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Digg Bans Users Who Digg Too Often
Digg has been sending out messages which explain the banning of user accounts which Digg has red flagged as possible spammers or just non-quality Diggers....
Xing Marketplace Beta
I received yesterday an email for Xing, the openBC (open Business Club). Xing.com is a business networking service like LinkedIn. I wrote during the last...
Google Bans Term Paper & Essay Writing Ads
In a move to lessen if not prevent plagiarism among university students, Google is banning advertisements by essay writing companies and services from its advertising...
Search & Social Networks Will Challenge Television for Advertising Dollars
Given Yahoo’s rumored offer of $1 Billion to buy the Bebo social network (and the previous reports of Yahoo wanting to buy Facebook), the success...
SEO Clinic : Free SEO from Industry Experts
Search Engine Journal’s SEO Clinic will be back in action next week after a month or so off and we are looking for more sites,...
Fooooo! Japan’s Video Search to Make International Splash?
Japanese video search engine Fooooo.com has expanded into the International scene with new video search versions in English, Russian, Chinese and French. According to Motoko...
Google Trends Adds Hot Trends
Google Trends has added a new featured dubbed ‘Hot Trends’ which allows Google Trends users to see some of the most Trended terms on a...
Google Neighborhood Search
Trulia has it, Yelp has it, Ask.com has it (there may be others) and now Google has it: neighborhood search capability. The benefits and rationale...
Google Targeting AdSense Arbitrage Accounts?
The rumors were heating up over the weekend that Google may be taking steps to curb or shut down the amount of arbitrage which is...
Last weeks in China: Name Changes for Yahoo, a Google Logo and Bloggers in China
Having been out of the news loop for some weeks (It’s great to be without the Internet sometimes) due to an extended holiday in Yunnan...
Microsoft aQuires aQuantive Online Advertising for $6 Billion
Microsoft is acquiring the online advertising powerhouse aQuantive, parent company of Internet & Search Marketing firm Avenue A/Razorfish, for somewhere around $6 billion in cash...
LocalGuides.com : Local + Social + Vertical
Google has taken up so much “shelf space” with coverage recently it’s hard to get to much else with any depth. But there are lots...
Google Analytics Not Enterprise Ready : CMS Watch
According to CMS Watch, a content management and web analytics analyst firm, Google Analytics is not ready for for Enterprise users; despite its recent upgrade....
Google Now Offically Provides Search for Soso
It’s official. What everyone in the Chinese search industry already knew will now be visualized. From Pacific Epoch: All Soso.com search results are marked with...
DreamHost Blocks Googlebot on Client Sites
According to an email sent to the owner of a Romanian site, Zoso.ro (reminds me of Led Zepplin), the DreamHost web hosting & server company...
How to Get Links from Harvard.edu
If building links from .edu sites is something you find of value, for Google rankings or even to boost your site’s backlinks status, Cristian Mezei...
Google Penalizing Paid Links Buyers & Sellers
Dave Naylor, SEO extraordinaire, has been witnessing the after effects of the call to report and penalize paid links by Google. According to Naylor, over...
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...