Latest SEO Articles
Your source for all things search engine optimization (SEO), including breaking news, algorithm updates, guides, strategies, tactics, tips, trends, tools, and more!
MySpace Developer Platform Opens for Third Party Developers
On Monday MySpace announced the launch of their developer platform, and beginning today developers can begin building applications for use with the popular social networking...
MobilePeople Partners with Sesam, Norway’s Top Mobile Search Engine
mobilePeople, a local mobile search and advertising solution which provides sponsored links and banner ads to mobile publishers, has partnered with Norway’s top mobile search...
China’s Search Engine Baidu Under Fire for Music Piracy
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry representing major music companies, Universal, Sony BMG (Hong Kong) and Warner Music Hong Kong, has filed a court...
AOL Buys Goowy Media Desktop & Widget Company
Buried in the Yahoo – Microsoft – Google fight over who’s going to control Yahoo, its search engine and Yahoo Mail & Messenger tools which...
How Did Super Bowl Advertisers Score on Search & Social Media?
In case you somehow escaped the news, the New York Giants took home the Lombardi trophy last night as the Super Bowl XLII champs. Next...
Zimbra Business Messaging System Could Be First Casualty of Possible Microsoft-Yahoo Merger
While a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo would most obviously impact consumers the most, it would also affect businesses. One of the first casualties of such...
Privacy Groups Ready to Oppose Microsoft Takeover of Yahoo
Google isn’t the only one concerned about a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! Inc. After Microsoft announced on Thursday that they had sent a $44.6 billion...
Google Yahoo Alliance May Thwart Microsoft Takeover Attempt
Over the weekend Google became more involved in undermining a hostile buyout of Yahoo, Google’s largest search competitor, by Microsoft, Google’s largest tech competitor, by...
Google Bothered by a Microhoo?
Google has finally published an official reaction to Microsoft’s proposal to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion. In general, the statement speaks of worries not for...
What Will Microsoft Yahoo Merger Mean for SEO?
This morning, Microsoft announced their open plans to acquire Yahoo, offering $45 Billion for the Internet communications, publishing and search company. Yahoo responded, saying that...
Yahoo Rumored To Announce Acquisition of Video Start-up Maven Networks
According to TechCrunch, they’ve been tipped off that Yahoo! will be making an announcement sometime in the next day or so that they’ve acquired a...
Delver Introduces Socially Connected Search Engine
The quest for the next big thing in search is never-ending. Existing search engines are constantly revising and updating, and new search engines are popping...
The New Yahoo : Smartly Optimized for a Microsoft Takeover
Microsoft plans to buy Yahoo for $45 Billion, but not the old unfocused Semel version of Yahoo. Nope, Microsoft is buying the Yang version of...
Auction Bids Reach Google’s “Open Access” Threshold
It’s good news for Google and others who backed open access policies for the winner of the largest block of wireless spectrum in the Federal...
Microsoft Proposes to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion, Should Google Be Afraid?
So finally, the long standing rumor becomes a reality. And although this has been a long-awaited proposal, no one seemed to have predicted it to...
SEO Industry Survey Conducted by SEOMoz.org
In case that you are not a frequent SEOMoz.org Blog reader (something I suggest to remedy :)); they are currently conducting a very detailed SEO...
Megavideo : The YouTube Killer?
Megavideo is the self proclaimed Youtube Killer. They want you to stop using Youtube and to ONLY use Megavideo because they claim they love you...
Google’s Final Score not Impressive Enough?
Google’s much awaited fourth quarter and fiscal year 2007 financial results are finally out. And to quote Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “We are pleased with...
Yahoo Opens to OpenID Beta Testing
Yahoo announced earlier in the month that they were joining the OpenID movement, where users can log into various membership driven Internet properties using one...
Click Fraud Up 15% in 2007 Says Click Forensics
Click fraud is substantially increasing along with search marketing spends according to a study released by Click Forensics today which looks at paid search click...
Which Engine Is Giving You The Best ROI for Your Search Marketing?
EfficientFrontier, a search marketing company, has released a very interesting report on search advertisers and their ROI in paid search. “Search advertisers spent 29% more...
Google Intensifies Presence in the UK
The past couple of days have been pretty busy in Google’s UK front. First, Google’s mobile search gets a much needed boost followed by the...
Google Overhauls Korean Search Engine, Adopting Universal Search
Wednesday morning, Google announced that they had done an overhaul on their Korean-language search engine, adopting universal search for the Korean site. Google is attempting...
Report: Google Surges on in Q4 2007 Search Performance But ROI Didn’t Quite Improved
We have seen various search engine performance statistics of the three major search engines for the last quarter of 2007 and Google topped these reports...
Yahoo 4th Quarter Revenues Went Up in 2007, But Overall Net Income Suffered
The reports and statistics are out, and as I was looking over Yahoo’s financial report for 2007, all I saw was increase in this, and...
Reversing Google’s Position Six Penalty
When Search Engine Land reported last week that some sites were being hit by a mysterious plague called position six penalty, it created a stir...
Google Experiments on New Search Views
Finally Google maybe realizing that there’s more to being a search engine than giving relevant search results. Over at Google’s experimental lab, several new views...
Google Entering Paid Reviews Business? Via AdSense?!?
Shoemoney has published a tip coming from a secret source that Google is going to be offering paid reviews via their Google AdSense system and...
Yahoo to Proceed with Mass Layoffs
According to Silicon Alley Insider, a source close to Yahoo is confirming that Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang will indeed press on with plans for an...
DotHomes.com : UK Property Search Engine Invades US Market
UK property search engine Dothomes is expanding its range of coverage to now include the lucrative U.S. market. Slightly less than two years after the...