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SEO Question : Do WhoIs Privacy Services Harm SEO?
This morning I was sifting through a post from the Redfly Marketing blog of Dave Davis entitled : The 5 Easiest Ways To Get Search...
Proximic: Contextual Approach to Matching Nail Relevancy
The Munich based company, Proximic has been the result of 5 years of research into a search methodology that is a set apart from the...
3 Steps to Solid Linkbait
Linkbait was a popular topic last week at SMX Social Media in New York City. While social media experts understand link bait inside and out,...
Display Advertising is Dependent Upon Search & Defined User Intent
Interesting story on the Bloomberg wires which follows up on the Yahoo Search & Display Advertising deals sealed last week with WebMD and Forbes.com. Microsoft’s...
Google Runs Black Homepage For a Day
Google users who accessed the search engine from the San Francisco area yesterday were served an all black version of the Google Homepage. No, Google...
Microsoft’s Live Search 411 : Voice Activated Search Results
This week Microsoft launched their voice activated local search service, Live Search 411, which harnesses the technology behind Microsoft acquisition Tellme to deliver local, maps,...
Top Search Queries in Google Webmaster Tools
Google’s Webmaster Tools’ top search queries just got better with the expansion of its time coverage, top query percentage and search data upload via CSV...
Wikipedia Spam Resulting in Google & Yahoo Penalties
Even though Wikipedia uses a NoFollow attribute on their external links, if you spam Wikipedia results, your site can end up in a penalty in...
YouTube Launches Chinese Language Sites for Taiwan & Hong Kong
Google has launched a new Chinese language version of YouTube for the Taiwanese market, YouTube.com.tw YouTube this week launched a Chinese language site for Hong...
Google Health Coming in Spring 2008
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s Marissa Mayer said that users should expect the Google Health project to launch in Spring...
Weather.com Serving Pulse 360 Sponsored Links : What About Yahoo!?
The Weather Channel and Pulse 360 (formerly Kanoodle) today jointly announced an exclusive multi-year agreement resulting in the launch of Pulse 360’s sponsored links on...
China Netcom Redirecting Google, Yahoo, MSN Traffic to Baidu
Chinese ISP China Netcom has been redirecting Google, Yahoo and Microsoft search queries to Baidu, the most popular and local Chinese search engine. Duncan Riley...
SMX Panel Recap: Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing
The most recent panel here at SMX Social Media was entitled Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing. With Wikipedia dominating the search results, many SEOs...
SMX Panel Recap: Micro Communities
Today’s first post following lunch was a great one for those involved in the social marketing space. The panel covered micro communities and was led...
Yahoo Reinvents Web Advertising : Lands WebMD, Forbes.com, Cars.com and Ziff Davis
Yahoo Search Marketing has landed a high dollar vertical search partner in WebMD, which will be serving Yahoo sponsored search results across its medical network...
SMX Panel Recap: Evangelist – The Marketer’s Role in SMM
Our second panel of day two discussed the many ways in which Social Media Marketing can be used to help the role of the modern...
Yahoo Search Marketing Lets Advertisers Block Domains
Yahoo Search Marketing has taken some bold steps in letting its advertisers now block their ads from being served on certain web sites. Now, Yahoo...
SMX Panel Recap: A Marketer’s Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging
The second panel of this afternoon is A Marketer’s Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging. The panel members were Guillaume Bouchard the CEO of NVI,...
SMX Panel Recap: Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites
Today’s third session and first of the afternoon was focused on the social news sites. The panel was of course moderated by Danny Sullivan, and...
Superpages.com Adds Video Ads for All National Markets
Superpages.com rolled out its Superpages Video ad product to a national audience today, following a beta trial in select markets. Superpages Video advertising allows local...
SMX Panel Recap: Social Media Marketing Essentials
Today marks day one of the third SMX event, SMX: Social Media. Our first session began with Moderator Danny Sullivan addressing the crowd here at...
Day One at SMX Social New York
Welcome to the first part in our coverage of SMX Social Media. Serving as Search Engine Journal’s correspondent covering the SMX events here in New...
Final Round of New Features for Live Search
Microsoft releases the final updates of its Live Search service, for this period and also announces the availability of Live Search 411 service, a toll...
YouTube Implements Video Identification Tool
In response to clamor for a tighter policy on video piracy proliferating on its video portal, YouTube has launched its video identification tool. The video...
Blinkx Scores a Goal
Popular video search engine Blinkx seems to be on a roll. After signing a deal with meta search engine Ixquick last week, it now has...
Conversational Marketing: Let the Conversations Begin
I recently attended the Conversational Marketing Summit on September 11th and 12th; and since then, I have been blogging about the subject; highlighting how important...
Adsense Referral Ads Validation Ongoing
You might be noticing a decrease in your Adsense referral earnings lately, well that’s because Google Adsense has placed a restriction on referral earnings while...
Paid Links Simply Aren’t Going Anywhere
On every blog, discussion board and conference agenda there is a similar topic… Paid Links. Now, most of what I have written here on Search...
11 Considerations When Hiring a Link Building Service
As a very important part of the search marketing mix, Link Building is both a cornerstone of SEO and a more than ever dynamic &...
Nothing Beats Customized Search Marketing
As the search industry grows, more niche service organizations appear. These companies usually boast a tagline touting the fact that they “specialize in the search...