The Live Search blog has announced the xRank Celebrity, which according to the post is a ranking of all celebrity related searches done on the Live Search portal. Yes dear readers, its a celebrity search zeitgeist, complete with links to images, video, biography, albums and movies of top ranking celebrities based on searches conducted using […]
Entries from April 2008
Windows Live Search intros Celebrity Search Zeitgeist
April 24th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | No Comments
Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles to Brazillian Authorities
April 24th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 1 Comment
On Wednesday, Google turned over approximately 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission charged with looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted in restricted-access photo albums on Google’s Orkut social networking site. In turning over the data on suspected pedophiles, Google gave into the pressure to lift their confidentiality duty to its […]
SEJ Guest Blogging : Review the Guest Marketing Posts
April 24th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
I’m sure that readers have noticed a good amount of new names and faces popping up in their Google Reader and RSS aggregators. Search Engine Journal is currently in the midst of running a guest blogging competition where we are offering the winner different prizes from Search Engine Journal Sponsors adding up to over $10,000 […]
Four Surefire Ways to Write Magnetic Web Content
April 24th, 2008 by Sarah Austin | 11 Comments
Hands down, content is the most important part of your web site because it’s why visitors stay on your site. They may come to see a great design, watch a new video, or research an idea, but they stay when your content is magnetic. Magnetic content, though, can be difficult to write even if you’re […]
Viral Marketing : the Real Deal, or Just a Pipedream?
April 24th, 2008 by Roderick Ioerger | 4 Comments
Individuals new to online marketing are constantly asking me the same question. What are the best low risk, high reward, homerun style marketing techniques? The type of online marketing that will inundate their web properties with incremental traffic and increased revenues. Yet these very same marketers seem to have an almost unhealthy phobic fear of […]
Ghostblog It! Hire a Writer Who Pretends to be You - But Better
April 24th, 2008 by Malcolm Sheppard | 2 Comments
Most blogs are like whale carcasses. They drift ashore from parts unknown, look like they’ve been dead for weeks, and they stink. Man, do they ever stink. That’s because intelligence and business savvy don’t necessarily indicate writing ability. There’s no shame in that, either. Expecting a blog to turn a manager into a writer is […]
To Slash or Not to Slash. That’s A Server Header Question.
April 24th, 2008 by Richard Burckhardt | 2 Comments
Uh, not that kind of slashing!
Let’s say you are setting up your keyword rich links to point to a subdirectory. Should the link point http://www.somedomain.com/subdirectory or http://www.somedomain.com/subdirectory/ ?
Most new SEOs won’t know the difference, thinking that if it gets the visitor there, it works, right?
There is a problem with this thinking. Let me introduce you […]
Q&A With Nathan Enns, CEO at FyberSearch
April 24th, 2008 by Arun Radhakrishnan | No Comments
Nathan Enns started working on FyberSearch at the age of 19. Having developed the engine from scratch, Nathan has been following the search space for quite some time, at the same time adding more features to FyberSearch.
Here are a few questions that Nathan took the time to answer for SEJ.
1. How is your advertising technology, […]
Google Rolls Out Mobile Image Ads
April 23rd, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 1 Comment
Google just launched mobile image ads which works like your typical Google image ads but small enough to fit on a mobile phone’s screen.
The Google mobile ads team says that this new ads could very well serve as a branding tool for advertisers and are said to have good CTRs. Likewise, advertisers could also […]
55 Quick SEO Tips Even Your Mother Would Love
April 23rd, 2008 by Richard Burckhardt | 65 Comments
Everyone loves a good tip, right? Here are 55 quick tips for search engine optimization that even your mother could use to get cooking. Well, not my mother, but you get my point. Most folks with some web design and beginner SEO knowledge should be able to take these to the bank without any problem. […]
