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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...
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...