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Google iGadget for iPhone, Android Gets a New Version
Google has just released a new and improved version of its web-optimized iGoogle for iPhone and Android devices. While previous versions of iGoogle was already...
Yahoo Hires Timothy Morse as New CFO
Finally Yahoo has found a replacement to its previous CFO Blake Jorgensen who resigned sometime in February this year. The Yahoo Board has just appointed...
Numbers Show Bing Attracts Trial Users Only
While StatCounter’s data on Bing’s market share for June 4 showing that Bing managed to overtake Yahoo as the number 2 search engine, was a...
The Page Title in All Caps? Fail or Win?
It has always been a tricky path to make your page listing in SERPs stand out based on something else except for unique and catchy...
The Do’s And Don’ts Of Online Reputation Management
The day you open your business you become vulnerable to the good and bad publicity you can get from either satisfied or dissatisfied customers. That...
Large Site SEO: How to Waste Your #1 Ranking with Bad Formulas
If you’re a serious SEO, this is the post to show it in the ‘Comments’ below. The following example is a real world example, from...
How to Compete with Yourself in the Search Engines and Win
The Internet is a war zone. You build a site, do all the work you can on it and start promoting it. And as long...
Cuil Meets Wolfram Alpha – Gives Birth To Google On Crack
Lately every time I turn around, another new search engine comes out that’s supposed to be innovative and better than Google in some way or...
Bing Becomes the No. 2 Search Engine for a Day
If this is any indication of the trend to come in the search engine market, it looks like Yahoo might be in serious trouble while...
Brand Awareness is SEM Fuel
As I’m returning from SMX Advanced in Seattle, I keep thinking about the presence of Bing and the lengths at which Microsoft is going to...
11 Sources of Duplicate Content You’re Probably Unaware of
There’s so much ‘noise’ in the world of Internet marketing, and especially about SEO, that I sometimes feel the edges are blurring. If I feel...
Want a More Organized Search Results? Google Square It
I’m not going to assume that Google’s sudden announcement of Google Square has anything to do with Microsoft Bing. Nevermind if Google intentionally or unintentionally...
Microsoft’s Bing Falsifies Site Data to Increase Click Through Rates
Microsoft’s brand new search product, Bing, was unveiled to the public over the weekend. Over all the response has been moderately positive. Most of the...
Bing Mobile Looks and Feels Like Google Mobile Search, Almost
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is starting to make waves as more people are trying it out. But before we forget, aside from web version of...
Does Google SafeBrowsing Prove “Bad IP Neighborhood” Theory
We all know about and probably use Google Safe Browsing tool – the best idea is to use it to identify one of the reasons...
Top 50 SEO Blogs from Invesp Blogrank
Invesp has listed the Top 50 SEO blogs based upon their blogrank ranking structure, which looks at over 20 different factors to rank blogs such...
New PPC Bid Rule Management System from Acquisio
One of my responsibilities as director of PPC (among everything else) at Fuel Interactive is to keep tabs on what’s going on in the PPC...
The “S” Trilogy in Search Industry
We all are familiar with search marketing industry. The “S” trilogy stands for Search Trilogy. Search Trilogy has three parts: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine...
Is There Such a Thing as On-Page Trust Factors (Poll)?
I have once looked into how Google may be viewing trust and authority where the most important difference is that trust is attributed to the...
8 Key Points to Multiple Niche Sites And Controlling Back Links
Ask ten SEO professionals whether it’s better to have all your content on one site or split it up, and you’ll get eleven answers (yeah,...
Microsoft Officially Announces its New Search Engine – Bing
As expected, Microsoft’s official announcement of its new search engine aka decision engine, aka vertical search engine aka Bing or whatever you may want to...
What’s The Real Value of Brand PPC?
Many of our PPC clients (and from what I hear from other pros and agencies, many of their clients) at some point start to believe they...
Google Adds Image Ads on AdSense Link Units
If you’re implementing AdSense Link Units on your sites, this new feature might interest you. For those who may have forgotten already, AdSense Link Units...
Facebook Receives $200 Million Investment from Russian Tech Firm
Facebook announced Tuesday that it has received an infusion of $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet firm, which has a 1.96% ownership...
The ABCs of a Great SEO Leader
So, you can audit a site. I’ll bet you have a methodology in place to do it a thousand times over. You probably do it...
Getting SEO Value from Follow-up Posts
Writing follow-up posts is a great blogging tactic that allows to: Better target your audience needs: the fist post discussion shows the blogger what appeals...
Is It Still Worth Using Keyword and Description Meta Tags?
There has been a lot of talk about whether or not keyword and description meta tags are even worth doing anymore. Here’s my opinion –...
Ann Smarty Named Director of Media for Search & Social
I’m very happy to announce today that Search & Social Media, LLC, the parent company of Search Engine Journal, has hired Ann Smarty as our...
Find Cheap Gas Prices Online for Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend usually marks the beginning of the summer vacation months, warm weather, remembrance, outlet store sales and of course, travel. Many Americans will...
Google & Newspapers: Google to Stay on ‘Their’ Side of the Content Line
According to an interview with the Financial Times, Google (NYSE:GOOG) has been considering buying a newspaper or using the charitable arm of the search giant...