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Google CEO Hopes That Apple’s iAd Will Help Google with AdMob Deal
Well it looks like this is the first time that Google was glad that a would-be rival launched its product. According to Reuters, Google CEO...
Paid Internet Search Inventor Applies the Same Model to Twitter
From Idealab, the same team who invented the paid search model back in 1998 with Goto.com, comes a new startup called Tweetup. TweetUp hopes to...
Google Made its First UK Acquisition, Plink Mobile Visual Search
For the longest time that Google has been into acquisition of startups, interestingly this is the first time that it acquires a UK-based startup. Google...
Multilingual SEO: Things to Remember
Google has recently done a series on the usability of multilingual websites and it got me thinking about multilingual SEO. How do you, in fact,...
Beginner’s Guide to Link Metrics
In the beginning, search engines were crap. I don’t mean to knock the pioneers, but they simply relied too heavily on what webmasters said their...
3 Ways to Use Multiple Search Engines Simultaneously
How much do you search? As you read this blog, you are likely to search quite a lot. This post is aimed to enhance your...
Watch the Masters 2010 Online Video : CBS, iTunes & More
The return of Tiger Woods to the world of professional golf after his post-Thanksgiving hiatus has positioned the 2010 Masters Tournament as the most watched...
Google Officially Counts Site Speed for Web Search Ranking
Google has just officially announced that website speed is now a new signal when it considers web search ranking. Although not too much weight is...
Universal Search Feature Added to Google Suggest for Mobile
Google just announced a new simple, and yet very useful feature of its mobile search service. The new feature is actually a spinoff of the...
Google Outs Nested Labels, Email Preview in Gmail Labs
Here’s something worth checking out on Gmail Labs – nested labels and email sneak preview. The nested labels feature allow you to organize your labels...
Microsoft Gives Bing Shopping a New Look
Microsoft has just updated Bing Shopping, putting in some enhancements to product categories and navigation. Specifically, Bing Shopping now has a list of product categories...
Twitter’s Global Growth by the Official Numbers
The Twitter blog is running a post today announcing some numbers related to Twitter’s overall growth not only in the U.S. but internationally as well. According...
Apple Challenges Google’s Mobile Ad Platform with iAd
Apple is officially entering the mobile ads arena, and perhaps taking revenge at Google for snatching its plan of acquiring AdMob. Apple’s battleplan? the iAd...
Factoring Time into SEO
We all know that it takes time for your rankings in the SERPs to change. Although they do fluctuate frequently, long-term improvements in your SERPs...
Add Images to Your Google Sitemaps Extension
We all know how important site images our when trying to optimize our websites for search engine indexing, right? When highlighting important website content on...
Location-Based Marketing, Resources and Tools
With the evolution and wide-spread use of smartphone devices, it was only a matter of time until location-based applications and services would start to be...
Search Ads Top Record High of $6.3 Billion Ad Spending in Q4 ’09
The Interactive Advertising Bureau and Price Waterhouse Coppers’s IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report for 2009 is showing some quite interesting findings regarding the comparison of...
Google Adds Buzz to Maps for Mobile App for BlackBerry
For a long time now, I’ve been trying to use Google Buzz on my Nexus One Maps App but to no avail. For some reason...
Google Gets a Lawsuit from Photographers
Here’s another twist on Google’s long struggle on the Google Book Search Settlement issue. The American Society of Media Photograpehrs (ASMP) and other photographic artists...
A Holistic Approach to PPC
Paid search is hot. Well, it’s been hot for a while — at least the past 5 years. And it continues to grow: according to...
How I’m Going To Pay For Obama’s Health Insurance Reform
I’m a huge fan of the Obama’s health insurance reform bill. It’s not that often that such a significant societal opportunity occurs that allows me...
Android is Now the Fastest Growing Mobile Apps Market
Although its current catalog of mobile apps is way too far behind the number of apps in the iTunes Apps Store, still Google’s Android Marketplace...
AOL to Sell or Shut Down Bebo Social Network
AOL’s social networking site Bebo may soon be joining the dead pool or if AOL is lucky enough it may be joining another company. According...
Yahoo Wants to Buy Foursquare for $100 Million
Among the location-based social media startups that are making waves right now, I’ve always believed that Foursquare has the biggest potential to make it big,...
Google Integrates Buzz to Gmail for Mobile
As if the noise created by Google Buzz on Gmail for desktop is not enough, Google has just integrated Google Buzz to Gmail for Mobile....
Wake Up Suzy – Wake Up! – Managing SEO Client Expectations
I’ve touched on the topic of client expectations before, yet I can’t emphasize enough how important this subject is. So I’m devoting an entire article...
Is Your Site Under Google Penalty?
One of the most important aspects of taking care of a site’s search ‘appropriateness’ is knowing what can get you penalized by Google (or any...
Some Tactical Tips for Tracking the Long Tail
Most of us in the search industry are pretty much aware by now that simply tracking individual keyword rankings to determine performance is all but...
8 Search Engine Related iPad Apps
Aside from Twitter and Social Networking apps, another interesting set of apps available right now on the iPad App Store are search-related. I scoured through...
Cold Calling For Links: Advice from Door to Door Sales
About 8 years ago, I was offered a job in door to door sales. I thought it would probably be the scariest, hardest job I...