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Microsoft to Layoff 17% of Staff?
I know it’s not so nice to usher in the first day of the new year with such a bad news. But hey, everybody is talking about it and Fudzilla broke the news. It looks like the rumored Microsoft layoff may actually push through. And it even already has a date - January 15th. Microsoft staff [...]

New Year’s Resolutions 2009 : Business and Life Goals
Howdy folks, it’s now 2009 and like many out there in the world, I’m digging myself out of my Holidays and New Year’s feasting and over-consumption bunker to reflect on the past year and set goals for 2009. Looking over my resolutions from the past couple of years, I now have a chance to see [...]

4 Reasons Why PPC Is The Best Online Marketing Channel
What’s the number one reason for PPC’s strong growth as an advertising channel? High ROI. PPC is one of the most profitable advertising and marketing channels. This view is shared by most online marketers, who in 2007, according to Marketing Sherpa, ranked PPC and email marketing as the two channels with the highest [...]

Track Google SERPs for Reputation Management and Rankings Monitoring
I’ve been looking at a few rank checking and monitoring tools previously. This time I am going to share a few ways to monitor the top Google results position changes by RSS, email or FireFox. This short guide will be useful for: tracking recent brand name mentions (by monitoring the advanced date-range search); tracking your (core) [...]

14 Essential Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Search
Greasemonkey is an addon for Firefox allowing users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages. To use the scripts you find in this post install the Greasemonkey extension first. This list of Greasemonkey scripts is dedicated to Google search (if you find that 11 FireFox addons for Google search [...]

Yahoo Now Can Change Advertiser Search Marketing Campaigns
Yahoo Search Marketing has rolled out a new TOS which gives it the right to change the search marketing campaigns of its advertisers via changing their ads and adding keywords. Sponsored Search 3. OPTIMIZATION. In the U.S. only, for those advertisers not bound by an Insertion Order, we may help you optimize your account(s). Accordingly, you [...]

5 Link Building Tactics You Probably Don’t Use But Should
The end of the year saw a couple of remarkable ultimate link building lists; so I see no reason to add my own. Instead I decided to describe a few highly effective, not yet overused and quite original link building techniques you might have never used before. 1. Start anti-smth online campaign and offer [...]

IM Spring Break Tickets On Sale : April Search Marketing Conference
I am very happy to announce that registration for IM Spring Break has opened. Taking place April 2-4 in Deerfield Beach, FL, IM Spring Break will have a limited number of tickets available for sale, starting with 200 tickets which are going on sale today. The event will be focused on small group [...]

5 Common AdWords Myths Absolutely Destroyed
#1 Myth: AdWords Is Media Placement This is a misconception of ad agencies and clients who have done more media placement than pay per click. In media placement, you place your ad somewhere for a set fee, and that’s it. We can make analogies between that and pay per click, but it’s not [...]

Find Out If Your Online Identity Has Been Stolen
The diversity of social media communities has brought one huge Internet marketing problem: online identity theft. If you are lucky enough to own a fairly popular unique brand name and smart enough to use it for social networking, you might have already fallen prey to this abuse (though you might be unaware of that). Someone has [...]

Building Links on Your Offline Time
Link building doesn’t just happen online…it can quite easily happen when you’re nowhere near a computer, when you’re simply talking to someone, wearing a t-shirt with your site’s name on it, sneaking in a mention of a URL during a quick chat or a major speech, etc. In short, there’s much more to building links [...]

SEO &the Value of User-Generated Dictionaries
I have already blogged on using dictionaries for keyword research. Most of the online resources mentioned in that post are based on traditional English dictionaries that offer accurate definitions, grammatically correct phrases and usage patterns. The interactive nature of the Internet has made room for a new linguistic tool: user-generated dictionaries: Taking advantage of the dynamic nature [...]

Google Street View Helps Solve a Crime
Those who have been criticizing the invasion of privacy posed by Google Street View may find some reprieve from their complaints and perhaps appreciate one positive ways by ways the service can actually help the society. More particularly the police authority in solving crime, as in the case of a kidnapped girl somewhere in South-central [...]

Apple Removes Anticopying Measures on iTunes Songs
At the recently concluded Macworld conference, among the not so many highlights of the event was Apple’s announcement that it would start selling songs at its iTunes store withouth the usual Digital Rights Managements software. Apple reported that it has already reached an agreement with three major music labels, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group [...]

Verizon Picks Microsoft Over Google for Mobile Search
In a move which may influence the search association mobile phone users have with their search engine of choice, Verizon has chosen Microsoft Search over Google as its default search engine of choice. Verizon is expected to be the #1 mobile carrier in the US after its planned acquisition of Alltell this week and the move [...]

Search for SEO eBooks and PDF Tutorials
1. Scribd (already mentioned at SEJ) is a huge user-generated database of eBooks and community of writers. Due to the huge volume of eBooks it contains and also being user-generated (and thus used for self-promotion most of the time) in nature, it is not so easy to find something valuable there. You can try [...]

ExactFactor: Track and Compare Your Search Engine Rankings with Ease
I’ve been reviewing rank-cheking tools previously and also looked at both sides of the problem asking the readers if rank checking is worthwhile in general. Anyway, whether Google rankings are in your SEO campaign focus or not, you might be interested to know about a new rank chaking and comparing tool: ExactFactor.

Ask.com Focuses on Semantic Search
We got to give credit to Ask.com for not bowing out easily from the search engine market where it is not performing well for eternity. The last time we checked, Ask.com is either at the fourth or fifth of the search engine market share ranking. But its dismal performance will not discourage Ask.com from exploring [...]

Yahoo Moves Closer to Naming a New CEO
It’s been quite awhile now since Jerry Yang has stepped down from his post as Yahoo’s CEO. And since then, there were a lot of talks and rumors on who is going to replace Mr. Yang and would lift up Yahoo from its not-so-good condition right now. A WSJ report, citing reliable sources said that [...]

Outrank Your Competitor For Their Brand Name
A WebmasterWorld thread discusses a very interesting SEO issue: is it possible to rank high for a competitor’s brand name without mentioning it on the site itself (by mere external anchor text)? The question can be generally paraphrased as follows: can off-site SEO (backlinks) be stronger than off-site SEO plus on-site SEO combined?

9 Tips to Write Effective Google AdWords Copy
If you are doing Pay-Per-Click Advertising for some time, you have probably figured that your Ad Copy plays a vital role in the success of your PPC campaign. Even after having your best keywords & a very compelling sales copy – your PPC campaign may fail. And among many reasons, the one that I’m [...]

Do Not Buy Links From Mass Emails : PR4 @ 39 euros / Sitewide 59 euros
If publicly soliciting buyers for paid linking with pricing based upon Google PageRank and incoming links is a surefire way to get a site and its link advertisers penalized by Google, why would a link selling service send out mass emails to thousands of publishers and SEO’s with this email subject line : PR4 @ [...]

Collection of Greasemonkey Scripts for SEOs
Last week I listed some cool Greasemonkey scripts for Google search. This week I am following up with some great scripts SEOs will be interested in (you will need to install Greasemonkey extension to use them): “View External Nofollow” adds 2 columns to Google Webmaster Tools table: Nofollow flag (’Yes’/’No’) and the [...]

One Search Produces Only 0.2 Grams of CO2, says Google
The Official Google Blog has just a published a brief explanation of the company’s environmental footprint. Saying that, contrary to the recent report, one Google search does not produce that high amount of CO2 (0.7 grams), but only 0.2 grams. To prove that the company has enviromental programs aimed at protecting the environment, the post explained [...]

Google Search Generates 7g of CO2, says Study
What would you rather give up? Boiling a kettle for your tea or using Google search? You might want to give up both, as boiling a kettle and doing two Google searches will actually produce almost the same amount  of CO2, which is of course harmful to our environment. This was the findings of a [...]

Google Bringing Chrome and Search Tools to Mac
Mac users rejoice, you’re now going to be able to use special Google search tools for the Mac and Google’s Chrome browser is on the way! (Well, you may have to wait a little bit longer.) CNet reports that Google’s Chrome browser for the Mac should be available before the first half of the year, as [...]

Joshua Schachter Deliciously Joins Google After Leaving Yahoo
Google has added a new tool to its arsenal of search and social media, which actually could lead to the company becoming a contender in social sharing of information and revamping its bookmarking technology, as Joshua Schachter has joined Google after leaving Yahoo last summer (news leaked via Twitter). Yahoo had acquired Del.icio.us (now Delicious.com) back [...]

Internal Site Linking : An Easy Way to Improve Your Rankings
Taking care of your site internal interlinking is one of the easiest way to increase your rankings as that’s what you can totally get control of. Of course, this should be done with caution: I have previously mentioned webmasters’ experiments sharing that global internal anchor text change can lead to penalty.

2009: The Year Ahead for PPC and Google AdWords
Advertising dollars are moving from traditional to online. The recession is accelerating this shift. Advertisers want to spend smarter. As more companies use enterprise-level analytics to track ad spend ROI and see what works best, they’ll move from directly-negotiated media placement to AdWords (both search and placement-targeting). AdWords beats other advertising [...]

Visual Thesaurus Mind-Maps Your Keywords
I’ve always believed that an SEO consultant should be a good linguist. Keyword research shouldn’t just include keyword suggestion tools and competitive analysis. Keyword research is an on-going process involving constant analytics and creative approach .

Analyze Digg Success with These Tools
Reaching Digg front page is what any link baiter dream about. The following tools will help you understand Digg success: 1. Social Blade is by far the best Digg Analytics tool for those interested why some particular stories go hot. The service breaks Digg home page into a table with the following columns: Story URL and title; Total Diggs; Diggs [...]

Google Launches Apps Authorized Reseller Program
Google is rolling out a new strategy aimed at better marketing of their Google Apps products. Dubbed Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program, this strategy is somewhat similar to Google Adsense, wherein Google will mobilize third parties in promoting, marketing and distributing the Google Apps suite of web-based software and tools. Google sells Google Apps at [...]

It’s Official, Carol Bartz is the New Yahoo CEO as Sue Decker Resigns
So, Yahoo has officially announced the appointment of Ms. Carol Bartz as the new CEO filling up the slot vacated by Jerry Yang. And as expected, Yahoo President Sue Decker has resigned from her post. Ms. Decker. So, now another transition period for Yahoo begins.

Carol Bartz Closer to Becoming the Next Yahoo CEO
Following up on our coverage last week that Yahoo is close to naming a new CEO to replace Jerry Yang, the WSJ is reporting that former AutoDesk chief Carol Bartz has accepted the offer. Although no official announcements were made by Yahoo yet, citing the usual “people familiar with the situation”, the Journal reports that [...]

How to Optimize Your Site for Link Building
Link building takes much time and effort. You might be spending hours daily pursuing links and missing the most important thing: your resource attracts people; why not make the most of that? Nowadays, I guess everyone has some web space to place your link at: be it a site or a social media profile page. Thus [...]

Google Shuts Down Stale Products, Cuts 100 Jobs
As Google announces some changes in its recruitment policy, it also made some successive announcements regarding the shutting down of several of its products. While the announcement on downsizing its manpower maybe perceived by many with a heavy heart, the shutting down of some of its products is on the other hand a good corporate [...]

Google Introduces Some New Features to Adwords Local Business Ads
To make it faster and easier for customers to find businesses when searching on Google Maps, Google Adwords is implementing some new features to its Local Business Ads that appear on Google Maps. These new features include enhancements to the Ads Information Window and Reporting Capabilities for Adwords advertisers.

7 Similarity Based Image Search Engines
I’ve been briefly over overviewing advanced image search tools previously. Today I focus on image search based on similarity. Visual similarity search stands for image search based on one (or several) of the following criteria: color; theme; texture. 1. Tiltomo is a Flickr based tool that maintains its own database of Flickr images and allows to search images [...]

iPhone Allows Third Party Browsers : Google Chrome iPhone On The Way?
Apple’s iPhone Apps Store has opened the iPhone to third party web browsers over the past day and developers are taking aim at iPhone users according to MacRumors.com. Interesting iPhone targeted browsers include Shaking Web, which makes web content easier to read while the hand may be shaking, and Edge Browser, which takes advantage of [...]

New Google Sitemap Generator Launched by Google
Google Webmaster Central has come out with a new Google Sitemap Generator tool which according to Google, uses various ways to identify site URLs as opposed to simply crawling a website. The new Google Sitemap Generator identifies URLs on the server side to be added to XML sitemaps via accessing webserver traffic, log files and files [...]

YouTube Video Comes to TV via PS3 and Wii
Console gamers who are also fond of watching YouTube videos can now do both activities on their TV sets. YouTube has just rolled YouTube TV which will make YouTube video content available using Nintendo Wii or Sony Playstation 3.  The YouTube TV Channel is available at http://youtube.com/TV and can be accessed using the Wii’s Opera [...]

SEO Book Launches SEO Toolbar
Aaron Wall’s SEO Book has launched a new SEO Toolbar which features easy access to the suite of SEO tools provided by SEO Book. Aaron writes : What would happen if you smooshed together many of the best parts of Rank Checker, SEO for Firefox, the best keyword research tools across the web, a feed [...]

Windows Live Search Rolls Out News Alerts Service
The Windows Live Search blog has just announced a new feature that allows users to have news delivered to their email, either daily, twice daily or weekly. Similar to Google News Alert, you can select only those news stories which are related to your search term. But unlike Google News Alert, Live Search’s news delivery [...]

The Perfect Link Request
Requesting Links is as much of an art as it is a science,  especially in order to get that sought-after link from an authority site. When thinking about how to write a link request, I pay attention to two factors: AIDA (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) and WIIFM (What’s In It For Me?).  Keeping those in [...]

Belkin Caught Buying Fake Consumer Reviews
The Belkin company has been busted by The Daily Background for paying $.65 per fake consumer review via the Amazon service Mechanical Turk. A Belkin representative apparently was paying $.65 for 100% positive Belkin router reviews to be published on Amazon.com, NewEgg and Buy.com amongst other shopping sites which offer consumer generated product reviews to assist [...]

Create and Distribute Videos Google TV Ads via Spotmixer
Google AdWords is now working with Spotmixer, an online video advertising service which allows advertisers to create video ads (which we used to call commercials) through their interface and then purchase ad spots on cable TV and online video platforms. The new partnership allows advertisers to create online video ads for free, with the ability to [...]

Watch the Obama Inauguration Live Online
Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States today in an event which is unlike any other inauguration with the many economic challenges facing the new President and will be the first war time inauguration since Nixon in 1972. Around 4 million spectators are expected in Washington DC today, and millions more [...]

Greasemonkey Scripts for Social Media Marketers
I have already listed Greasemonkey scripts for Google search and for SEOs. This time I am reviewing a few scripts that social media marketers will find useful: they allow either to easily bookmark posts or search and analyze social networks (please install Greasemonkey extension to use them). Digg scripts: Advanced Search Options on Digg (as you [...]

Obama Whitehouse Staffers Using GMail During Transition
Google received an unofficial endorsement from the Obama Whitehouse this morning as it was reported on the Today show that Whitehouse staffers have not yet been issued @whitehouse.gov email addresses and have been using Google GMail during the transition to manage their email accounts. During the transition, these staffers have lost the email addresses of their [...]

An Interview with Steve Plunkett: SEO Experimentation Done Right
Steve Plunkett is a well known for his SEO insights. You can follow him on Twitter or view his online resume at LinkedIn. And now enjoy an interview with Steve: How long have you been in SEO and how did you start? I got on the “Internet” in 1994.. (at 2600kbps) I was doing mac tech support [...]

Google Stops Print Ads Program
Google has just announced that it is closing one of Adwords’ not so popular revenue generating (or the lack of) stream - Google Print Ads. After a couple of years running the Adwords sub-program, Google has finally realized that print newspaper advertising is not really sparking interest anymore from advertisers. This is understandble considering that [...]

Concentrateme: a New Way to Track Your Long Tail
I have already described how you can organize your keyword lists manually to analyze them properly. Here is a new keyword research tool for you - Concentrateme that helps analyze and organize your long tail search referrals the way you could do the most of them. The service is paid: the cheapest plan costs $39 [...]

PPC: Is Vertical-Specific Experience Really Necessary?
George Michie just wrote a really cool blog post about PPC RFP’s (requests for proposal). So I was a list of what should you ask a PPC firm before hiring them. It’s a really authoritative, awesome looking post that I find too intimidating to read completely, but I do like George, and really respect him [...]

Clean-up Your Link Profile Before Starting a New Link Building Campaign
One who can now state he is 100% clean and has never broken Google guidelines is a lucky guy. I for one cannot say I am the one (are you?). Who didn’t buy or trade links for “malicious” purposes in the past when Google wasn’t that smart and strict? And now what we have is [...]

Yahoo Loses Zimbra Founder But Adds New Anti-Spam Measures
We find a couple of news items coming out of Yahoo this morning, as one of their top executives has left the company only several days after Yahoo named their new CEO Carol Bartz. Satish Dharmaraj, who is the founder of Zimbra, an innovative and open source email startup which was acquired by Yahoo and was [...]

How To Quickly Sign-Up for Any Services : Spam Free
Both link building and blogging involve signing up daily for various services, for example: register to use some free online tools or get access to trial versions of paid tools; sign up to leave comments, bookmark, etc. If you submit your email address, you end up receiving huge amounts of spam and junk mail. Maintaining a separate email [...]

Google Powers NYCgo.com : New York City Info Portal
The City of New York has launched NYCGo.com, an uber-mashup information hub which uses Google Maps and Google Earth to power its local search and NYC navigation services. NYCGo takes advantage of Google Maps & StreetView to help tourists locate tourist attractions, hotels, events and restaurants. The site of course is accessible via iPhone, Smart [...]

Britannica 2.0 Adapts Wikipedia Model, Attacks Google SERPs
Britannica president  Jorge Cauz is very displeased with the way Google has been displaying pages from Wikipedia on top of its SERPs. Mr. Cauz even attacked Google’s algorithm saying that for a top search engine such as Google, bringing Wikipedia as the first link in most of its SERPs undermines the capability of their search [...]

Against All Odds of 2008, Google Still Gains in Q4
Google has just announced its Q4 2008 financial results and amidst all the numbers and figures, one thing is clear - Google is still earning despite the economic downturn that is affecting the world economy. Google Chief Eric Schmidt sums it all in one statement: “Google performed well in the fourth quarter, despite an [...]

As the World’s Internet Population Grows to More than 1B, Google is Still No.1
There are some interesting points that were revealed by the latest comScore statistics on the total global internet audience in December 2008. First, there are now more than 1 billion internet users age 15 and older who visit the web either from their home or work computers. And second, most of these users visit Google [...]

Unable to Change Googlebot Crawl Rate via Google Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools allow you to set the Googlebot crawl rate and make it crawl your site faster. To access the feature: Sign into Google Webmaster Tools; Click Settings. In the Crawl rate section, select the option you want. I mentioned this feature in my quite popular post on how to increase your site crawl rate. What followed [...]

New Cool FireFox Addon Alert: SEO Workers Analysis Tool
SEO workers have just launched a new really handy and highly recommended SEO FireFox addon: SEO Workers Analysis Tool. Here’s a short overview of what you will be able to do with it:

Obama Weekly Video Address Powered by Google &YouTube
The White House’s website, now redesigned into a more social media friendly blogging platform at 12 noon on January 20th, the day of the Obama Inauguration, is now featuring President Obama’s weekly video addresses. The socially interactive Weekly Video Address is a large change from previous administrations who would turn to the old media of [...]

Twitter Gets $250 Million Valuation : But How Will it Earn Revenue?
Twitter, which has still not taken steps to monetize its API based microblogging social network nor add the Twitter search box to its web based user home pages, has received a cash infusion from IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) which valuates the company at $250 million. According to a WashingtonPost.com version of a TechCrunch story, a source [...]

Cool FireFox Plugins to Enhance Google Analytics
Google Analytics is the most popular and I’d say the best free tool for the internal site stats analysis. I use it myself for most of the projects I run. Recently I’ve come across a few really useful FireFox addons allowing for a quicker access to Google Analytics and its better usability. Check Google Analytics for [...]

PPC LOL: 5 Steps to Optimize PPC and Laugh About It
This Tuesday, 1/27/2009 at noon PST, I’m giving a free 1-hour online webinar for SEMpdx, Portland’s SEM community. But anyone can attend, and sign up is easy : Sign Up Here The formal event description is: “The 5 Steps to PPC Optimization is based on my 5 step process for optimizing anything. I created that process by analyzing [...]

How to Create a Killer List
I have previously shared my thoughts on creating lists for link bait. The main premise behind that post is: no matter how people might be tired of seeing lists of top tools/ site / blogs, lists still work - they are highly effective for both link and social media bait. Today I am sharing my ways [...]

5 Critical AdWords Reports for Optimal PPC Optimization
1. ROAS reports For Revenue-Based Accounts For whatever strange reason, AdWords will give you ROAS (return on ad spend) in the Reporting Center, but not in the Campaign Summary interface. If you’re doing lead generation and cost per conversion is your KPI, that’s easier- ads and keywords have that. But if ROAS is your metric [...]

IM Spring Break Conference Speakers &Agenda Announced
The Speaker Schedule for IM Spring Break 2009 has been announced on the IM Spring Break web page and I’m sure that many of you will agree that we have packed some incredible sessions and speakers into 3 days of sharing and learning information on SEO, paid search marketing, affiliate marketing and social media marketing. [...]

How to Search for People Across Many Social Networks
Today it is a common practice to join each and every social media network if not to participate then at least to prevent online identity theft. On the other hand, when building a new social connection it is essential to find a new friend across all known social media networks and befriend him everywhere [...]

Three Approaches To Poor Man’s Retargeting
Retargeting is an advertising technique that aims to convert browsers into buyers by increasing the number of times they see a campaign’s ads in a set period of time. The catch is that you’d normally need fancy technology to do this. In response to this problem, I came up with poor man’s [...]

Track Your Keywords with Yotify
Yotify is a new service that lets you track keywords across multiple platforms and sites. The site offers a bunch of customization options and alert settings. What sites are there available for tracking: Among other popular sites, Yotify offers to track such useful platforms as: News search; Blog search; YouTube; LifeHacker; Craiglist; eBay; FriendFeed; etc. Of course, you can track any site or RSS [...]

Despite 4Q Revenue Losses, Yahoo’s New Chief is Still Optimistic
First some highlights of the Yahoo numbers for 4Q 2009 and Full-Year 2009 financial report. Total revenues decreased by 1 percent in Q4 with $1,806 million as compared to 2007’s $1,832 million Full year net income was only at $424 million which is equivalent to 29 cents per share for the total $7.2 billion sales compared to [...]

10 Ways Journalists and Newsrooms Can Conquer SEO
A few weeks ago Sean Polay, Audience Development Director at Ottaway Local Media Group asked me to speak to his editors about writing headlines that are search engine-friendly. During these lean media days my assumption many smaller, local newspaper editors are not very well-versed in how search engines work, or how [...]

Got Problems with Google? Mind Your Own Site First
Frequenting webmaster forums and SEO blogs you will see multiple discussions on how to get Google index or crawl your site faster. What you should always bear in mind is that Google is sure to make the most of your website based on its maximum capacities. Don’t try to “force” Google to visit more often [...]

Will Google Ads Target Live Chats and Messenger Conversations?
I’ve always believed that the day that online advertising can target live conversation, online advertising will hit the ROI pinnacles it deserves along with pissing off every privacy advocate in the world. Can you imagine? You’re using Google Talk to discuss which restaurant to go to in Washington DC for dinner, debating over Afghani or Thai. [...]

Gmail Turns On Offline Mode through Google Gears
Gmail Labs has just activated a new feature which it should  have rolled out a long time ago - offline access. That means that if you activate this new feature on your Gmail Lab Settings, you can start reading emails that have piled on your Gmail Inbox through a web browser even if you’re not [...]

Obama White House Adds Google Exec to Head Social Media Project
Google’s role in the Obama White House has stepped up a notch, with the hiring of a former Google Executive to head a new social media initiative. The Obama White House has hired Katie Jacobs Stanton, an ex-Google Project Manager, as the President’s Director of Citizen Participation. According to All Things D, Stanton’s role will [...]

Google Privacy Policy Updated
Google has updated their privacy policy to address the collection of personal information when users interact with various Google services according to Amit Agarwal, one ofthe best bloggers on the planet. Google now retains this information along with user server logs.

Yahoo Leaving Santa Clara Offices : Vacating 400,000 Sq. Feet
Yahoo will be packing up and vacating 400,000 sq. feet of office space in Santa Clara, which are located near Mission College off of Highway 101 : You know, down the street from the Great America Theme Park. View Larger Map A lot of the Yahoo Search offices are in these buildings, they have a great cafeteria, [...]

Google Rolls Out Measurement Lab for Gauging Internet Performance
…At Google, we care deeply about sustaining the Internet as an open platform for consumer choice and innovation. No matter your views on net neutrality and ISP network management practices, everyone can agree that Internet users deserve to be well-informed about what they’re getting when they sign up for broadband, and good data is the [...]

Free Tools to Create an Online Survey
I recently had to deal with the topic of creating an online survey. The most popular free service that allows to create and analyze online surveys is SurveyMonkey which my short poll at Twitter confirmed: However I decided to try a few more tools and see what other features they offer.

Make Money with Facebook Ads
Shoemoney interviewed the Director of Monetization at Facebook, Tim Kendall, on the Shoemoney Show Podcast. If you’re interested in making money with the Facebook Ads program, or expanding your current Facebook campaign, Tim is the guy to listen to and I highly recommend reading up on the interview on the Shoemoney blog. Jeremy and Tim discuss [...]

Link Baiting Example: How to Build Links in Any Niche
Building links with quality content is the most effective, absolutely white-hat tactic. But is it suitable for any niche? Can it be done for some "boring" topics like gift wrapping, for example. A thread at WebmasterWorld discusses how to build links for a site related to gifts theme and it ca be a great example [...]

Use Twitter to Submit News to Techmeme
My favorite tech news aggregator Techmeme has just rolled out a new feature aimed at helping anyone make sure that interesting tech news are published on Techmeme’s site main site through an easy submission method using Twitter Tweets. It’s not surprising that Techmeme would utilize Twitter over other similar services as a way to get news [...]

Google is Broken, the 2009 Edition
I thought there was something wrong with my PC’s setting or something, or Firefox maybe experiencing some problem or my Internet connection has been attacked. But never did I thought that Google Search maybe down or something. At least for the past couple of years that I’ve been using it almost every moment when I’m [...]

Yahoo to Shut Off Briefcase Online Storage Service
Quite frankly, I already forgot about Yahoo’s online storage service despite the fact that it was the first online storage service that I used way back ten years ago.  I’ve used it several times for sharing my scanned photos to my friends online. There was no Flickr back then, and the only way you could [...]

Google Gives its Firefox Toolbar a Chrome-Like New Tab Page
When Google released its Chrome browser not so long ago, one of its major feature was its ability to display thumbnail images of  9 websites that you visit often. The idea is here is to make the Chrome default home page somewhat like an iGoogle or your personal gateway to the web.

Travelzoo Pays $1.8 Million for Fly.com Domain Name
Travelzoo purchased the domain name fly.com for $1,760,000 in cash today via Sedo domain brokers. According to Travelzoo, the company intends to use Fly.com for a new information Web site to be launched in February. We are delighted to acquire fly.com for our new offering, said Brian Clark, senior vice president and general manager, search products, [...]

What is W3C? Are W3C Errors Relevant to SEO?
A very well compiled thread at WebproWorld discusses what W3C is and why it is so important to conform to its standards. W3C refers to the World Wide Web Consortium working to develop open standards for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3) so that Web documents can be consistently displayed across all platforms. Founded [...]

LeapFish : Instant Search Results as You Type
It’s not that often that I review new search engines, but Izea asked me to put together a sponsored post about LeapFish and after checking it out, I have to admit that it is an incredibly useful and fast searching tool which assists users to search Google in real time. Services which run off the [...]

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