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Yahoo Reveals the Top Trends in Search for 2007
The year is quickly winding down, which in the world of search means that it’s time to review the year’s overall trends. On Monday Yahoo...
Google Watching Paid Review Blogs that Pass PageRank
If your blog openly posts paid reviews in an irrelevant, poorly written, not disclosing these as advertisements and using deliberate anchor text in the posts...
Yoople : Yahoo + Google + People !
Yoople is a search engine where users get to re-rank the results if they find the results of greater relevance. The collaborative search looks to...
SEO In-house Spotlight: Baron Ginnetti with Pronto.com
This week’s in-house spotlight is on Baron Ginnetti, the new Director of SEO & Content Distribution at Pronto.com. Baron’s legacy comes from his SEO efforts...
Student Using Human Brain Mapping to Power Image Search Engine
There are some exciting new innovations in search coming up on the horizon, and one of those is a project currently being worked on by...
Linkbait 101: How To Create Linkable Content and Get Others to Link to It
Creating linkbait, or getting website to link to you on their own, and with Google starting to devalue paid links, it couldn’t be a better...
Google’s Treatment of Underscores vs Hyphens – The Confusion
Back in July, Matt Cutts made the announcement at the WordPress Wordcamp that underscores are now treated as spaces in Google. Blogs, webmaster communities, and...
Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers
The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until...
Does Image Search Traffic Convert?
Interesting thread on DigitalPoint this morning about the influx in traffic from images indexed in Google Images and other image search engines, and how they...
Paglo: The World’s First Search Engine for IT
Paglo which just launched yesterday in beta claims itself as the Google of IT. A free and on-demand service for IT professionals, Paglo allows searching...
Yahoo Expands Newspaper Consortium With 17 Papers : Including New York Times
The Yahoo Newspaper Consortium has expanded to include 16 regional newspapers owned by the New York Times as well as The Columbus Dispatch. The latest...
Google Magazine : Print Your Own Publications
A recent Google patent filing shows that the company may be developing a service which lets its users create their own print publications made of...
Reducing Accidental Clicks on Google Adsense Units
Earlier this week, Google Blogscoped reported the change on clickable areas on Adsense units, and it is only now that the Google Adsense Blog posted...
Searchboth.com Combines Search Results of Search Engines
Searchboth.com, a search engine that previously displays search results for both Google and Yahoo search side by side on a split screen has expanded its...
5 Quick Tips for Building SEO Content
While it’s great to have a web site optimized and performing well in the engines, you need to build out content on a consistent basis....
10 Ways How to Earn Revenue Without Selling Links
Publishers who make their living from selling links on their sites had a warning shot delivered to them last month with the Google PageRank update...
Survival Guide to Being an SEO – 10 Tips to Making it in the SEO Community
Well, I’d come up with a great start like, “hey kiddo, you’re looking to become an SEO superstar?”, but I’ll go forward from that path...
Google AdWords Domain Ads Exclusion : But Think Before You Block
Google AdWords is running limited testing of a feature which lets its advertisers block domain parking sites which their AdWords ads will be served on;...
Google Rankings Influenced By Hosting, Domain Registrar and Geographic Location
One major fear around the web publisher community is that if you host too many sites on the same shared hosting account or server, Google...
LiveDeal to Serve Yelp Local Reviews
LiveDeal, Inc. has signed an agreement relationship with local review site Yelp.com to feature Yelp’s 1.8 million customer reviews on its online classifieds and yellow...
Ask.com & Google Sign $3.5 Billion Search Advertising Deal
Remember weeks ago when Wall Street Analysts felt that Ask.com was not as important to Google as it once was in terms of a sponsored...
Wikipedia: The Barry Bonds of Search Results
Even if you’re not a fan of baseball you probably know that Barry Bonds is one of the most questionable men in the game. From...
Hakia Adds Social Networking to Search Engine
Semantic search engine Hakia has added a social component to its meaning-based search engine called Meet Others. The idea behind Meet Others is to connect...
Why You Should Bid on Brand Keywords in Google
As competitive as we get, sometimes brand keywords are the most overlooked. Brand keywords are also some of the cheapest clicks. Not only that, but...
AOL Launches Indian Language Portal
AOL takes a giant step towards its expansion goal with the launch of a local language version of its web search portal in India. Coming...
The Oracle of Mountain View
The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more...
Microsoft’s Gatineau Web Analytics Now in Beta Testing for adCenter Advertisers
With all of the announcements of adCenter upgrades, enhancements to their search engine, local maps search changes, buying equity in a major social network and...
PageRank Dropped And You Don’t Sell Links? Try Requesting Reconsideration from Google
If you’ve noticed that the lastest Google PageRank update has distilled your site’s PageRank (Toolbar PageRank that is) because Google believes that you are selling...
Matt Cutts Confirms Paid Links & Google PageRank Update
Matt Cutts emailed Search Engine Journal last night to let us know that in fact, the partial Google ‘Toolbar’ PageRank update which happened last week...
Microsoft Secures Facebook Advertising Deal : Takes $240 Million Equity Stake in Facebook
This just in, Microsoft has beat out Google and Yahoo, securing a deal with Facebook wherein Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in...