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How to Land an SEO Dream Job Via LinkedIn
As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what...
Building Links for Geo Targeting
Incoming links are considered to be a major factor that forms Google’s opinion about your site. Naturally, country specific links are also very important to...
Best of the Web Launches BOTW Local Beta
Having worked tirelessly for the past two years, Best of the Web (BOTW) announced the launch of BOTW Local Beta on June 18th. While still...
70+ Most Useful Mashable Posts for Search Marketers and Developers
Today I have collected links of 70+ very useful posts from Mashable. These Mashable posts cover lists of various tools for Web Designing, Web Development,...
Google Has the Best Reputation Amongst American Consumers
Google has topped the Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient which asks US consumers to first identify the 60 most visible companies and then to rank these...
Link Building Steps : Clean Up Your Own Backyard
In preparation for a presentation this week on the importance of link building and steps to an efficient and effective link building strategy, I am...
Would the AP be better off owned by Google or another web company?
The newspaper business is slowly fading away and out of relevancy. By the time a story gets printed, it’s already broken in the online world. ...
Lawmakers Express Concern Over Yahoo-Google Deal
Following months of fending off a Microsoft takeover, Yahoo announced last week that they had entered into a non-exclusive advertising agreement with Google. Much in...
Google News is Cooking Up Something, it Better Be Good
The Google News Blog is reporting that something new is about to come up with Google News. The Google News Team is testing something and...
Yahoo Loses Top Social Media Brains : The Day the Music Died
Another critical piece of the Yahoo machine has left the garage, as Joshua Schachter, who Yahoo brought in when they acquired Del.icio.us back in 2005,...
Internal Architecture SEO : Navigation Menu Versus In-Content Links
The SEO power of in-content (or “Wikipedia-style”) links may be up for debate but from theory, practice, and experience webmasters know that a link in...
Microsoft Wants in on TV Ads, Snaps Up Navic Networks
Microsoft isn’t keen to be left behind in the yet to be fully explored area of targeted TV advertising. Google has been looking into this,...
Yahoo Adds New Email Domains : YMail.com & Rocketmail.com
In an effort to boost its webmail usage or delay the exodus of free mail users from Yahoo to Google GMail, Yahoo has introduced the...
High Oil & Gas Prices Could Boost Internet Says Google
Putting a very thin silver lining on the dark cloud of petroleum dependency, Google’s Vint Cerf (who is commonly referred to as the father of...
Hakia Launches Syndication Web Services : Semantic Search for Third Party Publishers
hakia, the semantic search engine, has launched its Syndication Web Services for publsihers and businesses looking to offer semantic search to their visitors. hakia’s Syndication...
Slow Loading Adwords’ Landing Page = Low Keywords Score
Google Adwords publisher who wants to have a low minimum CPC bids on their ads need to do something with the landing pages of their...
Local.com Adds Business Reviews and Ratings
A long time aggregator of information provided by third parties, the perfectly named local search engine; Local.com, has launched their own proprietary local consumer ratings...
The Art of Google PageRank Sculpting & Five Sculpting Tips
Michael Gray delivered an excellent presentation as part of the Bot Herding panel at SMX Advanced 2008. His discussion focused on the topic of PageRank...
Don’t Overlook the Power of Keywords in the Singular Form
Back in March Hitwise published its UK search report on differences between plural and singular keyword forms echoed by multiple bloggers enthusiastically encouraging webmasters to...
Flickr Co-Founders Say Goodbye to Yahoo
If you’re the top honcho of one of the major internet player, and it happens to be your first year anniversary on the job –...
SEO Case Studies : Dealing With Multi-Language Countries Targeting
An often discussed lately geo targeting and IP delivery poses another rather interesting question: how to deal with multi-language countries like Canada or Switzerland? IP...
CareerJet : Comprehensive Job Search Engine
Careerjet, a job search engine celebrating its 8th birthday has many great accomplishments to its credit. First, the engine supports 56 country specific sites in...
Microsoft Plans to Establish a Europen Search Tech Center (STC)
Microsoft has announced that it might open a Search Technology Center (STC) in Europe next year. The STC will be created to hasten Microsoft’s investment...
Google StreetView Invaded My Private Property!
A couple of weeks ago Search Engine Journal covered the controversy behind Google StreetView and their Google Armada trespassing on private property and filming homes...
Sue Decker Underscores Yahoo’s Strategy as She Explains EVP Weiner’s Departure
In what could be another blow in Yahoo’s fate, Yahoo EVP Jeff Weiner expectedly bolted out from the Yahoo camp due to personal reasons as...
Yahoo & Google Partnership Includes Instant Messenger : Possible Social Networking?
“In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.” This sentence was...
Indeed Job Search Launching Job Analytics for Employers
The verticalization of search has made its way into the analytics market, as Indeed.com, the search engine for jobs, has announced the launching of Indeed...
Icahn says Yahoo-Google Deal Better than Microsoft’s Buy Out Deal
A few days after the Yahoo-Google deal was finalized, Bilionnaire Carl Icahn commented a rather unexpected remark especially coming from somebody who was opposing Yahoo’s...
I Love Search Engine Journal! Send Your Photos
Do you love Search Engine Journal? One of our lovely and loyal readers, a staff member of Dr. Michael Dorausch (who we sent to SMX...
BlackHat SEO: Is it really pure evil?
BlackHat SEO has a reputation, and it’s usually not a good one. Those who practice so-called “blackhat” SEO techniques are often branded as social outcasts,...