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MobilePeople Partners with Sesam, Norway’s Top Mobile Search Engine
mobilePeople, a local mobile search and advertising solution which provides sponsored links and banner ads to mobile publishers, has partnered with Norway’s top mobile search...
AOL Buys Goowy Media Desktop & Widget Company
Buried in the Yahoo – Microsoft – Google fight over who’s going to control Yahoo, its search engine and Yahoo Mail & Messenger tools which...
Google Yahoo Alliance May Thwart Microsoft Takeover Attempt
Over the weekend Google became more involved in undermining a hostile buyout of Yahoo, Google’s largest search competitor, by Microsoft, Google’s largest tech competitor, by...
What Will Microsoft Yahoo Merger Mean for SEO?
This morning, Microsoft announced their open plans to acquire Yahoo, offering $45 Billion for the Internet communications, publishing and search company. Yahoo responded, saying that...
The New Yahoo : Smartly Optimized for a Microsoft Takeover
Microsoft plans to buy Yahoo for $45 Billion, but not the old unfocused Semel version of Yahoo. Nope, Microsoft is buying the Yang version of...
Yahoo Opens to OpenID Beta Testing
Yahoo announced earlier in the month that they were joining the OpenID movement, where users can log into various membership driven Internet properties using one...
Click Fraud Up 15% in 2007 Says Click Forensics
Click fraud is substantially increasing along with search marketing spends according to a study released by Click Forensics today which looks at paid search click...
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...
SearchGuild.com Sells for only $8,655 at SEDO : 30 Cents per Link!
Aaron Wall noticed that SearchGuild.com, which was one of the first major search marketing portals, news sites and forums which just kind of died off...
Worst Link Building Email I’ve Ever Received
Today I opened my email inbox to a subject line so bad, it added a nice slice of humor into my daily morning routine. I...
Link Building For Search When Google Does Not Exist
Let’s all take the time to stop checking our rankings, searching for new blogs in TLA and sending link request emails to envision an alternate...
Search Ranking for Tech Support & Error Message Search Queries
Search queries on Google and other search engines for informational terms dealing with “tech support”, “how to…” and “trouble shooting” have been constant and traffic...
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”...
Yahoo Search Weather Report : Crawling & Ranking Algorithm Update Today
Today Yahoo is planning to roll out its first major Yahoo ‘Weather Report’ of 2008 which will include some changes to its crawling and ranking...
Yahoo to Support OpenID for its 248 Million Users, OpenID to Support Yahoo ID’s
Yahoo today announced that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework for all of its 248 million active registered Yahoo global users; in...
Google Directory Shows True PageRank of Penalized Pages
Recently there has been some talk about the Google Directory, which is powered by Netscape’s Open Directory Project (DMOZ), updated on January 8th and is...
SEMMYS : 14 SEJ Entries Nominated for Best in Search Engine Marketing
Matt McGee of SmallBusinessSEM has put together a masterful awards competition for the best blog posts in search engine marketing; The SEMMYS (get it? SEM...
Pepperjam Network Launches : Affiliate Network Built by Affiliates & Search Marketers
Kris Jones emailed us this week to let us know that PepperJam is launching Pepperjam Network today, a new affiliate network which the company has...
Paid Links : Do You Report Them?
Patrick Altoft is hosting a poll on whether or not search marketers report paid linking. Patrick admits that he usually only reports paid links “only...
MediaWhiz Merges AuctionAds Into ShoppingAds
This month MediaWhiz, which acquired AuctionAds from ShoeMoney Media last year, merged their AuctionAds and ShoppingAds products into one product, dropping the AuctionAds name and...
Professor Bans Google & Wikipedia : Encourages Critical Thinking & Research
Professor Brabazon of the University of Brighton is doing her best to break student dependency of the ‘University of Google’, that is trusting the first...
Yahoo Serving Images in Sponsored Search Listings
Yahoo Search Marketing is testing the serving of images embedded within their sponsored search results on Yahoo Directory pages. The images, which are being supplied...
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...
Rand Fishkin : Most Giving Search Blogger
This year, instead of giving out the award for ‘Best Search Blogger’ I thought it may be more appropriate to define part of what being...
Best 2007 Search Conference Coverage in Photos : Close, Very Close
Not only do the bloggers who cover the search sessions keep us in tap on the happenings at SES, SMX and Pubcon, but so do...
Search Engine Roundtable : Best Search Conference Coverage of 2007
We see them at every search marketing conference, those busy bee bloggers, taking up the whole front row and fighting over power outlets, typing away...
Dosh Dosh : Breakout Blog of 2007
2007 brought some interesting new blogs into the searchosphere, some hitting the bigtime after being around for a while and others launched by some well...
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