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Yahoo Search Marketing’s New Quality Ranking : Patent Info & How To’s
On Monday February 5th, Yahoo! will be going full speed ahead with the US based relaunch of Yahoo Search Marketing and its new ranking model...
Yahoo! Q4 Earnings Beat Estimates
Here’s the partial release text (full text here): SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 23, 2007 – Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today reported results for the fourth...
NOFOLLOW Wikipedia to PageRank Zero Campaign
For those of you who missed the big news Sunday & Monday, all outbound Wikipedia links are using a NOFOLLOW tag, which basically means they...
Local.com Acquiring soUno Online Yellow Pages Advertising Firm
Local.com is beginning to make some rather interesting news lately which may help to push them into the local search spotlight (beyond their awesome domain...
Google AdWords Exclusion Tool Now Unlimited : For Contextual Network
There are going to be some very happy Google Adwords advertisers out there as AdWords has beefed up its Site Exclusion Tool to allow the...
‘Secret’ Gmail Delete Mail Keyboard Shortcut
Amit Agarwal has unearthed the holy grail of keyboard shortcuts – the GMail email deletion shortcut. There is a catch however, it only works using...
Google AdSense Video Content Expanding
From Reuters and the AdSense blog: Over the next few weeks we’ll be testing AdSense video distribution and sponsorship with a small group of publishers....
Google Bringing e-Books to Mobile Devices
Google may be reinventing their Google Book Search offering to be more relevant and practical than reading scanned copies of book pages on the PC....
Google Acquiring AdScape? Video Game Advertising Firm
Google is in talks over the acquisition of AdScape Media reports Steve Bryant eWeek’s Google Watch. AdScape Media specializes in performance based video game advertising...
V7N Contextual Links : Link Buying Service for SEO & Bloggers
V7N announced last week that they have launched a new link buying service which could be seen as a hybrid of Text Link Ads and...
2006 Chinese Internet Data : Advertising, Search Engines & Blogs
The Internet speed has been slowly improving in China but the latest news is that the final repairs will be finished half way February instead...
All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW
I blogged about the Wikipedia Issues with SPAM and the discussions about the use of NOFOLLOW for ALL external Links from Wikipedia. It was done, finally....
Google & Yahoo Outdoor Kiosks and Advertising
ClickZ and Bill Slawski discuss Google patent filings related to local kioks and billboards (at malls). From the ClickZ article: Google said the system would...
Yahoo Search Indexing Google AdWords Links
Some disturbing news about Yahoo Search and the indexing of Google AdWords links. Seems that the Yahoo index is including Google AdWords and other PPC...
Linkbait Driving the Creative Side of SEM + How to Develop those Links?
I saw first hand the decline of an SEO company that fell because (among other still contentious issues) it focused primarily (and at times quite...
MIVA Unveils MIVA Monetization Center
MIVA, who is better known as one of the larger 2nd tier PPC search marketing networks unveiled at their headquarter in New York City yesterday...
Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton vs. John Edwards : Looking at Search Stats
Barack Obama is filing his campaign papers and beginning his exploratory committee which basically means that leading up to the 2008 Presidential Election, Obama, John...
SOAP API : Alternative to Google Search API
Google is not offering feeds to their search results (besides Google Custom Search) and new API keys are no longer available, what’s a web publisher...
Yahoo Answers Adds Stars : Sharing, Votes & Networking
The Flickrization of Yahoo continues… Yahoo Answers has updated with a new sharing system which lets Yahoo Answers users share Questions & Answers they feel...
Mobile Local Search : New Findings & Data
comScore is putting out two reports on cell phone usage and attitudes in the US. Here’s the press release. I’ve written up the top-level findings...
Google Checkout vs PayPal : JPMorgan Report
JPMorgan as put together an overview of a study they recently undertook where they surveyed over 1,000 consumers to gauge their online spending behavior, adoption...
Don’t Put All of Your Search Marketing Budget in the Google Basket
Yesterday Greg Sterling reminded us all of Google’s search engine dominance and the growth (or decline) of the market share of Yahoo!, Ask.com, Live (MSN)...
Vertical vs. Horizontal Search Engines
So-called vertical search is all the rage. Why? Partly because “horizontal” (general) search has limitations and partly because it’s almost impossible to get VCs to...
Google Pulls Links to Yahoo Maps & MapQuest
In a “why didn’t they do that earlier?” news story of the day we read that Google has taken out the links to Yahoo Maps...
How Blogs Help SEO
Great post from Lee Odden today on how blogs and blogging helps the SEO of a site with a blog, or a business using a...
Google SafeSearch Results for ‘Sex Video’ Block Wikipedia
Was going through my referring keywords today and noticed a rather odd term sending in Google traffic; “sex video.” Knowing that I’ve posted stories about...
Megite : Interview with Matthew Chen of Megite.com
Today I had the chance to speak with Matthew Chen, the co-founder of Megite, which is a real time news aggregation service. You’re probably familiar...
Building the ‘Local Internet’
The NY Times’ Bob Tedeschi writes about an emerging category of sites forming a kind of “virtual town square,” so-called hyperlocal content sites (awkward term)...
2007 : Year of Google Base
Brian Smith of Comparison Engines has a very indepth post about how he feels Google Base will break out of its shell in Q1 2007...
SponsoredReviews.com Joining Paid Review Services
Another paid blogging review service is popping up soon to join ReviewMe and PayPerPost; SponsoredReviews.com. The service is being launched by Text Link Brokers (no,...