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Link Building: Graph Theoretic Strategies
This is a continuation of the article Link building structures: hunters and collectors. What I’m doing is looking at web traffic control from a graph...
Chinese Interview with Matt Cutts and Google Japan Blocked
This week more on SEO in China from an interview with Matt Cutts and Jianfei. Also Chinese firewall news that shows that even Baidu can...
What Will Google Do With Performics?
Now that Google has acquired the Internet advertising giant DoubleClick, what are they planning to do with its search marketing company Performics? You mean, Google...
Quality Link Building : Editorial Links vs. Acquired Links
Link building was a major discussion which encompassed the majority of the panels at Search Engine Strategies New York last week, whether on the agenda...
AOL Search Marketplace : AOL-Only Google AdWords
Today AOL Search is beginning to sell their ‘AOL only’ Google AdWords via their white labled AOL Search Marketplace. These ad buys will be targeted...
All about Search in China: A Current Market Analysis
Read/Write Web has a fascinating article on the outlook of Search in China. There is an intense competition for internet users among search engines, particularly...
ZoomInfo Relaunched : Semantic Business Information Search Engine
Claiming to have created the first market-ready semantic search engine, ZoomInfo has announced a new version of ZoomInfo.com, a search engine that’s designed for business...
A Search Engine that Searches All
WebFetch, a new search engine that enables user to search the web via Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search and Ask.com all at the same time. This...
SEO Clinic : BigOceans.com – Blogging from the Sea while Sailing Around the World
For this week’s SEO Clinic the Search Engine Journal SEO team chose an independent blogger who has the dream of sailing around the world, from...
Building the Celebrity Cult: Personality-Centric Search Engines
What do pop singer Kevin Federline and a Yahoo-powered search engine have in common? Nothing except a fascinating collusion of celebrity branding with Internet search....
Google & Kinderstart : As You Shout Into the Woods…
Matt Cutts noted briefly at his blog that Google’s motions to dismiss the 2nd amended complaint case without leave to amend and for sanctions against...
Google Pay-Per-Action Launches for AdWords & AdSense
Google has rolled out the beta version of their new ‘affiliate’ influenced Pay-Per-Action Adwords model where advertisers pay Google & its publishers only when a...
Yahoo, MyBlogLog & Google AdSense Click Tracking
As some of you who use MyBlogLog to track your blog metrics and statistics know, MyBlogLog monitors the number of Google AdSense clicks which are...
WordPress SEO Title Tag 2.0 Plugin
If you use WordPress to manage your blog or blog driven web site, Stephen Spencer has just released a new plugin which should be of...
Marketing Your Site on Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers is the knowledge sharing Q&A based social network with over 90 million users worldwide with around 18 million users in the United States....
Google & Dish Network in Video Advertising Deal?
VentureBeat is reporting that Google is taking the first rumored moves in its obvious next step to bring Google Video Ads to the masses by...
Build Quality Links Using MeetUp.com
The other week I joined MeetUp.com, the online event, local and “meeting up” social networking site, in an effort to meet other bloggers, search marketers,...
Yahoo Answers Adds Social Networking
Yahoo Answers, the question & answer social media exchange, has become a success for Yahoo, bringing the phenomena of social knowledge sharing to over 90...
Alexa Bias Exposed by Top Google Engineers
Alexa, the web site popularity and ranking measurement metric, has been widely accepted by the web publisher and online advertising world as a way to...
Google’s 30 US Subsidiaries & Google’s International Companies
Google published its Annual Report which includes the list of Google’s Subsidiaries, both based in the United States and Internationally. Most non-Google companies are acquisitions,...
How To Get Links from Bloggers
Getting your story or content on Digg, StumbleUpon, or Fark can attract a lot of traffic and links to your site, but if you want...
Google ReBang : Chinese Language Zeitgeist
Yesterday Philipp Lenssen found that Google has added “/rebang” to their robots.txt file. Usually when Google is going to launch a new service or channel,...
SEO Clinic : Submit Your Site for SEO Advice
SEO Clinic is a new project we are now offering on Search Engine Journal for webmasters and site owners which are not experiencing their desired...
The Oscar Goes To – According to Google Trends
Just a couple of hours to go and it will be clear which movie is getting the Oscar for best film. I was wondering whether...
Should URLs in links use index.html?
When it comes to the best URL structures and formats, the most common question I get is in regards to the best way to reference...
WikiAnswers : The Wikipedia of Q&A Sites
Answers.com has completed the first stage of integrating content into WikiAnswers, a Wiki Q&A service. The content on WikiAnswers is an ongoing collaboration of shared...
Microsoft Making a Smarter Blogroll
Microsoft is working on the Smart Blogroll, a way for bloggers and blog readers to learn more about the information and topics discussed on blogs....
StumbleUpon Defined vs. Digg, Google, MySpace and More
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon, which recently reached 1.8 million users. I typed four pages of notes in 8...
Boost Your Yahoo Ads Quality Score
Barry Schwartz points to a WebmasterWorld thread where a Yahoo Search Marketing representative, YahooSarah, posts an explanation of Yahoo’s new Quality Index Score system. Basically,...
iCrossing Acquiring UK Based Spannerworks
iCrossing announced today that they will be acquiring Spannerworks, a UK based search engine marketing firm, for $18 million. Spannerworks is a 10 year old...