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Google Maps More Popular Than MapQuest
Google showed us a long time ago that it can dominate in search, but it’s taken a while for it to copy that dominance in...
Identify Your Search Marketing Niche
The realm of search marketing has grown by leaps and bounds in the past several years. Along with it, search marketers have relied on blogs,...
Google Finance Now Running Google Display Ads
Google’s expansion of running AdSense style display ads across its own network has seen new ads within Google News, Google Image Search and other Google...
eBay to IPO Skype in 2010
Fresh from losing StumbleUpon after its SU founders bought back the social bookmarking site from eBay, it seems like eBay doesn’t want the same incident...
Yahoo May Layoff Some More Employees
The exodus of some more Yahoo employees might continue as Yahoo is said to be planning on announcing another round of layoffs during its first...
Google Selectively Ignoring Meta Description Tags?
I’ve been doing some SEO Consulting with Safeguard Financial, a company specializing in Self Directed IRA’s. As I was chatting with them today, they pointed...
How to Do Keyword Research for an Established Site
I’ve published my thoughts on keyword research for new sites numerous times; but this is the first time that I’ve decided to share my way...
Microsoft Yahoo Meetings Signal Start of Intelligent Acquisition or Merger
Microsoft and Yahoo may be in talks again on some sort of advertising partnership, or babysteps to an inevitable acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, as...
Google Search Continues to Grow as AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Regroup
New statistics from Nielsen Online point out that Google’s dominance of the search market is not going away anytime soon, as Google Search Engine usages...
Digg Launches New Digg Search Engine
Today Digg released a new version of their internal Digg search functionality which according to social media guru Brent Csutoras is “is a real improvement.”...
Yahoo Integrates Delicious into BOSS Development Suite
Yahoo getting serious about its Yahoo Search BOSS suite of development tools and has added Delicious to the mix, letting BOSS developers mix Delicious tags,...
Personal Branding: Me 2.0 Book Review
I have already reviewed one book previously, and thought that might be a good idea to share a new book with SEJ readers from time...
Google and Microsoft Fighting Over Twitter
Twitter is growing exponentially the past couple of months in terms of site traffic, usage and membership. Because of this the number of Tweets posted...
Yahoo To Lose Search Share Due to Toolbar Deal with HP and Acer
As if its current search market share is not already low, Yahoo’s search share might suffer some more setbacks due to failed toolbar deal with...
Google and Mozilla Going to Battle over Chrome & FireFox
Some days ago I read an article on Slashdot that I think deserves to have created more of a splash than it did. Amazing that...
Shoemoney Sues Google Employee for AdWords TOS Violation
Shoemoney’s Jeremy Schoemaker is hot on the heels of a Google employee who owned a website which uses Shoemoney’s patented keyword “Shoemoney” on his AdWords...
Google Image Search Gets the Rainbow Color Treatment
Google has just rolled out color filtering to Image Search. It’s a pretty simple feature that lets you get image results based on preferred color....
How to Find, Hire and Manage Rockstar Copywriters
It’s easy to keep repeating the SEO mantra of ‘content is king’, but at the end of the day, sometimes it can be difficult to...
Discover Most Frequent Modifiers with Excel
Excel is one of my most favorite SEO tools. I use Excel for reporting, content planning, backlink research and keyword organizing. I discover new possible...
SEO: Do Link Builders Need To Know It?
When I started my career in SEO, I had to do it all, from fixing code issues to running PPC campaigns, all while building links,...
Why The AdWords Starter Edition Is Bad For Business
To be honest, I never ever used the Starter Edition. I’m not sure it even existed when I started doing AdWords. Yeah so I think...
Where Can the Canonical Tag Be Actually Used?
Since canonical tag was introduced and announced, a lot has been said about it. Rand did a great ob summarizing its features and differences with...
Google Expands Local Search
Google has just rolled out its local search results to worldwide coverage. What this means is that when you search for things such as restaurants...
Five Tips For Getting More From Your Backlinks
When done right, building targeted backlinks to your website is perfectly “legal” and you shouldn’t feel like you’re breaking any “rules” by doing so. In...
Google Expands One Line SiteLinks : Little Blue Links in SERPS
Over the weekend I noticed more and more Google search results with little blue links between the page descriptions and the target URL in Google...
SEMRush : Research Competitors’ PPC Tactics
SEOquake, one of my favorite FireFox SEO extensions, has been recently heavily integrated with SEMrush, an awesome keyword research tool I’ve reviewed earlier. The new...
Residents Block Google StreetView Cars from Filming UK Community
Google’s StreetView project is no stranger to controversy and privacy concerns, and the company has many times crossed on the edge of trespassing and entering...
Google Acquiring Twitter for More Than $250 Million Valuation?
Either Google is acquiring Twitter this week or Michael Arrington is desperate for traffic and stirring up rumors. I think that given the buzz around...
How to Effectively Promote a Tool
You should have noticed that I can safely be called a tool junkie. I am no expert and I don’t like criticizing even rather a...
TubeMogul Secures $3 Million in Funding for Online Video Distribution
Video distribution providers TubeMogul, who we have covered on Search Engine Journal at TubeMogul : Distribute Your Video to Multiple Sites, has secured a round...