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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...
How to do long-term (budget) SEO using keyword domains
Search Engine Journal’s Ahmed Bilal has an article at Marketing niche SEO and how the industry will change in the next two months. It’s part...
Why Digg is More Popular than Del.icio.us… Or is it?
Digg is probably the only company which got loads of online buzz when it hit the one million user mark. Come to think of it,...
StumbleThru : Site Specific StumbleUpon Released
StumbleUpon has launched a new service dubbed StumbleThru which allows users to sift and roll thru social media and personalized content driven sites such as...
Google & Yahoo No Longer Serving News on Top
Google today rolled out an overhaul of the way they serve news results along with traditional web results. Planning to do away with the Google...
How to List Your Site in MySpace News
MySpace News has launched and they are looking for news sources to include in their index. You can submit your site or blog to MySpace...
Hitwise Acquired By Experian for $250M
It must be the bad and unpredictable April weather, because Blogs did not even finish discussing one acquisition in the space when already another announcement...
Einstein PHP Developer, Gorilla SEO, Paid Rockets, Matt Crowds and …
…. the question if Canadians require a Visa for the U.S. or not. I will come back to that is a second. I don’t know,...
Link Building: Graph Theoretic Strategies
This is a continuation of the article Link building structures: hunters and collectors. What I’m doing is looking at web traffic control from a graph...
Google Dice “Queryless Search” Answer to StumbleUpon Popularity
Google has taken the popular StumbleUpon model and adapted it to the Google Toolbar with its “Google Dice” offering, which is part of a Google...
Link Building Structures: Hunters and Collectors
This is a brief introduction to graph theory as it applies to both internal and external link building. The concepts here will be re-used in...
Facebook Local Classifieds Launching?
Mashable has the scoop on a local classifieds service Facebook, the social network, may soon be launching. Interesting set up as I could see this...
WhoIsSick.org : Google Maps Sickness Mashup
WhoIsSick.org is a new Google Maps Mashup where users enter their current illness and location. The site can then be used to track different illnesses...
Chinese Interview with Matt Cutts and Google Japan Blocked
This week more on SEO in China from an interview with Matt Cutts and Jianfei. Also Chinese firewall news that shows that even Baidu can...
Microsoft’s Tellme Launches Three New Mobile Search Services
Microsoft’s Tellme today is announcing new ways to search for information via the phone with voice recognition & text activated local business search by business...
What Will Google Do With Performics?
Now that Google has acquired the Internet advertising giant DoubleClick, what are they planning to do with its search marketing company Performics? You mean, Google...
Microsoft Not Happy Over Google-DoubleClick Deal
The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft is pressuring Federal regulators to review the Google acquisition of DoubleClick. According to Steve Lohr of the...
Yahoo & Newspapers Extend Relationship : Google DoubleClick Reaction?
On a day of news, news from newspapers. The newspaper industry Yahoo!-”Amigos” consortium is now formalizing and expanding its relationship in logical ways, using Yahoo!...
Quality Link Building : Editorial Links vs. Acquired Links
Link building was a major discussion which encompassed the majority of the panels at Search Engine Strategies New York last week, whether on the agenda...