Seo Home > SEJ SEO News FeedsYahoo Tech Channel Taking on CNETYahoo Tech Channel Taking on CNETSome time ago, Yahoo! hired away Patrick Houston from CNET to launch a CNET-like consumer technology/electronics vertical. Here it is at Yahoo! Tech.I was unable to find coverage on CNET itself as of this hour (11 pm Pacific, Sunday) about the launch. It will be interesting to see how they [...]
Windows Live Now Powering a9.com Search Results
Windows Live Now Powering a9.com Search Results I have not noticed this before today - if you do a search at a9.com (Amazon’s search engine), say for cheese, you’re going to see something new: a9’s search results are now powered by Windows Live, dropping Google as their search results provider. Not sure how long this [...]
Shopping Search API?s on Yahoo Tech
Shopping Search API’s on Yahoo TechJust got this from the Yahoo PR team; the new Yahoo Tech Channel is powered by the same shopping web services available to anyone through the Yahoo! Developer Network. More information from the Yahoo Shopping API site:“The Yahoo! Shopping APIs enable you to use Yahoo! comparison shopping data to power [...]
Google Crawling Javascript Links with Clean URLs
Google Crawling Javascript Links with Clean URLsWell, if Yahoo can crawl and index links surrounded by “no follow” command, then Google is going to have to do something just as crazy to throw a wrench into the world of SEO, links, and text advertising.Barry Schwartz points out on SERoundtable that the GoogleBot is now crawling [...]
Yahoo Local Featured Listings : Flat Fee Search Marketing
Yahoo Local Featured Listings : Flat Fee Search MarketingIn an effort to simplify Search Engine Marketing on the Local level for brick and ‘Mom & Pop’ shops, Yahoo Local has introduced Yahoo! Search Marketing Local Featured Listings. Now, for a flat monthly fee starting at $29.95 (depending on business location and category) small businesses can [...]
Google AdWords Quality Based on Commerciality of Keyword Phrase
Google AdWords Quality Based on Commerciality of Keyword PhraseGoogle announced a “quality change” to the AdWords ad delivery system. Danny Sullivan explained that the ads displayed on a search result page will differ in quantity based on the commercial nature of the keyword phrase. So if a keyword is more educational (non-commercial) in nature, less [...]
IDG &Quigo Launch TechWords : Tech Targeted Contextual Advertising
IDG & Quigo Launch TechWords : Tech Targeted Contextual AdvertisingBesides the launch of Yahoo Tech Channel yesterday, the ability to pinpoint contextual advertising in tech channels beyond CNET and Internet.com is growing; this time with IDG & Quigo’s TechWords.TechWords advertising is available on IDG network sites including cio.com, computerworld.com, cso.com, infoworld.com, javaworld.com, and networkworld.com.Using Quigo’s [...]
Sphere Blog Search Engine Launches
Sphere Blog Search Engine LaunchesAfter months and months of steamy prelaunch talk and private beta testing, the new Sphere Blog Search Engine has launched to a rather large amount of fanfare.Sure, the opinion leaders of the Blogosphere like Steve Rubel, Michael Arrington, and Chris Sherman (Well, not really as much of a blogger as he [...]
Bill Slawski : Rewriting the Wikipedia on Search Engine Optimization
Bill Slawski : Rewriting the Wikipedia on Search Engine OptimizationIf you’re going to try and clean up the face and perception of SEO, might as well get started with rewriting the definition. I was tickled today when stopping by my good friend and former workmate Bill Slawski’s SEO by the SEA blog and reading Bill’s [...]
Interview with Jim Lanzone : CEO of Ask.com
Interview with Jim Lanzone : CEO of Ask.comElinor Mills of CNET’s News.com has just published an interview with Ask.com’s new CEO Jim Lanzone. Jim, who has been a driving force behind Ask Jeeves and its rebranding and reform into Ask.com, recently took over as the head of the company after former Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz [...]
Google vs. Microsoft : Internet Explorer, Firefox &MSN Search
Google vs. Microsoft : Internet Explorer, Firefox & MSN SearchLike the battle over search engine and keyword advertising partnerships (see my previous post on the Windows Live & Amazon.com partnership), the Microsoft vs. Google feud is also escalating to the “no turning back” level on the browser front. Microsoft apparently has the plans of embedding [...]
Microsoft vs. Google : Live Windows, adCenter &Amazon.com
Microsoft vs. Google : Live Windows, adCenter & Amazon.comBefore this week, the back and forth rhetoric between Google and Microsoft could have been seen by many in the search industry as quick jabs; jokes about Google leaving Microsoft in the dust, chair throwing incidents, and court cases over staff recruitment and head hunting. Until now, [...]
Yahoo?s YPN Says No to MySpace Traffic
Yahoo’s YPN Says No to MySpace TrafficIf you use MySpace profiles, blogs, comments, and mailings to spam or influence the teenie boppers over at MySpace to clickover to your website and that MySpace traffic is a major source of your visitors - beware! Yahoo Publisher Network wants little to do with serving their advertising to [...]
MSN Search Beats Google, Yahoo &Ask.com in Search Engine Relevancy Study
MSN Search Beats Google, Yahoo & Ask.com in Search Engine Relevancy StudyAccording to a recent study perfomed by Intralink, MSN Search ranked as being more relevant than Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, AOL, Gigablast & Wisenut. Before everyone’s veins start popping out of their heads and the comments on this post flame up with MSN Search Spam [...]
Best of the Web Promo : 10% off Submittals, Win a Mac
Best of the Web Promo : 10% off Submittals, Win a MacBOTW (Best of the Web) Directory is celebrating 2 years of running monthly submittal promotions by offering the motherload of a contest during the month of May : For each site submitted to the BOTW Directory BOTW is offering 10% off plus the chance [...]
Sphere, Local &Problems with Blog Search
Sphere, Local & Problems with Blog SearchAs you remember from where we last left our story, the number of blogs was doubling every six months and we now have over 35 million blogs out there (per Technorati). Sphere, a new blog search engine, formally launched today. It’s getting positive reviews (see Om Malik for more [...]
Microsoft &Yahoo Talk Partnering to Challenge Google?
Microsoft & Yahoo Talk Partnering to Challenge Google?Numerous sites are covering the Wall Street Journal story A Microsoft, Yahoo Tie-Up? by Robert A. Guth and Kevin J. Delaney in WSJ’s Heard On The Street column. The column states that whispers have been heard that some factions within Microsoft are pushing an anti-Google strategy which includes, [...]
More on Amazon &Microsoft?s Search Partnership
More on Amazon & Microsoft’s Search PartnershipOver the weekend Wendy Boswell broke the news on Amazon’s A9 and Alexa search engines switching over to Microsoft’s Live Windows Search from Amazon’s long time partner in Google.In addition, Search Engine Journal published an overview of the new partnership and reasons for Amazon.com making the switch from Google [...]
Yahoo Class Action Lawsuit : Spyware &Typos
Yahoo Class Action Lawsuit : Spyware & TyposBrian Krebs at Washingtonpost.com has a rundown on a class-action lawsuit filed against Yahoo accusing Yahoo Search Marketing of syndication fraud - serving ads with questionable partners.A class-action lawsuit filed Monday against Yahoo! Inc. and group of unnamed third-parties accuses the company of engaging in “syndication fraud” against [...]
British Searchers Use More Than One Search Engine
British Searchers Use More Than One Search EngineVia Pandia, a new study out from Harvest Digital shows that searchers in the UK are not tied down to just one search engine. More from the article:“According to a study from the British marketing company Harvest Digital only 24 percent of British searchers use only one search [...]
Google Calendar Tips
Google Calendar TipsDouglas Bowman, who helped design Google Calendar, has some great tips for getting the most out of Google Calendar.Since I’ve been an early user of Google Calendar for a few months now, thought I’d share a few tips that may make the jump a little smoother for others. Some tips may seem obvious, [...]
Is Google AdSense Evil?
Is Google AdSense Evil?Interesting opinion from V7N’s John Scott that Google AdSense, which John calls ‘Webmaster Welfare’, has devalued the online advertising impression while serving as an easy fix for web publishers. Scott makes the argument in his blog post, AdSense is Evil!Google’s initial respectable pay-out rates were simply a way to generate positive buzz [...]
MSN AdCenter Targets Google AdWords &Yahoo Search Marketing
MSN AdCenter Targets Google AdWords & Yahoo Search MarketingMicrosoft’s AdCenter is scheduled to formally launch today. Its chief selling feature, AdCenter promises to offer more precise targeting options than currently available on Google or Yahoo!:MSN adCenter provides advertisers like you the opportunity to expose your business to the right audience. Using adCenter’s targeting features, you [...]
Google Health Coming?
Google Health Coming?According to a few rumors around the Web today: Inside Google, Google Operating System, Search Engine Watch, etc. - we might be seeing a new rollout from Google next week and that would be Google Health. More from Google Operating System:“Marissa Mayer told USA TODAY that Google will make some important announcements next [...]
Google Homepage Adds Google Reader Module
Google Homepage Adds Google Reader ModuleGoogle Homepage is starting to look more and more like My Yahoo, which is probably good news for Google and its registered users as Google now offers a Google Reader option for RSS aggregating on Google Homepage.Mihai Parparita posts on the Official Google Reader Blog:We’re therefore very happy to announce [...]
Google Sued Over Child Pornography AdWords
Google Sued Over Child Pornography AdWordsLong Island Politician Jeffrey Toback, of the Nassau County Legislature, has gone and sued Google in the New York State Supreme Court alleging that Google and its Google AdWords advertising network is profiting over child pornography.The law suit, which happens to fall on an election year and is sure to [...]
Blue Security Attack Crashes Six Apart Blog Network?
Blue Security Attack Crashes Six Apart Blog Network?Six Apart’s TypePad blog network has come under the fire of a massive DDoS attack according to Six Apart’s Michael Sippey.Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart’s [...]
Google AdSense Referrals for Google Pack and Picasa
Google AdSense Referrals for Google Pack and PicasaThe Google AdSense Referral (affiliate program) system has added two new Google offerings to its program. Google is now paying per installation of Google Pack and Picasa, their social photo sharing and messaging system.From the Inside AdSense blog : You’ll earn up to $2 for each time a [...]
Microsoft, Vexcel and Local Search
Microsoft, Vexcel and Local SearchMicrosoft today confirmed that it had acquired Vexcel, a mapping and remote sensing company that primarily works for the US government. Vexcel has been around for about 20 years and has a long history in the space. The news had been out but there had been no formal announcement until today.Steven [...]
PreFound: Hyper-Relevance through the Extension of Social Search Tools into Social Networks
PreFound: Hyper-Relevance through the Extension of Social Search Tools into Social NetworksThe social search roundtable I’ll be tonight for PreFound is called Extending On-line Social Communities into Pure Search.In a recent post on the roundtable Steve Mansfield, PreFound’s CEO described it as an event to explore “extending social networks into social search.”Re-Framing the ConversationIn some [...]
Alexa Traffic Rank Numbers Update
Alexa Traffic Rank Numbers UpdateAmazon.com’s Alexa, which now sports Windows Live powered search instead of Google, updated its Alexa Traffic Rank numbers today to reflect estimated site traffic over February, March & April.Given the amount of press Alexa has received via the Microsoft & Amazon.com search partnership, the reach of the Alexa & A9 toolbars [...]
?What Day Is??Feature Compared
“What Day Is…” Feature ComparedThis morning I couldn’t for the life of me remember when Mother’s Day was, so I decided to ask a search engine, and then it just snowballed from there. First, Google. You can ask the “what day is…” question of Google up to a point:What day is mother’s daywhat day is [...]
Eventful.com Adds Google Calendar Support
Eventful.com Adds Google Calendar SupportEventful.com has added support for the new Google Calendar service to enable users to keep track of events found on the Eventful.com. Users can now export events to their Google Calendar in the same fashion expoting can be done via Eventful.com to calendars on Yahoo!, Microsoft Outlook and the Rabble social [...]
Ask.com Sponsors English Cricket Team
Ask.com Sponsors English Cricket TeamIf Yahoo can sonsor the World Cup and have the Fukuoka Hawks playing baseball at the Yahoo Dome in Japan, then it’s time for Ask.com to do some high profile sports marketing of their own. Ask.com is now an ‘Official Partner of the England Cricket Team’.Ask.com has launched a minisite, ask4cricket.com, [...]
MSN Search Advertising in Google AdWords UK
MSN Search Advertising in Google AdWords UKSure there has been a lot of talk in the news recently about MSN adCenter, Windows Live Local, Windows Live Search & Amazon.com and possibly Microsoft acquiring a stake in Yahoo. Martin Brown sent me over this screen shot today which is a reminder that although Microsoft is making [...]
Microsoft?s Windows Live QnA : Answer to Yahoo &Google
Microsoft’s Windows Live QnA : Answer to Yahoo & GoogleMicrosoft is getting ready to launch their own social web question and answer service shortly. Windows Live QnA will be Microsoft’s answer (no pun intended) to Google Answes and Yahoo Answers and is one step of many in the direction of fortifying their search offerings under [...]
Yahoo Publisher Network Responds on Quality &Cancelled Accounts
Yahoo Publisher Network Responds on Quality & Cancelled AccountsWillan Johnson, Vice President and General Manager of the Yahoo Publisher Network has responded to recent complaints and reports of YPN canceling the advertising accounts of member publishers who are not meeting YPN Guidelines. Reasons for the closing of most accounts seems to be because of too [...]
AOL VOIP : AIM Phoneline Offers Free Local Numbers
AOL VOIP : AIM Phoneline Offers Free Local NumbersAOL will be launching a VOIP service which is tied to its AIM messenger program which will give AOL’s AIM users a free local phoneline. Speaking of phonelines, that’s what AOL is naming the service; AIM Phoneline.No fancy names for AOL like AOL Talk or AOL VOIP, [...]
Windows Live QnA Update &Screenshots
Windows Live QnA Update & ScreenshotsApparently the Windows Live beans were spilled a bit too early last week when the searchosphere caught a wiff of the Microsoft project which is planned to compete with the Yahoo Answers Social Q&A Search service.The Windows Live QnA team has now created the QnA Blog with a sneak preview [...]
Google Buying XML Conversion Firm Olive Software?
Google Buying XML Conversion Firm Olive Software? Aaron Wall posts a rumor on Threadwatch that Google may be purchasing Olive Software, a firm which specializes in Print to XML conversion. Google may be paying $75 million for the company and its core business model of converting PDF’s and Microfilm (among other print files) over to [...]
Steps to Reduce Click Fraud
Steps to Reduce Click FraudV7N Blog’s Peter Da Vanzo lists some easy ways to prevent or reduce search engine marketing click fraud. With Google AdWords in the news over a class action click fraud case which is starting to find its way to settlement, click fraud is only becoming more and more infamous in search [...]
Yahoo?s New Search Advertising System
Yahoo’s New Search Advertising SystemYahoo today plans to unveil plans for their new Yahoo Search Marketing advertising system and search ad serving technology which is expected to benefit Yahoo’s earnings, advertiser return on investment & targeting and better sponsored results for the end user. Yahoo’s new system will replace the sponsored link auction model which [...]
Google Health : Preview &Expectations
Google Health : Preview & ExpectationsGarett Rogers of the ZDNet Googling Google Blog has unearthed what may be a preview of Google Health at Google Dataceneter IP 64.233.167.99. Ever since the launch of the Google Finance portal and build up to the next Google Stockholders Meeting this Thursday, Google’s Health channel is the next expected [...]
694 Million People Are Online
694 Million People Are Online That’s probably give or take a few hundred thousand (but who’s counting). This via Son of a Pitch; Comscore reports that “that 694 million people, age 15+, used the Internet worldwide from all locations in March 2006, representing 14 percent of the world’s total population within this age group.” More [...]
Yahoo?s New Sponsored Search : Instant Ads &Geotargeting
Yahoo’s New Sponsored Search : Instant Ads & GeotargetingYahoo Search Marketing is taking the first steps of upgrading their Sponsored Search technology today with an email sent out to Yahoo Search advertisers. First impressions of the changes look very positive from the start, including no more long 3 day editorials processes, geo-targeting, and dayparting. Here [...]
Google AdWords on Google Earth
Google AdWords on Google EarthIn what is cracking up to be a big week in search engine marketing news (thinking Yahoo’s new search technology, Google Health, MSN adCenter), some European bloggers are noticing a new channel for the serving of local targeted Google AdWords (yes, local is HOT); Google Earth AdWords.Philipp Lessen points to the [...]
Craigslist and the Local Market
Craigslist and the Local MarketThere was a very long piece in Sunday’s NY Times (reg. req’d) on Craigslist and the rental real estate market. There are some interesting data about number of listings in particular markets and some background on the housing discrimination lawsuit.What’s most interesting to me is the “culture” of Craigslist that comes [...]
Tips for Managing Large Google AdSense Accounts
Tips for Managing Large Google AdSense AccountsShimon Sandler, a ‘new’ search marketing blogger in the searchosphere and search manager for a rather large and locally targeted real estate company, discusses strategies for managing a successful & efficient AdWords account structure for large advertisers. From Shimon’s post, Adwords Account Structure for Large Accounts.The standard account structure [...]
Submit to SEOdex : SEO &SEM Services Directory
Submit to SEOdex : SEO & SEM Services DirectoryOver the weekend Search Engine Journal purchased a new SEO Directory with an incredible URL; SEOdex.com. The site is relatively new and has only been live for a couple months, hence no real history or PageRank ranking. SEOdex did have a bunch of other SEO and directory [...]
Value of SEO Associations &SEO Certification?
Value of SEO Associations & SEO Certification?Aaron Wall of Threadwatch points to a Jim Hedger article on SEO Certification programs like the Society of Internet Professionals and SEOPros and asks “What do you think of the idea of SEO qualifying bodies? Are they necessary? Will they be far more respected than something like SEMPO?” Mr. [...]
Google Targeting Cricket Fans Too
Google Targeting Cricket Fans TooAsk.com, with their sponsorship of the English Cricket Team, is not the only search engine which is marketing their brand and services to fans of Cricket. Google is getting involved in the Cricket loving country of India with the Googly Cricket Package. Amit Agarwal writes on Digital Inspiration:The Adwords India team [...]
AIM Pages, MySpace, and Marketing Opportunities
AIM Pages, MySpace, and Marketing OpportunitiesFirst, here’s the Flickr screenshot of AOL’s new AIM Pages (with more detail from PaidContent via TechCrunch). It’s very nice looking and a lot cleaner than the very awkward MySpace profile formatting. In fact, AOL had one of the first “social networks” with the AIM Buddy List but the company [...]
TiVo Turns TV into Search Engine
TiVo Turns TV into Search EngineFrom the press release today: ‘TiVo Product Watch’ [ ] offers advertisers an innovative new way to reach TiVo subscribers who are actively looking for products (”In Market”) with advertising content and information. At launch, TiVo Product Watch will deliver targeted, relevant advertising content, from more than 70 advertisers and [...]
Google AdWords Campaign Circumvents Censorship in China
Google AdWords Campaign Circumvents Censorship in ChinaThe CitizenLab blog has an account of bypassing China’s strict search engine censorship of Google.cn with Google AdWords. Seems that after setting up a China geotargeted AdWords account for Human Rights Watch, the blogger was able to have those ads served on Google.cn. Human Rights Watch’s site is blocked [...]
Link Building Wiki, Search Wiki &Wikipedia SEO
Link Building Wiki, Search Wiki & Wikipedia SEOText Link Brokers has a new resource / link bait magnet up and running called the Link Building Wiki, chocked full of plenty of info and links to forums and blog entries on link building practices. Jarod at TLB says they will be adding to the resource on [...]
Google Press Day Today
Google Press Day TodayVia Google Operating System, the highly anticipated Google Press Day is today, May 10, starting at 9 AM for breakfast and then 9:30 to 1 PM for Q and A. More from the Google Press Day info:“The second annual Google Press Day, is an informal – and we hope informative – session [...]
Google Health a Healthy Idea?
Google Health a Healthy Idea?LeeAnn Prescott of Hitwise asks how good of an idea is it of Google to launch a Health Channel when their current vertical searches and Finance channel are lagging behind the competition. Prescott publishes a chart with the ranking of each Google vertical in their related markets and notes that with [...]
Site Wide Links Help or Hurt Linking Campaign?
Site Wide Links Help or Hurt Linking Campaign?Barry’s Search Engine Roundtable Forums has a nice thread going on about whether or not site-wide links (as opposed to targeted page links or individual blog post links) help or hurt a site, whether those links are paid or organically earned.Benjamin Pfeiffer of RankSmart lends his thoughts on [...]
Google Trends - Much More Than Keyword Research
Google Trends - Much More Than Keyword ResearchGoogle extends their lead in the keyword research market by adding a new tool called Google Trends. It operates similar to the Google keyword research tool, but offers trends that goes back for years, and even overlaps news related to keyword search spikes, like Google Finance does. Many [...]
Net Neutrality Addressed By Ask A Ninja
Net Neutrality Addressed By Ask A NinjaVia BoingBoing, a pretty good explanation of net neutrality for those who might not be familiar with it. Plus, the best quote ever: “That’s what the Internet is all about - people in funny hats making things that people like.” Perhaps Terry Semel should have watched this to get [...]
Terry Semel of Yahoo Interview Notes by Jeff Jarvis
Terry Semel of Yahoo Interview Notes by Jeff Jarvis Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine took some excellent notes of an interview primarily conducted by Ken Auletta of Yahoo’s Terry Semel. Here’s some of my favorite blurbs:“He says he talked to Google’s founders early on about buying them. Their first offer was $1 billion “and we don’t [...]
Google Gets Social with Google Co-op
Google Gets Social with Google Co-opGoogle announced their new social search oriented Google Co-op project at their Annual Press Day yesterday afternoon. Google Co-op marks Google’s entrance into the social or shared search market, where holders of Google Accounts can contribute their knowledge and expertise to improve Google’s search results and vertical search properties via [...]
.XXX Domains Not Going To Happen
.XXX Domains Not Going To HappenVia the Register:“Plans for an area of the internet dedicated to pornography were killed last night in a vote by overseeing organisation ICANN.n a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue [...]
Local Link Building &Google LocalRank
Local Link Building & Google LocalRankNothing new here, just mentioning the LocalRank patent from long ago. Claus Schmidt published a great article about LocalRank a couple of years ago.The more interconnectivity there are amongst the top results the more algorithmic weight you could place on interconnectivity. Many search queries are not as competitive as they [...]
Google Gets Web 2.0 Religion
Google Gets Web 2.0 ReligionFrom where I sit, the most interesting part of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s opening remarks (beyond the fact that he was trying to shape the coverage) was his emphasis on the fact that Google would be integrating user-generated content much more directly into its apps and specifically into search going forward. [...]
Gmail Pictures : More Google Community Building
Gmail Pictures : More Google Community BuildingGoogle is adding even more personality and “social network” traits to its interactive offerings (yes, even beyond Google Notebook & Co-op) with Gmail Pictures. With the addition of images to GTalk & Gmail, Google is achieving two goals; first adding more of a youthful MySpacey feel to their products [...]
Google Talk &Nokia?s 770 Internet Browsing Device
Google Talk & Nokia’s 770 Internet Browsing DeviceIt’s not a cellphone but it plays one on TV. From today’s WSJ (sub req’d): Google Inc. is teaming up with handset maker Nokia Corp., in a move that could help propel the Internet company into mobile communications. The companies plan to launch a version of Nokia’s hand-held [...]
Gannett Buys Planet Discover Search Technology
Gannett Buys Planet Discover Search TechnologyEnterprise search vendor Planet Discover was providing integrated search results to a growing number of newspaper sites (mixing content from various sections and the broader Internet). Among other sites, Planet Discover powers WickedLocalSearch.Gannett operates more than 100 local newspaper websites and should be able to leverage Planet Discover’s search capabilities [...]
RSSMicro : New RSS &Blog Search Engine Project
RSSMicro : New RSS & Blog Search Engine ProjectBabak Hamidi of Aliso, California emailed me yesterday with a sneak preview of his new search engine RSSMicro. Babak, an independent software & database developer, has been working on developing RSSMicro for the past 6 months and feels “it is able to surpass conventional search engines in [...]
Mother?s Day AOL Searches : Britney Spears #1 Celebrity Mom, Digital Cameras Top Gift
Mother’s Day AOL Searches : Britney Spears #1 Celebrity Mom, Digital Cameras Top GiftFrom Britney Spears announcing her second pregnancy on David Letterman to Angelina Jolie expecting her first natural child birth, AOL Search has been tracking the most popular celebrity mom searches and searches for Mother’s Day presents leading up to today. AOL [...]
Indeed.com Launches Job Search PPC Advertising Network
Indeed.com Launches Job Search PPC Advertising NetworkThe Indeed job search engine has launched what it dubs the ‘first pay-per-click job advertising network’ where employers, recruiters and job boards may promote their advertisements via Indeed.com and its network of authority sites which includes About.com, NY Times Job Market and Boston.com. Like traditional PPC search engine marketing, [...]
Do Some Spring Cleaning in Your Adsense Account
Do Some Spring Cleaning in Your Adsense AccountThe Inside Adwords blog has a nice little post reminding us all that every once in a while, it’s a good idea to do some “spring cleaning”, so to speak, in our Adsense accounts. There’s only two tips there (organize your ads and label your ad groups), but [...]
MySpace Sells Episodes of FOX TV?s 24
MySpace Sells Episodes of FOX TV’s 24Reuters reports that MySpace has entered the TV show download on demand market with a new marketplace for its sister TV network, NewsCorp owned FOX. MySpace will start by selling episodes of 24 (yes, Jack Bauer’s 24) for $1.99 a pop.If 24 sales on MySpace take off, as they [...]
Microsoft Internet Explorer Search Engine OK?d by Justice Department
Microsoft Internet Explorer Search Engine OK’d by Justice DepartmentPerhaps smoldering a bit of the browser war fire set by Google & Microsoft this month, the US Justice Department says that the integation of the Windows Live Search Box across the new Microsoft browser does not threaten Google to the point of further investigation.Steve Lohr of [...]
Adam Lasnik Now a Google Cuttlett
Adam Lasnik Now a Google CuttlettMatt Cutts has announced that he’s taken Adam Lasnik under his wing to assist with Google search results and ad performance quality control and web publisher communications. I’ve glanced past Adam’s Bladam blog several times over the past years and although I admit to not being very familiar with Mr. [...]
Yahoo Answers Expansion &Integration into Yahoo Search Results
Yahoo Answers Expansion & Integration into Yahoo Search ResultsSince its launch, the Yahoo Answers program has been seen as a concrete example of how user generated content and participation can lead, in some cases, to better and more relevant search results. It has been five months since the launch of the Yahoo Answers community Q [...]
Measuring the Quality of a Link
Measuring the Quality of a LinkHave a linking campaign in the works but not sure exactly where to begin or how to judge the quality of the links you’re building, or buying? Todd Malincoat dissects the anatomy of quality link building with 6 quality link indicators on the StuntDubl blog:Getting links is hard work. It’s [...]
Skype Offers Free Calls to Phones and Mobiles in US &Canada
Skype Offers Free Calls to Phones and Mobiles in US & CanadaSkype has just called the VOIP bluff of Vonage, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM Phoneline, Ma Bell and other competitors by announcing that Skype outbound calls to normal phonelines and mobile phones will now be free in the US and Canada.From the Skype release [...]
V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest Winners
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Yahoo?s New Home Page, Features &Screenshots
Yahoo’s New Home Page, Features & ScreenshotsYahoo, fresh off the integration of Yahoo Answers into its search results, has now launched a live preview of the new Yahoo.com at yahoo.com/preview. For those of you who did not just click over to preview Yahoo’s new home page, here are my first thoughts on the redesign (to [...]
ISP Snooping, Courtesy of the US Congress
ISP Snooping, Courtesy of the US CongressVia CNet:“A prominent Republican on Capitol Hill has prepared legislation that would rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans’ online activities be stored, CNET News.com has learned.The proposal comes just weeks after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Internet service providers should retain records of user activities [...]
Google Notebook Released : User Reviews Welcomed
Google Notebook Released : User Reviews WelcomedGoogle Notebook has been released and is now live and ready to be used. I have not had the chance to download it as of yet, but the browser extension is getting a flip through by Bill Slawski, who’s initial thoughts are worth mentioning.The idea behind it is that [...]
Link Exchange Networks Hurt Google Site Indexing
Link Exchange Networks Hurt Google Site IndexingIrrelevant & obviously over promotional reciprocal link trading networks and untargeted link buying campaigns can hurt a site’s indexing in Google and its rankings according to a recent blog entry by Google’s SEO Czar Matt Cutts.If your site participates in link trading or link exchange network schemes with thousands [...]
Flickr Updates : Adds Search Box!
Flickr Updates : Adds Search Box!Yahoo’s Flickr photo sharing & tagging community is out of beta, is in gamma!, and has updated with all kinds of new features. The most prominent addition is that of an actual SEARCH BOX to the entire site. No longer do users have to download custom extensions to their browser [...]
Matt Cutts : Google SEO Press Tour
Matt Cutts : Google SEO Press TourNow that Google’s Quality Czar and Webmaster Ambassador Matt Cutts has taken on a new staff member to lighten his load, he’s making some high profile appearances at ClickZ and WebmasterRadio/Search Engine Watch.Mike Grehan of Market Smart Interactive interviewed Matt at ClickZ, where Mike contributes as a ClickZ Expert.Here’s [...]
Yellowikis : Wikipedia of Yellow Pages
Yellowikis : Wikipedia of Yellow Pages“Presence” will ultimately become a more prominent feature of local business websites and IM/VoIP calling should, over time, become a more common and frequent way for consumers and local merchants to interact. Once local merchants — notorious for not returning phone calls or answering emails — clearly understand the benefits [...]
Jennifer Aniston &Vince Vaughn Break-Up on Google Video
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Google Recruitment Video on YouTube
Google Recruitment Video on YouTubeDigging into YouTube’s selection of Google oriented videos unearthed this recruitment video by Google. Sure, the video is totally 60 Minutes-esque Google PR with Google lava lamps, employees having meetings while sitting on brightly colored balance balls (which has to be excellent for developing core muscles), and the Google 15, which [...]
Google Video Upgrades, Catching YouTube?
Google Video Upgrades, Catching YouTube?Two of the many major differentiation points between YouTube and Google Video are YouTube’s easy video upload and video author profile pages, which are the core of YouTube’s Flickr-like media sharing community. Philipp Lessen says that Google Video has addressed the video upload obstacles with a more user friendly browser based [...]
Microsoft to Challenge iTunes with Urge
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Will the Real True Local Please Stand Up?!
Will the Real True Local Please Stand Up?!A battle is brewing between Geosign’s TrueLocal search engine and News Corp.’s newly minted Australia-only (for now) local search site, awkwardly also called “True Local.” True Local (the original) has been operating in Canada and the US for at least a couple of years, while News Corp.’s engine [...]
Google &KDDI au Partner for Japan Mobile Search
Google & KDDI au Partner for Japan Mobile SearchGoogle Japan’s quest to grow in the Yahoo dominated Japanese search market has taken a new turn with a recent agreement with KDDI Corporation to become the mobile search provider of choice for KDDI’s EZ Web service for au mobile phones. The mobile partnership with KDDI will [...]
Oodle?s Garage Sale Local Search &Alert Service
Oodle’s Garage Sale Local Search & Alert ServiceClassifieds search engine Oodle has launched a Garage Sale Finder which indexes over 15,000 garage and yard sales from hundreds of sources including local newspapers and community classified sites.Users can sign up for the Garage Sale Finder and receive alert emails detailing what garage sales are occurring [...]
WebAdvantage.net SEO &Search Marketing for Security Industry
WebAdvantage.net SEO & Search Marketing for Security IndustryAlthough we tend not to write much about the accomplishments of Search Engine Marketing firms here on Search Engine Journal, I’d like to go against the grain today with an announcement from WebAdvantage.net.WebAdvantage.net is carving an SEO & Search Marketing niche in the the tech security sector and [...]
Local SEO &Links for Maryland Businesses
Local SEO & Links for Maryland BusinessesI’ve been working on numerous projects recently behind the scenes and would like bring one out in the open today. Given the direction of Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com’s focus on local search, its difficult not to argue that the adaptation of search engines as a tool for finding [...]
Google Search Popularity &Niche Vertical Channel Shares
Google Search Popularity & Niche Vertical Channel SharesHitwise’s Bill Tancer has published a study of the popularity of the major Google services on the Hitwise blog. A chart published by Hitwise shows the 20 most popular Google channels, from normal Google Web Search to Google Local and Google Labs. While traditional search oriented channels such [...]
Google Reader for Mobile Phones
Google Reader for Mobile PhonesGoogle Reader, Google’s RSS Aggregator, is now available for mobile phones for those of us who cannot fight the tendency to check the latest news from our favorite blogs while in the train, the theatre, or driving.Google Blogoscoped points to the working version of Google Reader Mobile, simplified for most basic [...]
SEO &Linking for Yahoo, MSN or Google?
SEO & Linking for Yahoo, MSN or Google?This week some SEO sites have revisited the old argument of whether or not to target all search engines with a site, or focus the SEO techniques for one specific search engine. Although when representing a business entity, white gloves optimization which should attract respectable rankings among all [...]
Yahoo Publisher Network Direct Deposit : Quick Payments
Yahoo Publisher Network Direct Deposit : Quick PaymentsYahoo Publisher Network has added the option for publishers of their contextual targeted ’search’ advertising system to receive payment via direct deposit. By selecting the direct deposit option, publishers will receive their Yahoo earnings 10 to 15 days faster than before with deposits to bank accounts occurring on [...]
Pearl Jam on Google Video
Pearl Jam on Google VideoRemember back in the mid 1990’s to 2002 when Pearl Jam did not make videos and then shocked the world with the Todd McFarland animated Do The Evolution video which made up for all of those lost years when fans actually had to use their imagination to give vision to the [...]
MySpace Losing Its Cool?
MySpace Losing Its Cool?Last week at Yahoo! Analyst Day, the company touted its social search and social media strategies as giving it an edge over competitors Google and Microsoft. Yet here’s an article in which MySpace is favorably compared to Yahoo! as being far ahead of the Internet portal in developing and monetizing online community:Yahoo [...]
Search Engines Pose Security Risks, According to McAfee
Search Engines Pose Security Risks, According to McAfeeThis via Pandia; “McAfee has published a study on the security risks of Internet searching together with the spyware-expert Ben Edelman.” Here’s a few snippets from the report:“We find most leading search engines similar in the safety of the sites they link to, though MSN is the safest [...]
Web Browser Hijack Worm in Yahoo Instant Messenger
Web Browser Hijack Worm in Yahoo Instant MessengerThis from eWeek:“Security researchers have identified a new worm spreading across Yahoo’s instant messaging network that has been cloaked under the guise of a “safety” browser in an attempt to dupe users.First discovered by anti-malware researchers at FaceTime Communications, the worm, labeled as yhoo32.explr, is forwarding itself throughout [...]
Google Gains Search Share, MySpace Making Waves
Google Gains Search Share, MySpace Making WavescomScore Networks just released their monthly “State of the Search Engine Marketing Share” rankings which showed that in April Google continued to gain in its American search engine usage over its competition. Google gained in search market share for the ninth consecutive month and maintained its status as market [...]
Google Fixing Site Command Search Bugs
Google Fixing Site Command Search BugsGoogle is fixing some issues which have been raised recently among webmasters about the site: search function which lets users see how many pages of their site are listed in the Google index. Vanessa Fox, Google Engineering, outlines the bugs on the Google Sitemaps blog:In this case, we found a [...]
Measuring Link Value with Text Link Ads
Measuring Link Value with Text Link AdsText Link Ads has developed a new calculator tool which measures the dollar value of links on web sites. The Text Link Ads Calculator is quite useful for webmasters as a fun way to see what the worth of their site links are, but is of great value to [...]
Google Click-To-Play Video Ads for AdWords
Google Click-To-Play Video Ads for AdWordsGoogle has just announced that they have found a way to effectively monetize Google Video beyond the Google Video Store model they are currently using. Google Click-To-Play Video Ads will be a part of the Google Adwords content network; in a sense - AdSense Video.At launch, video ads will be [...]
Windows Live Local Expands in UK
Windows Live Local Expands in UKMicrosoft’s Windows Live Local aerial imagery has updated with new & clearer images in the United Kingdom. LiveSide says that although the new expansion of Live Local UK is an improvement, European Local imagery is still behind that of the US and its local search engines.From LiveSide :At the Windows [...]
Sphere Added To Time.com
Sphere Added To Time.comVia TechCrunch, Time.com has added the nifty Sphere It bookmarklet to a variety of Time.com articles. More from TechCrunch:“While this type of exposure is excellent for new startup Sphere, it’s also great for the blogosphere. I would imagine the average Time.com reader is not fully aware of what blogs have to offer [...]
World Cup Firefox Extension &FIFA blinkx Search
World Cup Firefox Extension & FIFA blinkx SearchCan you feel the anticipation to the World Cup heating up in all kinds of media channels? GOAL! is hitting the movie theatres, sports reporters are digging into potential championship scenarios, and even web browsers and search engines are getting into the action.Multimedia search engine blinkx has partnered [...]
MySpace &Google or MSN Hooking Up Over Search?
MySpace & Google or MSN Hooking Up Over Search?Despite the sponsored listings in MySpace search being served via Yahoo Search Marketing, Revolution Magazine is reporting that, with over 43 million searches performed per month, MySpace is talking with Google and MSN Search about powering the MySpace Social Network.MySpace, the social networking portal, is believed to [...]
Ask.com?s Stock Market Smart Answers
Ask.com`s Stock Market Smart AnswersAsk.com has added new Stock Market Smart Answers to their collection of high quality content which is served via partners to Ask.com searchers (served above the ads). Gary Price writes on the Ask.com blog:Like many web engines, entering a ticker symbol and/or company name will give ...
Del.icio.us Redesigns Homepage with Hotlist
Del.icio.us Redesigns Homepage with HotlistFollowing the trend of recent redesigns and feature additions by 2.0 veterans Flickr, Yahoo and YouTube, del.icio.us has now redesigned its homepage and added the new hot list.From the del.icio.us blog:The del.icio.us popular page is very?well, popular. Many of you read it frequently and ...
GMusic : Google Music vs. Apple iTunes?
GMusic : Google Music vs. Apple iTunes?Google is already selling video downloads of sporting events and television programs via their Google Video Store, but recent happenings which follow a Google Launch trend have led to expectations that Google will soon be launching a Google Music Store, or GMusic, which may ...
Amnesty International Calls For End to Internet Censorship
Amnesty International Calls For End to Internet CensorshipFrom ZDnet:" Amnesty International marked its 45th anniversary on Sunday by launching a global campaign to stamp out state censorship of the Internet.The human rights pressure group called on Web users to sign a pledge calling on governments to stop censoring sites and ...
Net Neutrality and Meg Whitman of eBay
Net Neutrality and Meg Whitman of eBayJust in the last five minutes, I`ve received a letter addressed personally to ME from the CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman! W00t! Well, not really personally..it`s to my eBay ID and I guess it went out to like a million other people..but let`s look ...
Reasons Why You Should Try Gada.Be
Reasons Why You Should Try Gada.BeChris Pirillo has written a lengthy manifesto presentation on why searchers should try Gada.be. He has divided it into Enthusiast, Mobile, Developer, Business, Casual, Researcher, Jobseeker, and Shopper; and given pertinent, compelling arguments for using Gada.be for each category:"(for the Internet Enthusiast)There’s no quick way ...
Google Green Travel
Google Green TravelGoogle has put together a rather nice looking map-based eco-friendly travel site. Most of the straight searches default to Google Maps/Local. But if you click on the featured cities on the left, you`ll see a very nice presentation of content on a map (including video [although it wasn`t ...
AllYouCanUpload from CNET - Free Photo Upload Site
AllYouCanUpload from CNET - Free Photo Upload SiteAccording to TechCrunch, CNet is becoming "disruptive" (we always knew that, didn`t we) with their release of AllYouCanUpload, a totally free, fast, and easy photo hosting service. More from TechCrunch:"AllYouCanUpload is a site that makes uploading photos as easy as it can ...
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