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WPP, Not Microsoft, Grabs 24/7 Real Media
And it goes to WPP, according to the press release this morning (here’s the WSJ story). 24/7 Real Media was allegedly being looked at/shopped to...
Google Unifies Search Engine
Finally, it’s official. After getting quite an online buzz the past couple of hours, the official Google Blog issued a press release on the much...
Yahoo & Google’s Mission Statements : Do They Connect?
Yahoo has undergone a good amount of restructuring over the past years, in part due to internal roadblocks and financial reasons, but also due to...
Social Media vs. SEO & Search Marketing
For the past three months or so, the online marketing industry has taken on a big shift in market interest. Social Media is becoming a...
AOL Acquires Mobile Ad Network Third Screen Media
AOL has acquired Third Screen Media, the mobile advertising network, mobile ad-serving and management platform provider, and now Third Screen Media will operate as a...
Thomson Buying Reuters for $15 billion
Thomson, a Canadian publisher is set to buy one of the world’s leading news company, Reuters for a whooping $17 billion dollar deal to create...
Google’s Sexist Search Results
Ok, Google is so high profile that everything they do wrong is scrutinied under the spotlight, but pointing out their flaws is sometimes fun. Seems...
Google URL Parameter Blocks Adwords in Google Search
Amit Agarwal has found an interesting URL variable which when added to the Google Search URL string blocks AdWords ads from showing. If you append...
Are Social Powered Search Engines The Future Of Search?
Over the years, the engines have developed algorithms to make search as relevant as possible to the user. In the early 90’s, optimizing your website...
Matt Cutts Update on Paid Links Discussion – Q&A
Instead of writing a new post did Matt Cutts add a long update in Q&A form to his existing post from April about “How To...
Yahoo & the Future of MyBlogLog?
Yahoo acquired the blogging analytics program and social network MyBlogLog in January which was a smart and exciting move on their behalf. But what are...
Trulia Real Estate Search Adds Community
Trulia has always been an impressive site to me and it continues to become more feature rich. Today the company relaunched its site with more...
Bidvertiser Ad Network Review
With the explosion of blogs the past two years, a common refrain is that Google AdSense does not earn the majority of website/ weblog publishers...
Matt Cutts Updates Paid Links with Webmaster Q&A
Matt Cutts of Google has updated his How to report paid links post on his blog with some answers to general webmaster questions which popped...
Search Engine News Review- Sun May 13, 2007
Technorati Ranking Metric: Hot or Not? Technorati recently made a few changes in functionality and features to their blog search engine/directory. One change is to...
Search Engine News Review – Fri May 11, 2007
Google’s Chaos and Order According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google’s new focus [NY Times; subscription req’d] is search, ads and apps but that their...
Optimizing Screen Resolution with Google Analytics: 1024×768 vs. 800×600
Designing your website for screen resolutions of 1024×768 or higher can achieve a richer user experience and dramatically increase performance and usability. As users upgrade...
Yahoo Search Marketing’s Ultimate Connection Contest
Yahoo Search Marketing’s Yahoo! Ultimate Connection Contest is being held to help small business owners connect with new customers through online advertising, and with some...
Googling Employee Names is Not Illegal
Yesterday three US federal judges upheld a decision which said that a federal employee’s reputation was not harmed by a search on Google for his...
SEM In-House Spotlight : Hewlett-Packard’s In-House SEO
This week’s in-house spotlight is on Tanya Vaughan, the Global in-house SEO with Hewlett-Packard. HP has a few in-house SEOs within various divisions, one is...
Fun with Words. WordCount and QueryCount
I came across a very interesting online tool while I did some research for the post about proper title capitalization. The tool is about the...
Google’s New ‘Lat Long’ Blog
John Hanke, Director Google Earth & Maps, announces the new blog: As web mapping (dare I say “the geoweb”?) matures, we’re finding that we have...
Google’s Search Up To 65% in April- Where Do you Search?
According to Hitwise, Google accounted for 65% of all U.S. search in April. The trailing search leader Yahoo accounted for 20.73%, MSN 8.46%, and Ask...
Google Ad Creation Marketplace Up in Beta
Less than a year ago, Google Adwords launched its Click-to-play, video ads format which offered advertisers a new avenue for promoting their products and services...
Alternative Link Building Strategies
Sometimes, your link building activities should or must take place on a secondary domain, away from your focal point (primary domain). There are several reasons...
Microsoft Acquires Equity Stake in CareerBuilder.com
In a very interesting development, Microsoft has taken a 4% equity stake in number one jobs site CareerBuilder. Here’s the release. That means Tribune and...
QuickSprout : Neil Patel’s Blog on Personal Branding
If there is anyone in the search marketing world who has mastered the art of branding yourself over the past year, it is Social Media...
Remove your Home Phone Number from Google Search
Did you know that if you search on Google by typing a residential phone number into the Google Search box that Google will deliver a...
LookSmart AdCenter Launches Private Label Contextual Advertising Service for Publishers
LookSmart today launched their new contextual ad serving and optimization product as part of their LookSmart’s AdCenter service. With the addition of AdCenter contextual advertising,...
Google Analytics Sports a New Look
After a long wait, the five year old Google Analytics gets a much needed update. The new version sports a new interface for better customization...