AOL Says Goodbye to Netscape Social News
Netscape has announced that it plans to revert back to its old self with AOL powered news stories and send the Netscape Social News Community...
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Delicious Redesigns, Drops the Dots & Adds New Features : Screenshots
Delicious is currently testing a new redesign and Yahoo has invited Search Engine Journal to test and cover the new features at Delicious (available via...
EarthLink TrafficBuilder : Monthly PPC Management
EarthLink, which laid off 50% of its workforce and backed out of the Google partnered San Francisco wireless program, is now refocusing its business structure,...
Facebook Opening Profiles to Search Engine Indexing
Facebook, the super popular social network which has enjoyed somewhat walled garden status by not letting search engines index the bulk of its user profiles,...
Google Fueling Technorati Blog Spamming : Wanda Nara Example
Today I was reading a post on BlackHatSEODiary about the continuous blog spamming of Technorati based upon the public publishing of their top searches. The...
Bill Slawski and Liana Evans Join KeyRelevance
When I ran into Bill Slawski & Li Evans several times at Search Engine Strategies San Jose, I was surprised to find out that two...
Social Media’s Direct Influence on Search Engine Ranking
Social media marketing is becoming more of an accepted part of the online marketing mix because of its ability to drive website traffic and inbound...
PliggSites.com : Directory of Pligg Powered Sites
The effect of Digg style sites on link building, SEO, and driving traffic has helped fuel the social media marketing movement. But did you know...
Yahoo Kickstart : Social Job Network
Yahoo is launching a LinkedIn style service for college students to connect with employees at companies which are recruiting called Yahoo Kickstart. Harrison Hoffman at...
Google Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator : Check Your Site!
Francesco Mapelli has launched a new SEO tool called the Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator which allows site owners to check the percentage of pages from...
Video Search Engine Blinkx Forms Targeted Broadband Media Partnerships
The video search engine blinkx has formed 28 new partnerships with special interest broadband based media companies. Among the new partnerships are Cycling TV and...
Yahoo Search Adds NFL Shortcuts
Just in time for Fantasy Football, Yahoo Search has introduced a new series of Yahoo Shortcuts for the searches of NFL player names on Yahoo....
Microsoft Beta Testing Live Search Webmaster Portal
Microsoft is now following in the successful footsteps of Google Webmaster Central & Yahoo Site Explorer with the limited beta testing of a new Live...
Search Engine Roundtable’s Coverage of SES San Jose
Barry Schwartz and the blogging team at Search Engine Roundtable have set the bar of Search Engine Strategies session coverage and are at it again...
Yahoo Acquires Actionality : Mobile Advertising Company
Yahoo has taken another step in adding to the strength of its OneSearch & mobile advertising offerings in the acquisition of Actionality. Barry at Search...
AdGooroo Expands to European & Latin Markets
Search engine marketing intelligence company AdGooroo has started monitoring sites in five western European and two Latin American countries for clients of its SEM Insight...
Rank Better on Yahoo with Dynamic URL Rewriting
Big news from the Yahoo Site Explorer team as they have announced a new dynamic URL rewriting service for sites which use multiple variables in...
Microsoft Content Ads Beta Expands to All US Advertisers
Microsoft adCenter has expanded the Content Ads Beta contextual advertising program to all US based advertisers who wish to place contextually targeted text ads throughout...
Google Universal Search : Invasion of News, Video & Blogs
Universal Search is the biggest thing to happen to search since the Florida update and when Google rolled out Universal Search is rewrote the rules...
Post Search Advertising : Search Meets Behavioral Targeting
Post Search Ads session at Search Engine Strategy San Jose. Post Search Advertising ads are designed to tap the intent of the searcher and take...
Dave Sifry Leaves Technorati
Dave Sifry made the announcement on the Technorati blog yesterday that he is leaving his post of CEO at the blog search & trends tracking...
Never Underestimate Netscape : Traffic, Activity & Rankings
Ever since the rumor TechCrunch spread about AOL dumping Netscape’s social news service last week I’ve grown more and more intrigued about the portal, its...
Fox News Caught Sabotaging Wikipedia Entries
Arthur Bergman at O’Reilly Radar has the lowdown on some changes Fox News has been making to the Wikipedia entries of their critics and competition...
Export Google AdWords Reports to Google Spreadsheets
Another reason for Google users to hardly ever open Microsoft Office again has sprung up as Google AdWords is now offering advertisers the option of...
SES San Jose Womens Luncheon
For those members of the search marketing community who happen to be of the female variety (and you know who you are!), Liana Evans is...
Ask.com Adds Health Smart Answers
Ask.com has introduced new Health Smart Answers which help searchers find trusted health and medical information faster. Smart Answers are special search results placed at...
AOL Launches AOL Mobile Search with MovieFone, CityGuide & Mapquest Content
AOL has launched a beta version of their new AOL Mobile Search product which takes advantage of AOL properties such as Moviefone, MapQuest and AOL...
Yahoo Tops Google in Customer Satisfaction Ranking
The University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index has rated Yahoo! as the top search engine based upon customer satisfaction. This is the first time...
AOL Trashing Netscape?
AOL’s Netscape is a great adaptation of the Digg model which uses paid editorial staff to submit & filter news items and influence what is...
Goodbye Google PageRank?
There is currently a debate going on right now about Google removing the PageRank score from the Google Toolbar. Why? Toolbar PageRank numbers can be...
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