwatch has conducted a nice sit down interview with Lee Odden, one of the most well received voices in search marketing. Unlike some of the modern SEO crew popping up left and right, Lee is a bit old school with [...]

Westminster Dog Show on Yahoo Video The indexing of Super Bowl commercials by the video search engines was a nice way to showboat the video search and viewing technologies from AOL, Google, and Yahoo Video. But now, Yahoo is partnering with the Super Bowl of Dog Shows, the Westminster Dog Show, to highlight the best [...]