Black Friday : Sales, Search & Online Shopping
Well, another Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Cowboys whooped the Jets, and like most Americans, I woke up this morning feeling like I’m carrying...
Loren Baker
Founder
Company
Follow Me
Education
Expertise
Favorite Tools
Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and runs Foundation Digital, a digital marketing strategy & development agency.
Articles
Does Image Search Traffic Convert?
Interesting thread on DigitalPoint this morning about the influx in traffic from images indexed in Google Images and other image search engines, and how they...
How to Get The Most Link Juice for Your Articles
Distributing articles for the purpose of building links to a site or for that site’s SEO can be a great way to link build and...
Yahoo Expands Newspaper Consortium With 17 Papers : Including New York Times
The Yahoo Newspaper Consortium has expanded to include 16 regional newspapers owned by the New York Times as well as The Columbus Dispatch. The latest...
Would You Use a Google Operating System?
Google is getting closer and closer to offering a full blown operating system (if it hasn’t already) with its suite of desktop and office services,...
Google Magazine : Print Your Own Publications
A recent Google patent filing shows that the company may be developing a service which lets its users create their own print publications made of...
10 Ways How to Earn Revenue Without Selling Links
Publishers who make their living from selling links on their sites had a warning shot delivered to them last month with the Google PageRank update...
Google AdWords Domain Ads Exclusion : But Think Before You Block
Google AdWords is running limited testing of a feature which lets its advertisers block domain parking sites which their AdWords ads will be served on;...
When Link Bait Goes Wrong : How to Prepare for a Good Linking
Link baiting is a proven form of attracting valuable and search algortihm friendly organic links to a site with thought provoking material, news or an...
Google Names Google Product Search Partners : Easier Feed Inclusion
Google has taken steps to make submitting your site’s product feed to Google Base much more easier, using some of their preferred partners who are...
Google Rankings Influenced By Hosting, Domain Registrar and Geographic Location
One major fear around the web publisher community is that if you host too many sites on the same shared hosting account or server, Google...
LiveDeal to Serve Yelp Local Reviews
LiveDeal, Inc. has signed an agreement relationship with local review site Yelp.com to feature Yelp’s 1.8 million customer reviews on its online classifieds and yellow...
MySpace SelfServe Ads to Challenge Google AdSense & Facebook Flyers
Taking a page from their search partner Google and main competitor in Facebook, MySpace plans to launch their own ‘do-it-yourself’ contextual targeting & advertising platform...
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...
Microsoft Live Search Site Submission Working Again
If you still take the time to actually submit new sites to search engines (as opposed to informing their bots that the new site exists...
AOL Acquires Quigo : AOL’s Answer to AdWords?
AOL is expanding its advertising arm deeper into contextual advertising with the $300 million acquisition of Quigo and their AdSonar & Feedpoint platforms. The seed...
Google Ranking & Results Update Underway
Google set blogs and webmasters ablaze in coverage last week with their changes in Toolbar PageRank, which was cast aside by some and taken quite...
Retired Males : Endless Vortex of Valuable Content
Being a professional blogger and a work from home consultant, sometimes cabin fever starts to kick in, and it’s time to flee the humble abode...
Google & Opera Renew Ad Deal : But Still No gBrowser
Opera Software and Google have renewed their partnership agreement for another two years as Google will remain the default search provider for Opera browsers and...
Google Adds AdSense Ads to Feedburner Feeds
One of the obvious reasons for the Google acquisition of Feedburner, besides gaining access to a major amount of blogs and adding a blog metrics...
$200 Google PC Coming to Wal-Mart Today
Everex is launching its gPC “Google PC” today at Wal-Mart stores for the low price of $200. The gPC runs off of a mix of...
Yahoo Search Update Underway : Ranking Changes Reported
Yahoo Search is updating with some changes to its algorithm and index, which at first seems like one of their monthly weather reports. However, there...
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...
Yahoo Internet Cafes Launch in Vietnam
When you cannot bring the Internet to the people, bring the people to the Internet. Yahoo Vietnam’s Yahoo! powered Internet Cafes are opening around Vietnam’s...
When Link Building Requests Result in Sales
Kelvin Newman at Site Visibility has an interesting account of how when he was sending out educational link request mails for a client’s product, the...
Baidu, Google & Yahoo Lead China Search Engine Market
Baidu.com, the domestic Chinese search engine company, dominates the China Search Engine market with a 61.5% share this third quarter, proving itself a powerhouse in...
Firefox Earned Around $60 Million from Google in 2006
Mozilla reported a 26% jump in earnings from 2005 to 2006, earning ‘most’ of its revenue from a search partnership with Google where Mozilla collects...
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...
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