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SEM In-House Spotlight : Hewlett-Packard’s In-House SEO
This week’s in-house spotlight is on Tanya Vaughan, the Global in-house SEO with Hewlett-Packard. HP has a few in-house SEOs within various divisions, one is...
Fun with Words. WordCount and QueryCount
I came across a very interesting online tool while I did some research for the post about proper title capitalization. The tool is about the...
Google’s New ‘Lat Long’ Blog
John Hanke, Director Google Earth & Maps, announces the new blog: As web mapping (dare I say “the geoweb”?) matures, we’re finding that we have...
Google’s Search Up To 65% in April- Where Do you Search?
According to Hitwise, Google accounted for 65% of all U.S. search in April. The trailing search leader Yahoo accounted for 20.73%, MSN 8.46%, and Ask...
Google Ad Creation Marketplace Up in Beta
Less than a year ago, Google Adwords launched its Click-to-play, video ads format which offered advertisers a new avenue for promoting their products and services...
Alternative Link Building Strategies
Sometimes, your link building activities should or must take place on a secondary domain, away from your focal point (primary domain). There are several reasons...
Microsoft Acquires Equity Stake in CareerBuilder.com
In a very interesting development, Microsoft has taken a 4% equity stake in number one jobs site CareerBuilder. Here’s the release. That means Tribune and...
QuickSprout : Neil Patel’s Blog on Personal Branding
If there is anyone in the search marketing world who has mastered the art of branding yourself over the past year, it is Social Media...
Remove your Home Phone Number from Google Search
Did you know that if you search on Google by typing a residential phone number into the Google Search box that Google will deliver a...
LookSmart AdCenter Launches Private Label Contextual Advertising Service for Publishers
LookSmart today launched their new contextual ad serving and optimization product as part of their LookSmart’s AdCenter service. With the addition of AdCenter contextual advertising,...
Google Analytics Sports a New Look
After a long wait, the five year old Google Analytics gets a much needed update. The new version sports a new interface for better customization...
Goodbye Yahoo Auctions
As part of the ongoing restructuring of Yahoo which is focused on cutting off the products which are not working and pumping revenue and manpower...
New York Times Spamming Google Results
The New York Times has worked to ensure that its site and search results are incredibly Google friendly, so Google friendly in fact that a...
Local.com Launches Local Verfied : Local Search Advertising
Local.com today has launched Local Verified, a new advertising program that offers businesses preferred placement in Local.com search results. Using Local Verified, businesses can secure...
Top 10 Reasons to Attend Elite Retreat : Orlando
Elite Retreat is coming to Orlando, Florida on Friday June 8th and Saturday June 9th. If a $500 off coupon is not reason enough for...
Superpages.com Improves with Redesign
Although spotted last week, SuperPages put out a press release announcing changes and improvements on the site. Here’s a list of the enhancements from the...
Yahoo Search Marketing Puts The Brakes on Keyword Inventory Tool
Andy Beal says that Yahoo Search Marketing is still not planning on supporting the old Overture Inventory tool, since the older tool is not accurately...
Link Building & The Importance of Keyword Reflective Domains
Today I was chatting with my friend Derrick Daye of the Blake Project, a branding strategy group. We were discussing the ranking of his company’s...
Volkswagon Spamming Search with invisibleContent Tag
Volkswagon’s web site, vw.com, was recently showcased by Google for using Google Enterprise Search to power the new VW site. Today, Barry Schwartz & Danny...
Adsense Click and Miss Reminder to Publishers
Inside Adsense Blog is reminding Publishers about accidental clicks on Adsense ads implemented on their blogs. Adsense publishers must ensure that ads are properly placed...
Microsoft Yahoo Merger Could Be a Reality
Today the search and stock market news channels are buzzing with talk of a possible merger between Microsoft and Yahoo, which would see the two...
Yahoo Photos Closing, Flickr Growing
Michael Arrington has the scoop on Yahoo closing down its Yahoo Photos service, and integrating its users and photos into Flickr. The service will be...
YouTube Makes Some Members Content Partners
Finally, in recognition of selected popular members’ contribution to its growing video content, YouTube is elevating the status of selected users to Partners. If you...
Will Ask.com’s Ad Campaign Be Effective?
I continue to be fascinated by Ask and its mix of innovative ideas (Ask X, Ask City) and guts (the “information underground“). I have often...
Yahoo Launches Online Poker in UK
Yahoo has been involved with online gambling before, but not in the fashion of the controversial industry of online poker. Yesterday Yahoo UK & Ireland,...
Google Buying Wall Street Journal? When Donkeys Fly!
For those that are following the thus far (and hopefully always) unsuccessful attempt by Rupert Murdoch to buy Dow Jones, publisher of the WSJ, here’s...
Yahoo oneSearch Mobile Search Expands to Europe & Canada
Yahoo’s oneSearch beta, their user friendly mobile search offering which has changed the way that I search via my mobile phone, is expanding into Canada,...
ReviewMe Launches Advertiser Marketplace, Minimum $10 per Review
Paid blog review broker ReviewMe has launched a new advertiser marketplace where advertisers can create campaign offers which bloggers can review, then decide to accept...
PodZinger Video & Audio Search Names New CEO
PodZinger, the audio and video search engine & advertising network, has named Tom Wilde as their new CEO. Under Wilde’s leadership, PodZinger hopes to expand...
Citysearch Updates & Adds Video
Today, IAC’s Citysearch becomes the first major local search consumer destination to add video on any kind of scale (note the qualifiers). In addition to...