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Win a Free Pass to SMX Advanced with Twitter
SMX Advanced is right around the corner and if you are still thinking of attending the intimate search conference and learning everything you can from...
SEJ Blog Competition : John Carcutt and Richard Burckhardt Blog Off!
Yesterday we compiled and reviewed the stats from the Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging Competition and more or less came to a virtual tie between...
IAC’s Citysearch Faces Click Fraud Lawsuit
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by law firm alleged that IAC’s directory site Citysearch has been defrauding its advertising customers by encouraging...
MBA Students Are Dying to Get in at Google
Upon graduation, the dream of many MBA students is to snag a job at Google. Yep, that’s right – Google. For the second year in...
Google Says Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Threatens Freedom
According to Google Inc., a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought against YouTube by Viacom Inc. threatens to drastically alter the way hundreds of millions...
3 Questions to Help You Plan Your Search Marketing Career
I have been recruiting in the search marketing industry for over four years, and I am still intrigued by the individuals that I come across...
Advanced Link: Operator to Explore Your Competitor’s Backlinks
I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks? It educates. The...
Google, the Renewable Energy Utility Company
Google’s direction to fuel the green utility market is quite amazing and opens doors for so much more of a direction in efficiency for the...
Why Doesn’t Google Honor Memorial Day in the US?
Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and other search engines usually make a rather big deal out of modifying their logos for different holidays and happenings. Today is...
Squeeze the Most Juice Out of Your Social Media Profile
A while ago I posted a widely discussed article on indirect promotion on how to grow your site power by building links to pages linking...
Reporting SEO Competition to Google : Conflicting Reports
Well, the issue of whether or not search marketers report their competition to Google if their competitors are practicing gray or blackhat tactics has shed...
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft : SEO Influence of Keywords in Domain Names
SEO Question : Are keywords in URL and domain name important? And how does it differ across various search engines? Although a very basic question,...
Google Search Share for April Up Again, Why are We not Surprised?
Here you go folks, comScore has just released its search engine report for April. As expected, Google toppled its competition again, getting 61.6% of all...
$10,000 Guest Blogging Contest Winner : May 26th
Sorry folks but we’ve had to push back the announcement of the SEJ $10,000 Guest Blogging Contest to May 26th (we had extended the entry...
Microsoft’s Google Search Killer Strategy is a Rewards Program?
I must admit that I almost cringed when I read about Microsoft Live Search’s newest strategy to boost its Live Search standing in the web...
Get a Load of Archived Stories Via Techmeme Search
Everybody’s (tech and non-tech bloggers) favorite tech news aggregator, the almighty Techmeme has just added a search button, and everybody is writing about it. Why?...
ManageQ: Cool Interface to Manage Your Search
After writing about SurfCanyon, I came across another search engine that brings a good focus to improving the user interface to search as well as...
Yahoo Search Marketing Adds Enhancements to Sponsored Search
One thing I love about Yahoo is, as these Microsoft acquiring Yahoo Search discussions heat up, the company is still moving forward to make itself...
Image Hotlinking and SEO : Are There Any Benefits?
An SEJ reader sent us the following SEO Question, which we would like to open for readers to contribute their thoughts. Are there any benefits...
Google Intros Third Party Ad Serving on Content Network
Beginning today, Google content network will now accept display ads served from third-party vendors as per request of AdWords advertisers who are using third parties...
SEO for WordPress 2.5 Blogs : New eBook
Since early in my humble blogging career I have been down on three things; SEO, Google and hyped but useless web services. Down on SEO...
Yahoo Stronger Without Search? Learning From AOL Model
As Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are battling over who will acquire Facebook, who will buy part of Yahoo and who will compete with Google, an...
Google Shares Orkut Information With Indian Government
Be careful what you do on Orkut, Google may not be willing to protect your privacy, depending on where you live. On Monday Google revealed...
Facebook CEO Wants Google Sit Down to Discuss Friend Connect
Last week the popular social networking site Facebook blocked Google’s new service, Friend Connect, due to privacy concerns. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now says that...
What’s Most Effective for Geo Targeting?
We do know that for geo targeting in Google we definitely need: A country code top-level domain (ccTLD); Country specific server location; Setting Geo Targeting...
Microsoft Offers New Yahoo Deal : Buying Search Technology?
Microsoft today issued a new statement which says that the company is opening up talks again with Yahoo, but not to acquire the entire company...
Microsoft Wants to Snag the Google-Yahoo Advertising Deal?
While Yahoo is facing a proxy battle against Icahn, here comes Microsoft trying to save the day for Yahoo. It issued a rather vague statement...
Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect, Google Responds
Facebook has banned the usage of Google Friend Connect within the Facebook social networking platform, a move which according to Facebook, is because of privacy...
Yahoo responds to Icahn’s Letter
There you have it, Yahoo Board’s Chairman Roy Bostock responding to Icahn’s letter to the Yahoo board nominating 10 members of the Icahn’s proposed Yahoo...
Yahoo’s Monkey Opens Up, I Mean SearchMonkey
Three weeks after announcing SearchMonkey and opening it up for a limited preview, Yahoo has finally made the Yahoo search results development platform open to...