Akamai has been around almost as long as the Internet itself, offering tracking and dynamic site solutions along with enterprise applications and streaming data. Celebrating Akamai’s 10th anniversary, the company has released its State of the Internet report which outlines security flaws and hacking, DNOS attacks, offline events which influenced the flow of the Internet […]
Entries from May 2008
Akamai Releases 1st State of the Internet Report
May 29th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
comScore Acquiring M:Metrics Mobile Analytics & Measurement
May 29th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
comScore, Inc. announced the at they are acquiring M:Metrics, Inc., a pioneer in mobile measurement. The acquisition, according to comScore, will will make the company the “immediate leader in measuring the emerging and strategically important mobile Internet market and adds to comScore’s leading position in measuring PC-based Internet usage.”
The sale of M:Metrics includes a […]
Tools for Tracking Where Your Site is Mentioned
May 29th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 9 Comments
If you do your homework well, you will soon see your readers and fans promote your content for you. Why is it so essential to always keep track of who promotes you and where you are promoted?
You are always able to be one of the first to come and comment the submission and by […]
Search Engine Journal’s Coverage of SMX Advanced
May 29th, 2008 by Eric Lander, Associate Editor | 2 Comments
Next week Rhea Drysdale will be joining me in Seattle to cover the next Search Marketing Expo Event, SMX Advanced. This marks the second year of SMX Advanced and we’re excited to have two writers available to cover the event.
In an effort to bring back the best information we’re inviting our readers to suggest […]
Belgian Group Seeking $77.2 Million in Damages from Google
May 28th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 4 Comments
The Belgian copyright defense group known as Copiepresse recently filed a court document, asking for up to 49 million Euros, or $77.25 million, in damages from Google. The issue at hand is Google’s reproduction of select extracts from Belgian newspapers.
This is not Google’s first tangle with Copiepresse. Last year, a Belgian court ruled that Google […]
Google to Open App Engine, Announce New Pricing Plans and API
May 28th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 1 Comment
In the Google I/O developer conference today, Google is set to announce that the door to its App Engine will now be open to developers. This would be a welcome development for the more than 150,000 developers who were wait listed for six months can now start using the platform now.
For those not in the […]
Yahoo’s Search Update : Less Reliance on Social?
May 28th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Yahoo Search has announced its latest index update on the Yahoo Search Blog :
We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days, but expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in […]
Insane SEO: Blocking Robots.txt from Being Indexed
May 28th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 4 Comments
An amusing thread was taking place over at WebmasterWorld discussing a way to prevent Google from ranking Robots.txt file in SERPs.
Google currently indexes 62,100 robots.txt files. Many of them have a decent PR while others have no backlinks at all (according to Yahoo Site Explorer at least):
Win a Free Pass to SMX Advanced with Twitter
May 28th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 32 Comments
SMX Advanced is right around the corner and if you are still thinking of attending the intimate search conference and learning everything you can from the masterminds of the search marketing industry; and have not yet registered, here’s your chance to win a free pass.
It’s easy and here’s how to do it :
1. If you […]
SEJ Blog Competition : John Carcutt and Richard Burckhardt Blog Off!
May 28th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
Yesterday we compiled and reviewed the stats from the Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging Competition and more or less came to a virtual tie between the two top posts, which were contributed by John Carcutt and Richard Burckhardt.
Richard’s 55 Quick SEO Tips Even Your Mother Would Love hit Delicious Popular, brought in 46 comments and […]
