Search Engine Journal

Hey, look! After dropping to a Google Toolbar PageRank 4 earlier in the month when Google cracked down on paid links, Search Engine Journal has returned to a PageRank 7.
What do you know, seems that after adding a couple of tweaks to the linking structure and adding a couple of NoFollow’s, Google has returned […]

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On the same day that AOL introduced AOL Video Ticker Ads, Google AdSense is expanding their Video AdSense units to the UK, Ireland and Canada, in the safe beginnings of an International rollout which target other English speaking countries.
Following their success in the U.S., we’re rolling out video units over the next several days to […]

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Distributing articles for the purpose of building links to a site or for that site’s SEO can be a great way to link build and build your site’s authority status. But a good amount of SEO writers tend to take the easy way out of distributing their content, using only article distribution sites for […]

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The Yahoo Newspaper Consortium has expanded to include 16 regional newspapers owned by the New York Times as well as The Columbus Dispatch. The latest announcement totals the Newspaper Consortium at 415 daily papers and 140 weekly publications.
What is this Yahoo Newspaper Consortium you may ask and why is it important?
Basically Yahoo includes news content […]

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Google is getting closer and closer to offering a full blown operating system (if it hasn’t already) with its suite of desktop and office services, the Google bundling in the gPC (maybe Google PC) and Google’s Android Open Handset Alliance for mobile phone OS.
Even if there is not an official Google OS, the pairing […]

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A recent Google patent filing shows that the company may be developing a service which lets its users create their own print publications made of selected online content and monetized by targeted advertisements based on that user and content profile.
Dave HuoMah has a very in depth overview:
The system revolves around document processing, and, more interestingly, […]

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AOL introduces a new online video advertising solution that serves graphic banner ads integrated within streaming video contents in AOL network. Similar to Google’s video ad units and other video advertising program, AOL’s video ticker which was developed with PointRoll’s Tickerboy technology, will not obstruct users when viewing video contents.
The video ticker will […]

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Earlier this week, Google Blogscoped reported the change on clickable areas on Adsense units, and it is only now that the Google Adsense Blog posted an official explanation about the changes.
Whereas in the past, the whole Adsense block units including the white spaces are clickable areas, Adsense has changed it to make only the ad […]

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A study conducted by some Penn State University researchers revealed that webmasters who use robot.txt files to determine which part of their sites are open or close to web crawlers,  favors Google’s spiders and bots over other search engines. Using a new search engine which the researchers themselves have created specifically for the study, it […]

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Microsoft has finally released its much touted Live Search Webmaster Central to public beta. It’s been a long journey for Microsoft’s answer to Google’s Webmaster Central but sadly, despite the preparation and the hype Live Search’s Webmaster Central didn’t quite match up to Google’s. I would have to agree with Search Engine RoundTable that […]

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