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Open Letter to Google : Why Have You Taken Away my Google & GMail Accounts?
UPDATE : Since writing this and contacting some Googlers, my Google account was unblocked at 2 am last night, EST. Thank you Google for the...
How to Find SEO Competitor Keywords, Social Media & Backlinks
In the past I did quite a few posts on competitive research: How to evaluate your keyword competition; Tools for spying on competitors search marketing...
Google Profiles Now Indexable in Search Engines
Call them Google versions of business cards, Geocities 2.0 or call them what you will, I consider Google Profiles to be the building block to...
Google Says: We’re Ok and We’re Definitely Fine
Amidst the ongoing economic and financial turmoil and beating industry analysts’ predictions and forecasts, “miraculously” Google still managed to pose some considerable growth as reported...
Google UK Opens AdWords to Gambling Ads
After Yahoo UK opened itself up to UK licensed gambling ads about a month ago, and MSN UK doing the same, Google UK has felt...
How Define: Operator Works and How To Get Included in Google Definitions
Google define:keyword (no space) advanced operator is a very handy (yet not very widely used) way to quickly find the word meaning. However the algorithm...
Google Webmaster Tools’ Crawl Error Feature Becomes More Useful
Recently, Google Webmaster Tools has introduced its Crawl Error feature which provides details about the site URLS which Google tried to crawl but could not...
Google Loses Copyright Battle Against German Image Owner
This case may just be one of the many copyright lawsuits filed against Google, but its implications maybe too big in the long run for...
Link Building for E-Commerce Site : It’s Not All About Paid Links
Last week e-Commerce link building was discussed at WebmasterWorld Forums (also reviewed by SEroundtable). Why is it actually more difficult to build links to an...
Google News Testing New Vertical Format
Google News is testing a new vertical format which seems to be reminiscent of Yahoo One Search and more of a mobile device driven format...
Here They Go Again, Yahoo Investors Ask Microsoft for $22 a Share
Just when you thought this buyout deal between Yahoo and Microsoft was over, here comes some small group of Yahoo investors making some noise again. ...
How Google Might Differentiate Between Trust and Authority
A very insightful thread at WebmasterWorld discusses how Google might distinguish trust and authority notions and how they might influence the algorithm. In a very...
Hakia Serves Credible Results in New Search Interface
Recently Hakia extended a call to librarians and information professionals to help them in their quest to bring credible search results to the web on...
Google Rolls Out Adsense for Games, Long Live Gamers!
Blame it on comScore for publishing that 25% of Internet users play online games every week, totalling to over 200 million users worldwide. This may...
Facebook Integrates and Endorses Microsoft Live Search, Officially
Although this partnership has been announced as early as July this year, it is only now that Facebook is officially introducing or in a more...
How To Diagnose Your Site with Google Advanced Search
While John Mueller did a great job explaining how to analyze your website with Google Webmaster Tools, I thought I could outline a few tips...
7 Myths and Educated Theories Behind Sitewide Links
Like with many other burning SEO questions, there is no definitive answer as to whether sitewide links are good or bad. If we for just...
Can AOL Rescue Yahoo or Is It the Other Way Around?
Merger talks between Yahoo and Time Warner’s AOL have been around even during the failed Microsoft – Yahoo saga. But it is only now that...
Google, Techmeme & Megite : Comparing 3 Popular Meme Trackers
With all the buzz around recent Google Blogsearch relaunch, I thought that would a good idea to look at most popular blog meme trackers available...
Ask.com Parses More Data, Gives Answers in Search Results
Ask.com is making its presence felt in the search engine market by introducing two new features of its search engine recently. News.com is reporting that...
SMX Nanjing
Last year I attended SES Xiamen and reading back the articles I wrote back then they still stand for a big part, especially the one...
Google, Yahoo Search Ad Deal Delayed
In a couple of weeks, the heavily-criticized search ad partnership between Google and Yahoo are supposed to materialize. But perhaps not wanting to face further...
Social Media Management: The Role of an Agency or Service Provider
If you work for an online marketing agency the following scenario is probably not uncommon. A client comes to you wanting to help shape the...
Stale vs Fresh Document as Defined by Google
Google highly values the “freshness” of the content. But how does Google defines it against the “staleness” of the content? Google’s Historical Data Patent reviewed...
Google Blog Search Relaunched
Google has relaunched its blog aggregation service, the not-so-popular-as-Techmeme Google Blog Search. Actually, it was just a minor upgrade, with the new home page now...
40,000 Reasons the IM Charity Party at SES San Jose Was a Success
Not only was IM Charity Party the best party at SES San Jose, but thanks to amazing sponsors like ACS SEO, We Build Pages, BOTW,...
Defining SEO Information Environments Through RSS
I have been pretty obsessed with the topic of Information Environments as of late. From their structure, to the way that we let them interact...
Microsoft Offers Up SearchPerks Incentive Program
Once again, Microsoft is enticing users to do their searches on Live Search via a new rewards program called SearchPerks. This search-rewards program adds up...
Legislators Urge US DOJ not to Interfere with Google-Yahoo Search Ad Deal
The Google-Yahoo search deal got a new ally from eleven California legislators who are urging the US regulators not to stop the deal from being...
Hosting a Contest for Link Building and Buzz
Most of link building / linkbaiting techniques are used so often that they lost their effectiveness long ago. Unfortunately, hosting a contest is one such...