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Microsoft Previews a Cleaner, More Social MSN Portal
Microsoft is previewing a newly redesigned MSN portal starting tomorrow. The new MSN.com will now have a simpler, cleaner and sleeker look. And as if...
Research & Build Links with Followtopia Search Engine
I’ve been covering quite a few backlink checkers that can turn handy for competitive research as well as looking for the potential penalty reasons and...
Search Geek Weekly News Update; Google Social Search & More
It’s been another week in the trenches and while it may have been a little slow out there, we did have some big news with...
Outsourcing SEO – Yes or No?
If you’re following business trends with any level of interest at all, you’ll have noticed how many opportunities there are to outsource your business processes....
Similar Images Search Feature Graduates from Google Labs
Google has just graduated the Similar Images feature from Google Labs. If you will recall, the Similar Images feature was introduced sometime in April as...
Should Ask.com Sell Out Now?
If you are Barry Diller and you know that Ask.com has been running at a distant fourth place against the third major search engine, would...
The End is Here: Yahoo Closes Geocities
This past summer I wrote about how Yahoo was going to finally shut down Geocities this fall. That day is finally here, and the internet...
7 Days of Search and Social; more news than you can handle!
Hello my weary web warriors and welcome to another week of news for the search obsessed. It was an interesting week that had some big...
Gazopa Similar Image Search Enters Open Beta
Imagine conducting an image search whereby the search engine uses features from an image to retrieve similar images. If you thought to yourself “That’s already...
Google Custom Search Turns 3, Rolls Out 3 New Features
With it its 3 years of existence, Google Custom Search now has more than a million users serving many tens of millions of search queries...
Google Rolls Out Social Option in Search Results
Google has just rolled out a new experiment in Google Labs that brings a new option in search results -Social. This new Social results option...
International SEO: Need Your Help
Ok, so the past couple of months I have been researching international (or global) SEO and best practices that go along with it. For the...
Social Media Affiliate Marketing Guide 101 – With Amazon
This guide is a summary of proper methods and guidelines for affiliate marketing on social media. This is also a follow up to the first...
Bing Twitter Search Goes Live
Yesterday we reported about the Bing-Twitter integration. And now, the official words are out coming from Microsoft’s President of Online Service Groups Qi Lu. The...
Looks Like Bing Will Strike a Deal with Both Twitter and Facebook
How about about this, all your Facebook public updates and Twitter tweets becoming searchable on Bing search engine? Or another way at looking at it...
Google Set to Launch a Music Service
Music service has not been Google’s cup of tea for such a long time now. While others have successfully (or otherwise) implemented their music downloading...
Yahoo Q3 Earnings Report Card – Slightly Positive
After Google reported its Q3 earnings, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to report. Yahoo’s Q3 revenues registered a slight increase from last quarter’s data despite being...
Google Analytics Becomes More Powerful, Flexible and Intelligent
Google is rolling out some useful enhancements to its already useful and powerful Google Analytics tool. These new features give the Analytics tools more power,...
7 Days of Search and Social; the source for search geeks
Hello and welcome to another week in the world of goodiness from the trenches. My name is Dave, and I am a Seriously Obsessed Search...
Measure Your Display Ad’s Impact with AdWords Campaign Insights
Following the view-through reporting campaign it rolled out recently, Google AdWords is launching a new ad campaign impact measurement tool called Campaign Insights. Campaign Insights...
Microsoft, Yahoo Deal Gets Support from Ad Agencies
While the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal is pending scrutiny from the government, here comes a group of advertising agencies issuing an open letter in support of...
How to Identify Indented Listings Opportunities
This is a story for the ‘Seed Man’. I do not know, nor do I have any affiliation with, the aforementioned ‘Man of Seeds’. However,...
Is It a Good Idea to Block Visitors by Country?
There may be several reasons why one would want to block users from all countries except the targeted one: with large amounts of traffic this...
SEO Dojo: A Community for SEO Enthusiasts
Today, David Harry (aka @theGypsy) has launched an SEO community that encourages sharing and education called the SEO Dojo. Although the community is not free,...
Want to See What’s in Timbuktu? Submit it to Google Trike
We’re all familiar here with the Google Street View car, right? It’s that roving Google vehicle equipped with a satellite camera that drives around major...
Why Google Voice is Cool
Ever dreamed of having your own personal switchboard operator? Google Voice, a new calling and voicemail service from the online search giant offers just that....
The Future is Bright as Google Reports on 3rdQ Earnings
The numbers are out for Google’s 3Q revenue performance. And quite what many analysts have predicted, Google’s earnings are actually all in the positive note....
Yahoo To Discontinue Paid Inclusion Program
At the end of 2009 Yahoo will no longer be offering the paid inclusion advertising program. This unexpected move from Yahoo comes as a shock...
Google Officially Joins the Flourishing e-Book Era
The whole e-Book market which is just starting to get excited right now due to Amazon’s Kindle and various e-book readers that are coming out...
Reputation Management Issue: Fixing Google Suggest Results
Google reputation management has long been a well-discussed topic, it has never occurred to me there still may be anything new to talk about there....