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Find Customers and Backlinks by Adding Your Site to Coupon Directories
If you run an eCommerce site, submitting it to coupon code directories is a wise promotional method you might want to consider. You will benefit...
Yahoo Paid Search Submit Experiencing Problems After Update
A collegue and Search Engine Journal reader emailed me over the weekend, to let me know that the Yahoo Paid Inclusion (Yahoo Search Submit) feed...
Stockholders Re-elect All of Yahoo!’s Nominees to the Board of Directors
So, there you go, amidst some tongue-lashing and verbal beating more particulary thrown at Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s nominees to the Board of Directors, all of...
Delicious.com Relaunches : Enhanced Speed, Search & Design with No Dots
Yahoo is launching the new version of Delicious.com (del.icio.us) today and with or without the dots, the company seems to be moving on with its...
Google & Yahoo Spent $1.36 Million in Lobbying Last Quarter
Google and Yahoo spent a combined $1.36 Million last quarter in lobbying according to the Associated Press, with Yahoo spending $630,000 and Google topping off...
Windows Live Search Gets an Interactive Interface, Sort of
If you think the Live Search Cashback was a silly program to promote its search engine, Microsoft might be doing unusual again with the redesign...
YouTube Gets a $799 Million Lawsuit
It’s been awhile since we last heard of a media company banging on YouTube’s doors for some copyright infringement violations. For the past couple of...
Ways to Find Out if Your Site Has Been Hacked or Hijacked
More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor...
Google UK Extending Financial Services Comparison Trial : Death to UK Quotes Sites?
Comparing quotes from financial services is a big market in the UK, as sites which deliver quotes from unsecured loan, car insurance and even pet...
Another Shareholder Picks on Yahoo over Failed Microsoft Deal
Adding to the list of Yahoo shareholders who are “furious” about the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal is billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens who has to sell...
3 Ways to Give Your Keywords Prominence
While I’ve never been advocative of focusing on such an old and overused SEO technique as keyword density, keyword prominence is something you should always...
Cuil Takes on Google and 5 Simple Reasons Why it Will Fail
Here comes another challenger who wants to take on Google search and the way it indexes and organizes the web. From some ex-Googlers come, Cuil...
China Has 253 Million Users – Largest in the World
China has now 253 million internet users according to the latest report of the China Internet Network Information Centre (The CNNIC is a government agency)....
Google Buries Digg Buy-Out Deal
A few days ago rumors abound that Google is close to acquiring Digg for a whooping sum of $200 million. This even prompted Loren to...
Yahoo Highlights Breaking News on SERPs
Yahoo has introduced a minor change in the way it treats its search engine results page. This change has something to do with queries relating...
Microsoft Moves On, Signs New Search and Ad Deal with Facebook
For now, Microsoft may have gave up on acquiring Yahoo and lost its only hope of catching up with Google in the search and online...
Google Maps’ Latest Addition: Walking Directions
Google Maps is a great tool for finding driving directions, as well as for getting a general overview of an area. Now they’ve added another...
How to Combat Complaints Sites in Google : Open Discussion
Combatting complaints sites in Google results has become an ongoing issue for many companies, as consumer complaints from years ago can appear on the front...
Green Google Invests in Environmentally Friendly Plug-in Cars
Google has invested an undisclosed sum in two U.S. companies developing technologies for plug-in electric vehicles. The investment is a part of the company’s “RechargeIT”...
Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson – Casualty of the Failed Yahoo Deal?
As Microsoft announced a major reorganization, more particularly the splitting up of its Platforms and Services Division (PSD) into the Windows/Windows Live and Online Services,...
Source Ordered Content: SEO Benefits (and Drawbacks?)
Sometimes it’s very useful to return to basics and refine good old SEO techniques you might forget. SOC (“source ordered content” or “front-loading”) is one...
Google Decides to Make its Knol Site a Moderated Wikipedia
After seven months since it was announced, Google finally opens its Wikipedia-like web product KNOL to the public. I could understand why it took Google...
AOL Integrates Goowy Into Platform-A Widget Ads
AOLs Platform-A is now offering Goowy’s widget creation and management services as part of its widget distribution offering for advertisers. AOL purchased Goowy back in...
On-Site Geo-Targeting and Local Search Optimization
Previously, I have already touched upon tools that help in geo-targeting and compared their effectiveness. All of them are beyond your on-site optimization efforts: Setting...
Google Buying Digg for $200 Million.. Why?
Rumors are spreading all over the blogosphere that Google and Digg are talking acquisition again as Google will be buying Digg for $200 million and...
What’s the Real Benefit from Google Sitelinks?
In my previous post on the topic I summarized the theories behind Google Sitelinks. Now I would like to look into and also to ask...
Google Penalties and Building Trust : Ongoing SEO Task?
Google has been known to issue out all kinds of penalties over the years; even Search Engine Journal was penalized a while back (or our...
FireFox for SEOs: Working with Several FireFox Profiles
I do prefer FireFox over other browsers. This can be a matter of a habit but I don’t know any other browser that can be...
How Net Promoter Score (NPS) Can Differentiate Your Search Marketing Agency
Last month I attended a SEMPO New York networking event that featured an “In-House versus Agency” debate, in which the debaters argued the benefits of...
Tracking your Backlinks with Free Internal Analytics Tools
After my recent huge post on SEO tools was published, I promised to add the section for free online internal analytics services; but before that...