Compete Acquired for $75 Million
Compete has been acquired by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres plc) for $75 million, adding the Compete analytics and web traffic tracking suite to its current...
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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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Matt Cutts Addresses Bad Linking and Google Penalties
Google’s Matt Cutts has responded to a Google Groups discussion on the Google -60 penalty, which sometimes can set a site back in Google 60...
Google Local Search Flaw : State Abbreviations & Misleading Results
When searching within Google for localized terms by state, such as “loren baker maryland” or “ben franklin pennsylvania”, Google will automatically return search results with...
Yahoo Blocking Bots from Spidering Delicious Bookmarks
Over the weekend, Yahoo’s Delicious (del.icio.us) social bookmarking property has been blocking spiders and bots from non-Yahoo search engines from crawling the site and identifying...
Protect Your Brand from URL Typo Squatters
I went to jump onto Techmeme.com this morning to get my fill of the Microsoft reshuffling news and instead of clicking over from my reader...
Bradley Horowitz Leaves Yahoo for Google
On the verge of a takeover and after laying off 1,000 employees yesterday, Yahoo does not seem to be a stable place to work anymore...
Google News Offers Local News : Enter Zip Code & Town Name
Google News is expanding its news sections beyond election coverage and recommended reading with a Local News area which serves targeted news stories based upon...
Track Super Tuesday Election Results on Yahoo News & Google Maps
If you’re like me, you’re pinned in front of the television right now watching the news channel of your choice as results from the Super...
Google Entering Paid Reviews Business? Via AdSense?!?
Shoemoney has published a tip coming from a secret source that Google is going to be offering paid reviews via their Google AdSense system and...
SeeqPod MP3 Search Engine Sued by Warner Music
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...
Redirects in AdWords Ads Bypass Banned Sites Filter in Google AdSense
Even if you block a domain in AdSense from being served on your site, there are still ways that publishers and Made For AdSense “spammers”...
Weather Channel Adds Weather to Google Maps
The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. has launched a new mapplet for Google Maps, which makes weather conditions available on the map with one click. Additionally,...
Ask.com Names New CEO Jim Safka, Replacing Jim Lanzone
IAC made an interesting move today, replacing one of the head figures responsible for taking Ask.com out of the search spammy shadow of Jeeves, and...
Search Engine Roundtable : Best SEO Blog of 2007
Another year, another blog voted Best SEO Blog by Search Engine Journal’s readers. In 2005, Matt Cutts took away the award. In 2006, SEOmoz. Search...
Search Blogs Award Voting : Quality vs. Quantity
In this year’s Search Engine Journal Search Blogs Awards, I took a different approach at the blog rating system, giving voters the option to rate...
Google Partners with DoCoMo : Japanese Search Market Prepares for iPhone
Google is making a push to expand its reach in the Yahoo owned Japanese market via targeting where the majority of Japanese users spend their...
Sam’s Club Search Marketing : Good or Bad for the Industry?
Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart owned mega store which is a godsend to small businesses looking to stock locally breaking dependency on wholesale distributors, is now...
Yahoo Launches Shortcuts Plugin For WordPress Blogs : Very Cool!
Yahoo worked on this Plugin with the help of WordPress, and being a lifelong WordPress user (SEJ first started on Blogger, then switched to b2;...
Google Granted Patent on Anchor Text Link Crawling
Google has recently been granted a patent by the US government which the company originally filed in 2003. The patent, writes Bill Slawski of SEO...
Google News Updates Algorithm to Reflect Local & Breaking News
Google News has been tweaking its algorithm to show more updated and fresh stories as well as identifying the local news media which would be...
Google Rankings Changing : Result of Paid Links?
Google search engine rankings seem to be undertaking an update or change over the past week as some sites and publishers are noticing a trend...
Yahoo & JetBlue Partner to Test Free Wi-Fi on Flights
Yahoo, RIM and JetBlue have partnered to offer free Wi-Fi connections aboard domestic US flights in a test which will begin Tuesday. The initial tests...
Google Watching Paid Review Blogs that Pass PageRank
If your blog openly posts paid reviews in an irrelevant, poorly written, not disclosing these as advertisements and using deliberate anchor text in the posts...
Does Image Search Traffic Convert?
Interesting thread on DigitalPoint this morning about the influx in traffic from images indexed in Google Images and other image search engines, and how they...
Yahoo Expands Newspaper Consortium With 17 Papers : Including New York Times
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...
Google Magazine : Print Your Own Publications
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...
10 Ways How to Earn Revenue Without Selling Links
Publishers who make their living from selling links on their sites had a warning shot delivered to them last month with the Google PageRank update...
Google AdWords Domain Ads Exclusion : But Think Before You Block
Google AdWords is running limited testing of a feature which lets its advertisers block domain parking sites which their AdWords ads will be served on;...
Google Rankings Influenced By Hosting, Domain Registrar and Geographic Location
One major fear around the web publisher community is that if you host too many sites on the same shared hosting account or server, Google...
LiveDeal to Serve Yelp Local Reviews
LiveDeal, Inc. has signed an agreement relationship with local review site Yelp.com to feature Yelp’s 1.8 million customer reviews on its online classifieds and yellow...
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