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Live Search Adds Traffic Updates to 411 Service
Live Search in partnership with traffic provider INRIX has added live traffic reporting updates to Live Search 411. If you will recall, Live Search 411...
Low Hanging Fruit and PPC Keyword Opportunities
We could call it Target Market Proximity, ROI Proximity, or Persuasive Distance. How closely your offering fits the search query comes heavily into play in...
Google Launches Digg Style Social Voting Service : What’s Popular
If you can’t beat them (or don’t feel like putting out the cash to acquire them), then join them! Google has implemented a new Digg...
How Google Treats Punctuation
Using punctuation in Google search results is the reason for constant misunderstanding and rumors. Meaningful punctuation, like the “#” in C#, hyphens and apostrophes can...
“Pushed” SEO Case Studies – Does “Old-School” SEO Still Work?
Google gets smarter and less easy to trick,… or does it only seem to? We’ve seen so many discussions that black-hat SEO is dying and...
Yes, You’re An Attack Site That Contains Malware, Now Here’s What To Do About It
It’s undeniable how powerful search traffic can be from Google. In addition, search marketers understand how important a specific listing can be in the SERPs....
Is Backlink Age an Important SEO Factor?
Apart from well-known characteristics of backlinks like relevancy, diversity, acquisition rate, etc, are there any other that might be considered as well? Some people wonder...
Find Local Blogs and Discussions to Build Links and Connections
Going local is one of the most effective ways to build links and connections. I have already looked at a few ways to search for...
Yahoo Q1 Earnings Report, Not Looking Better
After Google reported on its financial conditions recently, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to report how bad the company is doing in terms of its finances....
50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
A shortcut in general is defined as “a route shorter than the usual one.” I find this definition the best one because it can be...
Think-Tanks & Team Building In The PPC & Full Service Interactive Agency
One of the benefits of an active interactive agency department with multiple PPC experts is that multiple people bring new insights to the table. Both...
Google Maps Adds Over 9000 Webcams
Google Maps has added a ‘layer’ of over 9000 Webcams so users can get live footage of different areas where they may be driving, working...
Demystifying Google Quality Score & the Click Thru Rate Factor
I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about Quality Score (for search networks) lately. I usually don’t think much about quality score (QS) and over...
KIDO’Z Operating System for Kids : A No Kidding Business Proposition
If for the sake of argument, anyone could present you with a perfect model for targeted development and marketing, would you follow it or argue...
Google Reports Q1 9% Profit Increase But 3% Revenue Decrease
Google has just presented the company’s Q1 earnings and finally the report showed that Google is not immune to the crisis after all. Google’s revenue...
Over-Used Marketing Tactics May Still Work Like a Charm
I find it amazing how some tactics just never stop working. It seems literally everyone is using them and everyone says they are sick and...
Google Q1 Earnings : Expanding Google AdWords Network will Save GOOG
Here we are ladies and gentlemen, the day of reckoning, not only for Google, which is releasing its Q1 earnings report today, but also for...
Google Maps More Popular Than MapQuest
Google showed us a long time ago that it can dominate in search, but it’s taken a while for it to copy that dominance in...
Identify Your Search Marketing Niche
The realm of search marketing has grown by leaps and bounds in the past several years. Along with it, search marketers have relied on blogs,...
Google Finance Now Running Google Display Ads
Google’s expansion of running AdSense style display ads across its own network has seen new ads within Google News, Google Image Search and other Google...
eBay to IPO Skype in 2010
Fresh from losing StumbleUpon after its SU founders bought back the social bookmarking site from eBay, it seems like eBay doesn’t want the same incident...
Yahoo May Layoff Some More Employees
The exodus of some more Yahoo employees might continue as Yahoo is said to be planning on announcing another round of layoffs during its first...
Google Selectively Ignoring Meta Description Tags?
I’ve been doing some SEO Consulting with Safeguard Financial, a company specializing in Self Directed IRA’s. As I was chatting with them today, they pointed...
How to Do Keyword Research for an Established Site
I’ve published my thoughts on keyword research for new sites numerous times; but this is the first time that I’ve decided to share my way...
Microsoft Yahoo Meetings Signal Start of Intelligent Acquisition or Merger
Microsoft and Yahoo may be in talks again on some sort of advertising partnership, or babysteps to an inevitable acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, as...
Google Search Continues to Grow as AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Regroup
New statistics from Nielsen Online point out that Google’s dominance of the search market is not going away anytime soon, as Google Search Engine usages...
Digg Launches New Digg Search Engine
Today Digg released a new version of their internal Digg search functionality which according to social media guru Brent Csutoras is “is a real improvement.”...
Yahoo Integrates Delicious into BOSS Development Suite
Yahoo getting serious about its Yahoo Search BOSS suite of development tools and has added Delicious to the mix, letting BOSS developers mix Delicious tags,...
Personal Branding: Me 2.0 Book Review
I have already reviewed one book previously, and thought that might be a good idea to share a new book with SEJ readers from time...
Google and Microsoft Fighting Over Twitter
Twitter is growing exponentially the past couple of months in terms of site traffic, usage and membership. Because of this the number of Tweets posted...