The Yahoo Publisher Network may be testing the blocking of YPN contextual advertisements from serving in certain countries according to the accounts of some webmasters who are running YPN on their sites.
In what may be an attempt to curb International click fraud and spillover of intended US audience only advertisements, reports have come in from […]
Entries from March 2007
Yahoo Publisher Network Blocking Ads to International Visitors?
March 31st, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
Reddit Adding Interactive Advertising & Ad Voting
March 30th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 10 Comments
Steve from Reddit announced Wednesday on the Reddit Blog that Wired & Reddit will be adding advertising to the Reddit interface.
Part of the reason reddit was acquired was so that eventually it could be used to sell advertising….We’ve always held that content is our #1 priority, and that isn’t changing. Towards that end, we’ve specifically […]
Google Apps Customers Not Happy With Downtime
March 30th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Paying customers of the Google Apps suite are starting to question the company’s ability to offer guaranteed services, like basic uptime.
Google seems to have problems keeping its uptime pledge to some paying customers of its Google Apps suite of hosted services according to PC World.
Little over a month after introducing Google Apps’ Premier version, […]
Nokia Developing Semantic Visual Search Engine for Mobile Devices
March 30th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
According to a patent filing, Nokia is working to develop a Semantic Visual Search Engine to organize the multimedia content on mobile phones. The technology will enable “a system to learn, categorize and search items such as images and video clips according to their semantic meanings.”
Once complete, the cell phone will contain software capable of […]
NoFollow Hurting Google Rankings?
March 30th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 15 Comments
Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable calls attention to a WebmasterWorld thread in which a web publisher used the NoFollow attribute to link to some of their internal pages such as privacy policy, contact us, user agreement and terms of service; then, their ranking in Google dropped.
Here is my opinion on using the NoFollow for […]
Google & Yahoo Ranking Look at Domains Rather Than Individual Pages
March 30th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
Google AdWords Quality Score may be giving more critical evaluation to campaigns which are consolidated to one domain.
If that domain has had issues in the past with Google results, unethical SEO, cloaking, or other techniques which may cast it as being a negative in the eyes of Google, hosting the landing pages on such a […]
In-house Spotlight: Yahoo’s Director of Search Engine Marketing
March 29th, 2007 by Jessica Bowman | 4 Comments
Welcome to Search Engine Journal’s new column, In-house SEM, which features an in-house search marketer each week. For the kickoff, I spoke with Yahoo!’s Director of Search Engine Marketing, Dave Roth, to understand how search marketing is handled at Yahoo!.
There are different types of in-house roles, and Dave’s role is that of very high-level […]
Search Engine Smackdown : Great Game & Linkbait
March 29th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Neil Patel and the boys at Pronet Advertising have developed one heck of a fun game with Search Engine Smackdown.
Think of Search Engine Smackdown as a mix between Tekken and Celebrity Death Match where you can be the Google founders (Larry & Sergey), Yahoo founders (Jerry & David), or Microsoft founders (Bill & Paul) and […]
Microsoft Live Search Working on Fixing Advanced Queries : link:, linkdomain: and inurl:
March 29th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
On the Live Search Weblog, Eytan Seidman addresed the problems Live Search is facing with advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:.
For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may have noticed that this […]
Serph Social Media Search Engine Out of Beta, Open to Public
March 29th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Serph, the reputation tracking search engine which scours results from various social media sites has come out of private beta testing and is now open to the public.
Serph tracks sites including various Blogs, Flickr, Delicious, Digg, Technorati, Bloglines, YouTube, Google Blog Search, Sphere, Ma.gnolia, Podzinger, Newsvine, Feedster, and Topix.net all into one easy to manage […]
