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Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles to Brazillian Authorities
On Wednesday, Google turned over approximately 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission charged with looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted...
SEJ Guest Blogging : Review the Guest Marketing Posts
I’m sure that readers have noticed a good amount of new names and faces popping up in their Google Reader and RSS aggregators. Search Engine...
Viral Marketing : the Real Deal, or Just a Pipedream?
Individuals new to online marketing are constantly asking me the same question. What are the best low risk, high reward, homerun style marketing techniques? The...
To Slash or Not to Slash. That’s A Server Header Question.
Uh, not that kind of slashing! Let’s say you are setting up your keyword rich links to point to a subdirectory. Should the link point...
Q&A With Nathan Enns, CEO at FyberSearch
Nathan Enns started working on FyberSearch at the age of 19. Having developed the engine from scratch, Nathan has been following the search space for...
Google Rolls Out Mobile Image Ads
Google just launched mobile image ads which works like your typical Google image ads but small enough to fit on a mobile phone’s screen. The...
Google Enters Utility Business : Invests in Solar Power Plant Technology
Google made a rather impressive green investment this week, putting $130 million into eSolar, a solar energy company which specializes in developing a solar to...
Are you #1 in Google? It Doesn’t Matter
That’s right folks, you heard it right. Gone is the day where all that mattered was if you’re web page listing was on the first...
Linking Out Loud… but with Caution
A while ago I posted a natural SEO piece talking about reciprocal linking and interlinking that was criticized for giving insufficient information on linking out...
MSN Live Search Rolls Out Some New Features
MSN Live Search has been rolling out some new features lately. The latest of which being on its Live Search Products which is now sporting...
Yahoo Earnings : Q1 Increases Beat Market Expectations
Yahoo announced today that their Q1 2008 Earnings and Revenues have increased over Q4 of last year, beating Wall Street expectations and putting a new...
Google Sued for Fraudalent Ads Charging?
A federal class action lawsuit is being filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Carolina in San Jose, against...
SEOmoz Launches SEO Video Training Series
SEO training has not gone the way of the late night infomercial (yet!), but SEOmoz is offering the next best thing; a downloadable series of...
Compare Gas Prices Online With Search Engines
Filling up your car has escalated as gas prices are reaching the $3.50 a gallon average across the United States with little sign of gas...
EU Report Encourages Search Engines to Erase Personal Data After Six Months
Last week, a European Union privacy panel issued a report urging search engine providers such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN to delete data taken from...
Google Wants to Index Genetic Information, Invests in Second DNA Start-Up
In 2007, Google made headlines when they invested $4.4 million in 23andMe, a genetic screening start-up company began by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google...
Google World’s No.1 Brand, Again
I guess reading a news item saying that Google is the world’s no. 1 is not surprising anymore. So next question to ask, is how...
14 Things You Didn’t Know About Real SEOs
I have been thinking about this for a while. There are so many new SEOs getting into the game and unfortunately many of them are...
Why Bother with an SEO Company?
As a matter of fact why bother with SEO in general, let alone a company that claims to specialize in providing search engine optimization services?...
Google Likes Working With Yahoo
Two major search engine companies that also offer a variety of competing services: can they be friendly and work side-by-side? In the case of Yahoo...
Google to Everyone – We’re Still Ok and We’re Still Earning a lot
“Our ongoing innovation in search, ads, and apps helped drive healthy growth globally across our product lines, yielding another strong quarter for Google. As we...
Google Applies Copyright-ID Technology to Fight Child Porn Online
Google has been working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s program for just about a year to help the agency revolutionize the...
Pizza.com & Money.co.uk Sell For Combined $5 Million : Now Niche Content Portals
Is Domain Parking and running AdWords on domains being replaced by building out lead generation and content driven services? It looks like a mix of...
Google AdWords and ASCII Art : 50% Increase in Click Thrus
When planning and implementing a Google AdWords campaign, copywriting is a key factor to establishing a high quality score, relevance and click thru. Not only...
Alexa Introduces New Ranking System : Beyond the Toolbar
Now being in the Alexa top 100,000 actually means something! For more or less 8 years (well 10 for one of them) there have been...
Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer Graduate from Beta
Google Website Optimizer and Google Analytics (or Urchin) have both dropped the Beta label as both offerings from Google have graduated their initial ‘testing’ phases...
Yahoo successfully tested Google ads on search results
It looks like Yahoo is all set to outsource its web search advertising to Google as announced last week. Citing Wall Street Journal, Reuters is...
$10,000 SEJ Guest Blog Competition : Extended Deadline
We have received loads of excellent search marketing related articles for our Search Engine Journal Guest Blog Post Competition with over $10,000 in prizes. The...
Yahoo Makes IndexTools Analytics Free .. For Some
Last week Yahoo announced that it was buying IndexTools, the web analytics company, to add a stronger analytics platform to the Yahoo Marketing and Yahoo...
Mark Cramer, CEO of SurfCanyon on Search & Importance of User Feedback
Search Canyon deploys technology that helps disambiguate search queries, essentially assisting the user to dig deeper into results, suggesting links that makes a better match...