LinkedIn Launches DirectAds : Targeted Advertising
LinkedIn is putting together a smarter way to monetize itself with the launch of LinkedIn DirectAds (currently under limited testing), which lets advertisers target ads...
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John Carcutt Wins $10,000 SEJ Contest : Donates Prize to Orphanage
The results of the $10,000 Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging competition are finally in after the great SEJ Blog Off between John Carcutt and Richard...
Twellow.com : Directory of Twitter Users
Twellow is a new Twitter Directory which has been launched by the folks at iEntry/WebProNews and looks like it will be quite a piece of...
Google Sued for $1 Billion in Software Stealing Dispute
Google is the target of a one billion dollar lawsuit by LimitNone, a software company which claims Google has taken trade secrets from the company...
Google Has the Best Reputation Amongst American Consumers
Google has topped the Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient which asks US consumers to first identify the 60 most visible companies and then to rank these...
Link Building Steps : Clean Up Your Own Backyard
In preparation for a presentation this week on the importance of link building and steps to an efficient and effective link building strategy, I am...
Yahoo Loses Top Social Media Brains : The Day the Music Died
Another critical piece of the Yahoo machine has left the garage, as Joshua Schachter, who Yahoo brought in when they acquired Del.icio.us back in 2005,...
Yahoo Adds New Email Domains : YMail.com & Rocketmail.com
In an effort to boost its webmail usage or delay the exodus of free mail users from Yahoo to Google GMail, Yahoo has introduced the...
High Oil & Gas Prices Could Boost Internet Says Google
Putting a very thin silver lining on the dark cloud of petroleum dependency, Google’s Vint Cerf (who is commonly referred to as the father of...
Hakia Launches Syndication Web Services : Semantic Search for Third Party Publishers
hakia, the semantic search engine, has launched its Syndication Web Services for publsihers and businesses looking to offer semantic search to their visitors. hakia’s Syndication...
Local.com Adds Business Reviews and Ratings
A long time aggregator of information provided by third parties, the perfectly named local search engine; Local.com, has launched their own proprietary local consumer ratings...
Google StreetView Invaded My Private Property!
A couple of weeks ago Search Engine Journal covered the controversy behind Google StreetView and their Google Armada trespassing on private property and filming homes...
Yahoo & Google Partnership Includes Instant Messenger : Possible Social Networking?
“In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.” This sentence was...
Indeed Job Search Launching Job Analytics for Employers
The verticalization of search has made its way into the analytics market, as Indeed.com, the search engine for jobs, has announced the launching of Indeed...
I Love Search Engine Journal! Send Your Photos
Do you love Search Engine Journal? One of our lovely and loyal readers, a staff member of Dr. Michael Dorausch (who we sent to SMX...
Yahoo & Google Big Announcement This Afternoon : Search Partnership?
Yahoo and Google are planning a massive announcement this afternoon on the same day that Yahoo has announced that they are no longer entertaining offers...
Kayak.com Travel Search Adds Display Ads to Targeted Ad Network
Travel search engine Kayak.com has launched a display advertising platform optimized for the travel industry. The new ad platform is based upon technology developed by...
Hakia Semantic Search Adds Pubmed Content to Medical & Health Search Engine
Semantic search engine Hakia has intensified its health and medical search coverage by adding more than 10 million abstracts from PubMed, a medical database maintained...
SEO for WordPress by Joost de Valk
When I think of WordPress blogs and SEO, I generally think of a handful of experts on the subject of WordPress and SEO oriented plugins;...
360 Enterprises Acquires HybridSEM : Joe Whyte is Movin On Up
360 Enterprises Inc, which is the parent company of TextLinkBrokers.com and SponsoredReviews.com, has acquired HybridSEM.com, an SEO and social media firm headed by Joe Whyte,...
Yahoo Directory Lost Its PageRank : Penalty or Not?
Yahoo Directory pages have lost their Google PageRank (Google Toolbar PageRank that is) and are now showing a greyed out PageRank box. Example, the Yahoo...
Steve Ballmer Talks Microsoft & Yahoo with WashingtonPost
Steve Ballmer stopped in the WashingtonPost offices for hat seems to be a breakfast sitdown with their editors to discuss Microsoft, Search, the Internet, Media,...
Yahoo SearchMonkey Gallery Opens to Public
Yahoo Search has finally gotten the monkey off of its back, the SearchMonkey that is, as the Yahoo SearchMonkey Gallery and Yahoo Search Customization has...
Google Finance Now Joins Yahoo Finance with Real Time Stock Quotes
Google Finance has updated its stock quote information with real time stock quotes from NASDAQ and some other global stock exchanges (stock quote disclaimer from...
Google’s Better Definition of a Doorway Page
Google updated their definition of ‘What is a Doorway Page’ last week (yeah, I know it’s been covered but Matt bought it up in his...
Microsoft Search Powered 404 Error Pages : Good Idea or Not?
Microsoft wants to help publishers give their users a better web surfing experience by helping publishers replace the default 404 error page with relevant Microsoft...
Wikia Search Adds New Index and Updates Social Features
Today Wikia Search (or referred to as Search Wikia, depending if you’re reading their logo or title), the search engine based on the idealism of...
Search Engine Journal $10K Blog-Off : Carcutt vs. Burckhardt
The tie breaking Blog-Off to name the champion of the Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging Competition has begun, with an entry from John “the Hammer”...
Google Maps Trespassing Again : Town Bans StreetView
I live in a private community. At every entrance of the community there is a sign which reads ‘No Trespassing. No Soliciting. Private Community, Residents...
Will Google Save Twitter?
Twitter developer Alex Payne made a fairly transparent post about how Twitter is working to fix its performance issues and ongoing development work. If you...
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