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Google Becomes Richer by $6.7 Billion in Q4 2009
Google just released its Fourth Quarter 2009 Earnings Report and never mind if it didn’t exceed expectations of the Wall Street Journal, it’s still quite...
Google Caffeine for Mobile
As the Internet world continues to wait for Google to fully push online its next generation infrastructure called Caffeine, its best to understand why its...
Google to Serve Better Ads in Gmail
So, it seems that ad serving is the order of the day for Google. Aside from introducing new targeting options for mobile ads, Google is...
Google Rolls Out New Targeting Options for Mobile Ads
Google AdWords has just rolled out a new targeting options for mobile ads. If you’re an AdWords publisher running ads on iPhones and other mobile...
Bing Maps Leaves Beta, New Features Added
Microsoft has just announced that its Bing Maps service is finally leaving the beta state. And as it prepares to become a full-pledged Microsoft geo-mapping...
Beyond Google PPC Ads in 2010
The New Year brings some new services from Google Adwords, which will take you beyond your basic PPC ads. Google has be working hard to...
Bing to Replace Google as iPhone’s Default Search Engine?
Business Week is running quite an interesting story regarding ongoing talks between Apple and Microsoft that would make Bing as the default search engine on...
Bing Makes its Autosuggest Feature More Timely
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a minor enhancement to its search autosuggest feature. In fact it is so quiet that you wouldn’t really notice it,...
Google Cancels Nexus One Phone Launch in China
Amidst the issues that’s happening right now between Google and China, Google decided to cancel the scheduled launch of its Nexus One phone in the...
How To Create Your Own In-House SEO Job
Not every in-house SEO job looks like one at first glance. It may not come prepackaged as an in-house SEO job. Sometimes, you may have...
Advanced ORM: Influence Google Search Suggest & Sublistings
One of the most popular articles on SEJ is about using social media profiles for Online Reputation Management (ORM), which is a great starting point...
Yelp Securing Financing : Taking on Google & Yahoo Local
Yelp, the local business review community which made it to the cover of Inc Magazine this month AND turned down a Google acquisition in December,...
Purple Prose and Link Building
Purple prose is a lovely name given to the style of writing that tends to be so extravagantly worded that you really have very little...
Haiti 90999 : Donate to the Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort
The disaster of the Haiti Earthquake has led to a worldwide relief effort which in the United States is being led my the American Red...
Im-Portent SEO: My Interview With Ian Lurie
I first met Ian when he spoke at our SearchFest 2008 event. Though we’ve communicated frequently via social media, we, more often than not, missed...
How to Use Various REL Attributes – Learning Microformats
Last week with my post on hCard format I started a good tradition: overviewing microformats in an easy-to-understand way and learning to use them with...
Google Makes Mobile Search Suggestion Location Aware
The Google Mobile Blog has just posted a short note announcing a new feature of its search suggestion on Google.com for mobile phones. Currently working...
Google Gets 72% of Searches in December 2009 (Hitwise)
Following up Nielsen search market share data, Hitwise has also released their search metrics for December 2009. And just like Nielsen’s stats, Google is also...
Haiti Earthquake : Online Resources & Donations
The earthquake in Haiti, which rocked the capital city of Port Au Prince over the week, has been devastating to the already impovershed country, its...
Know Your Client Before You Sign the Contract
Businesses that are looking for a vendor often spend a lot of time and energy researching and meeting with various different companies to make sure...
Your Business & Yelp In 2010
I want to get you thinking the way I am on this one, so bear with me for a moment. I want you to imagine...
Google Now Corrupting Lingual Identity
UPDATE: 1/16/2010: Over on Nichola Stott’s blog it’s been mentioned that Google seem to have pulled back from the edge of the abyss on this,...
Yahoo Gears Up for 2010’s Search Battle
It seems that one of the first order of battle for Yahoo is to spike up its search product. As early as now, Yahoo is...
Will Your CMS Cause Paid Search Problems?
For many marketers involved in SEO, the three letter acronym CMS can sometimes be more like a four letter word. Depending on the CMS and...
Google Tracks Flu Trends in 121 US Cities
We all know by now how bad the strain of influenza that hit the world last year was. And if the CDC warning is to...
VMware Acquires Zimbra from Yahoo
So, VMware has officially annonunced that it is buying email and collaboration software vendor Zimbra which was acquired by Yahoo in 2007. Although financial terms...
Google Will Stop Censoring Search Results in China
Google has issued an official statement regarding its business operations in China, specifically its Chinese search portal – Google.cn. Google told Chinese authorities that it...
Google Makes Google Docs a Cloud Storage Service
It has been quite awhile since Google’s GDrive project has been talked about. In fact it seems that Google may have shelved the project already....
Cleaning up the SEO Cesspool
Boy, don’t you just love to hate my article titles? I know this topic has been discussed numerous times. Seriously though – for all the...
Build Links with Better Answers
Have you ever typed a question into Google and the ranking results were from a mass produced “how to” site? Even if you don’t know...