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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...
Google Maps Stickers in Business Windows
Over at Search Engine Land, Greg Sterling posted about a Google Maps sticker which was spotted at a London restaurant: Smart! The technique is usually...
Yahoo’s Overture Keyword Selector Tool Working Again
After experiencing a lot of downtime last week, Yahoo Search Marketing’s Overture Keyword Selector tool is up and running again. Search engine marketers and search...
Digg Payola Backfires for Social Media Spammer
Muhammad Saleem, the new addition to the Pronet Advertising blog, today made a post exposing how the owner of a site named BringPopcorn.com tried to...
Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog Interviewed by Lee Odden
Lee Odden of TopRank has interviewed MyBlogLog’s CEO Scott Rafer about the success of MyBlogLog and how it feels to be the newest delivery to...
Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestion Tool
Now that Yahoo Search Marketing’s Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool is on the fritz and there are really no signs of it coming back to life...
Google Q4 Revenues Exceed Expectations, Up 16% over Q3 2006
Google’s 2006 Q4 earnings beat Wall Street expectations when they announed today that revenues were up 67% over Q4 2005 and 16% more than last...
Yahoo Says Overture Keyword Tool Not Dead Yet
There have been reports around the Internet today about Yahoo Search Marketing canceling the Overture Keyword Selector Tool, which has been a staple of Keyword...
Serph : Social Media Meta Search Engine & Tracking Service
Cameron Olthuis announced this morning that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will let users find what “other people...
LinkedIn takes on Xing, or the other way around?!
I wanted to follow up on my post LinkedIn versus Xing (aka Open BC) from November earlier, but did not get around to it until...
Matt Cutts vs. V7N Links : Matt Wins
Over the past day some jabs and nudges were traded back and forth (all in good fun I believe) between Matt Cutts and John Scott...
NOFOLLOW Wikipedia to PageRank Zero Campaign
For those of you who missed the big news Sunday & Monday, all outbound Wikipedia links are using a NOFOLLOW tag, which basically means they...
V7N Contextual Links : Link Buying Service for SEO & Bloggers
V7N announced last week that they have launched a new link buying service which could be seen as a hybrid of Text Link Ads and...
2006 Chinese Internet Data : Advertising, Search Engines & Blogs
The Internet speed has been slowly improving in China but the latest news is that the final repairs will be finished half way February instead...
All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW
I blogged about the Wikipedia Issues with SPAM and the discussions about the use of NOFOLLOW for ALL external Links from Wikipedia. It was done, finally....
SOAP API : Alternative to Google Search API
Google is not offering feeds to their search results (besides Google Custom Search) and new API keys are no longer available, what’s a web publisher...
Megite : Interview with Matthew Chen of Megite.com
Today I had the chance to speak with Matthew Chen, the co-founder of Megite, which is a real time news aggregation service. You’re probably familiar...
SponsoredReviews.com Joining Paid Review Services
Another paid blogging review service is popping up soon to join ReviewMe and PayPerPost; SponsoredReviews.com. The service is being launched by Text Link Brokers (no,...
Google AdWords & Domain Parking : Garbage Paid Search?
Richard Ball emailed today to fill us in on the current issues he’s having with a large amount of Google AdWords Paid Search (not contextual)...
YouTube More Popular Than MySpace.com?
Found via Digg, Smaran Dayal looks at an Alexa comparison of YouTube and MySpace over the past six months which shows that although MySpace shows...
Yahoo oneSearch Launches to Redefine Mobile Web Search
Yahoo has launched a new mobile search service dubbed Yahoo oneSearch which Yahoo says takes a different tack towards the displaying of search results on...
WordPress Blog Hosting : Recommendations?
I’m currently looking into a new hosting package for Search Engine Journal and reviewing the recommended WordPress hosting companies as provided by WordPress. Their top...
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Interviewed on BBC Radio
For those of you who are looking to keep up on the excited world of user generated content, social news, search and Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales,...
Yahoo Local Quick Editing for Business Listings
Yahoo Local has announced a new easy service for businesses, or customers of those businesses, which want to edit or add to their Yahoo Local...
Matt Cutts : Best Search Blogger of 2006
This year’s Best Search Blogger is now a three time recipient of a Search Engine Journal Search Blog Award as his blog won Best SEO...
How Big is Google’s Index?
Since Google has stopped exposing the size of their indexed web documents on their homepage, it seems that different web users have been performing searches...
TrueLocal’s Jake Baillie Moving On
Jake Baillie has helped to build TrueLocal into a true success, rocked Chicago, and is now heading to the world of funding Internet start-ups and...
Ebay China Sells Business to Tom Online
It has been hanging in the air for sometime now. Back in September 2006 the rumor circus already pointed at Tom online as the likely...
9 7.5 Ways To Get Banned (or Penalized) by Search Engines
Putting together an SEO campaign and thinking that cloaking, link farming or regurgitating content will get your site high rankings? Think again. Chances are, your...
Google 2006 Top Searches : Very 2.0
Once Google filtered out all of the questionable, offensive and not-safe-for-work search terms, looks like the people Googling on Google were in fact searching for...