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Google: YouTube Still Isn’t Making Us Money
One of Google’s biggest goals this year was to make YouTube profitable. Well the year is nearly half over, and they’ve still yet to figure...
Google’s Related Search Suggestions Become Fresher
You know that related search suggestions that Google’s search offers up whenever you used Google search? Those suggestions offer up a quick and useful link...
Yahoo-Google Seal Non-Exclusive Search Partnership
As Loren hinted a few hours ago, Google and Yahoo have finally dropped the bomb (which we were all expecting to happen anyway) – a...
Yahoo & Google Big Announcement This Afternoon : Search Partnership?
Yahoo and Google are planning a massive announcement this afternoon on the same day that Yahoo has announced that they are no longer entertaining offers...
Kayak.com Travel Search Adds Display Ads to Targeted Ad Network
Travel search engine Kayak.com has launched a display advertising platform optimized for the travel industry. The new ad platform is based upon technology developed by...
Hakia Semantic Search Adds Pubmed Content to Medical & Health Search Engine
Semantic search engine Hakia has intensified its health and medical search coverage by adding more than 10 million abstracts from PubMed, a medical database maintained...
6 Educated Theories Behind Google SiteLinks
Google Sitelinks will always intrigue and excite webmasters until they know exactly how to get them. Google’s official explanation is rather vague and never explains...
Google Co-Founder Invests in Space Tourism
According to various reports, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has invested in a space tourism company. Furthermore, Brin has expressed interest in going into orbit himself...
Google Trends Touts New Flavor
Google has just updated its “not-so-popular” keyword research tool – Google Trends. For those who may have forgotten about Google Trends, it’s basically a tool...
SEO for WordPress by Joost de Valk
When I think of WordPress blogs and SEO, I generally think of a handful of experts on the subject of WordPress and SEO oriented plugins;...
How to Protect Your Images from Hotlinking
A while ago we published a post discussing how image hotlinking might be beneficial for your site. Naturally we collectively came to the final conclusion...
False Prophecy: Onsite SEO Will Be History
My friend Asif Anwar posted an article over at Marketing Pilgrim titled 13 Prophecies of Internet Marketing recently which gives some of his predictions of...
How Long Can a Google Sandbox Last?
An SEJ Reader send in the following question : What’s a Google Sandbox? How long can it last for a brand new site? Is there...
360 Enterprises Acquires HybridSEM : Joe Whyte is Movin On Up
360 Enterprises Inc, which is the parent company of TextLinkBrokers.com and SponsoredReviews.com, has acquired HybridSEM.com, an SEO and social media firm headed by Joe Whyte,...
Coincidence or Not? Google App Engine Blocks PayPal
The Google App Engine, the search giant’s new platform for building and hosting 3rd party web apps, is blocking applications from integrating with PayPal for...
Silverlight Optimization, Interview with Jonathan Hochman
Jonathan Hochman kicks off the first SEO Expert Series interview from SMX Advanced in Seattle, arguably the place to be for the greatest SEO expert...
Organizing Your Link Lists for Effective Link Building
Sending a (good) link request via email is one of the most powerful ways to build links. My good friend and experienced link builder Melanie...
Yahoo’s Definitive Proxy Statement and the iPhone2
As early as now, the Yahoo Board lead by Roy Bostock and Jerry Yang want to make sure that the current Yahoo Board would be...
3 Tips to Help You Find Your Next SEO Job
A common misconception is that your job search starts once you decide you want to make a career change. In reality, there are simple things...
5 Reasons Why Your Google Traffic Might Have Dropped
I daily browse tens of webmaster forums and one recent tendency I couldn’t help noticing is the astonishing number of threads talking about sudden decrease...
Book Review: ProBlogger
My post with my book reviews in April this year was so well received that I decided to continue with this and write another review....
Why a Lack of Openness Sullies the Integrity of Google’s Ad Auctions
Today I was surprised to check my email and actually find something interesting (I get spammed a lot) that caught my attention with the subject...
Google Under Fire Over Privacy Policy
Earlier this week, consumer groups requested that Google make its privacy policy more visible, making the argument that under California law the company is required...
Yahoo Directory Lost Its PageRank : Penalty or Not?
Yahoo Directory pages have lost their Google PageRank (Google Toolbar PageRank that is) and are now showing a greyed out PageRank box. Example, the Yahoo...
Steve Ballmer Talks Microsoft & Yahoo with WashingtonPost
Steve Ballmer stopped in the WashingtonPost offices for hat seems to be a breakfast sitdown with their editors to discuss Microsoft, Search, the Internet, Media,...
How Much Is a Top Level Domain SEO Worth?
Registering a domain name is the first thing to do when starting a website. And yet even here we come across a very controversial issue:...
SEO & Internal Interlinking: Relative vs Absolute URLs
To some SEO questions there are no definitive answers unfortunately. Using absolute or relative URLs to interlink related site subpages is just such a question....
Yahoo SearchMonkey Gallery Opens to Public
Yahoo Search has finally gotten the monkey off of its back, the SearchMonkey that is, as the Yahoo SearchMonkey Gallery and Yahoo Search Customization has...
Live Search Becomes More Socially Relevant
Microsoft’s Search and Give program was inaugurated last year with the aim of raising funds for local schools and non-profits while at the same time...
Yahoo Snags Ad-Serving Deal with Wal-Mart
Yahoo announced that it has just sealed a multi-year advertising deal with Walmart.com for online ad display and video advertising. The deal would enable Walmart...