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Why You Should Bid on Brand Keywords in Google
As competitive as we get, sometimes brand keywords are the most overlooked. Brand keywords are also some of the cheapest clicks. Not only that, but...
AOL Launches Indian Language Portal
AOL takes a giant step towards its expansion goal with the launch of a local language version of its web search portal in India. Coming...
The Oracle of Mountain View
The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more...
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...
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...
Why You Should NEVER Use AMEX with Google AdWords
That’s right. You should never use American Express for your payment method for Google AdWords. While American Express (AMEX) is widely accepted as the credit...
SEO Question : Do WhoIs Privacy Services Harm SEO?
This morning I was sifting through a post from the Redfly Marketing blog of Dave Davis entitled : The 5 Easiest Ways To Get Search...
Top Search Queries in Google Webmaster Tools
Google’s Webmaster Tools’ top search queries just got better with the expansion of its time coverage, top query percentage and search data upload via CSV...
Wikipedia Spam Resulting in Google & Yahoo Penalties
Even though Wikipedia uses a NoFollow attribute on their external links, if you spam Wikipedia results, your site can end up in a penalty in...
YouTube Launches Chinese Language Sites for Taiwan & Hong Kong
Google has launched a new Chinese language version of YouTube for the Taiwanese market, YouTube.com.tw YouTube this week launched a Chinese language site for Hong...
Google Health Coming in Spring 2008
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s Marissa Mayer said that users should expect the Google Health project to launch in Spring...
SMX Panel Recap: Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites
Today’s third session and first of the afternoon was focused on the social news sites. The panel was of course moderated by Danny Sullivan, and...
Superpages.com Adds Video Ads for All National Markets
Superpages.com rolled out its Superpages Video ad product to a national audience today, following a beta trial in select markets. Superpages Video advertising allows local...
10 Tips to Finding a Quality SEO Firm
If you’re a business with a web site, you need the assistance of search engine optimization. For the value it provides, the cost of quality...
Google’s Matt Cutts on Appropriate Use of NoFollow
This week in the Google Webmaster Help Google Groups thread, Matt Cutts made a “Popular Pick” post on the Appropriate Use of the NoFollow attribute...
What Do You Want to Learn from SMX Social Media?
Next Monday night I’ll be making the drive from Rhode Island to New York City to attend my first SMX event. This SMX event is...
Microsoft Live Search Product Results Gets Better
Microsoft continues to bring in more features to its Live Search tool. The most recent of these features has something to do with product searches,...
AskPoodle Simplies and Personalize Local Search
AskPoodle.com is a fairly new kid on the block of local search engines aiming to provide users with the best result for the most specific...
Ask.com’s Next Advertising Partner : Google, Yahoo or Microsoft?
CNNMoney (via Investors Business Daily) looks at the partnership between Google AdWords and Ask.com, where Google sponsored links are served as filler for Ask.com Sponsored...
SEO In-house Spotlight: Bill Macaitis with Fox Interactive Media
Today’s spotlight is on Bill Macaitis, VP of Online Marketing & SEO/SEM, who works with some of the most interesting sites on the web such...
Video Search Blinkx Meets Meta-Search Engine Ixquick
Powerful meta-search engine Ixquick announced today that it has partnered with top video search engine blinkx. Under the agreement agreed upon by both companies, Ixquick...
Snap : Search Engine with a Visual Twist
As the name succinctly suggests, Snap provides users with a preview or rather a snapshot of each search result along with several added features that...
$100 SponsoredReviews.com Coupon : Exclusive for Search Engine Journal Readers
This is an exclusive offer for Search Engine Journal readers! I just got done speaking with SponsoredReviews.com’s CEO Jarrod Hunt and convinced him to issue...
Yahoo’s Showcased Homepage Content Driving Search Results
Yahoo is showcasing their new Yahoo Search Shortcuts and search results via links in the content boxes on the Yahoo Homepage. The links look like...
Generate Backlinks with Custom WordPress Themes & Templates
Backlinks are the golden path to page rank. Building backlinks however, can be a slow and tedious process every blogger has to face. We constantly...
Search Optimization Guide for The New Yahoo! Search
A major player in the search industry has finally made a change worth calling revolutionary. This morning’s release of The New Yahoo! Search and Yahoo!...
Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration
Yahoo Search, over the past 5 years or so, has been trying hard to step out of Google’s shadow, a shadow that Yahoo cast upon...
Ask.com and IAC’s iWon Rebrands : Less Search, More Games
iWon, which was first launched by CBS as a search engine which incentives users to search and click on ads with the result of winning...