Google Responds to Adwords Quality Score Variable Leak
Yesterday on Search Engine Journal, Eric Lander posted some screen shots of Google openly serving confidential advertiser information in their AdWords results, such as the...
SEORipOff.com : Stain of the Search Marketing Industry
If you are in the field of search marketing, search engine optimization, or online marketing in general; you have probably seen the ads in Google...
Looking for ‘Bad Guys’ – Discovering Networks of Sites
Creating networks of (interlinked) sites is a widespread tactic of PageRank and ranking manipulation. To own a lot of websites is perfectly OK but to...
Feedburner-Google Integration under way, Adsense on RSS to push through
When Google acquired Feedburner last year, one of the changes that were announced was the integration of Adsense ad units into Feedburner members’ RSS feeds....
Google Leaks Quality Score Variables (Pscore, mCPC and thresh) in Search Results
Earlier this morning a colleague of mine was conducting a search and called me over to show me something interesting. Immediately below each of the...
How to Analyze Page Keyword Prominence
While keyword density is really something SEOs should really stop paying attention to, keyword prominence is a concept that still should be analyzed and evaluated....
Windows Live Search Mobile intros Shop and Search on the Go
Windows Live Search is on th roll the past couple of days. It’s latest offering, a convenient mobile application for product search. Product search on...
Private Detective Sues Google for “Unwanted” Ads
Another day, another lawsuit. David Almeida, a private detective, has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that hundreds of thousands of companies that have signed...
Deadline Passes with No Deal Struck: Will Microsoft Continue to Fight for Yahoo?
Three months ago Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo Inc., and today they are no closer to acquiring the company than they...
Get Your Search Marketing Resume Indexed By A Recruiter
As a recruiter in the internet marketing industry I am tasked with reviewing hundreds of resumes every week. The reality is I have to quickly...
How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us
Social bookmarking is not only a nice way to get more traffic and links. That’s a most effective method to explore what people think about...
Google’s Vision of the Future of Image Search
Can Google’s technology automatically analyze what’s inside an image? I mean is it really possible to automatically analyze an image subject then rank it according...
comScore Validates Accuracy of its Google Paid Click Data
It looks like the issue on the declining click data of Google’s paid ads won’t just die down. Well, at least for comScore, they will...
Search Marketing Jobs : IBM, Six Apart & PeopleFinders
The Search Marketing Jobs Board at Search Engine Journal has heated up this week with some rather high profile jobs at companies like IBM and...
4 Ways to Hide Content From Google : And Google’s Reaction
Barry stumbled across a thread over at the Google Webmster Help Group and simplified all of the information from the thread in an easy to...
Microsoft Live Search News gets an RSS
Either the Microsoft Live Search team were sleeping when they were developing the Live Search News portal or they wanted so much to make it...
Yahoo Integrating Facebook Style Social Map & Unified Profile Pages Across Network
It’s about time! Yahoo is finally taking the social route in fully connecting its Yahoo Network users across multiple Yahoo platforms in a Facebook meets...
Yahoo’s Take on the Open Web, A Search Monkey
Actually, I would have made the title of this post into something like, “Yahoo calls the people for help to save itself from getting eaten...
Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles to Brazillian Authorities
On Wednesday, Google turned over approximately 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission charged with looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted...
SEJ Guest Blogging : Review the Guest Marketing Posts
I’m sure that readers have noticed a good amount of new names and faces popping up in their Google Reader and RSS aggregators. Search Engine...
Viral Marketing : the Real Deal, or Just a Pipedream?
Individuals new to online marketing are constantly asking me the same question. What are the best low risk, high reward, homerun style marketing techniques? The...
To Slash or Not to Slash. That’s A Server Header Question.
Uh, not that kind of slashing! Let’s say you are setting up your keyword rich links to point to a subdirectory. Should the link point...
Q&A With Nathan Enns, CEO at FyberSearch
Nathan Enns started working on FyberSearch at the age of 19. Having developed the engine from scratch, Nathan has been following the search space for...
Google Rolls Out Mobile Image Ads
Google just launched mobile image ads which works like your typical Google image ads but small enough to fit on a mobile phone’s screen. The...
Google Enters Utility Business : Invests in Solar Power Plant Technology
Google made a rather impressive green investment this week, putting $130 million into eSolar, a solar energy company which specializes in developing a solar to...
Are you #1 in Google? It Doesn’t Matter
That’s right folks, you heard it right. Gone is the day where all that mattered was if you’re web page listing was on the first...
The New Alexa Ranking – Still Useless or Not, Reap Its Benefits Before Your Competitors Do!
There were many critiques on the Alexa Rank, resulting in a major Alexa Rank update recently. In the past, some looked at its flaws and...
Linking Out Loud… but with Caution
A while ago I posted a natural SEO piece talking about reciprocal linking and interlinking that was criticized for giving insufficient information on linking out...
MSN Live Search Rolls Out Some New Features
MSN Live Search has been rolling out some new features lately. The latest of which being on its Live Search Products which is now sporting...
Yahoo Earnings : Q1 Increases Beat Market Expectations
Yahoo announced today that their Q1 2008 Earnings and Revenues have increased over Q4 of last year, beating Wall Street expectations and putting a new...