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SponsoredReviews.com Joining Paid Review Services
Another paid blogging review service is popping up soon to join ReviewMe and PayPerPost; SponsoredReviews.com. The service is being launched by Text Link Brokers (no,...
Google AdWords & Domain Parking : Garbage Paid Search?
Richard Ball emailed today to fill us in on the current issues he’s having with a large amount of Google AdWords Paid Search (not contextual)...
YouTube More Popular Than MySpace.com?
Found via Digg, Smaran Dayal looks at an Alexa comparison of YouTube and MySpace over the past six months which shows that although MySpace shows...
Yahoo oneSearch Launches to Redefine Mobile Web Search
Yahoo has launched a new mobile search service dubbed Yahoo oneSearch which Yahoo says takes a different tack towards the displaying of search results on...
WordPress Blog Hosting : Recommendations?
I’m currently looking into a new hosting package for Search Engine Journal and reviewing the recommended WordPress hosting companies as provided by WordPress. Their top...
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Interviewed on BBC Radio
For those of you who are looking to keep up on the excited world of user generated content, social news, search and Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales,...
Yahoo Local Quick Editing for Business Listings
Yahoo Local has announced a new easy service for businesses, or customers of those businesses, which want to edit or add to their Yahoo Local...
Matt Cutts : Best Search Blogger of 2006
This year’s Best Search Blogger is now a three time recipient of a Search Engine Journal Search Blog Award as his blog won Best SEO...
How Big is Google’s Index?
Since Google has stopped exposing the size of their indexed web documents on their homepage, it seems that different web users have been performing searches...
TrueLocal’s Jake Baillie Moving On
Jake Baillie has helped to build TrueLocal into a true success, rocked Chicago, and is now heading to the world of funding Internet start-ups and...
Ebay China Sells Business to Tom Online
It has been hanging in the air for sometime now. Back in September 2006 the rumor circus already pointed at Tom online as the likely...
9 7.5 Ways To Get Banned (or Penalized) by Search Engines
Putting together an SEO campaign and thinking that cloaking, link farming or regurgitating content will get your site high rankings? Think again. Chances are, your...
Google 2006 Top Searches : Very 2.0
Once Google filtered out all of the questionable, offensive and not-safe-for-work search terms, looks like the people Googling on Google were in fact searching for...
Benefits of CSS in Search Engine Optimization
Mikhail Tuknov, founder of Infatex.com, sent in this article on CSS and its importance in search engine optimization. I found it to be a basic...
Google Maps Plus Box : Local Meets Organic Search
Matt Cutts touched upon the addition to Google Maps powered collapsible maps Plus Box integrated within Google’s organic search results over the weekend, and I...
Google AdWords Served on Orkut Terror & Jihad Groups
Over the course of the Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference last week Search Engine Journal covered the Google AdSense Clickfraud Botnet story broken by WebmasterRadio.fm’s...
Google Audio Ads On The Radio
Google Audio Ads, the radio advertising division of Google AdWords, is part its development stage and Google is now beginning a limited test of the...
Japan’s Bloggers Focused on Companies & Brands : Social Media Implications
I found this news piece a bit interesting when sifting through the press wires this morning; Technorati Japan has worked on an amazing study which...
Top Yahoo Searches of 2006 : Britney Spears Rules!
Earlier this week Yahoo released its top searches of 2006, including celeb search, news stories, celebrity babies, sports teams & politicians. Amazingly enough, the results...
Yahoo Reorganization Focuses on Audiences, Advertisers & Publishers
Yahoo! has reorganized its structure and management to align its operations with its key customer segments; audiences, advertisers and publishers, which the company believes will...
Jason Calacanis Speaks About Digg, Netscape, SEO & Pay Per Post Blogging
Initial founder of Weblogs, Inc., ex-AOL employee and the man who Dugg Netscape, Jason Calacanis was Danny Sullivan’s guest today at Search Engine Strategies Chicago...
MySpace.com Now Featuring Google Search
MySpace is now showing ‘Powered by Google’ next to its search box which is featured on the MySpace home page, admin pages, and profile pages....
Yahoo Answers Thrives as Google Answers Dies
Google has canned its Google Answers program, which was the first major search operated question & answer service. Simply enough, Googlers would rather use the...
Digg.com Explained for Search Marketers
Todd Malicoat has put together a simple yet effective guide to Digg for search marketers which is packed with stats on Digg usage, the traffic...
AbbreviationZ : Acronyms & Abbreviations Search Engine
AbbreviationZ is a directory / search engine of categorized acronyms and abbreviations which helps Internet users figure out what’s behind those niche abbreviations found in...
Google News Sitemaps for News Publishers
In an effort to assist news publishers with control over which articles are included in Google News and how, Google has now added Sitemaps for...
Yahoo Search Growing Faster than Google
According to a recent study from Nielsen//Netratings, Yahoo & Ask.com are growing faster than Google in terms of search engine usage. While Google still undoubtedly...
Europe’s Xing.com – The LinkedIn.com Killer?!
It was not too long ago when the European Business-Networking Service OpenBC.com announced their planned name change to Xing.com. OpenBC.com is no longer and all...
Yahoo Peanut Butter Manifesto : Cut Workforce by 20%, Build Focus
An internal Yahoo memo written last week by Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse has been leaked to the press and urges a major organizational shake...
Snap Preview Everywhere: Distributing Search Boxes by Enabling Site Previews
WOW! I love creative ideas for distributing search! We have Eurekster (and now Google) that provide customizable search experiences for website owners. We have search...