SEO for Firefox : SEO Extension from SEObook Aaron Wall, no stranger to SEO oriented tools, has introduced a new SEO extension for Firefox from SEObook which may prove to be one of the most useful lightweight SEO and competitive research tools on the market. SEObook’s extension, SEO for Firefox, was made public on July [...]

Yahoo! 4th of July Mashup SiliconBeat points to a nice mashup Yahoo! put together (promoted on Yahoo! Local) to help Americans find local July 4th fireworks displays. But the site is striking because of its bold graphical appearance and how it uses navigation and flash to enhance the user experience. In addition to fireworks locations, [...]

Google Spam Scores Revealed? Seems that Google may be revealing its SpamScore ranking in the cached files of certain web sites. Barry Schwartz points to this thread on DigitalPoint Forums where one member spotted the following code while looking at the Google cache of a site. From IMPORTANT: Google Server Errors pacemaker-alarm-delay-in-ms-overall-sum 2341989 pacemaker-alarm-delay-in-ms-total-count 7776761 [...]

YouTube is the Google of Video Following in MySpace’s footsteps, YouTube is a bona fide phenomenon online. Depending on whom you believe, YouTube either had 12 million (comScore) or 20 million unique users (Nielsen) in May. Regardless, it’s a big number. YouTube is the dominant, category leader. Also (via John Battelle) Bob Lefsetz discusses YouTube [...]

Is Pay-Per-Percentage An Alternative to PPC & Click Fraud? Shimon Sandler points to a Microsoft Research paper on the Pay-Per-Percentage advertising model and it being a viable alternative to Pay-Per-Click. Good timing on this find by Shimon as Google began inviting publishers for testing of Cost-Per-Action payments along with the launch of their Google Checkout [...]

Yahoo China Target of Music Industry Lawyers Yahoo China has become the expected target of a copyright infringement lawsuit as record companes are preparing to take on the second largest search engine in China (according to Bloomberg). Bloomberg News reports that the Alibaba.com operated Yahoo China provides links within its portal to illegally copied and [...]

Google Pages Allowing Google AdSense Ads Google Page Creator, the site building and hosting service offered by Google and launched this year, is now allowing the implementation of Google AdSense ads into user sites; which will lead to some bonus revenue for Google Pages users while also helping Google to monetize their service. Darren Rowse [...]