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Smart Spam via .EDU Link, Greed and Stanford Site Exploit
This post looks like taken straight from the SEOBlackHat.com Blog, but it is not. I am showing you in detail a very clever trackback spam...
Google AdWords & Domain Parking : Garbage Paid Search?
Richard Ball emailed today to fill us in on the current issues he’s having with a large amount of Google AdWords Paid Search (not contextual)...
Malware Warnings in Google Searches
Chris Boggs points to the Malware Warnings that Google is serving on specific searches which may lead to sites which are peddling malware : While...
Social Media : Get Used to It
For the past couple of years I have been preaching the gospel of user-generated content and reviews. I often encountered considerable skepticism from former colleagues...
Google PageRank Update: What it Really Means
It’s confirmed, Google just launched a new PageRank update. We’ve been expecting one in January and now virtually everyone is excited about their improvements or...
YouTube More Popular Than MySpace.com?
Found via Digg, Smaran Dayal looks at an Alexa comparison of YouTube and MySpace over the past six months which shows that although MySpace shows...
Questions for StumbleUpon: What Would You Ask Their Co-Founder?
I’ve got an SEJ interview coming up with Garrett Camp, co-founder and chief architect of StumbleUpon. You’ve most recently heard of StumbleUpon in regards to...
Seo Is Simple Revisited
A client pointed me to one of the latest installments about how easy SEO is. This time it was Blogoscoped that laid out the easy...
Why Yahoo Needs MyBlogLog, and Vice Versa
Yahoo has made another successful and smart social media acquisition in MyBlogLog which can now be added to their list of grassroots early adoption web...
Microsoft Analytics to Challenge Google?
Rumor is floating around that Microsoft is about to come out with a free web analytics service which will rival Google Analytics. The project is...
How to Spam Digg Comments, by Neil Patel
Neil Patel of Pronet Advertising takes the time to remind us all that Digg.com’s homepage is not the only traffic driver on the social news...
Apple iPhone : WiFi, Google, Yahoo & Mac OS X
The rumors were true. Here’s the news. Here’s the WSJ (sub req’d) article. From ComputerWorld: The entire front of the quadband GSM phone serves as...
Social Media Marketers: Have You Tried Digg + MySpace?
So um, is there any kind of social media marketing besides Digg bait? Does craigslist spam count as social media marketing? ;P What ever happened...
Yahoo oneSearch Launches to Redefine Mobile Web Search
Yahoo has launched a new mobile search service dubbed Yahoo oneSearch which Yahoo says takes a different tack towards the displaying of search results on...
Yahoo China Evolving into Business Search Engine?
Interesting article from the International Herald Tribune (a fine paper to read while living overseas) about how Jack MA, the CEO of Alibaba; which runs...
WordPress Blog Hosting : Recommendations?
I’m currently looking into a new hosting package for Search Engine Journal and reviewing the recommended WordPress hosting companies as provided by WordPress. Their top...
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Interviewed on BBC Radio
For those of you who are looking to keep up on the excited world of user generated content, social news, search and Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales,...
ChaCha Search Secures $6 Million in Funding
ChaCha, the real time human-powered search engine which is rapidly growing in popularity, announced today it received $6 million in private funding in 2006.
Yahoo! Local Cranks Up Community
This happened late this past week and it’s already been widely reported but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Yahoo!’s new quicker, more open...
Last week in China – No Internet and Google Invests in P2P
Due to an earthquake in Taiwan I have experienced again what it was like before the Internet existed. It’s liberating on the one hand, as...
Digital Point Forums : Best Search Engine Marketing Forum
To round up the Search Blogs Awards of 2006, this year’s bonus award goes to the Search Engine Journal readers’ favorite Search Engine Marketing Forum,...
Yahoo Local Quick Editing for Business Listings
Yahoo Local has announced a new easy service for businesses, or customers of those businesses, which want to edit or add to their Yahoo Local...
Shoemoney : Best Affiliate Marketing Blog of 2006
Affiliate marketing is nothing new, in fact, online affiliate marketing has been around for 10 years and was a part of the online marketing mix...
Winzy : Search & Win Search Engine
Winzy.com launched in April of 2006 and has added a social networking and 2.0 search approach to the ‘search & win’ model. Before looking into...
Awesome Fun and Creative Conclusions On The Last Day Of 2006
I can only imagine the new years eve at Jim “Jester” Kukral castle in the old and infamous darklands of Ohio (or highlands? whatever, a...
NewsTrust Hopes to Digg the Best Online Journalism
Another social news sharing service is in beta testing, NewsTrust, which hopes to use a Digg style format to help users find the best journalism...
Google Pulls ‘Google Tips’
The controversial Google Tips seem to have been pulled after stirring up a bunch of bad press about Google’s use of its search result landscape....
Brazil Wants YouTube to Remove Sex Video or Shut Down
Sure Google and the Brazilian legal system have had their rifts in the past, but this one takes the cake. Daniela Cicarelli, model, opportunist and...
Best Search Engine News Blog of 2006 : Search Engine Watch
Unlike the other SEO and SEM blog categories, this one is a bit more broad, focusing on the blogs which brought us the most search...
Matt Cutts : Best Search Blogger of 2006
This year’s Best Search Blogger is now a three time recipient of a Search Engine Journal Search Blog Award as his blog won Best SEO...