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Google Pay-Per-Action Beta a Success for Marketer
Dan London of Vibrant Orange SEM and the AdWords Editor Blog has posted a recap of his experience with the AdWords Pay-Per-Action, where advertisers only...
Review: LinksManager Links Exchange Toolbar
No doubt regular readers of this site understand the high-value of link building. There are of course many ways to build links. Here are just...
Link Building Services
Loren Baker and the Search Engine Journal staff have spent the last 5 years building relationships with site owners, bloggers and search companies from around...
Search Wikia Materializing with Open Sourcing of Intellisophic & Grub
Wikia, Inc. and Intellisophic, Inc. announced this week that Intellisophic, which publishes subject-specific taxonomy, thesaurus and vocabulary products for the search, categorization and text-mining industry,...
Yahoo Toolbar for IE Adds Search Suggestions
Yahoo Search has added Search Suggestions to the Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer in an effort to improve the quality of the user search experience....
Yahoo Adding Video to Flickr
Yahoo is taking a bold step in its battle against YouTube & Google with the addition of video content to Flickr, Yahoo’s popular photo sharing...
Accoona Files for $80.5 Million IPO
Accoona, the web & news search engine which also offers an e-commerce service, has filed for an $80.5 million IPO on the heels of its...
Weighing in on PPC vs. Non-PPC Advertising
The question of whether pay-per-click (PPC) or non-pay-per-click (N-PPC) advertising offers the better return on your online investment is one that search-engine marketers continue to...
Are You Tired of the Google.com Domain?
Are you tired of typing into your browser “Google.com”? Would you like to enter something else, but still get the same results as if you...
In-house Spotlight: Marcus Couch from Entrepreneur.com
Today’s in-house spotlight is on Marcus Couch, Director of Online Marketing for Entrepreneur Media – overseeing search marketing for Entrepreneur.com and other Entrepreneur properties. Entrepreneur...
Yahoo Pipes Part 4: Analyzing Sphinn
Sphinn is a brand new player in the social media space that many of you are already familiar. It’s still young, but the calling of...
Google Testing Maps Plusbox in Sponsored Results
Google UK is performing some interesting tests with the integration of local data as provided by Google AdWords on specific local search queries. AccuraCast has...
Google Removes Supplemental Results Labels
Starting today, Google will be removing the “supplemental labels” on the URLs of supplemental results displayed by the search engine. Since 2003, the supplemental results...
Yahoo Paid Inclusion: Thing of the Past?
Many people who are new to web site optimization may be unaware of a small corner of the market known as paid inclusion. Paid inclusion...
Sub-prime Mortgage Woes Mean Lower CPCs? Don’t bet on it.
Financial service products generate some of search’s highest CPCs, particularly for phrases like “auto insurance” and “mortgage” and (so I’ve heard) account for as much...
Google Gets Two of Four from FCC
The Federal Communications Commission finally reached a decision on Google’s proposed openness conditions before bidding on the upcoming auction of the publicly owned spectrum in...
SEO 101 : Links & Off-Page Factors
In the first part of SEO 101, I provided some pointers for SEO friendly design and on-page optimization. Next, I discuss off-page optimization techniques. 1....
Improve Adwords Performance through Campaign Optimizer
Google Adwords launches a new ad performance tool called Campaign Optimizer which is an on-demand Adwords tool that suggest personalized campaign ideas for Adwords account...
Online Dating Site Match.com Goes Mobile
There’s really no stopping the transition of web services into the mobile web. Now, even online dating sites, such as Match.com gets their own mobile...
Wikia Grabs Grub, Distributed Web Crawler
Wikia’s Co-Founder, Jimmy Wales takes a step further towards his vision of the LAMP stack for search, by acquiring Grub, the original visionary distributed search...
The Semantic Web & Its Implications on Search Marketing
The phenomenon of personalized search is an important step forward toward the semantic web. In its own way, personalized search creates a mini semantic web...
Top 150 Marketing Blogs from Ad Age
Most who blog about online marketing, news, etc. blog because one, they love what they do, and two, exposure in the industry which has been...
Forum Optimization for Better Adsense Performance
If you are running a community forum with Adsense placement and yet can’t seem to get significant earnings, Inside Adsense suggest these three Adsense performance...
DailyMotion Enters the US Internet Video Scene
Looks like YouTube has finally met its match with the entry of french-based video production hub DailyMotion in the internet video scene. DailyMotion, a french-based...
Microsoft to Acquire Advertising Marketplace
Microsoft seems to be pretty much aggressive on its advertising program the past couple of days. After sealing an advertising placement deal with Digg, the...
Digg-Microsoft Advertising Deal, Why Not Google?
By this time, the web is probably dilluted with all sorts of news bits, blog posts and what-have-yous on the most controversial press release for...
SEO for Alternative Media (Flash, Video, etc.)
Recently, Dan Crow of Google addressed a group of SEO professionals at a regional event in Providence Rhode Island . At that event, Crow commented...
Google’s Asian Sites Optimized for Broadband
PCWorld has an overview of the testing Google is doing with its Hong Kong, Korean and Taiwan homepages, serving icons and animated graphics which fit...
Matt Cutts on WordPress SEO for Google
Matt Cutts made an appearance at the WordPress Wordcamp on Saturday and discussed SEO for WordPress blogs. Here are some of the highlights: Matt recommends...
Superpages.com Offers Local Video Advertising
Superpages.com has launched a beta trial of local video advertising which allows local small to medium-sized businesses to showcase their products and services via 30...