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NewsDay.com Penalized for Selling Crap Links
If you’re going to openly sell crap links on the footer of your site to Mesothelioma Lawyers, Ticket Scalpers, Personal Injury Law Firms and other...
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Speaks on Icahn, Microsoft & Shareholders
“And then what will shareholders be left with? A weakened, Icahn-controlled Yahoo.” These were the last few words that Yahoo’s Jerry Yang said during his...
The SEO Adrenaline Junkie, Interview with Todd Malicoat
The SEO Expert Series continues with Todd Malicoat, perhaps best known to the SEO community as Stuntdubl. When the opportunity arose to discuss one advanced...
Explore Your Competitors’ Backlinks Beyond Yahoo Site Explorer
I have previously covered numerous ways to explore your competitors’ backlinks via various web-based and desktop tools and even with the help of FireFox Extensions....
Yahoo Wants You To Build your Own Search Service (BOSS)
It’s bold, it’s radical, it’s drastic and yet it can just be Google Custom Search Engine in a Yahoo environment. Yahoo has just launched the...
Icahn to Yahoo Shareholders: Time for Change, Replace Yang and Board
Mr. Icahn sure knows how to start the business week with a bang. Just when Jerry Yang was busy negotiating with Time Warner for a...
Google Adds Privacy Link to Home Page
Finally, Google has added a “privacy” link to its home page which directs users to Google’s Privacy Center which contains a link to Google’s Privacy...
Trickle Down Link-O-Nomics : Reaching the Messenger
Link building is a dynamic art form, which is constantly redefining itself and coming up with new techniques which may be more efficient, and more...
Yahoo Seeks New Merger Deal with AOL : Hopes to Avoid Microsoft
Now, that it’s barely a month to go before the Yahoo Shareholders meeting on August 1 when the fate of the current Yahoo board is...
Reciprocal Linking : SEO’s Longstanding Contradiction
Reciprocal linking is one of the most disputable SEO questions. The problem is that it is two-fold in nature. First, reciprocal links are natural being...
What’s Better : Long Copy Versus Several Related Short Copies?
Many webmasters come across one common dilemma: is it worth focusing efforts on one huge brilliant copy or is it wiser to split it into...
Hitwise Data Suggests that other Yahoo Properties are More Valuable than Search
Hitwise Intelligence’s VP for Research, Heather Hopkins made an interesting analysis of Yahoo! online properties based on some Hitwise data. Hopkins noted that of the...
Court Orders YouTube to Hand Over Complete User Logs to Viacom
Viacom, if you recall, filed a $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube not too long ago. As part of the lawsuit, a court as now ordered...
Build Your Reputation, Traffic & Links via Social Media Q&A Sites
Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social...
Microsoft Acquires Powerset Semantic Search Technology
The power of excellent public relations and positioning a company as an alternative to the technological norm has paid off for Powerset, the semantics oriented...
Google and Yahoo to Make Flash Content Searchable
Both Google and Yahoo in coordination with Adobe is finally making it easier for webmasters to make Flash contents on their site searchable by search...
Google Retires the Adsense Referrals Program, to Make Way for GAN
Expectedly, now that Google has relaunched DoubleClick’s Performics ad affiliate network as the new Google Affiliate Network, there’s no point in maintaining the Adsense Referrals...
Google Launches Google Affiliate Network
When Google acquired DoubleClick, the company has brought with it its affiliate ad network program called Performics. But Google never did something to push Performics...
From Microsoft to Google, and Back Again : Insider Perspective
A Microsoft Engineer leaves Microsoft to work at Google, and then decides to head back to Microsoft after spending time in the Google development system....
LinkedIn Launches DirectAds : Targeted Advertising
LinkedIn is putting together a smarter way to monetize itself with the launch of LinkedIn DirectAds (currently under limited testing), which lets advertisers target ads...
SEO Effectiveness: Spend Your Time Wisely
SEOs keep discussing the effectiveness of old traditional techniques like reciprocal links and directory submission. Naturally, they cannot so easily be forgiven because they remain...
Google Now Distributing Online Video Content : Starts with Seth MacFarlane Series
Remember Adsense for Videos which debuted not so long ago? We haven’t heard too much about this new form of placing Google paid ads since...
Billionaire Icahn Becomes a Good Blogger, He Knows the Importance of an RSS
Billionaire turned blogger Carl Icahn explains why he has not posted anything about his proxy battle against Yahoo in his newly established personal blog. At...
Rumor: Microsoft to Acquire Semantic Search Engine Powerset
Whether this is true or just plain rumor, we’ll let you decide. Venture Beat is reporting a scoop on a possible Microsoft acquisition deal of...
Google and Others Supports Online Health Record Privacy Framework
If you’ve been hesitating to entrust your personal health records to online health providers and insurers, perhaps the newly launched Common Framework for Networked Personal...
Yahoo Mail Suffered from XSS Vulnerability, but no one was affected
If not for Cenzic’s CIA [Cenzic Intelligent Analysis] Research Lab which notified Yahoo on May 23 that Yahoo Mail is facing serious risk from online...
Yahoo to Shareholders: Yes to Google and the Board, No to Microsoft and Icahn,
Yahoo! (represented by Board Chairmen Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang) has sent a letter to their Shareholders, to finally clear things on what’s has...
John Carcutt Wins $10,000 SEJ Contest : Donates Prize to Orphanage
The results of the $10,000 Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging competition are finally in after the great SEJ Blog Off between John Carcutt and Richard...
Twellow.com : Directory of Twitter Users
Twellow is a new Twitter Directory which has been launched by the folks at iEntry/WebProNews and looks like it will be quite a piece of...
Google Sued for $1 Billion in Software Stealing Dispute
Google is the target of a one billion dollar lawsuit by LimitNone, a software company which claims Google has taken trade secrets from the company...