Search Engine Journal

Dave Naffziger posted a list of 183 Sites and Blogs of the Alexa’s Top 10,000 that are banned from Digg.com. Now it seems that the ban at least for ReveNews.com was lifted. I found out during the work on an article that made a case against the Digg bans. I used some content of my […]

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Do you believe that? I was working on a longer article about the Digg.com bans, because ReveNews.com, a blogger News site with over 20 Bloggers was banned from digg.com because of one authors action. Multiple attempts were made to get the site unbanned without success.
I needed a screen shot that shows the message that the […]

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Less than a week after motsa’s announcement at the Resource Zone Forum for Dmoz Editors that the Abuse Form is available again (see SEJ coverage here), was another update posted by the Dmoz Directory Meta Admin with the nick name “photofox”.
I received the email notification Friday night and was curious what the news are. It […]

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Today on Digg.com, one of the top stories is a domain valuation tool run by DNScoop which valued YouTube at $969 Million and Digg.com at $106 Million.
Seems they are pretty close with YouTube, and Digg could be valued a bit more. I clicked over to their site and it’s down (the Digg Effect) but […]

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In a nice pickup for Microsoft, Weather.com has made the switch to Virtual Earth powered maps which feature interactive radar maps powered by Microsoft.

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Noticed how Yahoo has defaulted “link:” and “linkdomain:” queries to Site Explorer results (eg. link:http://www.umdum.com)?
Well, Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz has found out that Yahoo plans to soon be redirecting “domain:” and “hostname:” queries to Site Explorer too.
Barry says that the change is supposed to happen today. Good for Yahoo Site Explorer, they have an […]

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TechCrunch is reporting that Insider Pages, the consumer review and search site for local businesses, is being acquired by a major public company, but the company isnot commenting on who.
TechCrunch says that “Our understanding is that the acquisition price is more than the total capital raised by the company, but not by much.”
So, which […]

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I had the honor of being a panelist for the 2nd (now) Annual Yahoo! Searchlight Awards. Also on the panel were Brad Berens, iMedia Communications, Jon Fine, BusinessWeek and Brian Morrissey, Adweek.
The four finalists were:

Sprint-Talladega Nights, presented by NeoSearch
Special K, presented by Starcom
Lexus All-new LS Launch, presented by TeamOne
Chase Freedom, presented by Avenue A […]

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Jeremy Schoemaker, who has been creating a side hobby of revealing MyBlogLog bugs over the past month, has been ironically banned from MyBlogLog.
Jeremy posts on Shoemoney.com
Since last night every page I visit on their site results in a 403 (Forbidden) error code. I have asked others and nobody else seems to get the error but […]

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