SEO, social media optimization & link building experts Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis have announced on their Pronet Advertising blog that they have been hired by Text Link Ads as Text Link Ads Evangelists. As the newest Text Link Ads employees and probably the highest profile staff members since Andy Hagans, Neil and Cameron will [...]

Google’s 2006 Q4 earnings beat Wall Street expectations when they announed today that revenues were up 67% over Q4 2005 and 16% more than last quarter. From the Google Earnings Press Release: Q4 Financial Summary Google reported revenues of $3.21 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2006, an increase of 67% compared to the [...]

Remember the Yahoo Wii site which built an original Wii information experience by using Yahoo Answers information, Flickr photos, user reviews and links to other Wii oriented sites which are indexed on Yahoo’s del.icio.us social bookmarking system? Well, wii.yahoo.com can be seen as both a spotlight on the many Yahoo social media offerings or even [...]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system. It’s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly [...]

Flickr, the photo publishing, sharing & tagging network, has just announced that they will be cancelling their older email address based login system, and migrating over to Yahoo registered ID’s for users to sign in to Flickr. We’re making this change now to simplify the sign in process in advance of several large projects launching [...]

There have been reports around the Internet today about Yahoo Search Marketing canceling the Overture Keyword Selector Tool, which has been a staple of Keyword planning and search marketing for almost a decade. Feeling that part of the search marketing world, and the tools dependent upon it, had been buried; I addressed concerns with the [...]

Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land points to a Google Blog posting that announces Google will be displaying local results with reviews and links to more detail in its OneBox position: From now on, you’ll see this every time you search for a place, business, or other local information. In addition to providing the basic [...]

Want to show off the incoming links to your site? Yahoo Site Explorer has now come out with a badge for publishers & bloggers to show the amount of incoming links as tracked by Yahoo Site Explorer. Yahoo is offering two different badge sizes and the option of posting incoming links to the entire site [...]

Cameron Olthuis announced this morning that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will let users find what “other people are saying on the web right now.” Serph, in limited beta testing, seems to be a bit different from Technorati or BlogPulse in terms of total social media coverage. If [...]