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To Slash or Not to Slash. That’s A Server Header Question.
Uh, not that kind of slashing! Let’s say you are setting up your keyword rich links to point to a subdirectory. Should the link point...
Are you #1 in Google? It Doesn’t Matter
That’s right folks, you heard it right. Gone is the day where all that mattered was if you’re web page listing was on the first...
Google Sued for Fraudalent Ads Charging?
A federal class action lawsuit is being filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Carolina in San Jose, against...
Compare Gas Prices Online With Search Engines
Filling up your car has escalated as gas prices are reaching the $3.50 a gallon average across the United States with little sign of gas...
Why Bother with an SEO Company?
As a matter of fact why bother with SEO in general, let alone a company that claims to specialize in providing search engine optimization services?...
Google AdWords and ASCII Art : 50% Increase in Click Thrus
When planning and implementing a Google AdWords campaign, copywriting is a key factor to establishing a high quality score, relevance and click thru. Not only...
Alexa Introduces New Ranking System : Beyond the Toolbar
Now being in the Alexa top 100,000 actually means something! For more or less 8 years (well 10 for one of them) there have been...
Yahoo successfully tested Google ads on search results
It looks like Yahoo is all set to outsource its web search advertising to Google as announced last week. Citing Wall Street Journal, Reuters is...
Search Marketing Professionals Shortage & What Your Company Needs to Know
Despite the uncertainty in our near-term economic environment, the market drivers for continued growth in the search marketing industry remain strong. However, a major challenge...
Salesforce ties up with Google
As expected, Salesforce and Google have officially announced that they have linked to deliver an integrated solution for their Salesforce customers who are also users...
Six Interesting Printed Books (the Ones Made of Paper, Not PDF eBooks)
In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as...
Google Sued for Rejecting Anti-Abortion Ad
A UK Christian organization is fighting back after Google rejected their advertisement submission for being “unacceptable content”, and is taking the search company to court. ...
Best of the Web Adds DMOZ Editors to Directory Team
Best of the Web (BOTW.org) has pulled off an Internet web site classification coup de etat, hiring over 30 of the top DMOZ editors which...
Google Street View Sued for Trespassing and Privacy Invasion
The Google Street View project has the goal to photograph the streets of America and beyond, and the views from those streets, which sometimes results...
SponsoredReviews.com Offers Paid Blog Review Bid Filtering
Buying reviews on blogs has become a fairly legitimate practice in the online marketing mix, with companies like SponsoredReviews.com and ReviewMe offering blog review market...
Google Algorithm Exposed : SearchToons
The Google Algorithmic manner of ranking and serving relevant online and indexed documents to specific Google queries has been a mystery to many over the...
Google & the Government: How Close Are They?
Ever since Google became the dominant leader in the search sector, there have been rumblings about alleged connections with the U.S. government and the whole...
23andme : Social Networking Comes to Genomics
The trend today is about ‘socialnetworking-zing’ everything. From corporate portals to hotel sites, the buzz is about how to get users to sync with other...
Google Goes Black in US and Abroad
Google Israel went black on Thursday to celebrate Earth Hour and today in the United States, Google has gone black here in a global effort...
Twitterfeed : Bringing RSS to Twitter for Every Blogger
I’d heard about this Twitter fad for a good year or so, but had never really gotten into it (or Twittered) until after the SMX...
Google AdWords Feature: AdSense for Domains Opt Out
Should you opt for the new AdSense for Domains opt out feature, quietly launched with the Google AdWords upgraded Site Exclusion tool? (Author’s Note: This...
Diigo : The End Of Bookmarks?
Diigo is perhaps one of the web’s premier research tools – this is widely accepted. Whether Web 2.0 actually ever existed is irrelevant, but the...
Google Goes Black in Israel for the Day
Google in Israel has issued a black out for the day; not shutting down but serving a black screen with white letters instead of an...
Do Links From Foreign Language Sites Have Value?
Usually, we do not cover forum threads, but from time to time, one does pop up which gathers my attention and is blog worthy. Today...
Successful Networking Tips for LinkedIn and Facebook
This week was an interesting one at Search Engine Strategies New York as for the first time, I effectively used online networking tools to connect...
Yahoo Turns to Radio Ads to Attract Search Engine Users
Is the number radio-listening population in the U.S. that significant for Yahoo to consider running (or airing) ads on radio programs to promote its search...
Gigablast Better than Google or Ask.com : According to Study
Gigablast, a personal favorite and privately owned and operated search engine, just released the findings of their search “taste test” where the majority of study...
Hakia Licensing its Ontological Semantics Search Technology : OntoSem
Hakia.com, the semantics oriented meaning-based search engine, is now licensing its Ontological Semantic technology; hakia OntoSem. hakia OntoSem is a modular, extensible, and adaptable toolset...
How to Organize Your Keyword Modifiers to Create Long Tail Strategy
What is a keyword modifier? A modifier is a word that in combination with your core keyword creates your long tail strategy (definition by Dan...
Top Search Based Facebook Apps to Help You Find Anything
The intermixing of search and Facebook is minimal in terms of web search, as when I was browsing through the list of search oriented Facebook...