GoDaddy Joins Google China Boycott : Stops Selling .CN Domains
Never one to back down from a chance to gain publicity, GoDaddy.com has announced that like Google, it too will be halting operations in China....
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Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and runs Foundation Digital, a digital marketing strategy & development agency.
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New SEJ Design : Goals, Speed & Feedback
Greetings SEJ readers! It’s a new year and time for a new design at Search Engine Journal. I know what many of you are thinking...
Interviewed on Russian Search Blog Shakin.ru
I really don’t interview that often, especially since things have been busy with the expansion of Search & Social, but wanted to share this really...
Covario Acquires NetConcepts
The San Diego based search marketing services and software firm, Covario, has acquired NetConcepts, the SEO agency which was founded by Stephen Spencer. Many in...
Google’s 2009 Acquisitions : Focus on Mobile & Collaboration
I was reading up on Google acquisitions yesterday and although Google’s acquisition this year is not as many as previous years, particularly 2006 and 2007,...
Google Logo Pays Tribute to the Barcode
Google continues experimenting with its logo by changing it to commemorate what it deems as significant events in history. Last week, Google logo paid homage...
Can Google Wave Change the Game?
By now around 100,000 beta testers are probably busy playing around with Google’s highly anticipated online communication and sharing venture Google Wave, which Google described...
Stretching the Vertical : Outside the Box Linking
Almost everyone has heard of writer’s block, but what about linking block? Almost every linkbuilder has been there. After 6 months of acquiring links for...
Google Chrome Invades Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google’s Chromium Blog has just announced the Chrome Frame, an open-source plug-in that enables Internet Explorer to run HTML5 and other advanced web technologies. Chrome...
BREAKING : Adobe Buys Omniture for $1.8 Billion
Adobe made a very bold move today, jumping head first into the web analytics and tracking market with its $1.8 Billion acquisition of Omniture, viewed...
Michael Jackson Birthday Celebrated by Google
Google has put out a special logo today to commemorate the late Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday. It’s a bit intriguing that Google has chosen to...
Matt Cutts Joins the SES San Jose SEO Site Clinic
Google’s Matt Cutts has made a surprise appearance here today in the SEO Site Clinic at SES San Jose 2009 along with Web Guerilla’s Greg...
Google City Tours Experiments with Travel Vertical
Google Labs is testing on an experimental service which could probably pave the way for Google’s entry into the tourism vertical. The feature, called City...
Google Joins Twitter in Iran Election Buzz : Adds Persian Farsi Translation
Given the global buzz and controversy over the Iranian protests after the questionable results of the Presidential election on Twitter, Facebook and other social media...
Google Opening Up Trademarked Keyword Bidding on June 4th
Google plans to open up trademarked keywords to AdWords advertisers in June according to Michael Orey of Business Week. Beginning June 4th, companies will be...
Twitter Search to Start Indexing Pages and Launch Reputation Algorithm
Some rather interesting changes are headed for Twitter search according to Cnet’s Rafe Needleman and Twitter’s new VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram. Jayaram, formerly the...
Google AdSense for Feeds Updates with Doubleclick.net Clickthrough
Google AdSense announced yesterday that along with the normal AdSense ads running on websites, AdSense for feeds now also runs using the googleads.g.doubleclick.net clickthough URL,...
WikiAlarm.com : Email Alerts When Wikipedia Page is Edited or Sabotaged
Want to keep tabs on when your (or a competitor’s) Wikipedia page’s accuracy is edited? WikiAlarm.com is a free new service to allow brands and...
Google Awarded Floating Data Center Patent
Google has been granted a US patent for its floating data center idea which the company originally filed with the patent office on February 26,...
Google Hires 200 Goats to Munch their Weeds
In kind of an offbeat story this weekend, Google announced on Friday that the company has contracted California Grazing, a goat herding company, in an...
KnowEm.com Launches : Check & Register Usernames on 100+ Social Media Sites
KnowEm.com (formerly CheckUserNames.com) launched a new web service today which monitors hundreds of social media sites for social media identity theft, helping brands to secure...
Google Maps Adds Over 9000 Webcams
Google Maps has added a ‘layer’ of over 9000 Webcams so users can get live footage of different areas where they may be driving, working...
Google Maps More Popular Than MapQuest
Google showed us a long time ago that it can dominate in search, but it’s taken a while for it to copy that dominance in...
Google Finance Now Running Google Display Ads
Google’s expansion of running AdSense style display ads across its own network has seen new ads within Google News, Google Image Search and other Google...
Microsoft Yahoo Meetings Signal Start of Intelligent Acquisition or Merger
Microsoft and Yahoo may be in talks again on some sort of advertising partnership, or babysteps to an inevitable acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, as...
Digg Launches New Digg Search Engine
Today Digg released a new version of their internal Digg search functionality which according to social media guru Brent Csutoras is “is a real improvement.”...
Google Expands One Line SiteLinks : Little Blue Links in SERPS
Over the weekend I noticed more and more Google search results with little blue links between the page descriptions and the target URL in Google...
AOL Names Google Exec Armstrong as CEO & Chairman
Can Google’s Senior Vice President and chief of ad sales turn AOL around and into the mega powerhouse that Time Warner has always dreamed the...
Matt Cutts vs Ted Murphy on Paid Blogging & Sponsored Conversations
In a followup to the Forrester report on paid blog advertising via sponsoring the conversation in blogposts, Google’s Matt Cutts has weighed in a bit...
Can You Make Money with AdSense for Domains?
Google AdSense for Domains lets domain name owners set up AdSense links on a parked domain which if it receives traffic, will serve relevant ads...
4 E-Commerce Digital Marketing Strategies For 2022
Forbes
January 11, 2022
If you manage e-commerce digital marketing campaigns, these strategies can save you time and help grow your traffic, sales and your bottom line. See More
Eight Ways Businesses Are Adopting Innovative Streaming During Social Distancing
Forbes
May 20, 2020
Streaming video technology is more important than ever. See More