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Happy 3rd Birthday Twitter : Where Was I Without You?
It seems like only months ago that I first experienced the buzz about Twitter, a microblogging application which I had heard a lot about, but...
Craigslist More Popular Than MySpace : Sign of Economy Says Hitwise
Hitwise is running a report on the top search term in the United States for the week ending March 14, 2009, and interestingly the data...
Chitika SearchAppalooza Announces Finalists for the SES NY “Kick-Ass Search Apps Contest”
Chitika’s SearchAppalooza, being held at SES NY next week, is a power-packed, 1 hour face-off featuring some of the biggest movers and shakers in search,...
Honest Seduction : Post Click Marketing Book Review
I have been recently sent a book by three prominent bloggers and marketers: Anna Talerico, Justin Talerico and Scott Brinker, founders of IONinteractive. The book...
Get Your Search Engine Journal Laptop Sticker at SESNY
Are you going to SES New York next week? If so, be sure to look me up. The Search Engine Journal team will be giving...
Only 2 Weeks until IM Spring Break
Today marks the 2 week countdown until IM Spring Break, the search marketing mini-con in South Florida which will feature some of the brightest and...
How to Search for a Term Misspellings on eBay
We have discussed recently the benefits of using misspellings in PPC or organic search optimization campaigns. Much earlier before that I’ve also looked at a...
Yahoo Handing Out Free Directory Renewals?
Seems that some publishers who have paid to have their sites listed in the Yahoo Directory (which is an essential part of a core link...
Google AdWords Conversion Tracking 101/201/301
Ok class, today we’re moving into graduate level conversion tracking. But we’ll start with 101. First off, the number of people using AdWords without conversion...
Are In-Text Home Page Links User-UNfriendly?
We know from experience and based on common sense that links organically integrated in context and containing keywords work much better (in terms of transferring...
Flash & Search Engines : Indexed in a Flash
When it comes to SEO, Flash can be a polarizing topic. Whenever I’m speaking with clients about their SEO initiatives (along with their creative and...
EyePlorer : a New Approach to Semantic Search
EyePlorer developed by German company Vionto.com visualizes knowledge graphs (k-graphs) derived from Wikipedia content that can be interactively explored. The knowledge graph consists of eyespots...
Adobe Launches SEO Technology Center for RIAs
Sometime last year, we reported that Adobe has cooperated with both Google and Yahoo to make Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and active web contents searchable...
Yahoo Rolls Out New Ad Targeting Features
Yahoo’s search marketing arm is spicing up their service with the roll out of three new ad targeting features with the hopes giving its partner...
How to Link Bait with a Quiz
It is funny, some types of entertainment content seem to never stop working. I have already mentioned previously, that lists still work no matter how...
Hey SEO Community, Adapt or Die! Google Branding Update
It’s time to reconsider a lot of what we do. In the wake of Vince, the recent Google update that rewards big brands with better...
Microsoft Closes Down adCenter Analytics
Microsoft adCenter announced yesterday that they have closed down their adCenter Analytics program which featured web based analytics for adCenter advertisers and other web publishers....
Facebook Vanity URLs : Good for Facebook & SEO
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has a post today about Facebook’s limited rollout of vanity URLs; URLs which have a brand name or keyword at the end....
Google AdWords Content Network: How To Get Great ROI With A New Strategy From Google
Historically, Google AdWords’ Content Network has gotten a bad rap. And for good reason. Advertisers usually see much lower ROI results from it than from...
Google Launches Google Friend Connect API
Developers and publishers looking to implement Google Friend Connect more deeply into your web site or social media experience? Google has just launched an API...
AOL Names Google Exec Armstrong as CEO & Chairman
Can Google’s Senior Vice President and chief of ad sales turn AOL around and into the mega powerhouse that Time Warner has always dreamed the...
How To Make Enemies And Dissuade Leads With Broken Tracking
If you’re a PPC agency, you do not want to be making this mistake. It can really tick off clients. 1. Let your tracking/redirect subdomain...
Google Checkout Changing Processing Fee Structure
Google is changing the fee structure at Google Checkout from a uniform 2.0% + $0.20 per transaction rate to a new tiered rate service which...
GrandCentral to Become Google’s Voice
By now, you’ve probably read about today’s biggest news – Google Voice, or what was previously known as GrandCentral which was acquired by Google in...
Privacy Groups Call Google’s Interest-Based Ads a Disaster
It didn’t take two online privacy groups that long to attack Google’s recent announced interest-based advertising. Electronic Privacy Information and Center for Digital Democracy have...
Google Launches Interest-Based Ads
Aiming to serve more relevant and useful ads to users, Google is testing out “interest-based” ads. This new ad serving technique will be initially tested...
GMail Getting More Traffic Than YouTube
Hitwise has released a report showing that over the past 2 weeks online traffic to Gogole Gmail has surpassed the numbers which visit another popular...
Microsoft Still Open to Talks with Yahoo
Just when we all thought that the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal has already been put to rest, here comes Microsoft still hoping that previously failed talks...
How to Design and Organize Global Navigation Menus
Last week I started discussing huge navigation menus by asking what is a better way to order the navigation categories: alphabetically or by popularity. Today...
Google AdSense Featuring Adwords Product Plusbox Shopping Feeds
We’ve seen the shopping feeds popping up in the past in Google Search Results and in the AdWords program ever since 2007 and Barry recently...