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Google to Launch Ad Manager Service
Google is launching a new service that aims to help web publishers, specifically those with small-to-medium size sales force, manage their direct ads serving. Ad...
Yo! SEO Raps! Mo Serious Raps on Search Marketing, Paid Linking and Social Media
I just cannot get enough of these search marketing rap videos from Mo Serious at Pop Labs. They’re smart, witty and entertaining … very clever...
The Link Building Rap : Hip Hop Meets SEO
Today has been a big linking day, between two posts here at Search Engine Journal on link building and blog comment links leading to some...
Top Google Exec Donates $3 Million to SJSU Engineering Dept.
Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior vice president of global sales & business development, has made a generous $3 million donation to his alma mater, San Jose...
Google to Hold Web 2.0 Developer Event in May
This week, Google announced that it will be holding a developers event in May that will cover a variety of topics as related to “Web...
Alltop Launches, Do We Need Another News/RSS Aggregation Site?
Guy Kawasaki has launched his new news aggregation site, Alltop. This service from Guy’s very own words is an “online magazine rack” that displays news...
Six Explosive Organic & Paid Link Building Tips
My name is Loren Baker and I’m a link builder. I admit it, I’m a link building SEO and I’ve been building links for clients...
Is Yahoo Joining the OpenSocial Alliance?
Citing a source with direct knowledge of Yahoo plans, NYT is reporting that Yahoo is seriously considering plans to join to Google-led OpenSocial Alliance. Launched...
Google Expects to be “Very Significant” in Display Advertising
Google have all but conquered contextual-based advertising and are the clear leader in that area, however, they’ve yet to take the top spot in another...
Google DoubleClick Sends Email to DoubleClick/Dart Clients on Final Acquisition
The Google DoubleClick acquisition has just gone through the EU hurdle, which means Google and DoubleClick can finally seal the acquisition deal. DoubleClick just sent...
Decreasing Click Rates on AdSense are Intentional
After a recent ComScore report indicated that the paid click rates for Google AdSense had dropped 12% year-over-year, and 7% from last December, Google felt...
Google DoubleClick Deal Approved in EU
CNNMoney reports that the European Commission has cleared the $3.1 billion dollar buyout of DoubleClick by Google, after the EU commission has been debating on...
Get Paid to Click on Ads: Unethical Web Marketing
I was answering some questions on the Digital Point forum when I came across a thread about getting paid to click on ads, instantly, a...
Yahoo Opens Ad for Adobe Program to All Publishers
If the lack of hype over Yahoo’s new advertising program is an indication of its impending failure, then the Yahoo Ads for Adobe may soon...
FyberSearch Search Engine
FyberSearch got its popularity for having been started by the then 19 year old Nathan Enns. The engine sports a lot of options from a...
Direct URL Visit Brings More Site Earnings
This is could be yet again another blow on the effectiveness of SEO and PPC as a study conducted by Engine Ready, an Internet Marketing...
Twitter As a Traffic Generator : Set Up a TwitterFeed
This morning I awoke to update myself on the scandal and news surrounding the blog post on optimizing start-up costs by Jason Calacanis, and clicked...
Google Gives in to Pentagon Demands to Remove Images of Military Bases
After detailed, street-level photographs of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas appeared in Google’s controversial “Street View”, the Pentagon acted quickly to have the...
Digg for Sale at $225 Million : Google & Microsoft Entering Bidding War
Michael Arrington loves to get scoops, even when those scoops (er, rumors) don’t actually turn out to become reality, but with ValleyWag breathing down your...
Hot SEO Jobs : Hotels.com, TechWeb & Classmates.com
This week, on the SEJ Search Marketing Jobs board, three large online brands posted openings in SEO management roles for search marketing and search engine...
Save Money to Make Money : Paid Search Auditing & Quality Control
Theres an old adage in business that says, You have to spend money to make money. As anyone who has experienced the power of effective...
AdWords to Incorporate Landing Page Load Time to Ad’s Quality Score
AdWords account holders will have something to expect some time next week when AdWords starts measuring the loading time of an ad’s landing page. Loading...
Google Analytics Now Measures Audio Ads Performance
This is the second part of the announcement made by Google Analytics a couple of days ago regarding benchmarking and opt-in settings. The latest enhancement...
Yahoo Bid Costs Bill Gates the #1 Spot on Forbes’ Rich List
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest person. He lost that title today, after having held onto it for an astounding 13...
Commission Disfunction and FraudClick : A Peppered Rant
OK, I dont know exactly where Im going with the title (tried to come up with a good one for Valueclick but really couldnt.) For...
EU Regulators Close to Granting Google’s Acquisition of Double-Click
Looks like the European Union is set to allow Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of Double-Click as speculators have predicted. The EU ruling might even come...
Yahoo Adds MySpace Button to Toolbar : Sign of Yahoo-NewsCorp Partnership?
I just logged on to my computer after returning home after a meeting and saw this new button on my Yahoo toolbar, for MySpace :...
Googlers Bet on Internal Company Products, Win Cool Stuff Like T-Shirts and Cash
For the past two and a half years, Google has been asking its employees to make their predictions and bets on everything from their perception...
Ask.com Already Serving Google Search Results
Ask.com, which yesterday laid off 8% of its search related workforce and announced that it will now rebrand as an informational portal for women (timewarp...
AOL Launching 12 New Sites in 2008
Bloomberg.com reports AOL will be launching a dozen sites within the next six months to try and increase its market share in terms of traffic...