Search Engine Journal

AOL Launching ‘On Demand’ Video Portal
As is being widely reported, AOL plans to launch a comprehensive video entertainment destination later this week. Here’s the screenshot. Here’s the current AOL video portal. According to the press release:
New features on the AOL Video portal include: over 45 new video-on-demand content channels with thousands of hours of video […]

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Taking the Yahoo Publisher Network Plunge
In preparation for the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose where I plan on meeting with the Yahoo Publisher Network staff and representatives, I’ve decided to make YPN the preferred contextual advertising provider for individual posts on Search Engine Journal this week. I’m not sure as to what the […]

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Matt Cutts Answers SEO Questions on Google Video
Google’s Matt Cutts took the time this weekend to discuss some Google & SEO myths and facts via Google Video. Matt comments on his blog:
As you can probably tell, I shot these videos at home this weekend. I wanted to make a video so that I could give […]

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Yahoo Search Launches New Slurp Crawler
Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficient. Yahoo’s David Simpson says on the Yahoo Search Blog that the result will be a “25% reduction in the number of requests and bandwidth consumed by the crawler.”
Reductions in bandwidth is good news to this […]

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JobsinSearch : Find Search Engine Jobs or Employees
Looking for a change of scenery in the search engine marketing employment world? Or looking to fill an SEO Manager or PPC Search Specialist position and not happy with the calls your company is receiving from the local help wanted classifieds? Look no further than JobsinSearch.
JobsinSearch is currently […]

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Tune In to Google Radio Advertising
Elinor Mills at CNET has written a long pieceon the coming of Googe/dMarc advertising on local radio stations (many people are pointing to this article). She quotes sources who say ads are already running in “Motown” (Detroit). Without getting into the finer points of the article, what’s interesting to me […]

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Google Talk Adds Voicemail & File Transfers Among New Features
Google is starting to beef up its Google Talk messaging, VoIP & communications tool with File Transfer, Voicemail, and Music Status options. More from Google Talk;
File Transfer
With this top requested new feature, you can send unlimited files and folders to your friends through Google Talk. There […]

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Google Search Results Shifting
Two forum threads, one at DigitalPoint Forums and the other at WebmasterWorld show how some, but not all, of the changes that took place on June 27th have been “fixed.”
dazzlindonna said this morning at DigitalPoint;
Just so you know, things aren’t back exactly as they were. I know because I had some rankings […]

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LiveDeal to Cross Sell Print & Online Ads

I ran into a couple of people form LiveDeal at Inman’s Real Estate Connect yesterday and they told me they had a big announcement coming. Here’s the release:
AdStar, Inc. and LiveDeal.com announced a strategic partnership to integrate AdStar’s functionality into LiveDeal.com. The combined capabilities of AdStar and LiveDeal […]

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Facebook Giving Away iTunes Songs
Given the competition between MySpace & Facebook among others over the young networking & searching auidences, I found this promo to be of interest. Facebook, “the social directory that allows people to share information“, is running a back-to-school promo and will be giving away 10 million music samplers to Mac and […]

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