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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...
Bing is Now the 13th Most Visited Website
So while we are all recovering from Google’s announcement of the Chrome OS, let’s get back to one of hottest pre-Google Chrome OS items –...
Link Building: A Balancing Act
“You think you’ve got a hold of it all You haven’t got a hold at all When you reach the top, get ready to drop...
Gmail & Other Google Apps Finally Out of Beta
Finally, Google has noticed that its Gmail service has been lingering on the beta mode and finally decided to declare them as out of beta...
Oh Snap! Google Launching Chrome OS, Lookout Microsoft Windows
By now you must have read about today’s biggest news – Google Chrome OS. The Official Google Blog just broke the news, Google Chrome is...
Women & Our Online Behavior and Social Media Habits
SheSpeaks.com conducted a great survey of women’s online and computer habits, and published the results in a comprehensive 65-page document. It’s a fascinating study that...
Are You on an SEO Honeymoon?
I don’t know whether you ever get this thought when touring the web, but there are some sites that I think ‘I wish I could...
Websites Where You Can Watch the Michael Jackson Memorial Online Today
Today is July 7, and if you’ve been paying any attention to the news in the past week, you’d know that that means today is...
Yahoo to Launch Search Pad Feature
Yahoo is about to launch a new search-related product called Search Pad. This search feature which may be mistaken for Google’s now defunct Notebook service...
TweetROI: “Return on Influence” Twitter Monetization Model
TweetROI is a newly launched project aiming to monetizing Twitter with the utopia idea behind it: TweetROI unites influencers with marketers and protects the authentic...
IE Losing Market Share to Other Browsers
With Firefox 3.5 already at its 14 million downloads, and both Safari and Chrome gaining significant download numbers as well, it looks like Microsoft has...
Six Degrees of SEO Separation : Can We Reverse Engineer TrustRank and Hilltop?
Imagine playing the “Six Degrees of Separation” game, but with websites. The closer you are to having a link from Maclean’s magazine or Time, the...
Interview with Microsoft Bing’s Rajesh Srivastava, Principle Group Manager, Bing
Bing was launched by Microsoft as a consolidated search engine brand and technology which the company hopes to compete side by side with Google. Bing’s...
Google Shrunk its Search Results Page
Honestly I didn’t notice the difference until I read from Mashable that Google have changed the way it displays search results. As usual, I couldn’t...
As Google Book Search Gets Better, Here Comes the Anti-Trust Regulators
So while U.S. Anti-Trust Regulators are planning to investigate Google’s deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues amounting to $125m, Google continues to make...
Google Blog Search Adds RSS, Hot Queries, Latest Blog Posts
Nothing innovative here really. Just some functional features which should have been added a long time to Google’s Blog Search. Then again, better late than...
Landing Pages On A SMB Budget
Creating new landing pages for testing is getting cheaper. And scalable. So there are fewer and fewer reasons for SMBs not to be testing their...
What If Google Profiles “Lazy” or “Selective” Outlinkers?
The topic of your link neighbors is well discussed. It goes without saying that: a backlink from a resource linking to only reputable sites is...
Google Disables Commenting in Google News
Google has disabled a Google News feature that allows personalities featured on the news items to comment on the news stories. When this was announced...