Google Maps More Popular Than MapQuest
Google showed us a long time ago that it can dominate in search, but it’s taken a while for it to copy that dominance in...
Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and runs Foundation Digital, a digital marketing strategy & development agency.
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Google Finance Now Running Google Display Ads
Google’s expansion of running AdSense style display ads across its own network has seen new ads within Google News, Google Image Search and other Google...
Microsoft Yahoo Meetings Signal Start of Intelligent Acquisition or Merger
Microsoft and Yahoo may be in talks again on some sort of advertising partnership, or babysteps to an inevitable acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, as...
Digg Launches New Digg Search Engine
Today Digg released a new version of their internal Digg search functionality which according to social media guru Brent Csutoras is “is a real improvement.”...
Google Expands One Line SiteLinks : Little Blue Links in SERPS
Over the weekend I noticed more and more Google search results with little blue links between the page descriptions and the target URL in Google...
AOL Names Google Exec Armstrong as CEO & Chairman
Can Google’s Senior Vice President and chief of ad sales turn AOL around and into the mega powerhouse that Time Warner has always dreamed the...
Matt Cutts vs Ted Murphy on Paid Blogging & Sponsored Conversations
In a followup to the Forrester report on paid blog advertising via sponsoring the conversation in blogposts, Google’s Matt Cutts has weighed in a bit...
Can You Make Money with AdSense for Domains?
Google AdSense for Domains lets domain name owners set up AdSense links on a parked domain which if it receives traffic, will serve relevant ads...
Google Enters the Twitter Game : Google + Twitter = Twoogling?
Google is now on Twitter. As insane as it may seem, it has taken Google years to start using their Google account, which is located...
Use Excel to Plan Meta Tags, Titles and URLs for SEO
Mike from MarketingBreakthroughs.com sent in today’s SEO Tip, which has to do with organizing and planning the meta tags, keywords and page titles for an...
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...
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...
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...
Take Advantage of .TV Domains for SEO and Reputation Management
There is a very large untapped market of creating .TV niche and business oriented online video sites which your business may be overlooking in your...
Heading to Mexico for Honeymoon : SEJ Family Growing
I’m very happy to announce to Search Engine Journal readers that the SEJ Family is growing in more ways than one. On November 22nd, I...
Changing Titles Daily to Increase Click-Through and Pageviews
There are a handful of publications I read daily outside of the search marketing spectrum, one such publication being BaltimoreSun.com, the website of Baltimore’s newspaper,...
Check if a Site Serves Malware Before Linking for SEO
When building links to a site for SEO purposes, it’s easy to simply look at the number of backlinks, content relevance, Linkscape rating, search term...
Open Letter to Google : Why Have You Taken Away my Google & GMail Accounts?
UPDATE : Since writing this and contacting some Googlers, my Google account was unblocked at 2 am last night, EST. Thank you Google for the...
Google Profiles Now Indexable in Search Engines
Call them Google versions of business cards, Geocities 2.0 or call them what you will, I consider Google Profiles to be the building block to...
Google News Testing New Vertical Format
Google News is testing a new vertical format which seems to be reminiscent of Yahoo One Search and more of a mobile device driven format...
Link Building Basics : Presentation on Building Links
I really do not do many speaking engagements on SEO and search marketing, but plan to in the immediate future (the next speaking and moderator...
Delicious.com Relaunches : Enhanced Speed, Search & Design with No Dots
Yahoo is launching the new version of Delicious.com (del.icio.us) today and with or without the dots, the company seems to be moving on with its...
How to Combat Complaints Sites in Google : Open Discussion
Combatting complaints sites in Google results has become an ongoing issue for many companies, as consumer complaints from years ago can appear on the front...
Yahoo Will Sell to Microsoft for $33 Per Share
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang has sent out an email to Yahoo shareholders disclosing that the company is willing to sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per...
Microsoft Acquires Powerset Semantic Search Technology
The power of excellent public relations and positioning a company as an alternative to the technological norm has paid off for Powerset, the semantics oriented...
Twellow.com : Directory of Twitter Users
Twellow is a new Twitter Directory which has been launched by the folks at iEntry/WebProNews and looks like it will be quite a piece of...
Google Has the Best Reputation Amongst American Consumers
Google has topped the Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient which asks US consumers to first identify the 60 most visible companies and then to rank these...
Google StreetView Invaded My Private Property!
A couple of weeks ago Search Engine Journal covered the controversy behind Google StreetView and their Google Armada trespassing on private property and filming homes...
Yahoo & Google Partnership Includes Instant Messenger : Possible Social Networking?
“In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.” This sentence was...
Kayak.com Travel Search Adds Display Ads to Targeted Ad Network
Travel search engine Kayak.com has launched a display advertising platform optimized for the travel industry. The new ad platform is based upon technology developed by...
4 E-Commerce Digital Marketing Strategies For 2022
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