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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...
Feedburner FeedCount : Valued RSS Circulation Metric
In a world of crazy and unstable web audience metrics (think Alexa) there are not many tools which publicly and honestly reflect the popularity and...
Why You Should Deep-Link Your Blog
In Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines, I mentioned that new blogs often have pages that are essentially invisible, and that many remain that...
Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style IV
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 2 and...
Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style III
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 2 and...
Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style II
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 3 and...
Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This is a series of four posts in total. See Part 2, Part...
AOL’s New Homepage & Social Media
Coming off the EconSM show last weekin LA, I’ve got social media on the brain. But if the user community is now a “perpetual focus...
Wikipedia Giving Link Juice to Wikia Search, No Following Other Sites
Wikipedia has become notorious for using the No Follow attribute to link to all outgoing links from Wikipedia entries. TechCrunch, however, has learned that Wikipedia...
Yahoo to Acquire Right Media Ad Company
Yahoo is reportedly eyeing Right Media, a privately owned advertising company. The company previously bought a 20% stake in the company last October and will...
In-house Spotlight: Manager Of Search Engine Initatives, Thomasnet.com
ThomasNet’s search strategy was well underway when Jill Sampey took over search engine marketing. Having been with the company for several years, she was at...
Google Local Business Center Address Verification II
Last December Google introduced the Local Business Center and allowed businesses to provide their address, phone numbers, website, offered services, business hours, accepted payment methods,...
Last week in China – Google Searches In and Outside China and Other News.
One of the peculiarities with Google search in China is the question of domains. Which Google domain censors search results, which does not and does...
Search Engine News Review
Here’s some search engine news you may have missed recently. Digg Behavior Analyzed If you didn’t catch it already, New Scientist has a look at...
Mobile Users Want to Search, and Search Locally
iCrossing recently released a study on the behavior of mobile Internet users. Surprisingly, according to the study only 30 percent of mobile users access the...
What Hasn’t Google Bought?
In the 90s, some startups dreamed of being acquired by Microsoft. In the 00s, do they dream of being acquired by Google? I mean, what...
Google AdSense : Running Other Publisher AdSense Code on Banned Site is OK
Cristian Mezei has made an interesting post at SeoPedia about Google letting and even encouraging webmasters who have been banned from Google AdSense to “rent...
Hackers Exploiting IE7 Flaw Through Google Sponsored Links
If you are using IE7 as your primary browser, better be sure that you update and maintain it properly with patches and updates or else...
How to Write Good for Search Engine Marketing
If you do not recognize the obvious grammatical error in the title, you MUST read this article; I wrote it specifically for you! If you...
“Google Inside” Your PCs?
Ellinor Mills of CNET News reports that Google, and Intel, the world’s largest supplier of microprocessors has reached a co-marketing initiative that will allow makers...
Google : World’s Most Visited Site
According to the San Francisco Chronicle and comScore, Google has taken the lead against Microsoft as the world’s most visited Internet property. Beating out Microsoft...
Ask.com Launching Contextual Advertising Network
Ask.com and IAC are launching a Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network rival contextual advertising product which will become another revenue generation option for publishers....
Google AdWords Testing New Google Checkout Button (Above the Fold)
Over at Marketing Pilgrim, Jeremy Luebke found that Google AdWords is testing a larger and more branded Google Checkout button in AdWords results which appear...
Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines
The Invisible Web (aka Deep Web) is that humoungous slice of the Internet’s web pages that traditional search engines either have not indexed or cannot...
Growth of New Mapping Mashups
The pace of development of new mapping mashups (mostly using Google Maps) is almost impossible to follow. But it’s one of the most interesting stories...
Link Building on Social Networks
Debra Mastaler of the Link Spiel looks at the value of link building within general social media sites like MySpace or Facebook as opposed to...
FOOA Conference Pass : Social Media & Advertising
Before SES NY we announced that Search Engine Journal was giving away a free pass to the Future of Online Advertising conference in New York,...
Trimming Down Content Leads to Better SEO?
Sure, content is king but when you have a site chocked full of thousands upon thousands of pages of content, can it be too much?...
Ranking Factors Simplified Quick Reference
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was...
Google’s “Claim Your Content”?
End of last week did Google acquire a large amount of domains around the phrases: “Claim Your Content”, “Claim My Content” and “Claim Our Content” CLAIMYOURCONTENT...