Google ReBang : Chinese Language Zeitgeist
Yesterday Philipp Lenssen found that Google has added “/rebang” to their robots.txt file. Usually when Google is going to launch a new service or channel,...
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SEO Clinic : Submit Your Site for SEO Advice
SEO Clinic is a new project we are now offering on Search Engine Journal for webmasters and site owners which are not experiencing their desired...
WikiAnswers : The Wikipedia of Q&A Sites
Answers.com has completed the first stage of integrating content into WikiAnswers, a Wiki Q&A service. The content on WikiAnswers is an ongoing collaboration of shared...
Microsoft Making a Smarter Blogroll
Microsoft is working on the Smart Blogroll, a way for bloggers and blog readers to learn more about the information and topics discussed on blogs....
Social Media Linking & Email Spam Requests
Being a website publisher, I receive my share of mass emails asking to join linking networks or trade sitewide links with other sites. Generally, as...
Why won’t Matt Cutts link to me?
Do you suffer from no-links angst too? Aaron Pratt of SEO Buzz Box writes about “circular linking patterns” and how A-list bloggers form their own...
Boost Your Yahoo Ads Quality Score
Barry Schwartz points to a WebmasterWorld thread where a Yahoo Search Marketing representative, YahooSarah, posts an explanation of Yahoo’s new Quality Index Score system. Basically,...
iCrossing Acquiring UK Based Spannerworks
iCrossing announced today that they will be acquiring Spannerworks, a UK based search engine marketing firm, for $18 million. Spannerworks is a 10 year old...
Google Maps Stickers in Business Windows
Over at Search Engine Land, Greg Sterling posted about a Google Maps sticker which was spotted at a London restaurant: Smart! The technique is usually...
Yahoo’s Overture Keyword Selector Tool Working Again
After experiencing a lot of downtime last week, Yahoo Search Marketing’s Overture Keyword Selector tool is up and running again. Search engine marketers and search...
Digg Payola Backfires for Social Media Spammer
Muhammad Saleem, the new addition to the Pronet Advertising blog, today made a post exposing how the owner of a site named BringPopcorn.com tried to...
Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog Interviewed by Lee Odden
Lee Odden of TopRank has interviewed MyBlogLog’s CEO Scott Rafer about the success of MyBlogLog and how it feels to be the newest delivery to...
Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestion Tool
Now that Yahoo Search Marketing’s Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool is on the fritz and there are really no signs of it coming back to life...
Google Q4 Revenues Exceed Expectations, Up 16% over Q3 2006
Google’s 2006 Q4 earnings beat Wall Street expectations when they announed today that revenues were up 67% over Q4 2005 and 16% more than last...
Yahoo Says Overture Keyword Tool Not Dead Yet
There have been reports around the Internet today about Yahoo Search Marketing canceling the Overture Keyword Selector Tool, which has been a staple of Keyword...
Serph : Social Media Meta Search Engine & Tracking Service
Cameron Olthuis announced this morning that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will let users find what “other people...
Matt Cutts vs. V7N Links : Matt Wins
Over the past day some jabs and nudges were traded back and forth (all in good fun I believe) between Matt Cutts and John Scott...
NOFOLLOW Wikipedia to PageRank Zero Campaign
For those of you who missed the big news Sunday & Monday, all outbound Wikipedia links are using a NOFOLLOW tag, which basically means they...
V7N Contextual Links : Link Buying Service for SEO & Bloggers
V7N announced last week that they have launched a new link buying service which could be seen as a hybrid of Text Link Ads and...
SOAP API : Alternative to Google Search API
Google is not offering feeds to their search results (besides Google Custom Search) and new API keys are no longer available, what’s a web publisher...
Megite : Interview with Matthew Chen of Megite.com
Today I had the chance to speak with Matthew Chen, the co-founder of Megite, which is a real time news aggregation service. You’re probably familiar...
SponsoredReviews.com Joining Paid Review Services
Another paid blogging review service is popping up soon to join ReviewMe and PayPerPost; SponsoredReviews.com. The service is being launched by Text Link Brokers (no,...
Google AdWords & Domain Parking : Garbage Paid Search?
Richard Ball emailed today to fill us in on the current issues he’s having with a large amount of Google AdWords Paid Search (not contextual)...
YouTube More Popular Than MySpace.com?
Found via Digg, Smaran Dayal looks at an Alexa comparison of YouTube and MySpace over the past six months which shows that although MySpace shows...
Yahoo oneSearch Launches to Redefine Mobile Web Search
Yahoo has launched a new mobile search service dubbed Yahoo oneSearch which Yahoo says takes a different tack towards the displaying of search results on...
WordPress Blog Hosting : Recommendations?
I’m currently looking into a new hosting package for Search Engine Journal and reviewing the recommended WordPress hosting companies as provided by WordPress. Their top...
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Interviewed on BBC Radio
For those of you who are looking to keep up on the excited world of user generated content, social news, search and Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales,...
Yahoo Local Quick Editing for Business Listings
Yahoo Local has announced a new easy service for businesses, or customers of those businesses, which want to edit or add to their Yahoo Local...
Matt Cutts : Best Search Blogger of 2006
This year’s Best Search Blogger is now a three time recipient of a Search Engine Journal Search Blog Award as his blog won Best SEO...
How Big is Google’s Index?
Since Google has stopped exposing the size of their indexed web documents on their homepage, it seems that different web users have been performing searches...
4 E-Commerce Digital Marketing Strategies For 2022
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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
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May 20, 2020
Streaming video technology is more important than ever. See More