Search Engines Coming to User Desktops
Search and Internet Community monsters Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink are all looking into growing their online search engine business by providing access to their search...
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Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and runs Foundation Digital, a digital marketing strategy & development agency.
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Shopping.com Has Record Holiday Shopping Season
The shopping search engine Shopping.com has announced that it served a record number of holiday shoppers this season, which has turned out to be a...
Organic Search Engine Optimization
Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is simply a marketing term for the natural development of a website. Organic SEO allows a website to gain free...
Yahoo Dropping Google Search
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Yahoo! is expected to drop Google as the primary search technology on its site within a few months....
Google Tests Book Search
“Google’s mission is to provide access to all the world’s information and make it universally useful and accessible. It turns out that not all the...
Local search advertising to reach $2.5 billion in 2008
Local paid search advertising is on pace to generate $2.5 billion in 2008, according to a new research report. In a study expected to be...
Business Users Prefer Organic Results to Search Engine Advertising
A recent survey of business users and their search behavior conducted by WebAdvantage.net, a search engine marketing and interactive agency, reveals that members of the...
Search Advertising Blocker Threatens WebMasters in Addition to Search Engines
First we had spam filters, then pop-up blockers, and recently spyware removal tools have become popular. Time to add one more to the list which...
Open-Source Search Engine : Nutch
A group of international developers are working together to produce an open source search engine that may rival the commercial search bandits. From the Nutch...
Stemming and the new Google Update
Search Engine Watch’s Danny Sullivan looks into the reasons why some sites have lost their Google search engine rankings after the new Google update. Reasons...
Future of WebSite Ranking
ExactSeek’s Mel Strocen takes a look into Google’s new update, the future of website ranking, and obstacles of judging the popularity of a website in...
Google’s New Search Algorithm- SEO people up in arms
It’s a retailer’s worst nightmare heading into the week before one of the biggest shopping days of the year: losing advertisements. Bambi Francisco looks into...
Shopping Search Engine Advertising
Shopping Search Engines Shopping-specific search is growing in popularity. A ComScore study shows that shopping search and comparison engines attracted 33 million unique visitors in...
Search Engines: Less Drugs, More Sex
Recently Google, AOL, and Overture have tightened down on search advertisements for diet drugs and other sketchy drug and pharmacy ads, but are easing up...
Pay Per Click Search Engines
Does it Pay to Pay? Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing Getting listed and FOUND in search engines is not as easy as it used...
Google’s Update Drop Your Site? Here’s the Info
Barry Lloyd explores the new Google Update (which he dubs “Florida”) and why some sites have been dropped from their multi-year rankings: With the huge...
CNET Search Show Best Conversions for Consumer Electronics Sites
In a independent study of millions of visits to Web sites selling consumer electronics and gift items, WebSideStory, Inc. ( www.WebSideStory.com ), today announced that...
Google IPO and Google’s Future
An upcoming cover story in FORTUNE magazine reveals internal disarray at Google, and raises troubling questions about the company’s future. The story comes out as...
LookSmart and BellSouth Team for Local Search
LookSmart, a global leader in search, and BellSouth, a leader in print and Internet Yellow Pages in the Southeast US, today announced an agreement designed...
Google Link Spam Filter
Google recently introduced a new keyword phrase filter during its most recent update. Some phrases were unchanged, but many highly optimized and highly competitive phrases...
Local Search, Multimedia Search Added to AOL
Looking to add to its search features and perhaps expand into the search engine world dominated by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, AOL announced today its...
Microsoft Newsbot to Rival Google News
Microsoft has launched a Beta Test version of their four language Newsbot which is seen by many to rival Google News. This is Microsoft’s first...
Where’s the MultiMedia in Search Engine Marketing?
Where’s the Multi Media in Search Engine Marketing? Apparently Search Engine Marketing and Mutli Media are not mixing. Why? Perhaps those using multimedia search are...
Bill Gates – Microsoft Never Talked to Google
In this USAToday article, Bill Gates claims that Microsoft never talked to Google about acquiring the search monster. Microsoft has not had merger discussions with...
Yahoo Adds Popup Blocker to Toolbar
The Yahoo! Companion toolbar has added an optional popup blocker that offers different features for dealing with popup window advertising. The new Yahoo Companion Toolbar...
Shopping Search Engines Perfected by Google and Ask
Ask Jeeves and Google have dived into the Shopping Search Engine front, joining Yahoo, MSN, and other Shopping Search sites like Shopping.com, BizRate, and MySimon....
Microsoft Search Worries Google and Yahoo
Microsoft Search Engine worries Google and Yahoo With 3.3 billion searches conducted every month in the U.S., and a lucrative advertising market swelling to $1.6...
Keyword Ownership: What is It and Where is it Headed?
A number of such services regularly email me offering keyword ownership of premium keywords for $300/year. They say that anyone can type the keyword I...
Localized Search – The Future of Internet Yellow Pages
In the U.S. there are an estimated 10 million small businesses yet only 250,000 are currently participating in paid search. The question at hand is...
LookSmart Listings Waives Fee with Holiday Program
LookSmart is waiving its $29 account set up fee for the holiday season. One of the top web directories, it has had a hard time...
4 E-Commerce Digital Marketing Strategies For 2022
Forbes
January 11, 2022
If you manage e-commerce digital marketing campaigns, these strategies can save you time and help grow your traffic, sales and your bottom line. See More
Eight Ways Businesses Are Adopting Innovative Streaming During Social Distancing
Forbes
May 20, 2020
Streaming video technology is more important than ever. See More