How Much Traffic Does Bing Refer to Your Site?
I was going through our Analytics last night on SEJ and looking into our referrals from Bing, and thought I would share with our readers....
GoDaddy Joins Google China Boycott : Stops Selling .CN Domains
Never one to back down from a chance to gain publicity, GoDaddy.com has announced that like Google, it too will be halting operations in China....
How to Smartly Interlink Your Blog Content with SEO Smart Links
Interlinking your sub pages is a great way to both improve your rankings by using keyword-targeted anchor texts and also increase the crawl rate and...
Google Tests Hotel Price Listings on Google Maps
Google Maps is a pretty useful tool for conducting local search on business establishments, directions and yes route maps. It’s been getting wide usage and...
Google Redirects Chinese Search to HongKong
Finally, Google made the drastic move top stop censoring its search services on Google.cn. Starting today, users visiting the site will be redirected to Google.com.hk...
New SEJ Design : Goals, Speed & Feedback
Greetings SEJ readers! It’s a new year and time for a new design at Search Engine Journal. I know what many of you are thinking...
SEO for AJAX
AJAX and SEO is a tricky topic – after all, an AJAX-based website is more or less the same as a FLASH website: it may...
5 Ways to Make Back Links More Powerful
Sometimes in link building, you’re only as good as your next link. We’re always on the hunt for new links, more links, better links. But...
How to Use “Linearize Page” Option of Web Developer Addon
I know plenty of people who use Web Developer FireFox Addon and yet don’t have the clue about the real value of some of its...
How I Tested My Website Usability with UserTesting (+ SEJ Readers’ Contest!)
You may already know that about 3 months ago I launched my newest project uniting blog owners with guest contributors – MyBlogGuest. The site is...
Facebook Drive More Loyal Visitors to News and Media Sites
Well, it looks like Facebook is not only beating Google in terms of being the most visited site in the U.S. as well as for...
Different Search Results for the Same Term On Google
When I got home on Friday I started to put the mac away for the night and just relax, but for some reason I decided...
Bing Adds More Sizes Option to Image Search
If you’re fond of searching for great images and photos available on the web, most often you’d probably encounter search results which don’t give you...
ISAPI Rewrite: Addressing Canonicalization and Redirects on Windows Server
In previous posts, I’ve mentioned the importance of having a clean and crawlable website structure for SEO. The reason is simple. Without one, you’re dead...
An Unconventional Way to Choose Hosting
Choosing a hosting provider can be a big hassle. The first time I started paying for hosting was close to ten years ago and since...
3 Ways to Subscribe to Any RSS Feed with Your IM
Did you know that you could subscribe to any RSS feed with your instant messenger client? There are actually quite a few ways this can...
Google Adds Blue Dots to Product Search Results
Just a quick update to inform you that if you’re using Google’s product search, whether on your computers or mobile devices such as iPhone or...
3 Tools to Analyze the Sentiment of Your Brand Social Mentions
Sentiment analysis is something very new and immature. Sentiment analysis allows you to identify general attitudes towards your brand (or a product). The goal of...
YouTube Mobile Now Serving Banner Ads
With the ever growing site traffic of of YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that Google will take advantage of this to serve advertisements....
A Networking Guide to Social Media Commenting
Studying the front page of Digg or Reddit can give you some pretty decent insight into what kinds of content is worthy of the communities...
Six Types of Social Spammers
I hate spammers, and I’m 100% certain other people do too. Everyone at some point in time has had some type of experience with spammers....
Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators
Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs. Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited. Those...
Interview with Geno Prussakov, Outstanding Affiliate Marketing Expert
I love Twitter for putting me into contact with really outstanding people (well, since I don’t have time for conferences, Twitter is my major source...
Google Search Results Get the Star Treatment
Google’s long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature – marking search results...
Free SEJ News iPhone Application Available
Attention all Search Engine Journal lovers and avid readers out there: we have good news! The new SEJ News iPhone application is now available in...
3 Quick Ways to Test Your Website Design in FireFox
I am no web designer (I have neither time nor talent to learn web design), however for SEOs it is essential to know some basic...
3 Ways to Blog from Your Email
If you travel much and still need to keep your blog active, you will definitely find these tips useful: they will show you how to...
6 Ways to Extract All Links from the Current Page
Seeing what a web page links out to is one of the major steps of SEO diagnostics process. This way you can see which internal...
Google Launches DoubleClick for Publishers
Google has just announced its new ad serving technology which is geared for both large and small scale online publishers – DoubleClick for Publishers. This...
3 Gmail Search Tips You Will Be Thankful For
There’s hardly a person I know who is not using Gmail today. Finding an available Gmail username is no easier than finding a new .com...