Search Engine Journal

Search queries on Google and other search engines for informational terms dealing with “tech support”, “how to…” and “trouble shooting” have been constant and traffic driving queries for years and are ripe for the picking for those who can fully optimize for them.
Sites like eHow and WikiHow have been capitalizing on this space for some […]

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The hotly anticipated U.S. federal auction of mobile phone airwaves begins today, and some are speculating that Google - who famously announced their intentions to bid - may spend less than investors have anticipated and let the telecoms win after all. Why after all the hoopla would Google just let them at it without […]

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Datran Media (an online marketing firm specializing in email marketing) recently published the results of a survey which consists of 2,000 online marketers in December 2007 on the best performing medium for their online marketing efforts.

eMail marketing came ahead of search and display. There are some very interesting statistics in this survey that […]

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General search engines like Google are great, but sometimes a more specialized search engine will get the job done much better. That’s the idea behind a new search engine that launched on Wednesday - Roost, a real estate search engine.
Roost differs from many of the more established home buying sites in that they are […]

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Business is definitely good on YouTube land, as the web’s most popular video uploading site expands its coverage on mobile phones. The Associated Press is reporting  all video contents available on YouTube’s web portal will now also be available on mobile handsets. 
But here’s the catch, those mobile phones must belong to the “smart” phone categories […]

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Google Adwords introduces demographic bidding, a new Adwords feature which will help advertisers in displaying their ads to specific gender and age group within the Google content network. Demographic bidding will give advertisers more control in managing how their ads perform and their targeted audience.
Demographic bidding is will be available to advertisers who are running […]

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We haven’t seen Click to Call running in Google AdWords for a long time, but then received an email today from Mark Bufalini of DailyCandy.com who tipped us off that Google AdWords is indeed running Google Click to Call again.
Notice the saved phone number, the 0 infront of the number (please don’t call me) and […]

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Google Inc. and Publicis Groupe announced Wednesday that they are working together on using technology to improve advertising.  The two companies have already been collaborating in stealth mode for about a year, but are now hoping to extend that relationship into several areas, including a “talent exchange and training scheme.”
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Publicis […]

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SeeqPod, the MP3 search engine which lets users play music on the site, has come under target by the Warner Music legal team because it lets its users stream MP3 files which are hosted on other sites, which its bots index. Warner Music is suing, saying that it does not matter whether the illegal MP3 […]

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I wrote a story a couple of months back, “Domain Market Remains Hot: A Bubble Waiting To Burst?” Today, there was a comment from an SEJ reader from the story which asked, “It is now 7 months later… And I haven’t read much about domain valuation since Business.com.
I spent quite a bit on […]

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