Search Engine Journal

That’s right. You should never use American Express for your payment method for Google AdWords. While American Express (AMEX) is widely accepted as the credit card for businesses, it may be a bit overzealous at protecting card members from actively marketing online — specifically with Google. While I certainly respect AMEX for being zealous to […]

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Dude, where’s my PageRank?
This morning, around 1 am, I was finishing up a document and clicked over to Search Engine Journal to see if any comments were made on some of my favorite posts. Looking at the Google Toolbar, I saw the PageRank bar read a PageRank 6. After refreshing a couple of times […]

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There is tons of useful information available on the internet about how to do this or that to promote your business, products or services on-line. Most of that information tell or suggest to you what you should do. This is helpful information and very valuable, but sometimes is the information what you should not do […]

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Has social networking damaged your social life? A strange question to ponder don’t you think? Your sitting there thinking to yourself what is this guy on, thats impossible. But is it impossible, is it so difficult to imagine that social networking in one way or another has had some negative impact on your […]

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Seems like there’s  no stopping Microsoft Live Search from improving on its search features. After last week’s announcement on the final round of improvements on its Live Search,  the Live Search blog announces two new features of Live Search that is definitely very useful. These new features are AutoSpell  Correction and  Stemming.
The AutoSpell  Correction is […]

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The Podcasting & New Media Expo and SMX Social Media just past and the next conference for bloggers and podcasters is just on the horizon, the BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, NV.
Podcasting - once reserved for technical types or those with the financial backing to hire a podcasting specialist - has become […]

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Google and NielsenMedia are set to announce a multi-year agreement which will give Google access to NielsenMedia’s TV demographics data. Google will be using these data to enhance its TV advertising program. 
According to this AP report, Google will be paying NielsenMedia an undisclosed amount in exchange for information gathered by NielsenMedia about TV viewers such […]

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It’s about time Google AdSense addressed the usability issues within its current system where webmasters are forced to make changes within the Google AdSense interface then manually replace AdSense code on their sites.
New changes at Google AdSense will let publisher ad unit color and channel settings for new AdSense for content ad units be […]

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This morning I was sifting through a post from the Redfly Marketing blog of Dave Davis entitled : The 5 Easiest Ways To Get Search Engines To Trust You.
Number 5 caught my interest:
Don’t hide behind domain privacy services if you don’t have a legitimate need to.
There is evidence that search engines can see right […]

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Google AdWords is working to better communicate their Quality Score with advertisers via a new service which breaks down, in some detail, the Quality Score of keywords used in a Google AdWords campaign and the impact this score will have on the visibility of the advertisement (Inside AdWords blog).
Google will issue recommendations for improving the […]

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