Search Engine Journal

One of my responsibilities as a professional blogger in the search engine news world is to keep taps on the many search engine marketing and social media marketing blogs which are being launched successfully in the ‘2.0′ market. By doing so, and sharing or building upon their information by covering their ideas in the posts […]

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Over at Search Engine Watch, Brian Smith takes a deep look in to Microsoft’s answer to Ask.com Smart Answers and Yahoo Shortcuts; Live.com Instant Answers.
After only a couple minutes, we dove into some of Microsoft’s Instant Answers, which really did turn out to be points of delight. The first example we looked at was […]

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StumbleUpon is definitely becoming one of the major Internet navigation and social bookmarking experience sites in the business, and is continuing to grow with smart relationships and their own unique revenue model.
Internet Explorer 7 is now launching and StumbleUpon has release its own Internet Explorer 7 add-on toolbar for the new Microsoft Browser. Seems that […]

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Here’s what the shape of some of the future content and ad deals will look like on video sites (similar to what’s happening over at MySpace). In this case it’s CBS distributing its content via YouTube.
This is smart and complements what CBS is doing with Yahoo! news and Google Earth. And see how the […]

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Lee Odden at the Top Rank Blog lists the positives of gaining visibility for a business, site or organization within the News Search Engines of the Internet and gives some tips on how to get your site included somehow in these engines.
* Research web sites that are already trusted news sources and work on getting […]

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Interesting news from the MP3 download cold war going on between the record industries and AllofMP3.com, the Russian MP3 download site which sells songs and albums for about 10% of what Apple iTunes and others do.
Under pressure from the record companies and their lobbyists, Visa International has begun to block payments to AllofMP3.
With the […]

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Aaron Wall points to an Advertising Promotion from United Press International which offers advertisers the ability to purchase links on UPI.com priced by Google PageRank.
I’m a bit shocked that such an institution as UPI would be publicly selling these links (they could have been a bit more stealth about it by going through a broker) […]

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Google’s Vanessa Fox has announced on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog that Google has added four new tools for webmasters;
1) Googlebot Activity Reports shows a 90 day backlog of the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled on a site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and the average time […]

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Chris Pirillo received an interesting call from StumbleUpon’s Director of Advertising Sales the other morning, which was a sales call for advertising within the StumbleUpon social surfing network.
As transcribed by Chris

StumbleUpon offers a unique opportunity to reach the targeted audience you’re searching for. Discover great websites, videos, pictures and more-all according to your interests. Send […]

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One of my favorite online marketing ‘hobbies’ is brainstorming domain names for sites, products, companies and blogs.
Admittingly enough, I probably find myself spending about 2 hours a week looking for domains for new products on the market which I think can be spun into a high quality contextual blog revenue generator.
Sure, I only register […]

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