Google Local Business Center Address Verification II
Last December Google introduced the Local Business Center and allowed businesses to provide their address, phone numbers, website, offered services, business hours, accepted payment methods,...
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Carsten Cumbrowski has years of experience in Affiliate Marketing and knows both sides of the business as the Affiliate and Affiliate Manager. Carsten has over 10 years experience in Web Development and 20 years in programming and computers in general. He has a personal Internet Marketing Resources site at Cumbrowski.com.
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Ranking Factors Simplified Quick Reference
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was...
Google’s “Claim Your Content”?
End of last week did Google acquire a large amount of domains around the phrases: “Claim Your Content”, “Claim My Content” and “Claim Our Content” CLAIMYOURCONTENT...
Hitwise Acquired By Experian for $250M
It must be the bad and unpredictable April weather, because Blogs did not even finish discussing one acquisition in the space when already another announcement...
Einstein PHP Developer, Gorilla SEO, Paid Rockets, Matt Crowds and …
…. the question if Canadians require a Visa for the U.S. or not. I will come back to that is a second. I don’t know,...
Google Acquires Internet (Parody)
Phillipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped published a fake press release that is dated a bit over 10 year in the future titled: “Google Acquires...
Wrong Text Links for Google Apps Referral Program
About a week ago did Google introduce the referral program for Google Apps via Google AdSense. I grabbed the code of one of the “new” Text link...
Embarrassing Yahoo! Search Marketing Flaw
Yahoo! recently finalized their consolidation of all their individual affiliate programs at Commission Junction to a single one. The Yahoo! Search Marketing affiliate program was...
Google & Kinderstart : As You Shout Into the Woods…
Matt Cutts noted briefly at his blog that Google’s motions to dismiss the 2nd amended complaint case without leave to amend and for sanctions against...
Welcome to the Social Community for Search Marketers
and who is MBL, DIGG and what-not anyway? The MyBlogLog hype is pretty much over by now it is also not everything as peachy with...
What Diggers (Did) Miss Out On
Dave Naffziger posted a list of 183 Sites and Blogs of the Alexa’s Top 10,000 that are banned from Digg.com. Now it seems that the...
Did Digg Lift Some Site Bans?
Do you believe that? I was working on a longer article about the Digg.com bans, because ReveNews.com, a blogger News site with over 20 Bloggers...
Ready to Become an ODP Editor at Dmoz.org?
Less than a week after motsa’s announcement at the Resource Zone Forum for Dmoz Editors that the Abuse Form is available again (see SEJ coverage...
Putting An End To Supplemental Hell Because Of Site Moves, Site Restructure Or Big Site Launch
Loren’s post and Matt Cutts comment about sites being de-listed from Google because of down-time and also some discussions about problems with site moves from one...
10 Things That Affiliates Are Not. Or Are They?
Jeremy posted a bit over a week ago at his ShoeMoney.com blog his answer to the question: “Are you a SEO or not? You say...
Dmoz Abuse Report Form up again – While the Rest of the System is still trashed
The Dmoz Meta Admin “Motsa” just updated today the status of the technical problems over at the Open Directory Project, Dmoz.org. You can see the...
It’s Valentine’s Day! Yes, TODAY!
I know, I know. You probably ask yourself: “already?”. Okay for all the busy or retired Search Marketers out there (because you are one or...
Nofollow Leverages Mistrust Among People
The Nofollow attribute indicates if the source of the link “trusts” the destination of it. Trust is a very critical element in human relations and...
SEO turned from child’s play into scam. How did that happen?
You think that things will become a bit normal again after the flood of posts all over the internet after David Pasternack’s 3rd negative post...
Comment for David Pasternack. Second and Final Delivery Attempt.
Did you notice that the last post by Mr. David Pasternack, titled ” “Is SEO “rocket science?â€: A Q&A with Dave Pasternack” from January, 23rd...
LinkedIn takes on Xing, or the other way around?!
I wanted to follow up on my post LinkedIn versus Xing (aka Open BC) from November earlier, but did not get around to it until...
Congratulations Danny
Matt McGee from SmallBusinessSEM.com noticed at the end of last week that Google had a major update of the PageRank data for the Google browser...
A Link Is Not A Vote, It’s A Pointer
Loren’s note about the article by Graywolf that talks about Google’s changing and unwritten policy on the usage of the nofollow tag got me thinking...
All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW
I blogged about the Wikipedia Issues with SPAM and the discussions about the use of NOFOLLOW for ALL external Links from Wikipedia. It was done, finally....
MIVA Unveils MIVA Monetization Center
MIVA, who is better known as one of the larger 2nd tier PPC search marketing networks unveiled at their headquarter in New York City yesterday...
Smart Spam via .EDU Link, Greed and Stanford Site Exploit
This post looks like taken straight from the SEOBlackHat.com Blog, but it is not. I am showing you in detail a very clever trackback spam...
Awesome Fun and Creative Conclusions On The Last Day Of 2006
I can only imagine the new years eve at Jim “Jester” Kukral castle in the old and infamous darklands of Ohio (or highlands? whatever, a...
Kidneys or Lungs? SEO or PPC? eMarketing Biology 101.
I was catching up with some of my podcast subscriptions and listened to the SEO Rockstars Episode from 12/19 with Greg “WebGuerrilla” Boser and Todd...
Yahoo! Answers got company. Welcome Askville by Amazon.
Amazon launched quitely with only some little “Teaser Ads” on their Website and via Email to existing customers their new Service AskVille. I received only...
PageRank is dead and NOFOLLOW will NOT Save it!
It’s again time for a discussion about the use of the nofollow attribute for links at the English language Wikipedia. A lot of the Wikis...