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Paid Reviews Examples by Matt Cutts and Paid Links
Matt Cutts wrote two weeks ago at his blog a post about selling links that pass PageRank. I wanted to comment at his blog, but...
11 Steps to Successful SEO for Your Business
I wrote in November a long article for my website about the necessary steps for a business to successfully engage in organic search engine optimization....
Google Reveals Year-End Zeigeist Search Trends for 2007
2007 is almost done and gone, and in the land of search it’s time for the annual year-end reviews. Both Yahoo and Ask.com have already...
Yahoo Launches Shortcuts Plugin For WordPress Blogs : Very Cool!
Yahoo worked on this Plugin with the help of WordPress, and being a lifelong WordPress user (SEJ first started on Blogger, then switched to b2;...
Truth About .Edu Domains : Registration, Links and Google Juice
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about .edu top-level domains. From whether a .edu TLD packs more Google-juice punch to whether one can...
Summarization, the Answer to Web Search : Interview with Dmitri Soubbotin of SenseBot
Search engines are as much the first source of information as they are the starting point for research. Summarization of content of query results is...
Google Granted Patent on Anchor Text Link Crawling
Google has recently been granted a patent by the US government which the company originally filed in 2003. The patent, writes Bill Slawski of SEO...
Google News Updates Algorithm to Reflect Local & Breaking News
Google News has been tweaking its algorithm to show more updated and fresh stories as well as identifying the local news media which would be...
Embeddable Charts Made Easy with New Google Charts API
On Thursday, Google rolled out the new Google Charts API, which makes putting stunning, dynamic charts into your web pages easier than you’d think. And...
PicSearch : Intuitive Relevant Image Search Engine
Founded by two engineering students at the beginning of this millennium, PicSearch is a multi-language, image search engine that rivals Google’s and Yahoo’s image search...
About URL Tracking Parameters and Duplicate Content Issues
How do you deal with links that have tracking parameters in the URL for referrer measurement for analytical reasons or in case of a partner...
Google Rankings Changing : Result of Paid Links?
Google search engine rankings seem to be undertaking an update or change over the past week as some sites and publishers are noticing a trend...
Yahoo & JetBlue Partner to Test Free Wi-Fi on Flights
Yahoo, RIM and JetBlue have partnered to offer free Wi-Fi connections aboard domestic US flights in a test which will begin Tuesday. The initial tests...
Research Firm Says Yahoo, MSN, & Google Have Major Page-Caching Flaw
A “significant” vulnerability has been found in the page-caching technologies of the three major search engines – Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft Live Search. Researchers at...
How to Add Content to Wikipedia the “White Hat” Way?
I gave tips to people about editing Wikipedia or getting missing content into Wikipedia over and over again, via email, blog comments etc. So I...
Eurekster’s Swicki : Custom Search Engine for Every Community
Eurekster, founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco has come out with its product Swicki, a customizable search portal and widget. Eurekster is a...
YouTube Takes 28% of Video Market Share
YouTube leads US online video market share reports MarketingCharts with a 28% of the video market share. That’s not surprise to most of you I’m...
Ask.com Reveals the Top Searches of 2007
Following closely on the heels of Yahoo’s release of their 2007 Top Trends in Search is Ask.com, who today have released their “Real Deal” List...
Google Reveals Fast-Growing Search Terms of 2007
Not to be confused with Google Zeitgeist’s year-end top searches, which has yet to be released, Google revealed today a list of the “fast rising...
Microsoft’s Way of Making its Presence Felt in the SEO/SEM Field
Microsoft today announced three new features for its adCenter program and Live Search. Actually the one for Live Search is already old news, the Webmaster...
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...