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Google Adds Blue Dots to Product Search Results
Just a quick update to inform you that if you’re using Google’s product search, whether on your computers or mobile devices such as iPhone or...
I Admit It – These Videos Taught Me a Few Social Media Tricks
I have been enrolled in the Market Motive social media online course for close to two months now. Each week I have been given a...
Picking Wise Search Projects
Whether you work in-house or take on several clients, there are going to be projects that make you cringe and projects that feel good to...
Facebook Searches Grow by 10% in February
ComScore has just released its February search engine rankings data. And while there’s nothing new in terms of who is on top, who gained and...
YouTube Mobile Now Serving Banner Ads
With the ever growing site traffic of of YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that Google will take advantage of this to serve advertisements....
Google Adds Biking Directions to Maps
While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement, here’s a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider...
Your Online Retirement
“Burningly it came on me all at once, This was the place! those two hills on the right, Crouched like two bulls locked horn in...
Google Opens Apps Marketplace for Business
I pretty much remember when talks about Google launching its own store for web apps started circulating before. But Google remained mum about it until...
Migrating to a New Domain and URL Structure – My Learnings
Recently the company I worked for made a big decision to rebrand and with it came the dreaded domain name change. We are also having...
Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK
The Guardian UK is reporting that Microsoft Bing is preparing to launch a massive TV ad campaign aimed at challenging Google’s dominance in the UK...
Omniture Now Offers Enhanced Facebook Marketing Analytics
With the ever emerging and evolving world of web 2.0. marketers no more can afford to neglect social media, and with Facebook becoming the second...
Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators
Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs. Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited. Those...
SEO Wins & Sins: 5 Questions with Industry Leader Joe Laratro
Effective search engine optimization is equal parts art, science, and EXPERIENCE, so I sat down with industry veteran Joe Laratro to get the dish on...
Google Launches Gesture Search for Android 2.0 Phones
Google announced a pretty cool feature that most of us Android phone users would surely find useful and innovative – gesture search. Basically, what this...
Google Search Results Get the Star Treatment
Google’s long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature – marking search results...
Penalties, Bans, and Paid Search
There are numerous posts on PPC vs SEO, who gets more money, and all that mumbo jumbo. To me, it’s right up there with “SEO...
SEO without the SEO
Competition is stiff these days. It’s getting harder and harder to achieve optimal search engine rankings, at least without professional help. So how to compete...
How to Work with & Shop for a SEO Services Firm
If you are a small business owner or an in house marketer looking to hire an outside SEO firm to outsource all your search engine...
Google Chrome Rolls Out Translate Feature
Google has just released a new beta feature for Chrome browser – a translation prompt that automatically appears whenever you are visiting a site which...
Google Buys Online Image Editor Picnik
Google has just acquired another company as announced by the company’s official blog. It’s Picnik, a fun, online image editor that was founded in 2005...
Free SEJ News iPhone Application Available
Attention all Search Engine Journal lovers and avid readers out there: we have good news! The new SEJ News iPhone application is now available in...
Creative Writing Tips for LinkBait Production
Have you ever sold a client linkbaiting content and when it came time to produce the bait, you’ve thought “oh dear, there’s not much to...
Track Tsunami Warnings Online with NOAA, Twitter & Search
Earlier in the morning a major 8.8 earthquake hit Concepcion, Chile (a major university city) which has set off a Tsunami warning in the Pacific...
SEO Priorities – Task ROI
I was going to sit down and write a post with my usual brand of geekiness. You know, some more eye-watering patent or IR paper...
5 Steps to Launching a Mobile Search Campaign
Mobile search continues to explode. According to eMarketer, mobile search spending will grow 81% over the next two years. So there’s no better time to...
Google Starts Indexing Facebook Pages Updates
Although both Facebook and Google has not yet announced this officially, some folks are reporting that status updates from Facebook pages will start showing up...
How to Use Google Analytics on Your Facebook Fan Page
Looking to integrate your analytical data and tracking across your site, blog and now even your Facebook Fanpages? It appears that the UK’s WebDigi Dev...
Why Buzz Beats Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed
UPDATE 10/06/2010: In retrospect, I was completely wrong. It had to happen sooner or later. Read the rest at your own risk. —————– Buzz is...
How to Leverage Traffic Besides Using Organic Search
Too many SEO’s and marketers worry about getting that #1 ranking in Google for their primary keyword/phrase. Of course, if that query is being highly...
Google Launches DoubleClick for Publishers
Google has just announced its new ad serving technology which is geared for both large and small scale online publishers – DoubleClick for Publishers. This...