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Link Building on Social Networks
Debra Mastaler of the Link Spiel looks at the value of link building within general social media sites like MySpace or Facebook as opposed to...
FOOA Conference Pass : Social Media & Advertising
Before SES NY we announced that Search Engine Journal was giving away a free pass to the Future of Online Advertising conference in New York,...
Trimming Down Content Leads to Better SEO?
Sure, content is king but when you have a site chocked full of thousands upon thousands of pages of content, can it be too much?...
Ranking Factors Simplified Quick Reference
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was...
Google’s “Claim Your Content”?
End of last week did Google acquire a large amount of domains around the phrases: “Claim Your Content”, “Claim My Content” and “Claim Our Content” CLAIMYOURCONTENT...
How to do long-term (budget) SEO using keyword domains
Search Engine Journal’s Ahmed Bilal has an article at Marketing niche SEO and how the industry will change in the next two months. It’s part...
Why Digg is More Popular than Del.icio.us… Or is it?
Digg is probably the only company which got loads of online buzz when it hit the one million user mark. Come to think of it,...
StumbleThru : Site Specific StumbleUpon Released
StumbleUpon has launched a new service dubbed StumbleThru which allows users to sift and roll thru social media and personalized content driven sites such as...
Google & Yahoo No Longer Serving News on Top
Google today rolled out an overhaul of the way they serve news results along with traditional web results. Planning to do away with the Google...
How to List Your Site in MySpace News
MySpace News has launched and they are looking for news sources to include in their index. You can submit your site or blog to MySpace...
Hitwise Acquired By Experian for $250M
It must be the bad and unpredictable April weather, because Blogs did not even finish discussing one acquisition in the space when already another announcement...
Einstein PHP Developer, Gorilla SEO, Paid Rockets, Matt Crowds and …
…. the question if Canadians require a Visa for the U.S. or not. I will come back to that is a second. I don’t know,...
Link Building: Graph Theoretic Strategies
This is a continuation of the article Link building structures: hunters and collectors. What I’m doing is looking at web traffic control from a graph...
Google Dice “Queryless Search” Answer to StumbleUpon Popularity
Google has taken the popular StumbleUpon model and adapted it to the Google Toolbar with its “Google Dice” offering, which is part of a Google...
Link Building Structures: Hunters and Collectors
This is a brief introduction to graph theory as it applies to both internal and external link building. The concepts here will be re-used in...
Facebook Local Classifieds Launching?
Mashable has the scoop on a local classifieds service Facebook, the social network, may soon be launching. Interesting set up as I could see this...
WhoIsSick.org : Google Maps Sickness Mashup
WhoIsSick.org is a new Google Maps Mashup where users enter their current illness and location. The site can then be used to track different illnesses...
Chinese Interview with Matt Cutts and Google Japan Blocked
This week more on SEO in China from an interview with Matt Cutts and Jianfei. Also Chinese firewall news that shows that even Baidu can...
Microsoft’s Tellme Launches Three New Mobile Search Services
Microsoft’s Tellme today is announcing new ways to search for information via the phone with voice recognition & text activated local business search by business...
What Will Google Do With Performics?
Now that Google has acquired the Internet advertising giant DoubleClick, what are they planning to do with its search marketing company Performics? You mean, Google...
Microsoft Not Happy Over Google-DoubleClick Deal
The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft is pressuring Federal regulators to review the Google acquisition of DoubleClick. According to Steve Lohr of the...
Yahoo & Newspapers Extend Relationship : Google DoubleClick Reaction?
On a day of news, news from newspapers. The newspaper industry Yahoo!-”Amigos” consortium is now formalizing and expanding its relationship in logical ways, using Yahoo!...
Quality Link Building : Editorial Links vs. Acquired Links
Link building was a major discussion which encompassed the majority of the panels at Search Engine Strategies New York last week, whether on the agenda...
Google & Clear Channel Do Radio Advertising
Google and Clear Channel Communications, a radio channel with almost 675 radio stations, have entered into a deal which will allow the internet search giant...
Google To Go After Paid Links?
[editorial] Google appears to be going after paid links, and they want you to do the work for them by reporting such links, regardless of...
Link Building: Hyperlink Cliques and Clusters
Cliqueishness is part of normal human behavior – an extension of clannishness. Though when it comes to websites, you don’t expect that sort of thing,...
Why Search Sucks/ Why Search Rocks
My introduction to search engines came about in 1994. I’d been using the “world wide web” in email, ftp, and newsgroup form for several years...
MySpace Blocks Photobucket Videos
In a bold and questionable move, Fox Interactive has banned the use of Photobucket videos within MySpace profiles. Photobucket images and slideshows are still available,...
Yahoo! Maps Adds New Print Formatting
From the Yahoo! Maps and Local Blog: Based on a lot of user input, the latest update we’ve made to the Broadband version of Yahoo!...
AOL Search Marketplace : AOL-Only Google AdWords
Today AOL Search is beginning to sell their ‘AOL only’ Google AdWords via their white labled AOL Search Marketplace. These ad buys will be targeted...