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Google Crawls 404 Error Pages Forever, Time to Spice Them Up!
Barry points to a Webmaster World thread which asks how long does Google send their crawlers to a page which begins serving a 404 error...
Google Local Business Center Enhancements
As I was driving all over “God’s creation” today, from meeting to meeting, there were a number of interesting developments and announcements. The first concerned...
SEO Clinic : Now Every Two Weeks
SEO Clinic, the free SEO recommendation and review service where Search Engine Journal editors and special guest SEO experts help sites better their rankings, usability...
MyYahoo Goes 2.0 : Preview & Snapshots
Read/WriteWeb has the scoop on the new MyYahoo personalized homepage which has gone ‘Web 2.0’ and includes a hovering Ajax powered RSS reader! Beta test...
CitySquares : Local Search on the Neighborhood Level
Never a dull moment in local these days as I learn of new sites almost daily. I spoke this morning with Ben Saren, CEO of...
Yahoo Answers Adds Social Networking
Yahoo Answers, the question & answer social media exchange, has become a success for Yahoo, bringing the phenomena of social knowledge sharing to over 90...
Friendster & Google Partner for Global Expansion, Advertising & Search
Friendster chose Google as its exclusive advertising and search provider today after not resigning with Yahoo, their previous search & ad provider. Friendster, which was...
Is the Google Phone Real?
Here’s a detailed post (widely picked up) by Simeon Simeonov about Google developing a mobile phone. Here’s the reported strategy: Apparently, Google is planning to...
SEO Clinic : TechSmith Screen Capture & Recording Software
Last week Search Engine Journal announced the launch of SEO Clinic, a free service where businesses, individuals and organizations can submit their web sites for...
Alexa Bias Exposed by Top Google Engineers
Alexa, the web site popularity and ranking measurement metric, has been widely accepted by the web publisher and online advertising world as a way to...
Local.com Now Distributing SuperPages.com Ads
Local.com and Idearc Media Corp. today announced a distribution agreement that allows Idearc to place its Superpages.com advertisers’ content on Local.com. Superpages.com’s advertisers will receive...
Netscape Adds My.Netscape Personalized Homepage
Netscape is synonymous in my mind with missed opportunity. After AOL bought the company it totally neglected it and IE ate all its remaining market...
Google’s 30 US Subsidiaries & Google’s International Companies
Google published its Annual Report which includes the list of Google’s Subsidiaries, both based in the United States and Internationally. Most non-Google companies are acquisitions,...
USAToday.com Adds Social Media Features
USAToday has added social media features which transform the site from less of a McNews page into a sticky community site which takes a page...
New Smaller SEO Conferences & Workshops
Search Engine Strategies, in all of its success and growth, is an amazing conference circuit attracting many from the worlds of SEO, search marketing, media...
Adam Lasnik of Google on Paid Links & NoFollow
Andy Beal had the priviledge of a sit down chat with Google’s Adam Lasnik at the Australian Search Summit early this morning. Beal and Lasnik...
5 1/2 Ways To Take Advantage of YouTube Politics
YouTube is creating a Political Section for the presidential candidates. There are lots of creative ways to use YouTube to reach people. Here are 5...
The Why, How and Who of Marketing in StumbleUpon
I recently interviewed StumbleUpon’s CEO Garrett Camp and wrote StumbleUpon Defined vs. Digg, Google, MySpace and More to define SU for curious marketers. I’ve extended...
How To Get Links from Bloggers
Getting your story or content on Digg, StumbleUpon, or Fark can attract a lot of traffic and links to your site, but if you want...
IAC’s CitySearch Buys InsiderPages
VentureBeat reports that Citysearch/IAC is the mystery buyer of InsiderPages — purchase price not disclosed. I would guess it wasn’t more than 2x what the...
Local Search : User Recommendations Make Your Business Money
Today I made plans to go out tomorrow evening to a Thai restaurant in Tampa, my new hometown. I’ve only been here 3 weeks and...
Google ReBang : Chinese Language Zeitgeist
Yesterday Philipp Lenssen found that Google has added “/rebang” to their robots.txt file. Usually when Google is going to launch a new service or channel,...
Has SEO Ruined PR & the Press Release?
Public Relations and Press Relations are built upon the foundation of the PR practicioner being a middle man between the business world and the media...
Microsoft Acquiring TellMe Voice & Directory Assistance?
TechCrunch is reporting that voice services and automated directory assistance (DA) provider TellMe, which I’ve written about several times recently, is being acquired by Microsoft....
SEO Clinic : Submit Your Site for SEO Advice
SEO Clinic is a new project we are now offering on Search Engine Journal for webmasters and site owners which are not experiencing their desired...
11 Networking Tips for Search Marketers
As a relative newbie to the industry I’ve managed to befriend experts, become a contributor to Search Engine Journal and win an iPod. Not bad...
Fuzzy Zoeller Sues Over Wikipedia Profile
Remember Fuzzy Zoeller, the controversial golfer who caused problems with Tiger Woods after his first Masters? Well, Fuzzy is in the news again, this time...
Yahoo Benefits from new Panama Advertising System
comScore has released some data which shows significant gains in the amount of search advertisements which were clicked during the first week of the new...
Google Video, AdSense & Content Syndication
The NY Times reports (via LostRemote) on how Google is boosting video content syndication from major media partners like Dow Jones: Google is working with...
The Oscar Goes To – According to Google Trends
Just a couple of hours to go and it will be clear which movie is getting the Oscar for best film. I was wondering whether...