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How To Find Wikipedia Links
Although all external Wikipedia links are using the nofollow attribute since January of this year, links from the encyclopedia are still important because of other...
Yahoo & Bebo Partner for Search & Sponsored Listings
Yahoo Search is now powering the search results within the Bebo social network. According to Pete Cashmore at Mashable, Bebo users can now use Yahoo...
Microsoft Vista Making Search Changes Thanks To Google
Early this month, The engine giant Google initiated a complaint stating that Windows Vista has made it difficult for users to use desktop search applications...
Does Language and Culture Affect Search Techniques?
Betty Birner at the Linguistic Society of America discusses how some linguists feel that the language you speak, and your cultural background, affects the way...
My Yahoo! Updates With GMail Integration & New Modules
My Yahoo! has gone through another series of updates to their beta offering today, allowing users to preview their GMail and POP Mail accounts on...
Yahoo Testing New Blue Bar Search Results Format
Yahoo is running limited testing of a new search results page format with a blue search bar above the sponsored and organic Yahoo results. Both...
Google Video Exposing Private Username & Password Information?
Google Video may be exposing the username and passwords of users who post videos to their MySpace accounts and serving this information over unsecure Internet...
In-house Spotlight: Duane Forrester, SEO with Sports Direct Inc.
This week’s spotlight is on Duane Forrester with Sports Direct Inc., a leading sports media content publisher. Duane is quite visible in the search industry,...
Yahoo Search’s Slurp Crawler Updates Moves to New Address
Yahoo has updated and moved its Yahoo Slurp crawler to a new domain at crawl.yahoo.net, but is keeping the same IP address for those publishers...
And the Safest Search Engine is? AOL
If you thought Google is the be all and end all of web search, well at least on the security side, Google is second only...
Google’s Matt Cutts on SEO : From SMX Seattle
Rhea here! If you don’t know who I am, it’s probably because I’m the least published SEJ contributor and well-known IT girl of SEO blogging....
Mahalo Human Edited Search : Past Meets Future
Jumping on the human edited search wagon and keeping a little bit of Netscape dirt on the heels of his boots, Jason Calacanis is backing...
In-house Spotlight : AllRecipes.com’s SEO Dustin Woodard
This week’s spotlight is on Dustin Woodard, a veteran in-house SEO at Allrecipes.com. Dustin made an interesting choice when joining AllRecipes.com, he joined a company...
Google Using Image Recognition Filtering in Results
Google Image Search has finally implemented some of the technology that Google acquired with its purchase of Neven Vision last August. Now searchers on Google...
Alternate Link Building Strategies: The Linkerati Effect
Several bloggers have suggested writing about the linkerati as way to draw editorial backlinks. This post is a sort of lens to some great articles...
Tracking Google News : Most Popular Stories and Sources
Google News Report USA is a new service which tracks the sites which are featured on the homepage of Google News and then ranked by...
Yahoo Buzz Index vs. Google Hot Trends
Sometimes it’s quite easy to hail any new product or experiment launched by Google, even if the idea behind it is years old and has...
How to Submit your Site to Yahoo News
With the rise of blogging and low cost content management systems also comes the rise of news publications and the need for content syndication. Yahoo...
Digg Bans Users Who Digg Too Often
Digg has been sending out messages which explain the banning of user accounts which Digg has red flagged as possible spammers or just non-quality Diggers....
Google Bans Term Paper & Essay Writing Ads
In a move to lessen if not prevent plagiarism among university students, Google is banning advertisements by essay writing companies and services from its advertising...
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...