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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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Yahoo.com Redirecting to UK.Yahoo.com for UK Users
Yahoo has started to automatically serve the local version of their Yahoo homepage to users from the UK (and perhaps other global destinations) in what...
Google Serving Vodka in Search Results Despite AdWords Ban on Liquor
Google AdWords has a rather tight rule banning the selling of hard liquor online, like vodka or whiskey, but does allow AdWords advertisers to run...
Powerset Launches : A New Dimension in Web Wikipedia Search
Powerset launches today to an overzealous amount of fanfare, as the mysterious new semantic search technology will open its doors for the first time to...
4 Ways to Hide Content From Google : And Google’s Reaction
Barry stumbled across a thread over at the Google Webmster Help Group and simplified all of the information from the thread in an easy to...
Yahoo Integrating Facebook Style Social Map & Unified Profile Pages Across Network
It’s about time! Yahoo is finally taking the social route in fully connecting its Yahoo Network users across multiple Yahoo platforms in a Facebook meets...
Compare Gas Prices Online With Search Engines
Filling up your car has escalated as gas prices are reaching the $3.50 a gallon average across the United States with little sign of gas...
Google AdWords and ASCII Art : 50% Increase in Click Thrus
When planning and implementing a Google AdWords campaign, copywriting is a key factor to establishing a high quality score, relevance and click thru. Not only...
Alexa Introduces New Ranking System : Beyond the Toolbar
Now being in the Alexa top 100,000 actually means something! For more or less 8 years (well 10 for one of them) there have been...
Best of the Web Adds DMOZ Editors to Directory Team
Best of the Web (BOTW.org) has pulled off an Internet web site classification coup de etat, hiring over 30 of the top DMOZ editors which...
Google Street View Sued for Trespassing and Privacy Invasion
The Google Street View project has the goal to photograph the streets of America and beyond, and the views from those streets, which sometimes results...
SponsoredReviews.com Offers Paid Blog Review Bid Filtering
Buying reviews on blogs has become a fairly legitimate practice in the online marketing mix, with companies like SponsoredReviews.com and ReviewMe offering blog review market...
Google Algorithm Exposed : SearchToons
The Google Algorithmic manner of ranking and serving relevant online and indexed documents to specific Google queries has been a mystery to many over the...
Google Goes Black in US and Abroad
Google Israel went black on Thursday to celebrate Earth Hour and today in the United States, Google has gone black here in a global effort...
Twitterfeed : Bringing RSS to Twitter for Every Blogger
I’d heard about this Twitter fad for a good year or so, but had never really gotten into it (or Twittered) until after the SMX...
Google Goes Black in Israel for the Day
Google in Israel has issued a black out for the day; not shutting down but serving a black screen with white letters instead of an...
Do Links From Foreign Language Sites Have Value?
Usually, we do not cover forum threads, but from time to time, one does pop up which gathers my attention and is blog worthy. Today...
Successful Networking Tips for LinkedIn and Facebook
This week was an interesting one at Search Engine Strategies New York as for the first time, I effectively used online networking tools to connect...
Gigablast Better than Google or Ask.com : According to Study
Gigablast, a personal favorite and privately owned and operated search engine, just released the findings of their search “taste test” where the majority of study...
Hakia Licensing its Ontological Semantics Search Technology : OntoSem
Hakia.com, the semantics oriented meaning-based search engine, is now licensing its Ontological Semantic technology; hakia OntoSem. hakia OntoSem is a modular, extensible, and adaptable toolset...
12 Search Engines Which Can Replace Ask.com
Ask.com was/is one of the most resourceful and innovative search engines on the market and has claimed a relatively significant chunk of online search market....
AOL Acquires Bebo for $850 Million
AOL has pulled off a major move in acquiring the social network Bebo for $850 million in cash from under the noses of Yahoo and...
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...
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...
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