Search Engine Journal

Google Local Business Ads (Beta) Launches
Google AdWords and Google Local are working together to bring response driven advertising to local businesses with the new Beta offering of Google Local Business Ads. (Yes, the Google Map ads with the cool AdWords ad & logo in the tack balloon.)
Available for small or big brick and mortar businesses […]

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Google AdWords Dynamic Keyword Insertion Not Working?
There have been some sporadic reports of the Dynamic Keyword Insertion feature within Google AdWords has not been working. There is a good thread where AdWordsAdvisor sums up the reports at WebmasterWorld.
To be precise, there have been three threads about this subject so far this week, with two of […]

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Chinese Journalist’s Family May Take Yahoo to Court
Yahoo may become the target of legal action by the family of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist who was leaking government information to others via his Yahoo Mail account. Against Chinese government warning not to do so, Tao had distributed a Chinese government order banning the media mention […]

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YouTube 10 Minute Limit Deters Copyrighted Video Uploads
YouTube has taken action to prevent the uploading of copyrighted material into its video hosting, sharing and search service. By limiting videos to a maximum run time of 10 minutes, YouTube hopes to prevent clips of TV shows and movies from being made illegally available for online viewing […]

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Co citation & SEO Linking
Jim Boykin has a rather nice go over with Co citation, which is a way some search engines measure a site’s categorical niche popularity among other sites which are associated in the same link groupings.
Jim points to this definition found on Sourceforge.net:
Bibliographic Co-Citation is a popular similarity measure used to establish […]

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Directories Ranked by Inbound Link Quality
Have a directory submittal budget set aside as part of your site’s SEO and link building campaign but not sure exactly which directories to submit to outside of Yahoo and DMOZ?
After our piece earlier in the week, Directory Listings Still Relevant to SEO, there were some questions floating around […]

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Paid Links & Google: Hot Argument at SEOMoz
In a nice question and answer session on the Matt Cutts blog this week, Matt answers a concern about Internet advertising and the use of links (which are the backbone of the Internet and online advertising).
From the Matt Cutts Blog:
Q: “If one were to offer to sell space […]

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Bizarro World : Associated Press Plagiarizing Blogs
Larisa Alexandrovna at The Huffington Post shares an account of her material and ideas being stolen by an Associated Press writer with no credit to the blog what-so-ever. Better yet (better as in it makes the story juicier) an AP Senior Editor told Huffington Post that the Press did […]

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Google Foundation Working with TechnoServe in Ghana
Google has announced on the Google Blog that the Google Foundation is now working with Technoserve, an organization who’s mission is to help entrepreneurs organically grow businesses which boost fair wage employment in impoverished countries.
Google and Technoserve are launching a national business plan competition this week in Ghana, called […]

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Google AdSense & Advertising Killing Site Linkability?
Do the Google AdSense ads on your site hurt the linkability of the site? Aaron Wall of the AdSenseless SEO Book looks at how stuffing a site full of Google AdSense ads may affiliate the goals of that site with purely being focused around gathering AdSense clicks.
I’ve thought about […]

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