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Forum Optimization for Better Adsense Performance
If you are running a community forum with Adsense placement and yet can’t seem to get significant earnings, Inside Adsense suggest these three Adsense performance...
SEO for Alternative Media (Flash, Video, etc.)
Recently, Dan Crow of Google addressed a group of SEO professionals at a regional event in Providence Rhode Island . At that event, Crow commented...
Superpages.com Offers Local Video Advertising
Superpages.com has launched a beta trial of local video advertising which allows local small to medium-sized businesses to showcase their products and services via 30...
Google Discontinues Google Maps Click to Call
Google has discontinued its Click-to-Call feature for Google Maps which the company says was a long running experiment. This feature was a long-running experiment, and...
Lexxe : Search Engine that Answers Exact Queries
Lexxe, the natural language processing search engine also adds the power of clustering to provide results with subset cluster. Drill down into clusters lets the...
Understanding Google from Spidering to Results
When it comes to search engine marketing and optimization, let’s face it — it’s all about Google. That’s great though, especially providing the number of...
View Geotargeted Google Ads in Different Countries & Regions with Google Ad Preview Tool
Google’s Inside AdWords blog announced today that AdWords has improved their location targeting on the Ad Preview Tool which now lets users view ads as...
SEO Impact of Google’s unavailable_after META Tag
One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available,...
Google Launches Custom Search Business Edition
Google launches a new feature of its custom search engine which is geared for corporate clients which has the need to have a search engine...
Answers.com Buys Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com for $100 Million
Answers.com has agreed to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for $100 million in cash. The transaction is subject to...
5 Quick Ways To Optimize For Local Search
So you recently went to search for your local small business site and wondered why three other similar businesses came up before yours? The answer...
MSN adCenter Upgrades with Negative Keyword on Campaign Level
MSN adCenter made some upgrades on Saturday which include the ability to add negative keywords on the campaign level, which apply to all of the...
Top 5 Pay-Per-Click Engines To Try
If you’re a small company trying to compete against the big dogs in the PPC space in a competitive market, you’re probably either spending a...
TheFind.com Shopping Search Engine Secures $15 Million in Additional Funding
TheFind.com has secured $15 million in Series C financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. The financing is planned to build new product development, traffic and...
SenseBot : Summarizing Search Engine Results
Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts so far. And in this piece I will be discussing about SenseBot,...
7 Things Yahoo Does Better than Google
They’re an opinion piece from the Marc and Angel Blog which compares Yahoo & Google and appears to be making it to the Digg homepage...
Textonomy : Semantics Based ‘Sense Engine’
Semantics based search is the flavor of my articles and in this one I’ll be focusing on the Textonomy suite of products from Crystal Semantics,...
Exalead : A Look Into Semantic Image Search
Exalead, the search engine founded by Francois Bourdoncle (earlier involved with AltaVista) has a number of features that makes it a bit of everything. It...
Google Acquires Security and Enterprise Solutions Company – Postini
The latest company to join Google is on-demand communications security and compliance solutions Postini. The deal was sealed today with Google purchasing Postini for a...
eBay & Firefox Launch eBay Browser
eBay is getting busier and busier partnering with web applications and now has worked together with Firefox to produce an eBay Firefox browser. Yesterday, Search...
Hakia’s Semantic Search : The Answer to Poor Keyword Based Relevancy
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia once said, “Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.” And while...
Yahoo! Steps Up Online Advertising with SmartAds
Yahoo is stepping up its online advertising program with the launch of SmartAds, a behavioral targeting ad campaign which display ads that are tailored for...
SEO & Blogging Success Story : Diabetes Blog Earns $40K per Year
There’s an old golden rule in terms of choosing a career or venture which still applies today, even to blogging; love your work. Being passionate...
Enter the World Wide Wiki
As the world of Web 2.0 has brought many new components to the user, aside from social communities which keep emerging and showing growth, the...
How to Protect Your Site from Canonical Triggers
What happens when search engine spiders get lost? They cannot figure out what way to go on your site. They sometimes get confused or other...
Kosmix.com : Search Start-up Looking for “Meaning” in Search Queries
What do Stanford grads Anand and Venky have in common with Google founders, Larry and Sergie? One, they were batch mates. And two, they are...
Google Earth Goes Socially Relevant, Reaches Out to Non-Profit Organizations
Showing that it is not only a profit-oriented company, Google launches its own socially relevant program called Google Earth Outreach. Utilizing the power of its...
Google Further Explains Why It Is Buying DoubleClick
Today in Google’s Public Policy Blog, Alex Kinnear, Group Product Manager traces the history why Google decided on buying out ad serving company, Double Click....
Practical Guide to Vertical Search Advertising
Vertical search engines (VSEs), or specialized search engines, are becoming increasingly popular, and e-marketing reporters and search engine industry analysts have deemed vertical the “hottest...
Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search
Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query...