MSN adCenter : Content Ads, adCenter Beta and Demographic Targeting
Considering that MSN has only somewhat recently launched their PPC ad serving system, most folks agree that they are doing a good job. After all,...
Google & Kinderstart : As You Shout Into the Woods…
Matt Cutts noted briefly at his blog that Google’s motions to dismiss the 2nd amended complaint case without leave to amend and for sanctions against...
Google Pay-Per-Action Launches for AdWords & AdSense
Google has rolled out the beta version of their new ‘affiliate’ influenced Pay-Per-Action Adwords model where advertisers pay Google & its publishers only when a...
Yahoo, MyBlogLog & Google AdSense Click Tracking
As some of you who use MyBlogLog to track your blog metrics and statistics know, MyBlogLog monitors the number of Google AdSense clicks which are...
Pro-Obama Hillary Clinton ‘1984’ Video Posted on YouTube
Someone has posted an anti-Hillary version of the famous 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial on YouTube which ends with the message : “On Jan. 14,...
WordPress SEO Title Tag 2.0 Plugin
If you use WordPress to manage your blog or blog driven web site, Stephen Spencer has just released a new plugin which should be of...
Marketing Your Site on Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers is the knowledge sharing Q&A based social network with over 90 million users worldwide with around 18 million users in the United States....
Google & Dish Network in Video Advertising Deal?
VentureBeat is reporting that Google is taking the first rumored moves in its obvious next step to bring Google Video Ads to the masses by...
Build Quality Links Using MeetUp.com
The other week I joined MeetUp.com, the online event, local and “meeting up” social networking site, in an effort to meet other bloggers, search marketers,...
Yahoo Answers Adds Social Networking
Yahoo Answers, the question & answer social media exchange, has become a success for Yahoo, bringing the phenomena of social knowledge sharing to over 90...
Alexa Bias Exposed by Top Google Engineers
Alexa, the web site popularity and ranking measurement metric, has been widely accepted by the web publisher and online advertising world as a way to...
Google’s 30 US Subsidiaries & Google’s International Companies
Google published its Annual Report which includes the list of Google’s Subsidiaries, both based in the United States and Internationally. Most non-Google companies are acquisitions,...
How To Get Links from Bloggers
Getting your story or content on Digg, StumbleUpon, or Fark can attract a lot of traffic and links to your site, but if you want...
Google ReBang : Chinese Language Zeitgeist
Yesterday Philipp Lenssen found that Google has added “/rebang” to their robots.txt file. Usually when Google is going to launch a new service or channel,...
SEO Clinic : Submit Your Site for SEO Advice
SEO Clinic is a new project we are now offering on Search Engine Journal for webmasters and site owners which are not experiencing their desired...
The Oscar Goes To – According to Google Trends
Just a couple of hours to go and it will be clear which movie is getting the Oscar for best film. I was wondering whether...
Should URLs in links use index.html?
When it comes to the best URL structures and formats, the most common question I get is in regards to the best way to reference...
WikiAnswers : The Wikipedia of Q&A Sites
Answers.com has completed the first stage of integrating content into WikiAnswers, a Wiki Q&A service. The content on WikiAnswers is an ongoing collaboration of shared...
Microsoft Making a Smarter Blogroll
Microsoft is working on the Smart Blogroll, a way for bloggers and blog readers to learn more about the information and topics discussed on blogs....
StumbleUpon Defined vs. Digg, Google, MySpace and More
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon, which recently reached 1.8 million users. I typed four pages of notes in 8...
Social Media Linking & Email Spam Requests
Being a website publisher, I receive my share of mass emails asking to join linking networks or trade sitewide links with other sites. Generally, as...
Why won’t Matt Cutts link to me?
Do you suffer from no-links angst too? Aaron Pratt of SEO Buzz Box writes about “circular linking patterns” and how A-list bloggers form their own...
Boost Your Yahoo Ads Quality Score
Barry Schwartz points to a WebmasterWorld thread where a Yahoo Search Marketing representative, YahooSarah, posts an explanation of Yahoo’s new Quality Index Score system. Basically,...
iCrossing Acquiring UK Based Spannerworks
iCrossing announced today that they will be acquiring Spannerworks, a UK based search engine marketing firm, for $18 million. Spannerworks is a 10 year old...
Google Maps Stickers in Business Windows
Over at Search Engine Land, Greg Sterling posted about a Google Maps sticker which was spotted at a London restaurant: Smart! The technique is usually...
Yahoo’s Overture Keyword Selector Tool Working Again
After experiencing a lot of downtime last week, Yahoo Search Marketing’s Overture Keyword Selector tool is up and running again. Search engine marketers and search...
Digg Payola Backfires for Social Media Spammer
Muhammad Saleem, the new addition to the Pronet Advertising blog, today made a post exposing how the owner of a site named BringPopcorn.com tried to...
Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog Interviewed by Lee Odden
Lee Odden of TopRank has interviewed MyBlogLog’s CEO Scott Rafer about the success of MyBlogLog and how it feels to be the newest delivery to...
Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestion Tool
Now that Yahoo Search Marketing’s Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool is on the fritz and there are really no signs of it coming back to life...
Google Q4 Revenues Exceed Expectations, Up 16% over Q3 2006
Google’s 2006 Q4 earnings beat Wall Street expectations when they announed today that revenues were up 67% over Q4 2005 and 16% more than last...