Seo Home > SEJ SEO News FeedsCookies Crumbling? Or Is There Something Else Crumbling?When I read the article “Cookies Crumbling?” by Susan Perschke in the December Issue of SQL Server Magazine, did go off all my alarms for “don’t do” and “never do” in Website architecture. See the Article at SQLMag.com (Requires Subscription)The Text-Book issue with Session IDs and duplicate content illustrated perfectly in recommended solution for Web [...]
Does Digg.com Belong in Google Results?
There is a little back and forth debate between CenterNetwork’s Allen Stern and Techulate’s William Burn on whether or not Digg.com listings deserve ranking in Google.Allen Stern’s argument:If you look at Digg, from a true standpoint, what does it really offer? It offers a link to the actual story, a 1-2 line overview of the [...]
Google &Yahoo Saving Silicon Valley?s Commercial Real Estate Market
Article from Katherine Conrad at Mercury News on how Google and Yahoo have redefined the Silicon Valley’s commercial real estate market. Not by launching Ajax powered real estate channels, but by buying up loads of new Valley based commercial complexes:In the past year, Google gobbled up yet another portion of land and buildings in Mountain [...]
Rich Skrenta : Google Has Won Online Search and Advertising Markets
Rich Skrenta, the co-founder & CEO of Topix, has declared Google the winner of search and online advertising in a very provocative post. Here are some choice quotes:Just as Microsoft used their platform monopoly to push into vertical apps, expect Google to continue to push into lucrative destination verticals — shopping searches, finance, photos, mail, [...]
Wall Street Journal 3.0 Redesigns : Where?s the Social Media Optimization?
The Wall Street Journal has gone and redesigned again, in what they are claiming to be WSJ 3.0, and are offering free access to their entire site today.The new WSJ is a little less bloggy in design but not at its core. With new blogs, podcasts and search technology the site is quicker and lends [...]
YouTube Anti-Piracy Software Issue Detrimental to Google Entertainment?
MSNBC / Financial Times is running a story on how YouTube’s failure to finish a “key piece of anti-piracy software as promised” may impose an obstacle to Google and its relationships in the media & entertainment industry. Being that almost every news outlet is now using Google Earth and other Google branded services in their [...]
2006 Search Blog Awards : Winners to be Announced Tomorrow
Due to the amount of business, school and US federal closings due to the funeral of President Ford today, and the amount of people in the search industry who are not returning to their offices until tomorrow, Search Engine Journal has decided to announce the winners of the 2006 Search Blogs Awards tomorrow on January [...]
GMail Exploit Fixed
Yesterday the New Year brought upon us many global happenings, and bugs here at Search Engine Journal, but the biggest tech problem of January 1st may have been the exploit of a GMail weakness which exposed user web contacts.Engadget covers:The exploit takes advantage of the fact that Google puts your details into a JS file. [...]
CSS Cheat Sheet : A Must Have
Found via Digg.com (which may or may not belong in Google), this CSS Cheat Sheet is quite useful and should be on your bulletin board next to your Bruce Clay charts (someone please update!), Rainn Wilson autograph and photo of you and Matt Cutts (someone please code an ElfYourself.com version of Matt Cutts shaking hands [...]
AOL Search : Growth, Technology, Major Player in 2007?
I’ve been spending my mornings over the past two weeks on the local gym’s bike or cross training machines with one eye glued to the TV and the other to the timer counting down. On some days the televisions hanging from the ceiling are playing ESPN Sportscenter, which makes my workout go by quite quickly. [...]
Local Search : Will Comcast Become a Player?
Comcast is a bit of a sleeping giant in local:The company has a significant local sales forceIt’s a top 50 Web property and has a 1% search market share (Nielsen, 11/06)It has video, online and TV distribution assetsIt has lots of cash on handIt has a “triple play” play (TV, Internet, phone) and will [...]
Yahoo Local &Dash Team for Local Search &GPS Navigation
Dash Navigation, the vehicle navigation provider, and Yahoo Local have teamed up to deliver Yahoo Local content to Dash Express users. * When a user enters their search term into their Dash Express, the device wirelessly begins a Yahoo! Local search on the web. * The results are formatted into address cards and presented [...]
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 Blog of 2005 and Blogger Most Likely to Flame You for Spamming last year.Matt Cutts is more or less the voice of Google in the webmaster, SEO, and publishing community [...]
SEOmoz : Best SEO Blog of 2006
SEOmoz blog, the blog run by Rand Fishkin’s SEO company was ranked the highest by our readers in the 2006 Search Blogs Awards which were held during the last week of December.Hands down, in the past year SEOmoz has become the major authority on SEO, Social Media, Humor, and tips on running an SEO agency. [...]
Google Maps Plane Crash Mashup
Sometimes the best linkbait is right under our noses and in the form of a simple mashup. Aviation enthusiast Jeremy Zawodny (also of Yahoo) just featured a Plane Crash Google Maps Mashup on his blog which uses the GPS coordinates that the FAA and NTSB use to track airplane crashes.The result is AVCRASH, a useful [...]
Burrito Project : First MySpace Impact Awards Recipient
MySpace.com has announced the first winner of the MySpace Impact Awards which recognize people and organizations “making a difference in the world” through MySpace. MySpace is offering awards to six different categories : Community-building, Environmentalism, Health and Safety, Social Justice, Poverty Relief and International Development.Winners of the awards receive exposure via lots of MySpace friends, [...]
Google AdSense Site Diagnostics Bug
If you log into the Google AdSense Site Diagnostics screen and see that Google AdSense is not serving ads on specific pages due to Robots.txt files and you begin to freak out a bit thinking that Google Adsense ads are not being served, like I just did, don’t worry as there seems to be a [...]
Search Engine Roundtable : Best SEM / Contextual Ad Blog
This year we decided on merging two blog award categories together; Search Engine Marketing and Contextual Advertising. When we refer to SEM, we mean Paid Search, and since Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Looksmart, Ask.com, MSN AdCenter and other contextual players are a huge part (wanted or unwanted) of paid search, we thought this a [...]
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 engine news in 2006. Search Engine Journal is a Search Engine News Blog, but since we’re hosting the competition, we’re not in the running :)Search Engine Watch Blog, which was [...]
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 ex-wife of Ronaldo has sued YouTube (now owned by Google) over a very popular sex video which was posted of her and her boyfriend which was illegally uploaded to YouTube.In [...]
SEO Black Hat : Best Black Hat SEO Blog of 2006!
The Best Black Hat SEO Blog of 2006 (the category voted most likely to be manipulated) Award goes to SEO Black Hat, a blog which should be on everyone’s blog reader - regardless of your preferred SEO techniques.I’ve learned a lot from SEO Black Hat in the past year, including how to get lots of [...]
Jim Boykin?s Blog : Best Link Building Blog of 2006!
Want to learn more about the fine art of link building? Start by adding the best link building oriented blogs on the market to your feed aggregator and read the scripture of these professional link builders. Jim Boykin’s Internet Marketing Blog of We Build Pages won this year’s Best Link Building Blog.Great competition this year [...]
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 place where it is cold hehe).The ReveNews Blogger who is also known as “Awesome Jim” in his funny word of mouth project “AwesomeMillion” that lets you proof to the whole [...]
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 online and not just the most popular stories.Unlike Digg, Reddit, Netscape and other services which base the popularity of online news in a single vote, NewsTrust’s rating system is based [...]
LinkedIn Answers : Love Child of LinkedIn &Yahoo Answers
Mix the professional networking of LinkedIn with Yahoo Answers and what comes out of the other end? You guessed it, LinkedIn Answers.Not just another social networking center taking advantage of its user knowledge base, LinkedIn adds the special mix of being more business and profession oriented than Yahoo!, Amazon or other Q&A search services.How does [...]
Google Recruits NBC?s Michael Steib for Google Video Advertising
Michael Steib, former GM of Strategic Ventures for NBC Universal, is leaving NBC to join Google Video; especially its Google Video Advertising division.From PaidContent: Steib will join the Google team “to help us work with advertisers to create effective, measurable video advertising. As we continue to grow our video ads business, Michael’s experience in Internet [...]
250+ Search Marketing Blogs
Lee Odden of TopRank has put together a list of over 250 Search Marketing Blogs on “search engines, search engine optimization, online PR and social media”.Being the generous guy that Lee is he’s even put them in Alphabetical Order and has released an OPML File for uploading the blog feeds into your favorite feed reader [...]
Performancing PayPerPost Deal is No More
From Nick Wilson of Performancing:After much discussion, we’ve decided that the deal proposed by PayPerPost just isnt right for us or our community. It’s regrettable that we should part ways as I still feel that Dan and Ted are stand up guys breaking new ground, but in the end, the deal was just not right [...]
ShoeMoney Asks ?Would you Hire Matt Cutts??
Jeremy has posed the question “Would you Hire Matt Cutts?” to some of the best and brightest in the search engine & publishing industries - including Patrick Gavin, Jason Calacanis and Rand Fishkin. I especially like Jason’s response:“Matt Cutts is similar to Robert Scoble in that he’s built a brand around his name and his [...]
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. Google was suggesting its blog, calendar and photo offerings over better and more qualified products.Firefox’s Blake Ross first brought the controversy into the mainstream:Google is predicated on the idea that [...]
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, ranked from 1 to 5.As many of you know, participating in and scouring forums comes with enormous value in learning the in’s and out’s of the search engine marketing world. [...]
Best Web 2.0 Blog of 2006 : TechCrunch
TechCrunch Wins! Not much of a surprise here but as a semi-bonus question in the Search Blogs Awards we asked readers to nominate and rank their favorite Web 2.0 oriented blogs. Reason why?About 80% of what goes on within these blogs is search related. And the majority focus of these blogs is on social [...]
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 Listings:It’s time to announce a new feature on Yahoo! Local which empowers you to add your favorite new local business, alert others when an old favorite has closed, and add [...]
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 well before paid search hit the scene. But as paid search took off along with contextual advertising, affiliate marketing seemed to take back seat for a couple years.Enter problems with [...]
Mike the Internet Guy : Best Local Search Blog of 2006
Local Search Blogs keep tabs on the happenings which are going on at Yahoo Local, Google Local, Local Live, AskCity, Local.com, TrueLocal and all of the other localized search and social networking services available online such as Backfence and Yelp.Better yet, these blogs also look at ways to market via such local properties and give [...]
Pronet Advertising : Best Social Media Optimization Blog
Social Media Optimization is defined by Wikipedia as a way to optimize websites so they would be more easily connected or interlaced with online communities and community websites. For example allowing RSS feeds, easier linking, incorporation of third party community functionalities like Flickr photo slides and galleries or YouTube videos.Pronet Advertising is penned by the [...]
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 Winzy, let’s look at the history of search & win.The concept of paying back search engines users with incentives, prizes or revenue share is not a new one. CBS began [...]
Google Calendar for Windows Mobile
Google Operating System looks at Google Calendar Sync, free software which lets users sync Google Calendar with PocketOutlook.Features include : * Choose a range of days to sync based on today’s date* Remove all Google Calendar events from PocketOutlook without deleting any manually entered events* Automatically exit GMobileSync when synchronization is complete* Supports recurring events.
Which blogs does Matt Cutts read faithfully?
We all want to know: What are the “must read blogs?Everyone has their opinions on which need to be read most, making it hard to narrow the list. Often, we ask our most respected SEO, “what do you read?”Now Google’s infamous Matt Cutts dishes the details on what he reads in his post about [...]
Banned on Digg? Try TinyURL to Bypass Digg Ban
If your site has been banned from Digg but you still feel that your content is worth sharing to the Digg community, Muhammad Saleem says that URL rerouting services are a effective way to bypass the Digg.com ban.Rerouting services like TinyURL, notlong.com and shurl.org can be used to compress long and drawn out URLs into [...]
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 Yahoo China, intends to change the direction of Yahoo China before the company fails “amid intense competition from domestic rivals.”Ma acknowledged Yahoo China was lagging and losing money — although [...]
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 Wordpress Hosting recommendations which I am looking into are as follow:Yahoo Small Business Wordpress Hosting : Focus on posting to your blog, not managing it. Let Yahoo! Web Hosting and WordPress [...]
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, the founder of the Wikipedia Foundation, was interviewed on the BBC’s Radio Five Live.Phil Bradley writes that the interview is available for a couple of days, and then will be [...]
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. The funding was led by Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment firm of Jeff Bezos, with additional participation from Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq Computer, and Jack Gill, veteran Silicon Valley [...]
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 business details editing capability. Yahoo! is making it possible for all users to edit business profiles and/or upload photos.Yahoo! promises to allow the changes to go live with 24 hours [...]
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 there’s no need to check my mail every so many hours or keep track of what is written in the blogosphere. It was also slightly frustrating as I had some [...]
MySpace.com Attracts 85% of America?s Social Teens
According to a recent study by the Pew/Internet Group, MySpace attracts 85% of the US teen social networking online market.More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites, according to a new national survey of teenagers conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Fully 85% of [...]
Google Video Adds TV Style Commercial Breaks
Google Video seems to be testing ways to integrate Google Video Ads into their free videos via the old trick of television style commercial break sponsorships. Instead of using the MSN method of serving the video commercial before the video, on on the bookends of the video, Google is inserting commercial breaks in the videos [...]
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 mobile phones and other mobile devices.The mobile device has very different requirements. With limited bandwidth, screen size and time, this service puts information all right in front of you without [...]
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? ;PWhat ever happened to rolling up your sleeves for some good old fashioned forum participation that builds links, brand and relationships?Well, if that’s a little too Web 1.0 for you and you’re still planning [...]
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 currently called Gatineau and their welcome page is now live, but you can’t login just yet.Tamar Weinberg of 10e20 adds:If this truly will be Google Analytics’s competition, I’m hoping this [...]
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 site. Participating in comments and adding a link to a site as a resource or rebuttal to a posted story is also a good way to get traffic from Digg. [...]
VerticalSearch.net Domain For Sale
Want an awesome domain name for your search engine blog or vertical search engine project? Well uber-blogger and entrepreneurial mastermind Brian Smith (of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed) has put the domain of one of his blogs up for sale; VerticalSearch.net.Brian feels someone could benefit from the domain and lists his thoughts:* I obviously think there’s [...]
Local.com &Oodle Partner for Local Classifieds
Local.com has teamed with Oodle, the search engine for classifieds, to provide millions of local real estate, rentals, automotive, services, merchandise, pets and tickets classifieds listings for Local.com users. The new Oodle powered service is now available on Local.com immediately via the “Classifieds” navigation link. “With Oodle’s search functionality and email alerts, consumers can [...]
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 the screen, Jobs told attendees at the MacWorld Expo here this morning. He also noted that the operating system behind the phone’s various features is Mac OS X and said that [...]
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 2.0 services such as Flickr & del.icio.us along with their current social media offerings in Yahoo Answers & Yahoo Local. MyBlogLog is an exciting acquisition by Yahoo as it [...]
How Much is a Link Worth?
Jim Boykin gives some snapshots of his link valuation tool and discusses a bit of his link buying / link building strategy:Keep in mind that we don’t go for homepage links (99% only powerful subpages), and we work on getting links within the content area of webpages (something that looks like this), and sometimes we [...]
Snap &Cooliris Web Site Preview Tools
Ken Yarmosh compares web preview tools Snap & Cooliris, both let you see the snapshot of the site you may visit before clicking on a link, but one is server based and the other a browser extension. Ask.com uses a similar technique with their Ask.com binoculars which lets a user preview the pages listed in [...]
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 basics so all pop and moms can start ranking.We have had Ted Leonsis, Dave Pasternack, Jason Calcanis, Philipp, and also Shoemoney joined the pandemonium. All smart and respected guys and [...]
Matt Mullenwag of Wordpress on Net Income
Shoemoney and Greg Hartnett sat down with Matt Mullenwag of Wordpress fame to discuss blogging, Matt’s career, Wordcamp, Splogs & MyBlogLog. Search Engine Journal has been a Wordpress blog from the beginning and I’m very excited to listen to two search & monetization guys like Greg and Jeremy talk with Matt.For the whole scoop on [...]
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 fretting their losses. There are many misconceptions about PageRank updates, so here’s the skinny on the updates:This is actually old data. It’s reflective of what Google gave your site [...]
Google PageRank Outage?
Google PageRank is coming up Zero for Digg.com, DavidNaylor.co.uk, Threadwatch and Search Engine Journal right now. Appears to only be a slight outage, as Gmail is returning a PageRank reading.Wonder if Google is updating PageRank?More from David Naylor.
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 much more pageviews than YouTube, YouTube’s reach and traffic rank is much higher.
eBay.com Acquires Stubhub for $310 Million
eBay Inc. has acquired StubHub, a privately held company which is sort of the eBay of scalpers, as it’s a marketplace for the resale of concert, show, sports and other event tickets.A smart acquisition by eBay enables it to expand its offerings and spinoff new sections of eBay, while also assuring that more StubHub users [...]
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 their new video stumbler.Research makes every interview better - now I know not to ask Camp about the difference between StumbleUpon and Deli.cio.us - he’s already fielded that one:“de.licio.us is focused [...]
Google, YouTube &CBS Ad Deal in the Works?
Threadwatch points to a Media Post report which expects Google & CBS to be headed into a major YouTube, Television, Content and Advertising deal.Cohen estimated that a Google deal to sell 10% of CBS Radio’s advertising inventory would generate approximately $200 million in revenues and that the upside for CBS would be two-fold: “1) attracting [...]
YouTube TV Channel?
C21Media.net has a small write up of YouTube’s aspirations to build TV channels with traditional television networks. YouTube and Google have been working with networks to bring the content, or samples of content, onto YouTube but the inclusion of user generated content on regualr TV is a bit intriguing, as long as it’s not hosted [...]
Yahoo?s Tactics to Switch Google &Firefox Users
Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim has an exclusive write up on the cat & mouse game between Yahoo and Google to win over the search boxes of users who are installing Yahoo Messenger and Google Toolbar.Andy looks at Yahoo’s questionable tactics and what Google is doing to deflect them:The power struggle between Yahoo and Google [...]
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 searching for a specific keywords or just typing my domain name in Google and after clicking on my site, it generates a warning named: “Malware Warning”. Further they say:“Warning - visiting [...]
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 on the likely evolution and extent of the phenomenon: “People will write reviews about restaurants, but not plumbers.”In my “predictions” post, I said: “The culture of user participation and content [...]
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) traffic coming from Domain Name Parking companies and how such traffic is garbage for his paying clients.A whopping 72% of clicks for a single exact match keyword originated from the [...]
ODP Open For Site Submissions Again
Motsa, a DMOZ Meta-Admin posted a few hours ago an update to the technical problems the directory encountered since October last year.Site Submission and Update Listing Forms are online again. Old submissions in the queue were lost in the crash. If you are a Webmaster without a listing at DMOZ, go ahead and submit now, before [...]
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 that is so good that even humans that check manually could fall for it and let it slip through in their own greed for high PR links from authority sites with [...]
Building the ?Local Internet?
The NY Times’ Bob Tedeschi writes about an emerging category of sites forming a kind of “virtual town square,” so-called hyperlocal content sites (awkward term) that focus on particular communities or neighborhoods. The article focuses on three sites in and around New York: American Towns Network’s Pleasantville, NY site, the Barista of Bloomfield Avenue (NJ) [...]
Yahoo! Enters Online Animation Deal
Yahoo has signed a deal with online animation management and production firm Gotham Group for original online animation content to be distributed throughout Yahoo! Entertainment.Much more than the JibJab deal, this partnership looks to be fairly large in terms of diversity and variety of online animation projects.Ben Fritz of Variety reports:Netcos have been cautious as [...]
2007 : Year of Google Base
Brian Smith of Comparison Engines has a very indepth post about how he feels Google Base will break out of its shell in Q1 2007 and Google will use all of the tools at their disposal to take full advantage (and care of) their growing base of happy small and medium sized businesses which are [...]
SponsoredReviews.com Joining Paid Review Services
Another paid blogging review service is popping up soon to join ReviewMe and PayPerPost; SponsoredReviews.com. The service is being launched by Text Link Brokers (no, this is not a paid review) and it will be interesting to see whether they can spin off some kind of way for them to stick out. With lower transaction [...]
Google SafeSearch Results for ?Sex Video?Block Wikipedia
Was going through my referring keywords today and noticed a rather odd term sending in Google traffic; “sex video.”Knowing that I’ve posted stories about YouTube in the past and some of the steamier search engines out there, I checked the Google results for this term. Clicking over from my analytics program, I was taken to [...]
Increase Google AdWords Clicks by 25% Using Easy Technique
ShoeMoney shares with his readers how aligning the position of keyterms within Google AdWords ad copy can lead to enhanced click thrus. Jeremy says that he aligns the bolded terms (the ones searches on by the user) into an arrow “>” and the eye tracking trick “increased clicks by about 25% in ANY SPOT.”For more [...]
Wazap Game Search Engine Raises $7.9 Million for US Launch
Wazap!, the gaming vertical search engine, just raised $7.9 million to launch in the United States. An extremely popular search enigne in Japan and Germany amongst gamers, Wazap! is expected to spread like wildfire in the United States.From Matt Marshall of VentureBeat:It has just raised $7.9 million in a second round of funding led by [...]
Megite : Interview with Matthew Chen of Megite.com
Today I had the chance to speak with Matthew Chen, the co-founder of Megite, which is a real time news aggregation service. You’re probably familiar with their model but if you’re not, it’s kind of a mix between Google News and Digg in some ways, but focuses on breaking news throughout the blogosphere and then [...]
Search Engine Usage Comparisons for 2006
Here’s Compete’s relative ranking of the top search engines for December 2006:And here’s comScore’s December 2006 US market share data (6.7 billion total searches):The two sites disagree on Yahoo! and AOL directionally. For Yahoo! comScore shows a gain; Compete shows a loss of share. Regarding AOL, Compete shows a bit of a recovery while comScore [...]
Google Pulls Links to Yahoo Maps &MapQuest
In a “why didn’t they do that earlier?” news story of the day we read that Google has taken out the links to Yahoo Maps & MapQuest in their special local section in the Google web search results pages. Google used to suggest these alternatives, along with Google Maps, so readers could make a choice [...]
How Blogs Help SEO
Great post from Lee Odden today on how blogs and blogging helps the SEO of a site with a blog, or a business using a blog as its main site.SEO Benefits from BlogsHere are a few of the ways Lee says blogs benefit SEO:Crawlable URLs - Most blog software offers uncomplicated URL structure, making it [...]
Don?t Put All of Your Search Marketing Budget in the Google Basket
Yesterday Greg Sterling reminded us all of Google’s search engine dominance and the growth (or decline) of the market share of Yahoo!, Ask.com, Live (MSN) Search and AOL Search.In the comment field one reader, Dan of NewBabySmell.com (which appears to be an arbitrage site), asked…I have adjusted my paid search spend using this data. Do [...]
Vertical vs. Horizontal Search Engines
So-called vertical search is all the rage. Why? Partly because “horizontal” (general) search has limitations and partly because it’s almost impossible to get VCs to fund a general search engine. Given how entrenched the market is it’s also crazy to try and break into general search without a 5 to 7 year time horizon.This week [...]
Google Checkout vs PayPal : JPMorgan Report
JPMorgan as put together an overview of a study they recently undertook where they surveyed over 1,000 consumers to gauge their online spending behavior, adoption rates of Google Checkout, and the associated implications for PayPal.Here are the key findings:* Google Checkout Adoption hits 6% in first year. Our survey suggests that in less than a [...]
MIVA Unveils MIVA Monetization Center
MIVA, who is better known as one of the larger 2nd tier PPC search marketing networks unveiled at their headquarter in New York City yesterday their new service for publishers and webmasters, the MIVA Monetization Center.The Service consists actually of three individual services that offer webmasters and publisher a number of alternatives to monetize their [...]
Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton vs. John Edwards : Looking at Search Stats
Barack Obama is filing his campaign papers and beginning his exploratory committee which basically means that leading up to the 2008 Presidential Election, Obama, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton are the expected top front runners (that is, if Hillary runs).A search for “Barack Obama” leads to his Senatorial web page listed #1 on Google. For [...]
SOAP API : Alternative to Google Search API
Google is not offering feeds to their search results (besides Google Custom Search) and new API keys are no longer available, what’s a web publisher to do?Ionut Alex looks at SOAP API (Not from Google) which scrapes Google SERPs in order to produce Google API like results:Until Google decides it’s a good idea to provide [...]
Yahoo Answers Adds Stars : Sharing, Votes &Networking
The Flickrization of Yahoo continues… Yahoo Answers has updated with a new sharing system which lets Yahoo Answers users share Questions & Answers they feel are interesting via “Stars.”Adding a bit more social networking into the mix, the new Yahoo Answers Stars sharing system is a bit reminiscent of StumbleUpon, deli.icio.us or Digg, in [...]
Mobile Local Search : New Findings &Data
comScore is putting out two reports on cell phone usage and attitudes in the US. Here’s the press release. I’ve written up the top-level findings at SEL. I focus more here on the local aspects/implications of the data.Only 17% of US mobile users currently subscribe to wireless Internet access (in contrast to SMS). Here is [...]
Yahoo Real Estate &School Search
Yahoo! Real Estate has launched a US based search product which allows users to easily search, browse, and evaluate local schools via a Yahoo Maps interface; Yahoo Real Estate School Reports;In a recent Yahoo! Real Estate user survey (September 2006), users ranked school information as one of the top ten most sought after tools/information sources [...]
Google &Yahoo Outdoor Kiosks and Advertising
ClickZ and Bill Slawski discuss Google patent filings related to local kioks and billboards (at malls). From the ClickZ article:Google said the system would then generate an advertising campaign specifying where on the display devices the advertisement message will appear. “The output may consist of various forms, including video, audio, printed incentive, interactive data transfers [...]
Yahoo TagMaps : Flickr + Yahoo Maps
Yahoo has come out with a new tool for incorporating Flickr and other regional tags into a mapping system, Yahoo TagMaps. We’ve seen this with Flickr mashups in the past, but it’s nice to see that Yahoo is taking the extra step in incorporating these Maps full of Flickr Tags & Photos into their Trip [...]
Yahoo Search Indexing Google AdWords Links
Some disturbing news about Yahoo Search and the indexing of Google AdWords links. Seems that the Yahoo index is including Google AdWords and other PPC tracking links for some Google advertisers which are messing up their backend tracking and analysis.Doubtful Google is charging for these clickthru’s, but when you see hundreds of users landing on [...]
Yahoo! &Success with Verticals
Yahoo! now has what might be called “a formula” for creating verticals: branded content + video + community/Answers + personalization tools. That describes the recently launched Yahoo! Food and it describes the just launched Yahoo! Personal Finance. (You can read more about the new Finance site here from CNet’s Elinor Mills or the WSJ.)Essentially Yahoo! [...]
Linkbait Driving the Creative Side of SEM + How to Develop those Links?
I saw first hand the decline of an SEO company that fell because (among other still contentious issues) it focused primarily (and at times quite poorly) on search rankings.Now that I’m a partner in Bold Interactive it’s been a great pleasure to focus on community building and engagement for clients, and satisfying to watch how [...]
All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW
I blogged about the Wikipedia Issues with SPAM and the discussions about the use of NOFOLLOW for ALL external Links from Wikipedia. It was done, finally.As of now are all outbound links from the english Wikipedia Site using the NOFOLLOW attribute, no exceptions.No matter where you place it, Article Page, Talk Page, User Page, Project Page, [...]
Google Bringing e-Books to Mobile Devices
Google may be reinventing their Google Book Search offering to be more relevant and practical than reading scanned copies of book pages on the PC. Dominic Rushe of The Sunday Times reports that Google is working with major publishers to bring chapters, pages and volumes off of the bookshelf and onto the mobile device. The [...]
Google Acquiring AdScape? Video Game Advertising Firm
Google is in talks over the acquisition of AdScape Media reports Steve Bryant eWeek’s Google Watch. AdScape Media specializes in performance based video game advertising mixed with sponsored listings in its cell phone and txt messages their gaming systems send to layers who have achieved specific goals in the games. Via ClickZ’s In-Game Ad Space [...]
Yahoo! Search Update
If you’ve noticed some changes in your ranking in or referrals from Yahoo recently, it’s because they have updated their Yahoo! Search Index.Priyank Garg posts on the Yahoo Search Blog:We are in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may be seeing some changes in ranking as well [...]
AT&T enhancements to Local Search &YellowPages.com
Not a huge deal, but here’s the release noting the functionality and enchancements. It underscores that mobile is being taken very seriously and the competitors are jockying for consumer awareness and (later) ad dollars.AT&T is in a potentially strong position because it now effectively “owns” the yellow pages brand with YellowPages.com. Depending on how well [...]
V7N Contextual Links : Link Buying Service for SEO &Bloggers
V7N announced last week that they have launched a new link buying service which could be seen as a hybrid of Text Link Ads and the Pay Per Post blogging systems, but different in terms of style, location of links and pricing structure.V7N Contextual Links works by bloggers placing a line of contextual ad copy [...]
2006 Chinese Internet Data : Advertising, Search Engines &Blogs
The Internet speed has been slowly improving in China but the latest news is that the final repairs will be finished half way February instead of the end of January. What the really losses are due to the lack of international connections will probably never be known but it had and still has a daily [...]
?Secret?Gmail Delete Mail Keyboard Shortcut
Amit Agarwal has unearthed the holy grail of keyboard shortcuts - the GMail email deletion shortcut. There is a catch however, it only works using the Opera 9.1 Browser:There does exist a keyboard shortcut for deleting email messages in GMail though Google never told you about that “secret key” - it’s called the “End” key [...]
Google AdSense Video Content Expanding
From Reuters and the AdSense blog:Over the next few weeks we’ll be testing AdSense video distribution and sponsorship with a small group of publishers. You may remember us doing a similar trial last year with MTV Networks, where we distributed ad-supported MTV video content to publishers who displayed the content on their sites. This time, [...]
MySpace.com Issues Amber Alerts
Social networking giant and Mega-Google partner MySpace.com has said in a statement that they will start distributing geotargeted Amber Alerts to members notifying them of missing children in their communities.MySpace has teamed up with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children for this new innovative service.These online alerts would be broadcasted starting today and [...]
Google AdWords Exclusion Tool Now Unlimited : For Contextual Network
There are going to be some very happy Google Adwords advertisers out there as AdWords has beefed up its Site Exclusion Tool to allow the exclusion of an unlimited amount of AdSense publishing websites (but what about Domain Parking sites?).From Google AdWords:We hope you’ll use the Site Exclusion tool to improve your ROI and refine [...]
Google Investing in India via Seedfund Investment Firm
Google has taken a bit of an unusual route in consolidating their investment plans within India into one separate company, Seedfund. Google has invested in Seedfund, a start-up investment firm in India which has a history (or its founders do) in investing in companies like IndiaGames, IndiaBulls, Geodesic and Pinstorm.More from PaidContent:Seedfund launched late last [...]
Google Checkout Icons on Google AdSense
Google seems to be testing the display of Google Checkout shopping cart icons within their Google AdSense contextual ads. Google has been running their Google Checkout icons within Google AdWords sponsored links in Google search results but this is the first time I’ve seen them in Google AdSense.Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable supplies this [...]
Critical Year for Yahoo!
It must be something of a pressure cooker inside Yahoo! at the moment. Needless to say the Internet world awaits the Yahoo! Q4 earnings announcement tomorrow (5pm ET). Google’s Q4 announcement is coming next week (1/31).There will be lots of scrutiny on the numbers and the words from Terry Semel and Sue Decker. It’s too [...]
Google Personalized Homepage Featuring Expanded Blog Feeds
Google Personalized Homepage is testing a new RSS feed display system which features snippets and images from blog, atom and RSS feeds.This may be some attempt to integrate Google Feed Reader type snippets and entire feed posts into the Google Personalized Homepage. Google Desktop’s Sidebar also does an interesting job of feed integration, based upon [...]
NOFOLLOW Wikipedia to PageRank Zero Campaign
For those of you who missed the big news Sunday & Monday, all outbound Wikipedia links are using a NOFOLLOW tag, which basically means they will not pass Google PageRank / Google Juice and should no longer have effect on search engine rankings (although they will still be indexed by some search engines as backlinks).Some [...]
Local.com Acquiring soUno Online Yellow Pages Advertising Firm
Local.com is beginning to make some rather interesting news lately which may help to push them into the local search spotlight (beyond their awesome domain name). Local.com announced today that they will be acquiring soUno Directional Media Solutions, LLC, which is a provider of online yellow pages advertising to small businesses.Local.com plans to acquire soUno [...]
Yahoo Search Marketing?s New Quality Ranking : Patent Info &How To?s
On Monday February 5th, Yahoo! will be going full speed ahead with the US based relaunch of Yahoo Search Marketing and its new ranking model which will focus on advertiser quality, relevancy, bid price and performance instead of the current bidding only placement system.As a result of the new Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’, Yahoo feels [...]
Yahoo! Q4 Earnings Beat Estimates
Here’s the partial release text (full text here):SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 23, 2007 - Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2006.Fourth Quarter 2006 Financial Results* Revenues were $1,702 million for the fourth quarter of 2006, a 13 percent increase compared to $1,501 million for [...]
Google Receives 1,000,000 Job Applications a Year
Here are some amazing numbers, Google receives over 1,000,000 job applications a year and denies 99.5% of them. In 2006 Google hired only 5,000 new employees (Nooglers) out of the applicant pool of about 1,000,000.Oh yeah, and the perks…Googlers and Nooglers can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner here at any of the company’s 11 gourmet [...]
Google AdWords Quality Score Impacting AdSense Ads
Barry Schwartz shows a snippet from a WebmasterWorld thread about how Google is slowly integrating its Adwords Quality Score into the ranking algorithm for its Google AdSense ads.We are slowly integrating a Quality Score component to ads showing on the Content Network. The performance of ads on the network will now impact how often and [...]
SimplyHired Job-a-Matic Syndication Strategy
SimplyHired (and its competitors Indeed, among a couple others like Oodle) promise to take the pain and inefficiency out of searching for a job by aggregating more jobs than anybody else.But the job site brands, CareerBuilder, Monster and a newly invigorated Hotjobs (owned by Y!), are still the top job-seeker destinations (not to mention Craigslist).Fox [...]
China Has 137 Million Users That Need Purification
The number of internet users is up to 137 million according to the latest report from the China Internet Networking Information Center.A report released by the Internet Society China put the total number at 136 million. A difference of a million would be big if it was about The Netherlands. In China, with its huge [...]
Nintendo Wii Search Engine From Clusty
Clusty.com, the normal search engine arm of Vivisimo, has come out with a new version of Clusty which is made for use on the Nintendo Wii, Clusty Wii.In the same fashion as the cell phone or mobile PDA, the more game consoles and players / gamers use those consoles for online access and online gaming, [...]
Google Checkout Icons Get Bigger in AdWords
Google Checkout is testing some larger icons in Google Adwords listings to compare & contrast user click persuasion based upon icon size. Google Operating System blog took these screen caps of the three styles of icons Google is now testing; the subtle cart, the defining brand, and the ‘in your face’ call to action button.Advertisement: [...]
Matt Cutts vs. V7N Links : Matt Wins
Over the past day some jabs and nudges were traded back and forth (all in good fun I believe) between Matt Cutts and John Scott over some claims John’s company made about their new link advertising service.Seems that Uncle Matt got the better of John, and intimidated him into submission, Royce Gracie style. Here’s a [...]
Branded Content and Targeting Your Social Media Marketing Initiatives
As a former editor I love to see this growing fervor around social media marketing. I remember some heady days at WebProNews when we got on the front page of Google News for the first time. 50,000 page views on a single story was exciting indeed, and I can only imagine the writers there today [...]
Microsoft Busted For Paid Wikipedia ?Spamming?
Microsoft has recently come under fire by Wikipedia and its founder Jimmy Wales after it was made public that Microsoft was contacting technical writers and asking them to change a Wikipedia entry on Office Open XML to favor the Redmond company.As many of you in the search engine world know, Google and other engines favor [...]
Fox Supoenas YouTube &Google for User Identity
Fox has supoenaed Google’s YouTube to find out which users uploaded episodes of 24 and The Simpsons according to Google Watch’s Steve Bryant.The subpoena includes the testimony of Jane Sunderland, vice president of content protection and anti-piracy for the Fox Entertainment Group.Sunderland’s portion of the subpoena, which is her personal testimony that the infringing activity [...]
Weather.com Yahoo! Search Box
Weather.com is the site maintained by cable television’s Weather Channel and usually my first stop when it comes to checking the weather. I noticed that it’s snowing right now in Maryland so I clicked over to Weather.com to check out the forecast.After scrolling down the page I noticed a little box with links in it, [...]
Hillary Clinton, Yahoo Answers &the Power of Social Media
Hillary Clinton has turned to Yahoo Answers, the social media driven Q&A experience from Yahoo, to look for some ideas on how normal Americans would improve health care in the United States. I find this quite interesting as not only a campaigning tool but also in choice of media. Senator Clinton asked her question 22 [...]
Google Policy on Paid Links, NoFollow &Reviews Hypocritical?
Michael Gray has some sharp words for Google and its policies on paid reviews, paid links and the use of the NOFOLLOW tag.Google is being extremely hypocritical about the entire thing and using fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to corral web publishers to their way of thinking.Good read on the recent history of Google’s stance [...]
A Link Is Not A Vote, It?s A Pointer
Loren’s note about the article by Graywolf that talks about Google’s changing and unwritten policy on the usage of the nofollow tag got me thinking and leave a pretty long comment at Michael’s Blog. I thought that the premise is worth writing about in its own article. So here it is.Everybody talks about that a link is [...]
Search Engine Journal Not Indexed in Microsoft?s Live Search
For some odd reason Search Engine Journal is not indexed in Live Search, Microsoft’s new version of MSN Search.* There are 99,604 occurences of the term “Search Engine Journal” in Live Search results.* Live Search shows 81,172 sites linking to Search Engine Journal. (Yahoo shows more than double the amount.)And there is no question as [...]
Google AdWords on Mobile Phones
Bill Slawski has unearthed a Google patent application on the serving of advertisements on mobile phones which provides a glimpse of what Google Ads may look like on your cell phone.It looks like Google could be planning on taking the mobile phone advertisement experience away from just the basic targeted landing page and do more [...]
MySpace.com &Yahoo Top Sites People Spend Most Time On
Compete.com just published a blog entry ranking the top 20 sites which Internet users waste their time on. The first two are predictable, MySpace.com and Yahoo. Google is ranked 5th. Are you surprised? Well you shouldn’t be as most of the time spent on Google is probably GMail or search. Their other channels aren’t really [...]
Yahoo Integrates Flickr Photos Into MyBlogLog
In a move which is the first of what will probably be many Yahoo services integrated into MyBlogLog, the blog analytics and social networking hybrid acquired by Yahoo earlier this month, Flickr photos have been added to MyBlogLog profiles. The Flickrization of MyBlogLog has begun as Yahoo is adding a Flickr Photostream page to the [...]
ShoeMoney Subpoenaed Over Slanderous Blog Comments
Jeremy Schoemaker, an A List blogger who is also known as ShoeMoney, contacted me yesterday and discussed a recent legal document which was served to him by the police. Jeremy was subpoenaed by the District Court of Saline County, Nebraska in a lawsuit wherein Kristan Yoder of the Quick Connect, Inc. company has accussed [...]
Congratulations Danny
Matt McGee from SmallBusinessSEM.com noticed at the end of last week that Google had a major update of the PageRank data for the Google browser toolbar.A reader commented that there were other updates related to the Google toolbar as well such as the key phrase suggestions feature.Danny Sullivans new site SearchEngineLand.com which officially launched back [...]
Last week in China - Google Net Negative and again MySpace
Last week was about the latest China internet Statistics. The China Internet Network Society (CNNIC) published its half yearly report (In Chinese). The number of Chinese Internet users is increasing. There are now 137 million Internet users in China, 23.4 percent more than last year. The report also shows that the majority, 72.1 percent of [...]
Citizendium : A More Accurate &Accountable Wikipedia
Just came across Citizendium today which is taking advantage of the problems of spam and altered reality at Wikipedia by positioning itself as being more accurate & accountable.The project, started by [Larry Sanger] a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real [...]
Topix.net &Tribune Partner for Classifieds Project
Who knows what’s going to happen to the Tribune Company (as it tries to sell itself). But for the time being it has taken a good step (about time) in starting to leverage Topix.net’s numerous strengths. As you may remember, Tribune, Gannett and KnightRidder (now McClatchy) bought a 75% stake in Topix in March of [...]
Google Video Selling PageRank?
Scott Horne has been checking out the links within Google Video and discovered that on the Google Video homepage, all of the links are NOFOLLOW except for those to the content and sites of its advertising partners.Google Video homepage has decided to nofollow all its links, with the exception of the ones to its advertising [...]
MySpace Beefs Up Video Sharing with ROO Investment
On the eve of YouTube making its major announcement that it will begin sharing revenue with its video uploading community, News Corp.; the parent company of MySpace.com and Fox Interactive, has invested in ROO Group.ROO currently powers online global video content distribution and content syndication across many of News Corp’s premier properties including The Times [...]
YouTube Revenue Sharing : How Much? From Which Advertisers?
Over the weekend Chad Hurley announced at the World Economic Forum that YouTube plans to begin sharing revenue with video creators.My first questions are, which content creators will be part of the revenue sharing model? And will such revenue distribution be on a sliding scale?Secondly, which form of revenue will be shared with the user?YouTube [...]
Google AdSense Taking Live Questions on WebmasterRadio.fm?s Net Income
Shoemoney’s radio show, Net Income, will be featuring a respresentative from Google AdSense who will be fielding listener call in questions (Howard Stern style).Net Income broadcasts on Tuesdays at 6pm EST on WebmasterRadio.fm. Shoemoney is looking for some questions that readers would like to ask the Google AdSense representative on his blog post: Google Adsense [...]
LinkedIn takes on Xing, or the other way around?!
I wanted to follow up on my post LinkedIn versus Xing (aka Open BC) from November earlier, but did not get around to it until now. I did not expect such an interest in this topic when I wrote my post on a quite Sunday afternoon when I noticed that my OpenBC homepage was redirected [...]
Search Engine Strategies &Email Spam
I’m a big fan of Search Engine Strategies Conferences on Search Engine Marketing and try to attend and cover all of them that I can. Besides the seminars and forums on search marketing, and the late night parties, I always find it quite rewarding to walk around the exhibition halls and speak to some of [...]
Microsoft Vista?s $500 Million Marketing Campaign
Microsoft is pumping out a global $500 million Vista advertising campaign which is expected to serve 6.6 billion impressions in the first few months.Marketing stunts and sponsorships will include a human billboard with 16 dancers, party in Times Square, LeBron James in the TV ads, and CEO Steve Ballmer will greet customers at Best Buy [...]
Watch the Sunrise on Google Earth
Google Earth and the Discovery Channel have worked together to bring “sunrise on demand.” The two have introduced a new layer on Google Earth which lets users view sunrises in certain areas around the globe. More from Google & Discovery Networks on the Google Blog:Now there’s a Google Earth layer that brings the sun’s ascent [...]
Yahoo! Mobile Bookmarks Text Messages Sites to Cell Phones
Gary Price ran across a Yahoo7 (Yahoo Australia) service which text messages Yahoo Bookmarks to the mobile phone.From Yahoo7:A Yahoo! mobile bookmark (or WAP bookmark) is a “favourite” or a bookmark that resides in your mobile phone’s browser. You can use a mobile bookmark to quickly and conveniently access the Yahoo! mobile site on your [...]
CBS Denies Booble.com Super Bowl Commercial
Remember Booble.com, the porn search engine which took advantage of the Google layout, logo and name association when it first launched?Well according to Booble.com, they submitted a commercial to CBS for a Super Bowl ad buy and were denied. So, if you’re dying for publicity, which was probably the only reason for trying to buy [...]
Yahoo Says Overture Keyword Tool Not Gone
There have been reports around the Internet today about Yahoo Search Marketing canceling the Overture Keyword Selector Tool, which has been a staple of Keyword planning and search marketing for almost a decade.Feeling that part of the search marketing world, and the tools dependent upon it, had been buried; I addressed concerns with the Yahoo [...]
Google Adds Local OneBox Results
Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land points to a Google Blog posting that announces Google will be displaying local results with reviews and links to more detail in its OneBox position:From now on, you’ll see this every time you search for a place, business, or other local information. In addition to providing the basic contact [...]
Yahoo Links Badge from Site Explorer
Want to show off the incoming links to your site? Yahoo Site Explorer has now come out with a badge for publishers & bloggers to show the amount of incoming links as tracked by Yahoo Site Explorer.Yahoo is offering two different badge sizes and the option of posting incoming links to the entire site or [...]
Serph : Social Media Meta Search Engine &Tracking Service
Cameron Olthuis announced this morning that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will let users find what “other people are saying on the web right now.”Serph, in limited beta testing, seems to be a bit different from Technorati or BlogPulse in terms of total social media coverage. If you’d [...]
MyBlogLog Uses Amazon Web Services for Image Hosting
Even after the Yahoo acquisition of MyBlogLog there are still some connections between the company and Amazon.com.Has anyone else noticed that when MyBlogLog loads they serve pixels from AmazonAWS.com?That is the domain and server from Amazon Web Services and MyBlogLog is hosting its faceroll images and user picture galleries on Amazon’s servers.Example (you can change [...]
Yahoo Building 100 Social Media Powered Entertainment Sites
Remember the Yahoo Wii site which built an original Wii information experience by using Yahoo Answers information, Flickr photos, user reviews and links to other Wii oriented sites which are indexed on Yahoo’s del.icio.us social bookmarking system?Well, wii.yahoo.com can be seen as both a spotlight on the many Yahoo social media offerings or even what [...]
WTF?!? Technorati Clones Digg.com?
Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.It’s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon, the web surfing social network, is hands down a long term traffic builder for blogs, online businesses, and Web 2.0 services. For a quick overview of SU:Sites or users submit their URLs to StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon members can find these sites via random yet targeted web surfing called “Stumbling”, clicking on the suggestions of their [...]
Flickr Moving to Yahoo ID Login System
Flickr, the photo publishing, sharing & tagging network, has just announced that they will be cancelling their older email address based login system, and migrating over to Yahoo registered ID’s for users to sign in to Flickr.We’re making this change now to simplify the sign in process in advance of several large projects launching this [...]
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