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What Do You Want to Learn from SMX Social Media?
Next Monday night I’ll be making the drive from Rhode Island to New York City to attend my first SMX event. This SMX event is...
Microsoft Live Search Product Results Gets Better
Microsoft continues to bring in more features to its Live Search tool. The most recent of these features has something to do with product searches,...
AskPoodle Simplies and Personalize Local Search
AskPoodle.com is a fairly new kid on the block of local search engines aiming to provide users with the best result for the most specific...
Ask.com’s Next Advertising Partner : Google, Yahoo or Microsoft?
CNNMoney (via Investors Business Daily) looks at the partnership between Google AdWords and Ask.com, where Google sponsored links are served as filler for Ask.com Sponsored...
SEO In-house Spotlight: Bill Macaitis with Fox Interactive Media
Today’s spotlight is on Bill Macaitis, VP of Online Marketing & SEO/SEM, who works with some of the most interesting sites on the web such...
Video Search Blinkx Meets Meta-Search Engine Ixquick
Powerful meta-search engine Ixquick announced today that it has partnered with top video search engine blinkx. Under the agreement agreed upon by both companies, Ixquick...
Snap : Search Engine with a Visual Twist
As the name succinctly suggests, Snap provides users with a preview or rather a snapshot of each search result along with several added features that...
$100 SponsoredReviews.com Coupon : Exclusive for Search Engine Journal Readers
This is an exclusive offer for Search Engine Journal readers! I just got done speaking with SponsoredReviews.com’s CEO Jarrod Hunt and convinced him to issue...
Yahoo’s Showcased Homepage Content Driving Search Results
Yahoo is showcasing their new Yahoo Search Shortcuts and search results via links in the content boxes on the Yahoo Homepage. The links look like...
Generate Backlinks with Custom WordPress Themes & Templates
Backlinks are the golden path to page rank. Building backlinks however, can be a slow and tedious process every blogger has to face. We constantly...
Search Optimization Guide for The New Yahoo! Search
A major player in the search industry has finally made a change worth calling revolutionary. This morning’s release of The New Yahoo! Search and Yahoo!...
Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration
Yahoo Search, over the past 5 years or so, has been trying hard to step out of Google’s shadow, a shadow that Yahoo cast upon...
Ask.com and IAC’s iWon Rebrands : Less Search, More Games
iWon, which was first launched by CBS as a search engine which incentives users to search and click on ads with the result of winning...
Discussion with Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Research at Yahoo
The Hindu Business Line has an interesting discussion on search, user intent, micro-economics of search and user generated meta data with Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Head...
TNX.net Link Advertising Network
TNX.net dubs itself as a hybrid of contextual advertising and text link advertising, letting publishers serve an advertising code which is viewed as a natural...
10 Steps AOL Should Take to Reinvent the Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
Lately AOL has been taking some intriguing steps in their relationship building with the website publishing and marketing world. This week, AOL’s controversial Netscape Open...
Google Goes Shopping Again, Buys Zingku
The Google Operating Systems Blog got the scoop today that Google has acquired mobile social networking site, Zingku. Zingku’s site has a small note informing...
Google Book Search Gets New Features
Browsing and searching for books at Google Book Search becomes even more better with the introduction of a few nifty features aimed at organizing and...
Google Adds Video Email Alerts
With videos becoming more popular as a source of information and entertainment, it becomes very hard to keep track of new videos that get uploaded...
AOL Gears Up for the Mobile Web, Again
AOL wants to reclaim its lost glory for being one of the major players in the wireless industry. The BusinessWeek is reporting the AOL is...
Wikipedia is #1 : What Are You Going to Do About It?
I’m been noticing a lot of frustration lately with the dominance of Wikipedia in search results. And, I’ll admit, I never felt like I really...
Practical Guide to Website Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
When it comes to analyzing the performance of your website, there is a seemingly endless (well, at least a few hundred) list of factors to...
Google Custom Search Offers Business Edition
The Google Custom Search team sent out an email this week reminding/announcing users that they now offer a business edition of Google Custom Search which...
Google Tops All US Searches for August
Here’s another round of statistical analysis on the search market for August. Hitwise just released the US search market data for August. The Hitwise numbers...
The 5 Essential Types of Site Links
Ben Yoskovitz of the Instigator Blog made a guest post over a CopyBlogger about the 5 types of links webmasters should be using properly, besides...
Promotional Vs. Incentivized Traffic
For those of you not too familiar with this story, “Valueclick Ad Network Serving Bogus & Incentivized Leads.” We’ve had a great response from industry...
Google Reminds Advertisers of Landing Page Quality
Google Adwords is reminding its advertisers about the landing page quality guidelines. The guidelines stressed the importance of directing users to good quality landing pages...
Google Adsense Goes to the Mobile Web
Google announces the availability of Adsense to mobile website content. Adsense for mobile will give advertisers more read for their ad campaigns and for publishers...
Yahoo Acquires Zimbra Open Source Email & Collaborative Software for $350 Million
Yahoo has announced the acquisition of Zimbra, which is an open source Ajax based email, calendar and contact management software which can be used both...
Should You Rush into BlogRush?
The buzz about BlogRush has rushed into the blogging world. Some bloggers joined the craze, immediately signed up and installed the Blogrush widget into their...