Search Engine Roundtable : Best SEO Blog of 2007
Another year, another blog voted Best SEO Blog by Search Engine Journal’s readers. In 2005, Matt Cutts took away the award. In 2006, SEOmoz. Search...
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Search Blogs Award Voting : Quality vs. Quantity
In this year’s Search Engine Journal Search Blogs Awards, I took a different approach at the blog rating system, giving voters the option to rate...
Google Ron Paul : Connecting with Searchers
I admit, I have not been following the Ron Paul campaign much besides the mobilization of Digg users and some of the ads I’ve seen...
Google Jet Hosts NASA Quadrantid Meteor Shower Research Over Arctic
Google’s relationship with NASA got even more intimate as the search & technology company hosted NASA scientists yesterday on the Google Jet to witness and...
Ask.com Offers Voice Activated Mobile Directions
Ask.com today introduced new voice-activated capabilities to its Ask.com Mobile Directions service, dubbed “Click to Speak.” Click to Speak lets Ask.com Mobile users speak their...
Netscape : Strong Brand with No Identity
AOL has done everything it can to mangle the Netscape brand, which it purchased 10 years ago for $4.2 billion, into a disoriented web zombie,...
Paid Link Spending Per Industry by Nielsen
Yesterday Search Engine Watch covered the Nielsen break down of the amount of spending by industry for ‘sponsored links’ and ‘text links’ in online advertising....
New Year’s Resolutions from Search Engine Journal
As I woke up this morning to greet the last day of 2007, I started thinking to myself the things I want to change for...
Vote for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007
The nominations for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007 have been compiled and we’re ready to have you vote for your favorite Search Blogs, Communities...
Google Partners with DoCoMo : Japanese Search Market Prepares for iPhone
Google is making a push to expand its reach in the Yahoo owned Japanese market via targeting where the majority of Japanese users spend their...
Sam’s Club Search Marketing : Good or Bad for the Industry?
Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart owned mega store which is a godsend to small businesses looking to stock locally breaking dependency on wholesale distributors, is now...
Google Bans AdWords Ads for Being Too Sexy
Google has blocked the serving of AdWords contextual (or AdSense) display ads in the European market of US lingerie company Pampered Passions because the company...
Empire Today : How to Optimize a Badly Branded Google Results Page
Last week was a trying week for me as on top of the normal day to day responsibilities of managing a search blog and a...
Google Granted DoubleClick Acquisition, Big Week for Big Media
In a pro-Big Media trend by government regulatory agencies, Google was just handed a huge Christmas present by the FTC, which voted 4 to 1...
Google Q&A : Rebirth of Answers Adds to Google’s Socialization
Google is taking steps to relaunch their Google Answers service as a social content generation system similar to the Yahoo Answers model, and rebrand the...
2007 Search Blogs Awards : Nominations Now Open
Good morning readers! It’s late December again and the search conferences have come to a finish, which means like in 2005 and 2006, Search Engine...
Hello Google Shopping! Sayonara Google Products?
Google has always tried to be a bit different than other search powered portals, insisting first that it is not a portal and then either...
SEOBook Launches Improved Wordtracker Powered Keyword Tool
Aaron at SEO Book has partnered with Wordtracker to release a new & improved keyword tracking tool just in time for the holidays (forgive me,...
Yahoo Launches Shortcuts Plugin For WordPress Blogs : Very Cool!
Yahoo worked on this Plugin with the help of WordPress, and being a lifelong WordPress user (SEJ first started on Blogger, then switched to b2;...
Google Follows its Universal Search Patent & Ask.com’s Lead : Serves Media on Right of SERPS
Google has been testing the placement of product and video results on the right side of the Google results page, which is valuable real estate...
Google My Maps Adds Social Features : Comments, Ratings and Links
Google Maps has added new social features to their My Maps initiative which lets viewers and users of those maps connect socially with the creators...
Google, the New England Patriots of Search, Runs Up the Score on Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com
We’ve been printing the headlines for years now : Google Rules Search Market Share, Google Tops Yahoo & MSN in Search for March, Google :...
Google Granted Patent on Anchor Text Link Crawling
Google has recently been granted a patent by the US government which the company originally filed in 2003. The patent, writes Bill Slawski of SEO...
Google News Updates Algorithm to Reflect Local & Breaking News
Google News has been tweaking its algorithm to show more updated and fresh stories as well as identifying the local news media which would be...
Google Rankings Changing : Result of Paid Links?
Google search engine rankings seem to be undertaking an update or change over the past week as some sites and publishers are noticing a trend...
Yahoo & JetBlue Partner to Test Free Wi-Fi on Flights
Yahoo, RIM and JetBlue have partnered to offer free Wi-Fi connections aboard domestic US flights in a test which will begin Tuesday. The initial tests...
Google AdSense Misprints Checks & Paystubs
Google sent out an email message to publishers last night warning them that Google AdSense has misprinted the paystub with a rather odd message: If...
Google Watching Paid Review Blogs that Pass PageRank
If your blog openly posts paid reviews in an irrelevant, poorly written, not disclosing these as advertisements and using deliberate anchor text in the posts...
Google Banning Ads for PageRank Selling Schemes
On a blog post discussing why Google does not like irrelevant Sponsored Blog Posts that pass link juice, Matt Cutts left a little tidbit of...
Google Adds Form for Reporting Malware in Results
This week we saw a vicious attack on Google, Yahoo and MSN search results by malware and spyware operators hit the big news after months...
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