Google Maps More Popular Than MapQuest
Google showed us a long time ago that it can dominate in search, but it’s taken a while for it to copy that dominance in...
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Google Finance Now Running Google Display Ads
Google’s expansion of running AdSense style display ads across its own network has seen new ads within Google News, Google Image Search and other Google...
Microsoft Yahoo Meetings Signal Start of Intelligent Acquisition or Merger
Microsoft and Yahoo may be in talks again on some sort of advertising partnership, or babysteps to an inevitable acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, as...
Google Search Continues to Grow as AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Regroup
New statistics from Nielsen Online point out that Google’s dominance of the search market is not going away anytime soon, as Google Search Engine usages...
Digg Launches New Digg Search Engine
Today Digg released a new version of their internal Digg search functionality which according to social media guru Brent Csutoras is “is a real improvement.”...
Yahoo Integrates Delicious into BOSS Development Suite
Yahoo getting serious about its Yahoo Search BOSS suite of development tools and has added Delicious to the mix, letting BOSS developers mix Delicious tags,...
How to Find, Hire and Manage Rockstar Copywriters
It’s easy to keep repeating the SEO mantra of ‘content is king’, but at the end of the day, sometimes it can be difficult to...
Google Expands One Line SiteLinks : Little Blue Links in SERPS
Over the weekend I noticed more and more Google search results with little blue links between the page descriptions and the target URL in Google...
Residents Block Google StreetView Cars from Filming UK Community
Google’s StreetView project is no stranger to controversy and privacy concerns, and the company has many times crossed on the edge of trespassing and entering...
Google Acquiring Twitter for More Than $250 Million Valuation?
Either Google is acquiring Twitter this week or Michael Arrington is desperate for traffic and stirring up rumors. I think that given the buzz around...
TubeMogul Secures $3 Million in Funding for Online Video Distribution
Video distribution providers TubeMogul, who we have covered on Search Engine Journal at TubeMogul : Distribute Your Video to Multiple Sites, has secured a round...
Google UK Serving Favicons in Online Bingo AdWords
Dave Naylor made a quick post on his blog yesterday showing how Google Adwords UK is serving favicons in some of their “Online Bingo” results...
Happy 3rd Birthday Twitter : Where Was I Without You?
It seems like only months ago that I first experienced the buzz about Twitter, a microblogging application which I had heard a lot about, but...
Chitika SearchAppalooza Announces Finalists for the SES NY “Kick-Ass Search Apps Contest”
Chitika’s SearchAppalooza, being held at SES NY next week, is a power-packed, 1 hour face-off featuring some of the biggest movers and shakers in search,...
Get Your Search Engine Journal Laptop Sticker at SESNY
Are you going to SES New York next week? If so, be sure to look me up. The Search Engine Journal team will be giving...
Only 2 Weeks until IM Spring Break
Today marks the 2 week countdown until IM Spring Break, the search marketing mini-con in South Florida which will feature some of the brightest and...
Yahoo Handing Out Free Directory Renewals?
Seems that some publishers who have paid to have their sites listed in the Yahoo Directory (which is an essential part of a core link...
Microsoft Closes Down adCenter Analytics
Microsoft adCenter announced yesterday that they have closed down their adCenter Analytics program which featured web based analytics for adCenter advertisers and other web publishers....
Facebook Vanity URLs : Good for Facebook & SEO
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has a post today about Facebook’s limited rollout of vanity URLs; URLs which have a brand name or keyword at the end....
Google Launches Google Friend Connect API
Developers and publishers looking to implement Google Friend Connect more deeply into your web site or social media experience? Google has just launched an API...
AOL Names Google Exec Armstrong as CEO & Chairman
Can Google’s Senior Vice President and chief of ad sales turn AOL around and into the mega powerhouse that Time Warner has always dreamed the...
Google Checkout Changing Processing Fee Structure
Google is changing the fee structure at Google Checkout from a uniform 2.0% + $0.20 per transaction rate to a new tiered rate service which...
GMail Getting More Traffic Than YouTube
Hitwise has released a report showing that over the past 2 weeks online traffic to Gogole Gmail has surpassed the numbers which visit another popular...
Google AdSense Featuring Adwords Product Plusbox Shopping Feeds
We’ve seen the shopping feeds popping up in the past in Google Search Results and in the AdWords program ever since 2007 and Barry recently...
Google CEO Says Google Unlikely to Buy Twitter (Right Now)
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on PBS’s Charlie Rose on Saturday night and was asked specifically about whether or not Google will buy Twitter (amongst...
IM Spring Break : Florida Search & Social Marketing Conference
Are you going to IM Spring Break? WHY NOT!?! http://www.imspringbreak.com IM Spring Break, the search marketing & social media conference at Deerefield Beach, FL has...
Twitter Rolling Out Search on Homepage & Sponsored Results
Twitter is taking its search functionality from behind the curtain and is testing a search box on the Twitter homepage along with updated Twitter trends....
Matt Cutts vs Ted Murphy on Paid Blogging & Sponsored Conversations
In a followup to the Forrester report on paid blog advertising via sponsoring the conversation in blogposts, Google’s Matt Cutts has weighed in a bit...
IM Spring Break Tickets Now $379 : Incredible Value
Ticket prices for IM Spring Break, the 3 day search marketing conference held at the Deerfield Beach Hilton (10 minutes from Ft. Lauderdale) in Florida,...
CheckUserNames.com : Check Your Brand Names On Social Networks
CheckUserNames.com : A new tool to Check User Names across multiple social media sites. Registering and securing your company’s name across various social networks is...
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