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Want a More Organized Search Results? Google Square It
I’m not going to assume that Google’s sudden announcement of Google Square has anything to do with Microsoft Bing. Nevermind if Google intentionally or unintentionally...
Microsoft’s Bing Falsifies Site Data to Increase Click Through Rates
Microsoft’s brand new search product, Bing, was unveiled to the public over the weekend. Over all the response has been moderately positive. Most of the...
Bing Mobile Looks and Feels Like Google Mobile Search, Almost
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is starting to make waves as more people are trying it out. But before we forget, aside from web version of...
Does Google SafeBrowsing Prove “Bad IP Neighborhood” Theory
We all know about and probably use Google Safe Browsing tool – the best idea is to use it to identify one of the reasons...
Top 50 SEO Blogs from Invesp Blogrank
Invesp has listed the Top 50 SEO blogs based upon their blogrank ranking structure, which looks at over 20 different factors to rank blogs such...
New PPC Bid Rule Management System from Acquisio
One of my responsibilities as director of PPC (among everything else) at Fuel Interactive is to keep tabs on what’s going on in the PPC...
The “S” Trilogy in Search Industry
We all are familiar with search marketing industry. The “S” trilogy stands for Search Trilogy. Search Trilogy has three parts: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine...
Is There Such a Thing as On-Page Trust Factors (Poll)?
I have once looked into how Google may be viewing trust and authority where the most important difference is that trust is attributed to the...
8 Key Points to Multiple Niche Sites And Controlling Back Links
Ask ten SEO professionals whether it’s better to have all your content on one site or split it up, and you’ll get eleven answers (yeah,...
Microsoft Officially Announces its New Search Engine – Bing
As expected, Microsoft’s official announcement of its new search engine aka decision engine, aka vertical search engine aka Bing or whatever you may want to...
What’s The Real Value of Brand PPC?
Many of our PPC clients (and from what I hear from other pros and agencies, many of their clients) at some point start to believe they...
Google Adds Image Ads on AdSense Link Units
If you’re implementing AdSense Link Units on your sites, this new feature might interest you. For those who may have forgotten already, AdSense Link Units...
Facebook Receives $200 Million Investment from Russian Tech Firm
Facebook announced Tuesday that it has received an infusion of $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet firm, which has a 1.96% ownership...
The ABCs of a Great SEO Leader
So, you can audit a site. I’ll bet you have a methodology in place to do it a thousand times over. You probably do it...
Getting SEO Value from Follow-up Posts
Writing follow-up posts is a great blogging tactic that allows to: Better target your audience needs: the fist post discussion shows the blogger what appeals...
Is It Still Worth Using Keyword and Description Meta Tags?
There has been a lot of talk about whether or not keyword and description meta tags are even worth doing anymore. Here’s my opinion –...
Ann Smarty Named Director of Media for Search & Social
I’m very happy to announce today that Search & Social Media, LLC, the parent company of Search Engine Journal, has hired Ann Smarty as our...
Find Cheap Gas Prices Online for Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend usually marks the beginning of the summer vacation months, warm weather, remembrance, outlet store sales and of course, travel. Many Americans will...
Google & Newspapers: Google to Stay on ‘Their’ Side of the Content Line
According to an interview with the Financial Times, Google (NYSE:GOOG) has been considering buying a newspaper or using the charitable arm of the search giant...
Yahoo Targets Social Media Acquisitions : But Who?
Yahoo is about to start making some aggressive moves again in the social networking arena according to a piece in Reuters today which quotes Yahoo...
Google Rolls Out Maps Ad Unit
Google is giving geo map developers a new option to earn revenue from their Google Maps API implementation. Dubbed Maps Ad Unit, this new Google...
BFFs: Users and Search Engine Friendly Sites
I’m currently reading Don’t Make Me Think (A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability) by Steven Krug. If I wasn’t already sold on the word-of-mouth...
3+ Keyword and Topic Visualization Tools
Very often you can’t grasp the topic until you sit down and map it on the sheet of paper. Sometimes, you also need someone else’s...
Search Engine Journal Merges with Search & Social, LLC
I am very happy to announce today that Search Engine Journal and our client services division has taken a new direction, merging with Search &...
The ROI of PPC Beats Most Advertising Opportunities
At Fuel Interactive, we’re always trying to find more profitable advertising and marketing channels for our clients. That means we test beyond those channels already...
4 Actionable Tips to Optimize Links in an Email Message
I am not a professional email marketer – if you need a detailed guide on making the most of your email message, refer to experts....
Scribd Launches E-Book Store
Scribd, one of the largest social publishing site has began testing a new e-book store which it hopes to compete with the growing popularity of...
Google’s Downtime Affected 5% of the Internet
Last week’s Google downtime created quite a stir among us all, there’s no doubt about that. And one of the most interesting observations/reactions was perhaps...
Google Updates Trademark Policy on Keywords Ads
Starting June 15, Google AdWords will start displaying trademarks on keywords ads, the Inside Adwords Blog announced. This new policy would allow advertisers to use...
Gmail Doesn’t Want You to Ever Use Another Webmail Provider Again
Google is continously improving the features of Gmail. Whereas before forwarding your Gmail messages to other webmail services has been pretty simple, now Google is...