Google Ad Placements for AdSense
Google AdSense is giving publishers the option of assigning and labeling certain AdSense placements within their site as primary real estate for Google AdWords advertisers...
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Webshots Adds Video Sharing
Webshots, which is one of the preferred photo storage and sharing destinations for millions of bloggers and MySpace members, has just gone video. While I...
Pronto.com Out of Beta, Adds Aggregated Product Reviews
Pronto.com, part of the IAC family which includes Ask.com, is out of beta and the shopping comparison engine is ready for the holiday season. Pronto.com...
Microsoft’s Live.com Banning Sites for Link Exchanges
Live.com is banning sites that take part in spammy and irrelevant link exchanges which are designed to corrupt and mislead search engines into ranking such...
Yahoo & Newspapers Form Major Partnership
Proving they can spread their peanut butter and eat it too, Yahoo has sealed a major alliance with the nation’s newspapers which include 176 daily...
Yahoo Peanut Butter Manifesto : Cut Workforce by 20%, Build Focus
An internal Yahoo memo written last week by Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse has been leaked to the press and urges a major organizational shake...
Yahoo to acquire MyBlogLog
Techcrunch and Valleywag report that Yahoo! has agreed to acquire MyBlogLog for an estimated $10 million. That takes the number of Yahoo acquisitions we’ve heard...
Google Maps Adds Click-to-Call Ads
Google Maps has added Click-to-Call (my apologies for the short post, today will not be a heavy blogging day for me). From the Google Blog:...
Microsoft Live Search & Firefox Snooping on Search Queries
Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA looks at Microsoft Live Search and the Firefox Browser and how these companies are harnessing their web browsing...
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Team for Sitemaps.org Search Engine Indexing Initiative
Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined forces to support Sitemaps 0.90 (www.sitemaps.org), a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their...
How To Obtain Techmeme Blog Coverage
Techmeme usually sends thousands of unique users per month to Search Engine Journal, dependent upon our percentage of breaking news stories and coverage. Like other...
Yahoo Publisher Network & Vice President Shakeup
I’m a little late to the punch here due to a couple days of International travel, but wanted to cover the recent executive shakeup at...
Google Local Search & Libraries
Bill Slawski looks at patents behind Local Search ranking systems and their dependency on local business directories. All fine & dandy for the local restaurants...
Google AdWords Landing Page Quality Ranking Initiated
The new Google AdWords Quality Algorithm kicked into gear today which will change the way advertisers bid and are ranked in sponsored Google AdWords results....
ReviewMe Launches : New Blog Advertising Network
Looking for a new way to monetize your blog or build links, awareness and buzz about your service or product? ReviewMe, the new service which...
MySpace.com Rules Social Networking
Social networking is hot and apparently, Hitwise confirms that MySpace is burning up the competition. For every 20 times a person in the US visited...
Google Checkout Offers Free Transactions for Merchants
In an effort to accelerate merchant adoption of the Google Checkout payment system, especially at the peak of the holiday shopping season, Google is offering...
Microsoft’s Live Search Virtual Earth 3D Goes Live
Today Microsoft went live with Virtual Earth 3D, an online mapping system which is part of the Live Search experience which serves local search mapped...
Click Forensics & Focus on Affiliate Click Fraud
Click Forensics updated its enterprise-class click fraud detection service, Click Forensics 4.5 for Enterprise, which includes new features that allow advertisers for the first time...
Yahoo! Shopping : New Features Abound
Yahoo! Shopping has added a whole lot of goodies to its service, just in time for the holiday shopping season. New additional services include integration...
Amazon.com’s Clickriver Pay-Per-Click Search Advertising
Amazon.com’s A9 Search division has finally launched a service which is sure to catch the eyes of the search engine marketing world, Clickriver. Clickriver is...
GMail Mobile : Java Powered
Steve Bryant at eWeek’s Google Watch notes that today Google is unveiling a new java powered Gmail for mobile devices. The new Gmail mobile should...
Cracking the Digg.com Algorithm
Yesterday we looked at the new changes to the Digg.com algorithm which makes it more difficult for stories to make it to the Digg front...
Utube.com Suing YouTube.com
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, which has its web site hosted at Utube.com, is suing Google’s YouTube over domain name similarity and the harm which...
Ask.com Providing Search & Advertising to Lycos Network
Ask.com has partnered with the LYCOS Network to provide the search results and sponsored listings on Lycos properties. Under the agreement, Ask.com will provide branded...
Digg Changes Its Algorithm : Harder to Get on Homepage
Have you noticed a decrease in the amount of stories hitting the front page of Digg.com over the past 24 hours and the increase in...
Google Acquires JotSpot Wiki Collaboration Software
Google has acquired Jotspot, which allows businesses and individuals to use wikis for collaboration. Google made the announcement today on the Google Blog, and gave...
Petr Mitrichev of Russia Wins Google’s Global Code Jam
Petr Mitrichev of Russia won Google’s Global Code Jam competition and was awarded with a $10,000 first prize. Mitrichev topped a field of over 21,000...
Kudzu.com Local Search Growing Outside of Atlanta
Ever take a drive down to Atlanta, Georgia? If you have, you probably had the chance to experience Kudzu. Kudzu is the Japanese weed which...
Daily Show & Colbert Report Zapped from YouTube
On Friday, the majority of uploaded YouTube clips containing the Comedy Central produced Daily Show, Colbery Report and South Park shows were deleted from YouTube....
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