Search Engine Journal

The Google Custom Search team sent out an email this week reminding/announcing users that they now offer a business edition of Google Custom Search which does not serve advertising and total customization. Google Custom Search lets users build their own search engines based upon a custom search index, and others socially contribute to those search […]

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Funny how trends seem to follow themselves in the search world as Google and Yahoo backlink tracking services provided by Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer both experienced problems over the last couple of days and now both seem to be working again.
Yahoo Site Explorer and its backlink search command “link:http://www.yoursite.com” did not completely […]

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In July I wrote a piece about UK search marketers having the upper hand on U.S. search marketers because of the value of the pound compared to the dollar. Well guess what? It’s getting worse.
If you’re an affiliate marketer, strap on to your seat belts because this can cause some changes in your […]

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Here’s another round of statistical analysis on the search market for August. Hitwise just released the US search market data for August. The Hitwise numbers showed Google getting 63.98 percent of all US searches for August. Yahoo Search , MSN Search and Ask.com accounted for 34.26 per cent of the all the US searches while […]

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Oh Digg, how we miss you so!
Just as Netscape decided to switch to Propeller and TechCrunch40 winded down, Digg decided to add a bunch of new social features to its interface and user profiles, including the ability to shout to your friends, networking, yet making it difficult to Digg your friends’ stories.
Tamar Weinberg, my […]

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Ben Yoskovitz of the Instigator Blog made a guest post over a CopyBlogger about the 5 types of links webmasters should be using properly, besides the click here and SEO anchor text links.
What are they?

Sales Links: Sales links are used when driving people to buy something or go down a specific path.
Really Helpful Resource […]

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Kevin Gibbons at SEOOptimise noticed that Alexa is not counting traffic from September 17th in its Daily Reach or traffic reports, and a simple Alexa search for the major search companies now shows that they all dropped to ZERO on Monday.

No Kevin, I do not believe the search engines experienced no traffic on the 17th, […]

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Digg rolled out a new feature for its user profiles which is clinging towards transforming the social news site into a social networking site. Think of it as Pownce with user-submitted news feed minus the cool green background.
There are many things that Digg users can do with the new user profiles. They can add […]

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The equally titled panel discussion at Search Engine Strategies San Jose in August moderated by Jeffrey K. Rohrs, with Shari Thurow, Kristopher Jones, Kathleen Fealy, Jennifer Laycock and Jonathan Hochman as speakers, was very emotional. I would say that it was even more filled with emotions than the “hot” panel discussion “Are Paid Links Evil?” […]

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AOL’s Netscape social news Digg-clone has made the switch from Netscape.com to the new branding of Propeller.com. We had reported on the planned change last week, and the launching of Propeller.com has taken place.
The old Netscape.com URL now points to a traditional news portal at netscape.aol.com and users actually have to type in ‘Propeller.com’ in […]

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