Flickr Rolls Out Twitter Integration Feature
Flickr has just introduced a new feature that it should have done long ago – Flickr2Twitter. If you use Flickr, this new feature would allow...
Firefox 3.6 in 2010? Namoroka!
With Google Chrome threatening its dominance in the browser arena, Firefox certainly has got many things to consider to prevent Google’s browser from inching in...
StumbleUpon Tip: Use Google to Choose the Best Category and Tags
Sharing stories on social voting and bookmarking sites both grows your social media profile power and enables you to reach your audience. Surprisingly enough, being...
Facebook or Just Face-Look? Are People 55 And Older Really Using Social Networking Websites?
Facebook is estimated to have 70.2 million unique visitors per month in the United States according to comScore. Social networking is booming, everyone is friending,...
How to Track Your Reputation or a Keyword in Multiple Resources via One Unified Feed
We have way too many resources to track today: thousands of blogs, social media networks, forums – somewhere someone may be talking about you and...
Google Launches SMS Mobile App in Africa
Google is extending its services to mobile phone users in Africa via Google SMS. Google SMS is a suite of mobile apps that provide access...
Google Android Version of Firefox Likely to be Developed
Google Android applications are currently written in Java and run off Google’s Dalvik Java virtual machine, however, that will soon change. Last week Google announced...
Google Invites News Publishers to Share Videos on YouTube
Google currently has more than 25,000 news sources that contribute content for Google News, and now they are inviting them to share professional news videos...
The Clash of Web and Traditional Advertising
I don’t usually write columns like this. This one is more philosophical than usual, but I think it’s an important topic for everybody in search...
Scott Polk Joins Search & Social as Director of Operations
I am very happy to announce that Search & Social Media LLC, the parent company of Search Engine Journal, has recently tapped Scott Polk as...
Achieve High Rankings by Using Your Existing PageRank as Leverage
With all of the controversy regarding PageRank sculpting and nofollow links, we can sometimes forget that your internal linking strategy should be keyword-driven. Use your...
3 Cool Greasemonkey Scripts That Improve Microsoft Bing
I already listed a couple of great Greasemonkey scripts combining Bing with Twitter: This time I am following up with more cool Greasemonkey scripts for...
Yahoo Link Sends Record-Breaking Traffic to New York Times Site
And you thought the “Digg Effect” was bad. Behold the Yahoo link effect. A link featured at the top of Yahoo’s front page sent more...
Got Good Credit? Google Wants to Serve You Targeted Ads.
As a website owner myself, I have explored several different contextual ad platforms, and Google has always seemed to be ahead of their competitors in...
Microsoft Puts Razorfish Ad Agency on the Market
Sometime in 2007, when Microsoft acquired aQuantive, it has also acquired the Digital Ad Agency Razorfish. Now 2 years after the Microsoft acquisition, Razorfish is...
Grab You Facebook Fan Pages’ Vanity URLs Tonight
Tonight, Facebook will start allowing Facebook fan pages owners to get their preferred vanity URLs. If you will recall, Facebook started allowing Facebook users to...
Google AdSense Coming to iPhone, Android Apps
A couple of days ago, Google announced the beta launch of AdSense for Mobile Apps. This is a new facility which iPhone and Android app...
How to Turn Your PowerPoint Presentation into a Video for More Exposure
Are you a frequent speaker at search conferences? Getting prepared for the search conference must take plenty of time and effort. Well, here is a...
The Internal Battle For SERP Supremacy
In my last article, 8 Key Points to Multiple niche Sites And Controlling Back Links, I cautioned that you need to be careful that a...
Michael Jackson Died in 2007 : According to Google & Wikipedia
According to Google, Michael Jackson did not pass away two days ago. Instead, the search engine is serving a customized result (powered by Wikipedia) stating...
Did Bing Copy Kayak’s Travel Search Portal?
Right after we mentioned in our previous post that one of Bing’s strengths is its travel vertical, here comes an interesting post by Epicenter on...
Michael Jackson Dead : Microsoft Bing FAILS in Coverage, Twitter and Facebook Break News
Has Michael Jackson died or is this another social media and Internet hoax? Social Media is reporting his death. CNN is reporting he’s in a...
Google City Tours Experiments with Travel Vertical
Google Labs is testing on an experimental service which could probably pave the way for Google’s entry into the tourism vertical. The feature, called City...
Google PageRank Update : June 2009
Google PageRank (the visible toolbar PageRank that is) was updated around the web on the 23rd and 24th of June, changing the visible PageRank scores...
How to Find More Sites by the Same Owner (For Free)
First of all, let me start with a little disclaimer that I doubt about the ethics of the tool reviewed below. I for one recommend...
Win the Google Quality Score Battle – For Real This Time
Layoffs and budget cuts abound, there is no doubt that this recession is putting some serious pressure on marketers of all types. I feel very...
Twitter SEO – The Slow Death of Twitter Hash Tags
Hash tags are a fad. Hash tags were cool for about 10 minutes. But then they started to remind us of IRC, Meta Data, and...
Google Shares Best Practices for Making the Web Faster
Google has just launched Code.Google.com/Speed, a new site for developers containing tutorials, tips and performance tools which can be used to optimize the performance of...
Microsoft Bing Adds Three Former Yahoo & Google Engineers to Team
If you can’t acquire them, just hire them! Microsoft, which made a play to acquire Yahoo via hostile takeover last year, has forged ahead and...
Google Chrome Security Issues Fixed, Update Released
Google updated their Google Chrome browser yesterday with a new release (version 2.0.172.33) which includes a major fix of a critical security flaw in the...