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YouTube Embedded Player Featuring Google Video Ads?
If the new embedded player from YouTube (example below), with all of its bells & whistles including the ability to surf through related videos while...
LookSmart’s CFO Resigns, But Revenue Increasing
Mixed signals from LookSmart today as their Chief Financial Officer John Simonelli has announced his resignation as CFO and Chief Operating Officer after a replacement...
Personalized Search Session at SMX Advanced
Personalized Search in 60 seconds: Personalized search is supposed to improve the user experience and decrease spam. Google is the only major engine to really...
Search Engine Strategies or Search Marketing Expo?
With two conferences under my belt, SES Chicago 2006 and SMX Advanced 2007, I felt compelled to do a conference showdown with important categories like...
In-house Spotlight: Duane Forrester, SEO with Sports Direct Inc.
This week’s spotlight is on Duane Forrester with Sports Direct Inc., a leading sports media content publisher. Duane is quite visible in the search industry,...
Yahoo Still Going After Facebook : Now $2 Billion?
Will Yahoo pay the rumored $2 Billion that Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg is looking for? According to Jemima Kiss of The Guardian, Yahoo is in...
Feedburner Data Begins Transition to Google Ownership
The first signs of the Feedburner transition to Google have occured on the Feedburner login page as an optional opt-out message has been placed on...
Duplicate Content Session at SMX Advanced
Duplicate content and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What do these have in common? They shed some light into the bizarre psyche of Google developers, but...
Yahoo Search’s Slurp Crawler Updates Moves to New Address
Yahoo has updated and moved its Yahoo Slurp crawler to a new domain at crawl.yahoo.net, but is keeping the same IP address for those publishers...
Google Audio Ads Rolls Out for All AdWords Advertisers
Google has been testing its Google Audio Ads platform for some AdWords advertisers over the past month or so, and are now prepared to roll...
Social Networking for Business Professionals
If you think social networking was only for the young demographic, think again. The Institute for Corporate Productivity (I4CP), recently held a survey and found...
And the Safest Search Engine is? AOL
If you thought Google is the be all and end all of web search, well at least on the security side, Google is second only...
Google’s Matt Cutts on SEO : From SMX Seattle
Rhea here! If you don’t know who I am, it’s probably because I’m the least published SEJ contributor and well-known IT girl of SEO blogging....
Yahoo Rolls Out Quality-Based Pricing on Content Network Ads
In an effort to improve pricing bids for advertisers on Yahoo’s content network, Yahoo launched its new quality based pricing. If you’ve done PPC with...
Yahoo Cedes Victory to Google?
Has Yahoo ceded victory to Google? Yahoo! is saying that search is history and is planning to fight other battles. Yahoo! believes personalization is the...
Link Baits, .Edu Links and Online Marketing MBA Degrees
Utilizing Keyword Domains for Corporate Sites Mark Fulton at DotSauce points to a list of 190 keyword domains, compiled by SearchDomainsForSale, used by various corporate...
Expanded Match Terms Bolded in Google AdWords
Frank Watson at SearchEngineWatch reported today that Google AdWords in now bolding synonyms in the sponsored search results. David Szetela spotted this today and contacted...
How Smart Do You Have To Be To Work For Google?
It’s Friday and thought to put a fun blog post up. I stumbled upon some questions which were published by Google as a recruiting tool....
Are You Ready for Some Video Ripping Frenzy?
RealNetworks is set to launch the new version of its Real Media player on June. The new version will of all updates possible, enable one-click...
Mahalo Human Edited Search : Past Meets Future
Jumping on the human edited search wagon and keeping a little bit of Netscape dirt on the heels of his boots, Jason Calacanis is backing...
Yahoo Panama Launching in the UK
The first signs of the UK based Yahoo Panama transition are coming to light, as Yahoo sent out an email to its users letting them...
eBay Acquires StumbleUpon for $75 Million
The eBay acquisition of StumbleUpon is now complete, as the online auction, shopping and payment services company has purchased StumbleUpon for $75 Million. “StumbleUpon is...
Gear Up for Google Apps Offline
After conquering the web search engine niche, the big G is now gearing up to conquer its users’ lives even when they are offline. Introducing...
In-house Spotlight : AllRecipes.com’s SEO Dustin Woodard
This week’s spotlight is on Dustin Woodard, a veteran in-house SEO at Allrecipes.com. Dustin made an interesting choice when joining AllRecipes.com, he joined a company...
Yahoo Publisher Network Offering PayPal Payments
The Yahoo Publisher Network has taken a major step in building its appeal amongst US based webmasters and publishers with the addition of PayPal transfers...
Google Using Image Recognition Filtering in Results
Google Image Search has finally implemented some of the technology that Google acquired with its purchase of Neven Vision last August. Now searchers on Google...
Google Privacy Policy Questions by European Union
The European Union has launched an investigation into Google and whether the search & media company is confirming to the EU’s privacy rules and questions...
Who’ll Take On Google?
Robert X. Cringely, in his I, Cringely, blog at PBS writes about the final days of Google. This is sort of what I’ve been saying:...
SES Xiamen – Chinese SEO Lessons
The 2 day SES conference in Xiamen 2007 was full of information for the participants. There were panels on buying search engine advertising, marketing research,...
The SEO State of Chinese Websites
The star Chinese speaker on SES Xiamen 2007 in my eyes was Stone Chen, from Dunsh.org. In one of the session he delved into the...