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Fooooo! Japan’s Video Search to Make International Splash?
Japanese video search engine Fooooo.com has expanded into the International scene with new video search versions in English, Russian, Chinese and French. According to Motoko...
Google Targeting AdSense Arbitrage Accounts?
The rumors were heating up over the weekend that Google may be taking steps to curb or shut down the amount of arbitrage which is...
Google Now Offically Provides Search for Soso
It’s official. What everyone in the Chinese search industry already knew will now be visualized. From Pacific Epoch: All Soso.com search results are marked with...
DreamHost Blocks Googlebot on Client Sites
According to an email sent to the owner of a Romanian site, Zoso.ro (reminds me of Led Zepplin), the DreamHost web hosting & server company...
How to Get Links from Harvard.edu
If building links from .edu sites is something you find of value, for Google rankings or even to boost your site’s backlinks status, Cristian Mezei...
Yahoo & Google’s Mission Statements : Do They Connect?
Yahoo has undergone a good amount of restructuring over the past years, in part due to internal roadblocks and financial reasons, but also due to...
AOL Acquires Mobile Ad Network Third Screen Media
AOL has acquired Third Screen Media, the mobile advertising network, mobile ad-serving and management platform provider, and now Third Screen Media will operate as a...
Matt Cutts Update on Paid Links Discussion – Q&A
Instead of writing a new post did Matt Cutts add a long update in Q&A form to his existing post from April about “How To...
Bidvertiser Ad Network Review
With the explosion of blogs the past two years, a common refrain is that Google AdSense does not earn the majority of website/ weblog publishers...
Matt Cutts Updates Paid Links with Webmaster Q&A
Matt Cutts of Google has updated his How to report paid links post on his blog with some answers to general webmaster questions which popped...
Optimizing Screen Resolution with Google Analytics: 1024×768 vs. 800×600
Designing your website for screen resolutions of 1024×768 or higher can achieve a richer user experience and dramatically increase performance and usability. As users upgrade...
Googling Employee Names is Not Illegal
Yesterday three US federal judges upheld a decision which said that a federal employee’s reputation was not harmed by a search on Google for his...
SEM In-House Spotlight : Hewlett-Packard’s In-House SEO
This week’s in-house spotlight is on Tanya Vaughan, the Global in-house SEO with Hewlett-Packard. HP has a few in-house SEOs within various divisions, one is...
QuickSprout : Neil Patel’s Blog on Personal Branding
If there is anyone in the search marketing world who has mastered the art of branding yourself over the past year, it is Social Media...
Why You Should Deep-Link Your Blog
In Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines, I mentioned that new blogs often have pages that are essentially invisible, and that many remain that...
Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style II
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 3 and...
In-house Spotlight: Manager Of Search Engine Initatives, Thomasnet.com
ThomasNet’s search strategy was well underway when Jill Sampey took over search engine marketing. Having been with the company for several years, she was at...
Google : World’s Most Visited Site
According to the San Francisco Chronicle and comScore, Google has taken the lead against Microsoft as the world’s most visited Internet property. Beating out Microsoft...
Ask.com Launching Contextual Advertising Network
Ask.com and IAC are launching a Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network rival contextual advertising product which will become another revenue generation option for publishers....
Google AdWords Testing New Google Checkout Button (Above the Fold)
Over at Marketing Pilgrim, Jeremy Luebke found that Google AdWords is testing a larger and more branded Google Checkout button in AdWords results which appear...
Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines
The Invisible Web (aka Deep Web) is that humoungous slice of the Internet’s web pages that traditional search engines either have not indexed or cannot...
Ranking Factors Simplified Quick Reference
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was...
Google’s “Claim Your Content”?
End of last week did Google acquire a large amount of domains around the phrases: “Claim Your Content”, “Claim My Content” and “Claim Our Content” CLAIMYOURCONTENT...
Why Digg is More Popular than Del.icio.us… Or is it?
Digg is probably the only company which got loads of online buzz when it hit the one million user mark. Come to think of it,...
How to List Your Site in MySpace News
MySpace News has launched and they are looking for news sources to include in their index. You can submit your site or blog to MySpace...
Link Building: Graph Theoretic Strategies
This is a continuation of the article Link building structures: hunters and collectors. What I’m doing is looking at web traffic control from a graph...
Chinese Interview with Matt Cutts and Google Japan Blocked
This week more on SEO in China from an interview with Matt Cutts and Jianfei. Also Chinese firewall news that shows that even Baidu can...
What Will Google Do With Performics?
Now that Google has acquired the Internet advertising giant DoubleClick, what are they planning to do with its search marketing company Performics? You mean, Google...
Quality Link Building : Editorial Links vs. Acquired Links
Link building was a major discussion which encompassed the majority of the panels at Search Engine Strategies New York last week, whether on the agenda...
AOL Search Marketplace : AOL-Only Google AdWords
Today AOL Search is beginning to sell their ‘AOL only’ Google AdWords via their white labled AOL Search Marketplace. These ad buys will be targeted...