Google & Yahoo Spent $1.36 Million in Lobbying Last Quarter
Google and Yahoo spent a combined $1.36 Million last quarter in lobbying according to the Associated Press, with Yahoo spending $630,000 and Google topping off...
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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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Google UK Extending Financial Services Comparison Trial : Death to UK Quotes Sites?
Comparing quotes from financial services is a big market in the UK, as sites which deliver quotes from unsecured loan, car insurance and even pet...
How to Combat Complaints Sites in Google : Open Discussion
Combatting complaints sites in Google results has become an ongoing issue for many companies, as consumer complaints from years ago can appear on the front...
AOL Integrates Goowy Into Platform-A Widget Ads
AOLs Platform-A is now offering Goowy’s widget creation and management services as part of its widget distribution offering for advertisers. AOL purchased Goowy back in...
Google Buying Digg for $200 Million.. Why?
Rumors are spreading all over the blogosphere that Google and Digg are talking acquisition again as Google will be buying Digg for $200 million and...
Google Penalties and Building Trust : Ongoing SEO Task?
Google has been known to issue out all kinds of penalties over the years; even Search Engine Journal was penalized a while back (or our...
Yahoo Will Sell to Microsoft for $33 Per Share
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang has sent out an email to Yahoo shareholders disclosing that the company is willing to sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per...
Save 20% on Best of the Web Ads & Listings
Best of the Web is running a July offer which is giving its advertisers and online marketers 20% off of all BOTW.org advertisements, with the...
Keyword Research, Link Building & Linking Diversity
Excellent article by Dave Harry on the nuances of link building and keeping a diverse yet strategic keyword expansion plan in focus from the ground...
NewsDay.com Penalized for Selling Crap Links
If you’re going to openly sell crap links on the footer of your site to Mesothelioma Lawyers, Ticket Scalpers, Personal Injury Law Firms and other...
Trickle Down Link-O-Nomics : Reaching the Messenger
Link building is a dynamic art form, which is constantly redefining itself and coming up with new techniques which may be more efficient, and more...
Microsoft Acquires Powerset Semantic Search Technology
The power of excellent public relations and positioning a company as an alternative to the technological norm has paid off for Powerset, the semantics oriented...
From Microsoft to Google, and Back Again : Insider Perspective
A Microsoft Engineer leaves Microsoft to work at Google, and then decides to head back to Microsoft after spending time in the Google development system....
LinkedIn Launches DirectAds : Targeted Advertising
LinkedIn is putting together a smarter way to monetize itself with the launch of LinkedIn DirectAds (currently under limited testing), which lets advertisers target ads...
John Carcutt Wins $10,000 SEJ Contest : Donates Prize to Orphanage
The results of the $10,000 Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging competition are finally in after the great SEJ Blog Off between John Carcutt and Richard...
Twellow.com : Directory of Twitter Users
Twellow is a new Twitter Directory which has been launched by the folks at iEntry/WebProNews and looks like it will be quite a piece of...
Google Sued for $1 Billion in Software Stealing Dispute
Google is the target of a one billion dollar lawsuit by LimitNone, a software company which claims Google has taken trade secrets from the company...
Google Has the Best Reputation Amongst American Consumers
Google has topped the Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient which asks US consumers to first identify the 60 most visible companies and then to rank these...
Link Building Steps : Clean Up Your Own Backyard
In preparation for a presentation this week on the importance of link building and steps to an efficient and effective link building strategy, I am...
Yahoo Loses Top Social Media Brains : The Day the Music Died
Another critical piece of the Yahoo machine has left the garage, as Joshua Schachter, who Yahoo brought in when they acquired Del.icio.us back in 2005,...
Yahoo Adds New Email Domains : YMail.com & Rocketmail.com
In an effort to boost its webmail usage or delay the exodus of free mail users from Yahoo to Google GMail, Yahoo has introduced the...
High Oil & Gas Prices Could Boost Internet Says Google
Putting a very thin silver lining on the dark cloud of petroleum dependency, Google’s Vint Cerf (who is commonly referred to as the father of...
Hakia Launches Syndication Web Services : Semantic Search for Third Party Publishers
hakia, the semantic search engine, has launched its Syndication Web Services for publsihers and businesses looking to offer semantic search to their visitors. hakia’s Syndication...
Local.com Adds Business Reviews and Ratings
A long time aggregator of information provided by third parties, the perfectly named local search engine; Local.com, has launched their own proprietary local consumer ratings...
Google StreetView Invaded My Private Property!
A couple of weeks ago Search Engine Journal covered the controversy behind Google StreetView and their Google Armada trespassing on private property and filming homes...
Yahoo & Google Partnership Includes Instant Messenger : Possible Social Networking?
“In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.” This sentence was...
Indeed Job Search Launching Job Analytics for Employers
The verticalization of search has made its way into the analytics market, as Indeed.com, the search engine for jobs, has announced the launching of Indeed...
I Love Search Engine Journal! Send Your Photos
Do you love Search Engine Journal? One of our lovely and loyal readers, a staff member of Dr. Michael Dorausch (who we sent to SMX...
Yahoo & Google Big Announcement This Afternoon : Search Partnership?
Yahoo and Google are planning a massive announcement this afternoon on the same day that Yahoo has announced that they are no longer entertaining offers...
Kayak.com Travel Search Adds Display Ads to Targeted Ad Network
Travel search engine Kayak.com has launched a display advertising platform optimized for the travel industry. The new ad platform is based upon technology developed by...
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