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Text Message Advertising Grows in the Mobile Space
The Wall Street Journal had a great piece on mobile marketing, “Advertisers to Consumer: We’ll Text You.” Do you have any text messaging advertising plans...
Google Maps Trespassing Again : Town Bans StreetView
I live in a private community. At every entrance of the community there is a sign which reads ‘No Trespassing. No Soliciting. Private Community, Residents...
Google Ad for “MySpace Advertising” Shows Facebook Ads Results
Nothing fancy here really. Just a little observation which I find rather amusing. While I was trying to Google the keywords – “myspace advertising”, I...
Ask the Experts at SMX Advanced 2008
SMX Advanced kicks off in just two days! The conference is officially sold-out, but at Search Engine Journal Eric Lander and myself are bringing you...
Feedburner to Roll Out Adsense for Feeds, What Took Them So Long?
Feedburner is announcing that Adsense for feeds will finally be rolled out next week for a few selected publishers, before a full launch soon. For...
Blended Search : How B2B Companies Can Benefit
There’s a craze sweeping the search engine marketing world, but thus far B2B marketers have been slow to catch on. In 2007, the leading general...
Will Google Save Twitter?
Twitter developer Alex Payne made a fairly transparent post about how Twitter is working to fix its performance issues and ongoing development work. If you...
Google Has a New Favicon : Little Blue g
When Google makes a change, the entire world listens; even when its something as tiny as changing its favorite icon image. Instead of the big...
Obama Spent $2.8 Million on Google Advertising This Year
The Obama campaign spent $3.47 million on online advertising over the course of its campaign to date, with 82% of that budget going to Google...
Don’t Sour Your Link Juice By Forgetting Basic SEO
Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite...
Google KO’s IO Conference T-Shirt : Google’s Binary Blunder
Google held its Google I/O developer conference yesterday, where it announced its Open App Engine to eager developers. As a take home, Google distributed Google...
Akamai Releases 1st State of the Internet Report
Akamai has been around almost as long as the Internet itself, offering tracking and dynamic site solutions along with enterprise applications and streaming data. Celebrating...
comScore Acquiring M:Metrics Mobile Analytics & Measurement
comScore, Inc. announced the at they are acquiring M:Metrics, Inc., a pioneer in mobile measurement. The acquisition, according to comScore, will will make the company...
Search Engine Journal’s Coverage of SMX Advanced
Next week Rhea Drysdale will be joining me in Seattle to cover the next Search Marketing Expo Event, SMX Advanced. This marks the second year...
Insane SEO: Blocking Robots.txt from Being Indexed
An amusing thread was taking place over at WebmasterWorld discussing a way to prevent Google from ranking Robots.txt file in SERPs. Google currently indexes 62,100...
Win a Free Pass to SMX Advanced with Twitter
SMX Advanced is right around the corner and if you are still thinking of attending the intimate search conference and learning everything you can from...
SEJ Blog Competition : John Carcutt and Richard Burckhardt Blog Off!
Yesterday we compiled and reviewed the stats from the Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging Competition and more or less came to a virtual tie between...
IAC’s Citysearch Faces Click Fraud Lawsuit
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by law firm alleged that IAC’s directory site Citysearch has been defrauding its advertising customers by encouraging...
MBA Students Are Dying to Get in at Google
Upon graduation, the dream of many MBA students is to snag a job at Google. Yep, that’s right – Google. For the second year in...
Google Says Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Threatens Freedom
According to Google Inc., a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought against YouTube by Viacom Inc. threatens to drastically alter the way hundreds of millions...
3 Questions to Help You Plan Your Search Marketing Career
I have been recruiting in the search marketing industry for over four years, and I am still intrigued by the individuals that I come across...
Advanced Link: Operator to Explore Your Competitor’s Backlinks
I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks? It educates. The...
Google, the Renewable Energy Utility Company
Google’s direction to fuel the green utility market is quite amazing and opens doors for so much more of a direction in efficiency for the...
Why Doesn’t Google Honor Memorial Day in the US?
Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and other search engines usually make a rather big deal out of modifying their logos for different holidays and happenings. Today is...
Squeeze the Most Juice Out of Your Social Media Profile
A while ago I posted a widely discussed article on indirect promotion on how to grow your site power by building links to pages linking...
Reporting SEO Competition to Google : Conflicting Reports
Well, the issue of whether or not search marketers report their competition to Google if their competitors are practicing gray or blackhat tactics has shed...
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft : SEO Influence of Keywords in Domain Names
SEO Question : Are keywords in URL and domain name important? And how does it differ across various search engines? Although a very basic question,...
Google Search Share for April Up Again, Why are We not Surprised?
Here you go folks, comScore has just released its search engine report for April. As expected, Google toppled its competition again, getting 61.6% of all...
$10,000 Guest Blogging Contest Winner : May 26th
Sorry folks but we’ve had to push back the announcement of the SEJ $10,000 Guest Blogging Contest to May 26th (we had extended the entry...
Microsoft’s Google Search Killer Strategy is a Rewards Program?
I must admit that I almost cringed when I read about Microsoft Live Search’s newest strategy to boost its Live Search standing in the web...