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10 Ways How to Earn Revenue Without Selling Links
Publishers who make their living from selling links on their sites had a warning shot delivered to them last month with the Google PageRank update...
Survival Guide to Being an SEO – 10 Tips to Making it in the SEO Community
Well, I’d come up with a great start like, “hey kiddo, you’re looking to become an SEO superstar?”, but I’ll go forward from that path...
AOL Acquires Semantic Search Q and A Service, Yedda
AOL Goes on Early Christmas Shopping, Buys Yedda For AOL, Christmas shopping starts as early as November. Exactly six days after acquiring Quigo, an advertising...
Google AdWords Domain Ads Exclusion : But Think Before You Block
Google AdWords is running limited testing of a feature which lets its advertisers block domain parking sites which their AdWords ads will be served on;...
When Link Bait Goes Wrong : How to Prepare for a Good Linking
Link baiting is a proven form of attracting valuable and search algortihm friendly organic links to a site with thought provoking material, news or an...
Google Names Google Product Search Partners : Easier Feed Inclusion
Google has taken steps to make submitting your site’s product feed to Google Base much more easier, using some of their preferred partners who are...
Google Rankings Influenced By Hosting, Domain Registrar and Geographic Location
One major fear around the web publisher community is that if you host too many sites on the same shared hosting account or server, Google...
Google Adwords Modifies Site Targeting Feature
Google Adwords has tweaked its site targeting feature a bit to allow advertiser to run their campaigns not only on the main pages of individual...
LiveDeal to Serve Yelp Local Reviews
LiveDeal, Inc. has signed an agreement relationship with local review site Yelp.com to feature Yelp’s 1.8 million customer reviews on its online classifieds and yellow...
Adsense Rolls Out Simplified Ad Management Feature
Finally, the days of generating new Adsense and then getting inside blog/site’s code whenever you want to change something in your Adsense units, is over....
Google’s PageRank: A Double Edged Sword
Last week when I first noticed PageRank values changing and propagating out to tool bars, I made it a point to tell some others who...
MySpace SelfServe Ads to Challenge Google AdSense & Facebook Flyers
Taking a page from their search partner Google and main competitor in Facebook, MySpace plans to launch their own ‘do-it-yourself’ contextual targeting & advertising platform...
The Good and Bad of the Almighty Digg.com
It would be safe to assume that everyone reading this article, is in some way familiar with the popular social bookmarking site Digg.com. You might...
Vertical Search & Tapping the B2B Tech-Buyer Market
The B2B audience: we know their needs are not being entirely met by general search engines and they are the buyers with the largest budgets....
Ask.com & Google Sign $3.5 Billion Search Advertising Deal
Remember weeks ago when Wall Street Analysts felt that Ask.com was not as important to Google as it once was in terms of a sponsored...
Microsoft Live Search Site Submission Working Again
If you still take the time to actually submit new sites to search engines (as opposed to informing their bots that the new site exists...
AOL Acquires Quigo : AOL’s Answer to AdWords?
AOL is expanding its advertising arm deeper into contextual advertising with the $300 million acquisition of Quigo and their AdSonar & Feedpoint platforms. The seed...
Google Ranking & Results Update Underway
Google set blogs and webmasters ablaze in coverage last week with their changes in Toolbar PageRank, which was cast aside by some and taken quite...
Wikipedia: The Barry Bonds of Search Results
Even if you’re not a fan of baseball you probably know that Barry Bonds is one of the most questionable men in the game. From...
Retired Males : Endless Vortex of Valuable Content
Being a professional blogger and a work from home consultant, sometimes cabin fever starts to kick in, and it’s time to flee the humble abode...
Google & Opera Renew Ad Deal : But Still No gBrowser
Opera Software and Google have renewed their partnership agreement for another two years as Google will remain the default search provider for Opera browsers and...
$200 Google PC Coming to Wal-Mart Today
Everex is launching its gPC “Google PC” today at Wal-Mart stores for the low price of $200. The gPC runs off of a mix of...
Hakia Adds Social Networking to Search Engine
Semantic search engine Hakia has added a social component to its meaning-based search engine called Meet Others. The idea behind Meet Others is to connect...
Yahoo Search Update Underway : Ranking Changes Reported
Yahoo Search is updating with some changes to its algorithm and index, which at first seems like one of their monthly weather reports. However, there...
Why You Should Bid on Brand Keywords in Google
As competitive as we get, sometimes brand keywords are the most overlooked. Brand keywords are also some of the cheapest clicks. Not only that, but...
Can the Party of Six a.k.a OpenSocial Beat Facebook?
Facebook’s Zuckerberg must be laughing right now as he reads the latest buzz on the web about OpenSocial, a group of “other” social networks headed...
AOL Launches Indian Language Portal
AOL takes a giant step towards its expansion goal with the launch of a local language version of its web search portal in India. Coming...
Truveo Expands to Eight Major International Markets
Video search engine Truveo which was founded sometime in 2004 and was acquired by AOL in 2006, is expanding its operations with the launch of...
The Oracle of Mountain View
The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more...
Microsoft’s Gatineau Web Analytics Now in Beta Testing for adCenter Advertisers
With all of the announcements of adCenter upgrades, enhancements to their search engine, local maps search changes, buying equity in a major social network and...