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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...
10 Tips to Finding a Quality SEO Firm
If you’re a business with a web site, you need the assistance of search engine optimization. For the value it provides, the cost of quality...
Google’s Matt Cutts on Appropriate Use of NoFollow
This week in the Google Webmaster Help Google Groups thread, Matt Cutts made a “Popular Pick” post on the Appropriate Use of the NoFollow attribute...
What Do You Want to Learn from SMX Social Media?
Next Monday night I’ll be making the drive from Rhode Island to New York City to attend my first SMX event. This SMX event is...
Microsoft Live Search Product Results Gets Better
Microsoft continues to bring in more features to its Live Search tool. The most recent of these features has something to do with product searches,...
Google Scores 60% of Total August Searches Worldwide
Numbers from the comScore data on worldwide searches for August shows Google again getting the most number of searches, with 60% of the 61 million...
Learning to Generate Fresh Ideas for Your Blog Posts
Anyone that has been writing for any amount of time has become familiar with writers block. Even the greatest writers in times past sometimes spent...
Blinkx Gives Another Option for Blog/Site Monetization
Following on the heels of Google’s recent announcement of the Adsense video units, video search engine Blinkx announced that it will also reward blog/site owners...
Twitter Adding Mobile Advertising to Challenge Google?
Google has gone out and purchased a major Twitter competitor in Jaiku, which Google will more than likely use as part of its Google Mobile...
Google Acquires Jaiku : Mobile Blogging & Messaging Company
Google has acquired Jaiku, a mobile social networking and blogging service which is a direct competitor to Twitter, the uber-popular mini-blogging on the go and...
Yahoo Buying 10% of Alibaba IPO, Expanding its Role in China
Yahoo has announced that it plans to acquire 10% of the shares which are being offered by Alibaba.com in an IPO which is expected to...
AskPoodle Simplies and Personalize Local Search
AskPoodle.com is a fairly new kid on the block of local search engines aiming to provide users with the best result for the most specific...
Ask.com’s Next Advertising Partner : Google, Yahoo or Microsoft?
CNNMoney (via Investors Business Daily) looks at the partnership between Google AdWords and Ask.com, where Google sponsored links are served as filler for Ask.com Sponsored...
Google Adsense Rolls Out Video Units
Google Adsense has launched video units, a new advertising unit that can be embedded on Adsense publishers’ sites/blogs. These video units are relevant video contents...
Microsoft & NBC Buy Newsvine : Digg Next?
Adding to the trend of large media conglomerates and proven companies (Fox, eBay, Yahoo, Condes Nast) dipping into the social networking, bookmarking and news sharing...
SEO In-house Spotlight: Bill Macaitis with Fox Interactive Media
Today’s spotlight is on Bill Macaitis, VP of Online Marketing & SEO/SEM, who works with some of the most interesting sites on the web such...
IBM and Google Team Up to Develop Cloud Computing in Universities
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google and IBM are spending between $20-$25 million on hardware, software and services on various college campuses for the...
AvotMedia: Mobile Video Search’s New Playmate
AvotMedia is the mobile web’s latest video solution provider promising major mobile video functions that enhance everyone’s mobile video viewing experience; searching, watching and myFavs,...
Video Search Blinkx Meets Meta-Search Engine Ixquick
Powerful meta-search engine Ixquick announced today that it has partnered with top video search engine blinkx. Under the agreement agreed upon by both companies, Ixquick...
Google PageRank Update This Weekend? Backlinks and PageRank Changes Reported
Google seems to have updated its backlink tracking tool in the Google Webmaster Tools suite according to a conversation going on in DigitalPoint forums. Some...
Search Marketing Drives $10 Billion Internet Ad Revenues in Q1, Q2 2007
Search marketing dominated the lastest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, which covered the second quarter and the first six months of 2007. Internet advertising revenues...
Yahoo Answers & Wikipedia Go Mobile on Yahoo OneSearch
Yahoo has added two new features to its Yahoo oneSearch mobile results which have redefined the way search results are served to mobile devices. On...
The Necessary Evolution of Linkbait
For the past couple of years Linkbait has been all the rage in search marketing. The process of creating linkbait is quite simple: Create content...
Microsoft Joins Google in Offering SEO Services, Is This Ethical?
Microsoft, which runs Live Search and is the parent company of aQuantive, which owns Avenue A Razorfish, is now partnering with another search marketing firm,...
Snap : Search Engine with a Visual Twist
As the name succinctly suggests, Snap provides users with a preview or rather a snapshot of each search result along with several added features that...
$100 SponsoredReviews.com Coupon : Exclusive for Search Engine Journal Readers
This is an exclusive offer for Search Engine Journal readers! I just got done speaking with SponsoredReviews.com’s CEO Jarrod Hunt and convinced him to issue...
Yahoo’s Showcased Homepage Content Driving Search Results
Yahoo is showcasing their new Yahoo Search Shortcuts and search results via links in the content boxes on the Yahoo Homepage. The links look like...
Generate Backlinks with Custom WordPress Themes & Templates
Backlinks are the golden path to page rank. Building backlinks however, can be a slow and tedious process every blogger has to face. We constantly...
Optimize Yourself for Search Marketing Employment and Recruiting
In the growing industry of search marketing, aggressive recruiters and employment opportunities are everywhere. With search being such a young industry though, fewer elements can...