There’s an old golden rule in terms of choosing a career or venture which still applies today, even to blogging; love your work. Being passionate about our jobs, entrepreneurial endeavours, or daily routine can make the difference between success or failure. From a personal standpoint, I’m passionate about growing this blog and covering the search [...]

Yahoo Search Marketing is serving what seem to be some experimental ads throughout the Yahoo Network which use Flash animation to rotate the contextual advertisements which are being served. I first realized this when doing some research within Yahoo Sports and found it surprising that Yahoo Search Marketing was serving a skyscraper ad with links [...]

As the world of Web 2.0 has brought many new components to the user, aside from social communities which keep emerging and showing growth, the world of the WIKI is starting to make noise. According to Wikipedia, the WIKI means, “A wiki (sometimes wiki wiki) is a web application designed to allow multiple authors to [...]

What happens when search engine spiders get lost? They cannot figure out what way to go on your site. They sometimes get confused or other sites are sending them to another way to get to the same page on your site. domain.com www.domain.com domain.com/index.html www.domain.com/index.html https://domain.com/index.html https://domain.com Some servers use mod_dir which causes additional issues [...]

Dynamic Software has added support for MSN adCenter as part of their overall bid management system, BidMaximizer 4.0. According to Al Costanzo of Dynamic Software, BidMaximizer 4.0 will be “the only commercial bid management tool that will support all three PPC engines, including Google Adwords, Yahoo Panama and MSN adCenter.” Costanzo says that developing BidMaximizer [...]

Excellent observation by Michael Gray that when performing a search for JetBlue on Google’s Image Search, three or four images are served of the crash landing of a JetBlue plane, including the second image on the page. Results on Google Video Search are also full of JetBlue emergency landing footage.

StumbleUpon has released a very cool StumbleUpon Facebook app which brings Facebook & StumbleUpon profiles together. By installing the application into your Facebook profile, sites which have received a Thumbs Up by you and others on StumbleUpon will be featured on Facebook profiles.