Ask.com & Google Sign $3.5 Billion Search Advertising Deal
Remember weeks ago when Wall Street Analysts felt that Ask.com was not as important to Google as it once was in terms of a sponsored...
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Microsoft’s Gatineau Web Analytics Now in Beta Testing for adCenter Advertisers
With all of the announcements of adCenter upgrades, enhancements to their search engine, local maps search changes, buying equity in a major social network and...
PageRank Dropped And You Don’t Sell Links? Try Requesting Reconsideration from Google
If you’ve noticed that the lastest Google PageRank update has distilled your site’s PageRank (Toolbar PageRank that is) because Google believes that you are selling...
Matt Cutts Confirms Paid Links & Google PageRank Update
Matt Cutts emailed Search Engine Journal last night to let us know that in fact, the partial Google ‘Toolbar’ PageRank update which happened last week...
Microsoft Secures Facebook Advertising Deal : Takes $240 Million Equity Stake in Facebook
This just in, Microsoft has beat out Google and Yahoo, securing a deal with Facebook wherein Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in...
Make Google AdSense Changes Without Replacing Code
It’s about time Google AdSense addressed the usability issues within its current system where webmasters are forced to make changes within the Google AdSense interface...
SEO Question : Do WhoIs Privacy Services Harm SEO?
This morning I was sifting through a post from the Redfly Marketing blog of Dave Davis entitled : The 5 Easiest Ways To Get Search...
Wikipedia Spam Resulting in Google & Yahoo Penalties
Even though Wikipedia uses a NoFollow attribute on their external links, if you spam Wikipedia results, your site can end up in a penalty in...
YouTube Launches Chinese Language Sites for Taiwan & Hong Kong
Google has launched a new Chinese language version of YouTube for the Taiwanese market, YouTube.com.tw YouTube this week launched a Chinese language site for Hong...
Google Health Coming in Spring 2008
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s Marissa Mayer said that users should expect the Google Health project to launch in Spring...
Superpages.com Adds Video Ads for All National Markets
Superpages.com rolled out its Superpages Video ad product to a national audience today, following a beta trial in select markets. Superpages Video advertising allows local...
Google’s Matt Cutts on Appropriate Use of NoFollow
This week in the Google Webmaster Help Google Groups thread, Matt Cutts made a “Popular Pick” post on the Appropriate Use of the NoFollow attribute...
Ask.com’s Next Advertising Partner : Google, Yahoo or Microsoft?
CNNMoney (via Investors Business Daily) looks at the partnership between Google AdWords and Ask.com, where Google sponsored links are served as filler for Ask.com Sponsored...
$100 SponsoredReviews.com Coupon : Exclusive for Search Engine Journal Readers
This is an exclusive offer for Search Engine Journal readers! I just got done speaking with SponsoredReviews.com’s CEO Jarrod Hunt and convinced him to issue...
Yahoo’s Showcased Homepage Content Driving Search Results
Yahoo is showcasing their new Yahoo Search Shortcuts and search results via links in the content boxes on the Yahoo Homepage. The links look like...
Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration
Yahoo Search, over the past 5 years or so, has been trying hard to step out of Google’s shadow, a shadow that Yahoo cast upon...
Ask.com and IAC’s iWon Rebrands : Less Search, More Games
iWon, which was first launched by CBS as a search engine which incentives users to search and click on ads with the result of winning...
Discussion with Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Research at Yahoo
The Hindu Business Line has an interesting discussion on search, user intent, micro-economics of search and user generated meta data with Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Head...
TNX.net Link Advertising Network
TNX.net dubs itself as a hybrid of contextual advertising and text link advertising, letting publishers serve an advertising code which is viewed as a natural...
10 Steps AOL Should Take to Reinvent the Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
Lately AOL has been taking some intriguing steps in their relationship building with the website publishing and marketing world. This week, AOL’s controversial Netscape Open...
Google Custom Search Offers Business Edition
The Google Custom Search team sent out an email this week reminding/announcing users that they now offer a business edition of Google Custom Search which...
The 5 Essential Types of Site Links
Ben Yoskovitz of the Instigator Blog made a guest post over a CopyBlogger about the 5 types of links webmasters should be using properly, besides...
Yahoo Acquires Zimbra Open Source Email & Collaborative Software for $350 Million
Yahoo has announced the acquisition of Zimbra, which is an open source Ajax based email, calendar and contact management software which can be used both...
Yahoo Acquiring BuzzTracker News Aggregator for $5 Million
Michael Arrington is reporting that Yahoo has acquired BuzzTracker, a small news aggregation site which I have always considered more of a news scraping site,...
Wordze Keyword Research Tool
Wordze, dubbed the King of Keywords, is a keyword research and search volume tool suite which allows its users to dig deep into identifying keywords...
Idearc Buys LocalSearch.com for $3.3 Million
Is it my imagination or is there a massive local search land grab in action between companies like Idearch, Marchex, Dex and Local.com? Idearc Media...
Netscape Social News Rebranding to Propeller.com
Last week Netscape & AOL announced that they would be reverting the Netscape.com site to its old news portal self and away from the Calacanis...
Google Loves Transparent Links & Hit Counter Spam
Searching Google for to monitor the top ranked sites for high dollar key terms is a long time habit of mine, and a useful way...
Google Fueling Technorati Blog Spamming : Wanda Nara Example
Today I was reading a post on BlackHatSEODiary about the continuous blog spamming of Technorati based upon the public publishing of their top searches. The...
Social Media’s Direct Influence on Search Engine Ranking
Social media marketing is becoming more of an accepted part of the online marketing mix because of its ability to drive website traffic and inbound...
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