Search Engine Journal

Google Alerting Webmasters of Guideline Violations
Leslie Walker at Washingtonpost.com may be stirring up the ranking juice, but Matt Cutts says that Google is going to start feeding spammers some ‘egg on your face’ juice with a trial program which will notify some spammers when their sites are penalized by Google. In order to receive these […]

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Crossing the Google AdSense Border
Sure Google AdSense has been around for years now and yes, it has almost single handedly monetized the blogging and problogger revolution (especially with Blogspot Adsense in the mix), but every once in a while someone reminds the crowd of Google AdSense basics which can help to increase a site’s contextual […]

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Google Gives Away Free Downloads of SketchUp
Via blogSEO, I learned that you can grab a free copy of Google SketchUp, “an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships.” Totally free, don’t have to register, and it’s […]

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Yahoo Babel Fish Translation Tool
Just when I almost forgot that Yahoo owns Altavista, Yahoo goes and integrates one of the only reasons I still visit Altavista into Yahoo; Babel Fish.
Now branded Yahoo Babel Fish (with a big Advil expanding ad next to the translation tool which is great targeting as I have a splitting headache), […]

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Wallop - Microsoft’s MySpace?
Microsoft funded Wallop is preparing to launch in an effort to enter Microsoft into the “hey MySpace, we’re cool too” category along with Orkut & 360. Despite Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington saying that Wallop is not another “me too” social networking offering and CNET claiming that “the Wallop approach will center on trying […]

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Mozilla Firefox on Google Homepage
According to TopRank, Google is promoting the spreading of Firefox to its users on the Google Homepage. Apparently if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and visit Google, you may be served a message which states Firefox with Google Toolbar: tabbed browsing, safer surfing”.
Firefox confirms the siting on the SpreadFirefox.com site […]

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Job Interview at Google
I’ve had only a handful of job interviews in my life (although I have conducted many) and thus far can claim that I am 4 for 4 in the interview to employment ratio. Not being an expert on the receiving end of the interview process, I found the blog posting My Interview […]

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FeedBurner Ad Network Adds Automated Advertising
Blog & RSS advertising has just gotten easier as FeedBurner has introduced an automated advertiser signup and campaign launch feature which elevates their network past the slow manual process.
Darren Rowse reports on ProBlogger that FeedBurner’s new Automated Advertising allows advertisers to:
* Select a channel that matches your target
* Create […]

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Washington Post’s Express Classifieds Launch
After a week or so delay, the full online edition of the Washington Post’s Express (its free metro daily intended to attract younger audiences) launched today. It’s a clean, nice looking site and contains the Oodle classifieds marketplace integration. I wrote about it in an earlier post:
[T]he Washington Post has struck […]

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Yahoo Go Is A Go
From Yahoo Next, I learned that Yahoo TV is (semi) up and running (still in beta). More from the site:
“Now you can take Yahoo! off your computer and put it in your living room for everyone to see. View photos, search for video clips and watch movie trailers on your TV. […]

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