Search Engine Journal

Initially Search Engine Journal was going to include Best Linkbait as a category in our 2nd Annual Search Blogs Awards, but not all linkbait is done on a search blog.
In fact, some of the best linkbait of the year was outside of the searchosphere realm and made its way outside of the barrel (thanks to […]

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Voting for the Search Engine Journal’s 2006 Search Blogs Awards are now open.
Please take the time to rank and vote for your favorite search engine blogs and bloggers!
Vote Now!

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Jake Baillie has helped to build TrueLocal into a true success, rocked Chicago, and is now heading to the world of funding Internet start-ups and incubation. Jake sent this email to my friend and SMO guru Lee Odden who also took this awesome shot at B.L.U.E.S.

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One trend that has been noticed over the past 2 months is that Google is stepping up to the plate in the branding of its logo within its AdSense network along with its major partnerships.
Why? Possibly because Google is not the grassroots company it once was and there has been talk of Google losing its […]

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When Google introduced its payments system (and more) Checkout earlier this year my belief was that it had to break with its long-standing approach of not doing any marketing and push the product because it was potentially important to the company’s future. After a slow start, Google has been doing that — though […]

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Barry points to the Google AdWords help page which discusses the frequency of Google AdWords Quality Score updating.
The AdWords system visits and evaluates advertiser landing pages on a regular basis. Due to the evolving nature of the quality evaluation system, the frequency may change based on improvements to the system or the level of user […]

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It has been hanging in the air for sometime now. Back in September 2006 the rumor circus already pointed at Tom online as the likely candidate and it’s now decided.
From Reuters
EBay said it will fold its China business, acquired when it purchased local auction site EachNet for $180 million (91 million pounds), into a venture […]

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In the tradition of friendly blogosphere blogging, I’ve been blog tagged by Peter and Lee in the great search blogger meme of the five things you probably do not know about me.

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Lisa Barone, super search blogger, has the beef on Ask.com’s search interface & user experience testing ground, Ask X.
Google has its SearchMash to test new Ajax and Java powered search tools, and now Ask has Ask X.
And Lisa has this to say about Ask X:
The difference between Ask X and Google’s SearchMash […]

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Todd Malicoat has jotted down his thoughts on why Digg is the new Google and why Digg is attracting the ‘geek mindshare’ that Google did so well pre-2001, when it went beyond grassroots marketing and was slingshot by the great Yahoo! partnership which won over the commonfolk.

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