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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...
Microsoft, Real, & Yahoo All Sued for Music Store Copyright Infringement
On Tuesday, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Real were named in a lawsuit filed by some music publishing companies claiming that each of their online music stores – Zune,...
Bing Starts Indexing Twitter Updates, Sort Of
As real-time search and Twitter’s growing importance in producing valuable information is getting into the mainstream, Bing is joining the likes of Facebook, Google and...
Twitter Unveils New UI; What This Means for SEO
Yesterday Twitter sneakily unveiled a new user interface for both the “followers” and “following”. While I personally believe that their efforts could have been better...
Digg Rolls Out Revamped Content Duplication Detection Technology
On Tuesday Digg announced that they were finally rolling out some major updates to their duplicate detection technology, and let’s be honest – it’s about...
Michael Jackson Death : TMZ Traffic Surge Numbers
When the news about Michael Jackson’s death broke out, it was TMZ who scooped it beating other news outlets and was quoted as a source...
Bing Gets a Slight Increase in Market Share
Expect more of these kinds of post in the next couple of days as search analysts will be on the lookout for statistics on Bing’s...
Firefox 3.6 in 2010? Namoroka!
With Google Chrome threatening its dominance in the browser arena, Firefox certainly has got many things to consider to prevent Google’s browser from inching in...
Google Launches SMS Mobile App in Africa
Google is extending its services to mobile phone users in Africa via Google SMS. Google SMS is a suite of mobile apps that provide access...
Google Android Version of Firefox Likely to be Developed
Google Android applications are currently written in Java and run off Google’s Dalvik Java virtual machine, however, that will soon change. Last week Google announced...
Google Invites News Publishers to Share Videos on YouTube
Google currently has more than 25,000 news sources that contribute content for Google News, and now they are inviting them to share professional news videos...
The Clash of Web and Traditional Advertising
I don’t usually write columns like this. This one is more philosophical than usual, but I think it’s an important topic for everybody in search...
Scott Polk Joins Search & Social as Director of Operations
I am very happy to announce that Search & Social Media LLC, the parent company of Search Engine Journal, has recently tapped Scott Polk as...
Yahoo Link Sends Record-Breaking Traffic to New York Times Site
And you thought the “Digg Effect” was bad. Behold the Yahoo link effect. A link featured at the top of Yahoo’s front page sent more...
Microsoft Puts Razorfish Ad Agency on the Market
Sometime in 2007, when Microsoft acquired aQuantive, it has also acquired the Digital Ad Agency Razorfish. Now 2 years after the Microsoft acquisition, Razorfish is...
Google AdSense Coming to iPhone, Android Apps
A couple of days ago, Google announced the beta launch of AdSense for Mobile Apps. This is a new facility which iPhone and Android app...
The Internal Battle For SERP Supremacy
In my last article, 8 Key Points to Multiple niche Sites And Controlling Back Links, I cautioned that you need to be careful that a...
Michael Jackson Died in 2007 : According to Google & Wikipedia
According to Google, Michael Jackson did not pass away two days ago. Instead, the search engine is serving a customized result (powered by Wikipedia) stating...
Did Bing Copy Kayak’s Travel Search Portal?
Right after we mentioned in our previous post that one of Bing’s strengths is its travel vertical, here comes an interesting post by Epicenter on...
Michael Jackson Dead : Microsoft Bing FAILS in Coverage, Twitter and Facebook Break News
Has Michael Jackson died or is this another social media and Internet hoax? Social Media is reporting his death. CNN is reporting he’s in a...
Google PageRank Update : June 2009
Google PageRank (the visible toolbar PageRank that is) was updated around the web on the 23rd and 24th of June, changing the visible PageRank scores...
Twitter SEO – The Slow Death of Twitter Hash Tags
Hash tags are a fad. Hash tags were cool for about 10 minutes. But then they started to remind us of IRC, Meta Data, and...
Google Shares Best Practices for Making the Web Faster
Google has just launched Code.Google.com/Speed, a new site for developers containing tutorials, tips and performance tools which can be used to optimize the performance of...
Microsoft Bing Adds Three Former Yahoo & Google Engineers to Team
If you can’t acquire them, just hire them! Microsoft, which made a play to acquire Yahoo via hostile takeover last year, has forged ahead and...
Google Chrome Security Issues Fixed, Update Released
Google updated their Google Chrome browser yesterday with a new release (version 2.0.172.33) which includes a major fix of a critical security flaw in the...
Google Brings Search to Community Service : AllForGood.org
Yesterday Google, in cooperation with a group of tech companies, create a new search service with the specific aim of helping users find community service...
Link Building Worksheets – Organize Your Campaign
I have said numerous times how much I love using Excel to get better organized. And using it for managing your link building campaigns is...