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Should Yahoo & Microsoft Bing Partner?
Last week news started heating up again about the possibility of a Yahoo & Microsoft partnership (or perhaps merger) wherein Yahoo would begin using Microsoft’s...
Bing Driven Ad Click Thru Rate 55% More than Google
According to data from the Chitika Ad network (since when did Chitika publicly become a data mining and reporting property?), Microsoft Bing driven users click...
SEO Q&A: How to Prevent Google from Crawling AND Indexing a Page?
One of our valued readers sent in a question asking why one of the site pages he blocked with Disallow Robots.txt directive is still returned...
Yahoo! Rolls Out Travel Image Search Refiner
Yahoo is also responding to the challenges posed by search refinements being carried out by its competitors. So, it just introduced a refinement to its...
Time for a Yahoo Microsoft Search Partnership
Yahoo and Microsoft merger rumors are heating up again as Yahoo board members were reportedly at the table again yesterday, discussing a partnership between Yahoo...
YouTube Now Lets You Share Insight Stats
YouTube is now letting video owners share stats from its analytics tool YouTube Insights. This includes stats on total views, number of ratings and other...
Tools to Easier Access Google Translate
I’ve been previously reviewing some useful tools to help with international browsing – obviously, the best and the most powerful tool for that is Google...
Porn: Still Leading Online Advertising?
As Howard Stern’s intern I spent months at the center of the adult entertainment industry meeting the people who have conquered an incredibly competitive niche. ...
Learn Your Blog Readers’ Opinion with ProProfs Polls
I have previously over-viewed best free web-based software allowing to easily create online surveys and today I decided to focus on a new player –...
Yahoo Acquires XoopIt, But Why?
The word is out, Yahoo has acquired XoopIt. Well for those of us who have heard of XoopIt just now, it’s a third-party app that...
As Yahoo Reports Q2 Finances, Bartz Kudos Bing
Yahoo has just reported its Q2 Financial Standings. And despite the negative trend in almost all of its online business, Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz expressed...
Top 3 Google Gadgets to SEO Your iGoogle Home Page
There are surprisingly too few worthy gadgets that can be added to iGoogle home page, this post looks at 3 of them you may find...
Yahoo Rolls Out New Portal Design
I remember Loren asking me if I have seen the new Yahoo portal when it was still in close beta. Well, I would have seen...
Court Says: Google is Not Liable for Contents on its Search Results
A high court judge in London has just ruled in favor of Google over a landmark case that could perhaps set the precedent for future...
It Is Almost Official: Link Exchanging is Still Worth It
It has been a lot of talk about whether link exchanges are still worthwhile or not. Most reputable SEOs publicly declare the tactic is just...
Why All the Fuss about TechCrunch?
A few days ago a French Hacker calling himself Croll began releasing documents containing private financial data and personal information on employees he had stolen...
Google Introduces Search with My Location for the iPhone
Google has just rolled out its Search with My Location for iPhone running OS 3.0. What this nifty feature does is to allow iPhone users...
Google Voice Mobile App Goes to Blackberry and Android Devices
Google has just announced the availability of Google Voice mobile app specifically for Blackberry and Android devices. This new feature allows users to make calls...
How Long Does It Take Google to Rank a New Website?
How long does it take to achieve targeted rankings in Google? That’s probably the most popular SEO question. And to an exoerienced SEO it may...
BingTweets Integrates Twitter and Bing Search, Literally
Bing in partnership with Federated Media and of course Twitter has rolled out BingTweets which is described as: BingTweets combines Twitter trends with Bing search...
Creating Automated Systems in Your SEO Business
Smart Businesses Create Systems Do you realize the value of systems? A system is simply a way achieving an end result by following a set...
Local SEO: Using Multiple URLs for Rankings
One tactic frequently implemented successfully with Local SEO is the use of multiple URLs, or micro-sites. To help you better understand how this functions, I’ve...
After One Month, Bing Reports Positive Trend
We’ve been reporting about various gains and milestones that Bing was able to achieve during its first months, all of them coming from third party...
Running a Business from Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Over the past couple of months, after merging Search Engine Journal and Search & Social, my business life as an SEO and online marketing consultant...
Google Gets a New Lawsuit, This Time from Rosetta Stone
Since it changed one of its trademark policies for AdWords, Google had earned nine lawsuits concerning patent infringement from various companies. Now, Google is facing...
Quality Score: 3 UnFrequently Asked Questions
One of our new services at Fuel Interactive is consulting/training. I’ve been training a guy in Austin, Texas, and he’s very observant. That means he...
Mary Kay Sues Yahoo for Trademark Infringement
Here’s a new twist on the oft repeated whine of many businesses regarding the use of brand names to trigger online ads. Cosmetics company Mary...
Yahoo to Shut Down GeoCities This Fall
GeoCities web hosting has been around since the very early days of the internet and while it’s not widely used anymore, it’s name still arouses...
Google Launches My Location for Google Maps
If you’ve ever used Google Maps on your iPhone or other mobile device, you’re probably familiar with My Location already. For those that aren’t, when...
Google Image Search Now Features License Filter
Google has just launched a new feature of Image Search which is aimed at helping users find images that are free to use based on...