Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect, Google Responds
Facebook has banned the usage of Google Friend Connect within the Facebook social networking platform, a move which according to Facebook, is because of privacy...
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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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Ask.com Buying Dictionary.com’s Lexico Publishing Group
Ask.com has announced that it will be purchasing the online reference network of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns and operates Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. The...
CBS Acquiring CNET for $1.8 Billion : Includes Search.com
CBS is making a major Internet and news powerplay, acquiring CNET for $11.50 per share (44% more than CNET is trading at) for a total...
Worth $299 Per Year to Join Yahoo Directory?
Yahoo Directory is considered the creme de la creme in the human edited directory and search field, and is one of the major authority listings...
Yahoo Launches Site Explorer for Yahoo Japan
Yahoo Japan & Yahoo have just launched Yahoo Site Explorer for the Japanese market, which Yahoo search & services dominate. Using Yahoo Japan Site Explorer,...
Yahoo.com Redirecting to UK.Yahoo.com for UK Users
Yahoo has started to automatically serve the local version of their Yahoo homepage to users from the UK (and perhaps other global destinations) in what...
Google Serving Vodka in Search Results Despite AdWords Ban on Liquor
Google AdWords has a rather tight rule banning the selling of hard liquor online, like vodka or whiskey, but does allow AdWords advertisers to run...
Powerset Launches : A New Dimension in Web Wikipedia Search
Powerset launches today to an overzealous amount of fanfare, as the mysterious new semantic search technology will open its doors for the first time to...
Google Maps Adds Photos, Video and Popular Searches
Google Maps has added a very Flickrish feature which serves photos and popular searches along wth specific Google Maps local search results. The photos are...
How Much Would You Pay For a Link?
If on-page optimization is the meat of SEO, relevant and quality linking is the bread, butter and dish it is served on. Together, the mix...
SEJ Guest Blogging Competition : Review These Guest Blog Posts
A good amount of new names and faces have been popping up on Search Engine Journal over the past few weeks. This is because we...
Yahoo & Google Close to Striking AdWords Deal
Yahoo may be running Google AdWords quite soon as the two companies are growing closer in an effort to work together which will boost Yahoo’s...
Connect on Twitter : And Drop Your Twitter ID in the Comments!
Do you Twitter? If you do, there’s a whole lot of SEO and search marketing people using Twitter to share ideas, share news and even...
Google Responds to Adwords Quality Score Variable Leak
Yesterday on Search Engine Journal, Eric Lander posted some screen shots of Google openly serving confidential advertiser information in their AdWords results, such as the...
SEORipOff.com : Stain of the Search Marketing Industry
If you are in the field of search marketing, search engine optimization, or online marketing in general; you have probably seen the ads in Google...
Search Marketing Jobs : IBM, Six Apart & PeopleFinders
The Search Marketing Jobs Board at Search Engine Journal has heated up this week with some rather high profile jobs at companies like IBM and...
4 Ways to Hide Content From Google : And Google’s Reaction
Barry stumbled across a thread over at the Google Webmster Help Group and simplified all of the information from the thread in an easy to...
Yahoo Integrating Facebook Style Social Map & Unified Profile Pages Across Network
It’s about time! Yahoo is finally taking the social route in fully connecting its Yahoo Network users across multiple Yahoo platforms in a Facebook meets...
SEJ Guest Blogging : Review the Guest Marketing Posts
I’m sure that readers have noticed a good amount of new names and faces popping up in their Google Reader and RSS aggregators. Search Engine...
Google Enters Utility Business : Invests in Solar Power Plant Technology
Google made a rather impressive green investment this week, putting $130 million into eSolar, a solar energy company which specializes in developing a solar to...
Yahoo Earnings : Q1 Increases Beat Market Expectations
Yahoo announced today that their Q1 2008 Earnings and Revenues have increased over Q4 of last year, beating Wall Street expectations and putting a new...
SEOmoz Launches SEO Video Training Series
SEO training has not gone the way of the late night infomercial (yet!), but SEOmoz is offering the next best thing; a downloadable series of...
Compare Gas Prices Online With Search Engines
Filling up your car has escalated as gas prices are reaching the $3.50 a gallon average across the United States with little sign of gas...
Pizza.com & Money.co.uk Sell For Combined $5 Million : Now Niche Content Portals
Is Domain Parking and running AdWords on domains being replaced by building out lead generation and content driven services? It looks like a mix of...
Google AdWords and ASCII Art : 50% Increase in Click Thrus
When planning and implementing a Google AdWords campaign, copywriting is a key factor to establishing a high quality score, relevance and click thru. Not only...
Alexa Introduces New Ranking System : Beyond the Toolbar
Now being in the Alexa top 100,000 actually means something! For more or less 8 years (well 10 for one of them) there have been...
Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer Graduate from Beta
Google Website Optimizer and Google Analytics (or Urchin) have both dropped the Beta label as both offerings from Google have graduated their initial ‘testing’ phases...
$10,000 SEJ Guest Blog Competition : Extended Deadline
We have received loads of excellent search marketing related articles for our Search Engine Journal Guest Blog Post Competition with over $10,000 in prizes. The...
Yahoo Makes IndexTools Analytics Free .. For Some
Last week Yahoo announced that it was buying IndexTools, the web analytics company, to add a stronger analytics platform to the Yahoo Marketing and Yahoo...
Update : Blogging Prize Now Over $10,000 in Search Marketing Services
This is a friendly reminder that the Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging Competition is still running and SingleFeed, the shopping search feed optimization company, has...
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