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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...
SES Xiamen Impressions
There are 144 million or 150 million or .. Internet users in China (different sources, different stats). A couple of million more or less, on...
Google Plus Box Patent and Potential Issues
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea wrote an interesting post about the Google patent application for their new “Plus Box” feature in the...
How about a Link from the Yahoo! Homepage
Techcrunch reported on Saturday about an interesting test conducted by Yahoo! Yahoo! linked to outside websites from their homepage, something that big portals like AOL,...
Alternate Link Building Strategies: The Linkerati Effect
Several bloggers have suggested writing about the linkerati as way to draw editorial backlinks. This post is a sort of lens to some great articles...
Google Searches Increased by 42%
Time for some trivial search engine statistics courtesy of Nielsen/NetRatings published by the Register. Based on the data released by Nielsen, Google searches increased by...
Find Cheap Gas Prices via Search Engines
This week marks the beginning of the dog days of summer spikes in gas prices, as today is the official start of Memorial Day weekend,...
300 Search Engines Reviewed
Inspired by the great Alternative Search Engines list from Read/Write Web, a new weblog dubbed “Two A Day” recently reviewed (listed) 300 search engines, starting...
Yahoo Real Estate Improves HomeValues : Zillow & Yahoo Answers
Drawing partly on its relationship with Zillow, Yahoo! is launching an improved “HomeValues” section as part of Yahoo! Real Estate. It’s also integrating more community...
Tracking Google News : Most Popular Stories and Sources
Google News Report USA is a new service which tracks the sites which are featured on the homepage of Google News and then ranked by...
Google Talk Dialpad PC to Phone VOIP to Challenge SkypeOut?
Google appears to be about to take on Skype and other VoIP services with the addition of a dialpad to Google Talk. Members of the...
Yahoo Buzz Index vs. Google Hot Trends
Sometimes it’s quite easy to hail any new product or experiment launched by Google, even if the idea behind it is years old and has...
Google GMail Doubles Attachment Max Size to 20 MB
Gmail now lets users attach files which reach up to a maximum size of 20 MB, double the previous maximum of 10 MB. Sure, that’s...
How to Submit your Site to Yahoo News
With the rise of blogging and low cost content management systems also comes the rise of news publications and the need for content syndication. Yahoo...