Google Partners with DoCoMo : Japanese Search Market Prepares for iPhone
Google is making a push to expand its reach in the Yahoo owned Japanese market via targeting where the majority of Japanese users spend their...
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Sam’s Club Search Marketing : Good or Bad for the Industry?
Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart owned mega store which is a godsend to small businesses looking to stock locally breaking dependency on wholesale distributors, is now...
Google Bans AdWords Ads for Being Too Sexy
Google has blocked the serving of AdWords contextual (or AdSense) display ads in the European market of US lingerie company Pampered Passions because the company...
Empire Today : How to Optimize a Badly Branded Google Results Page
Last week was a trying week for me as on top of the normal day to day responsibilities of managing a search blog and a...
Google Granted DoubleClick Acquisition, Big Week for Big Media
In a pro-Big Media trend by government regulatory agencies, Google was just handed a huge Christmas present by the FTC, which voted 4 to 1...
Google Q&A : Rebirth of Answers Adds to Google’s Socialization
Google is taking steps to relaunch their Google Answers service as a social content generation system similar to the Yahoo Answers model, and rebrand the...
2007 Search Blogs Awards : Nominations Now Open
Good morning readers! It’s late December again and the search conferences have come to a finish, which means like in 2005 and 2006, Search Engine...
Hello Google Shopping! Sayonara Google Products?
Google has always tried to be a bit different than other search powered portals, insisting first that it is not a portal and then either...
SEOBook Launches Improved Wordtracker Powered Keyword Tool
Aaron at SEO Book has partnered with Wordtracker to release a new & improved keyword tracking tool just in time for the holidays (forgive me,...
Yahoo Launches Shortcuts Plugin For WordPress Blogs : Very Cool!
Yahoo worked on this Plugin with the help of WordPress, and being a lifelong WordPress user (SEJ first started on Blogger, then switched to b2;...
Google Follows its Universal Search Patent & Ask.com’s Lead : Serves Media on Right of SERPS
Google has been testing the placement of product and video results on the right side of the Google results page, which is valuable real estate...
Google My Maps Adds Social Features : Comments, Ratings and Links
Google Maps has added new social features to their My Maps initiative which lets viewers and users of those maps connect socially with the creators...
Google, the New England Patriots of Search, Runs Up the Score on Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com
We’ve been printing the headlines for years now : Google Rules Search Market Share, Google Tops Yahoo & MSN in Search for March, Google :...
Google Granted Patent on Anchor Text Link Crawling
Google has recently been granted a patent by the US government which the company originally filed in 2003. The patent, writes Bill Slawski of SEO...
Google News Updates Algorithm to Reflect Local & Breaking News
Google News has been tweaking its algorithm to show more updated and fresh stories as well as identifying the local news media which would be...
Google Rankings Changing : Result of Paid Links?
Google search engine rankings seem to be undertaking an update or change over the past week as some sites and publishers are noticing a trend...
Yahoo & JetBlue Partner to Test Free Wi-Fi on Flights
Yahoo, RIM and JetBlue have partnered to offer free Wi-Fi connections aboard domestic US flights in a test which will begin Tuesday. The initial tests...
Google AdSense Misprints Checks & Paystubs
Google sent out an email message to publishers last night warning them that Google AdSense has misprinted the paystub with a rather odd message: If...
Google Watching Paid Review Blogs that Pass PageRank
If your blog openly posts paid reviews in an irrelevant, poorly written, not disclosing these as advertisements and using deliberate anchor text in the posts...
Google Banning Ads for PageRank Selling Schemes
On a blog post discussing why Google does not like irrelevant Sponsored Blog Posts that pass link juice, Matt Cutts left a little tidbit of...
Google Adds Form for Reporting Malware in Results
This week we saw a vicious attack on Google, Yahoo and MSN search results by malware and spyware operators hit the big news after months...
Google Test Lets Users Vote, Add and Delete Sites in SERPS
Google Experimental is testing the ability to actually change the ranking of results or delete sites listed in personalized search results, in a Digg style...
Yahoo Stores Crash on Cyber Monday : Merchants Outraged
One of the largest online shopping days of the year, Cyber Monday brought in over an estimated $700 million in online sales yesterday, but not...
Cyber Monday : Shop.org Holiday Turns into Online Shopping Phenomena
After a long extended weekend of football, overeating and hitting the malls, Cyber Monday has descended upon us as another way to get excellent discounts...
Google Says Selling Links Can Harm Site Ranking in Search Results
Earlier in the month Google began its unofficial crackdown on pages which openly sell links in an effort to capitalize on their Google PageRank. Google’s...
Black Friday : Sales, Search & Online Shopping
Well, another Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Cowboys whooped the Jets, and like most Americans, I woke up this morning feeling like I’m carrying...
Does Image Search Traffic Convert?
Interesting thread on DigitalPoint this morning about the influx in traffic from images indexed in Google Images and other image search engines, and how they...
How to Get The Most Link Juice for Your Articles
Distributing articles for the purpose of building links to a site or for that site’s SEO can be a great way to link build and...
Yahoo Expands Newspaper Consortium With 17 Papers : Including New York Times
The Yahoo Newspaper Consortium has expanded to include 16 regional newspapers owned by the New York Times as well as The Columbus Dispatch. The latest...
Would You Use a Google Operating System?
Google is getting closer and closer to offering a full blown operating system (if it hasn’t already) with its suite of desktop and office services,...
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