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Nofollow Leverages Mistrust Among People
The Nofollow attribute indicates if the source of the link “trusts” the destination of it. Trust is a very critical element in human relations and...
Boost Your Yahoo Ads Quality Score
Barry Schwartz points to a WebmasterWorld thread where a Yahoo Search Marketing representative, YahooSarah, posts an explanation of Yahoo’s new Quality Index Score system. Basically,...
iCrossing Acquiring UK Based Spannerworks
iCrossing announced today that they will be acquiring Spannerworks, a UK based search engine marketing firm, for $18 million. Spannerworks is a 10 year old...
MyBlogLog Hiring Community Manager & Engineers
MyBlogLog has been expanding rapidly in terms of use and popularity ever since Yahoo acquired it in January and is now looking for someone to...
SEO turned from child’s play into scam. How did that happen?
You think that things will become a bit normal again after the flood of posts all over the internet after David Pasternack’s 3rd negative post...
Yahoo Pipes : Roll Your Own Mashups
Yahoo has launched a fairly impressive visual programming environment for the creation of customized mashups called Yahoo Pipes. Why pipes? “The name of the service...
Google Maps Stickers in Business Windows
Over at Search Engine Land, Greg Sterling posted about a Google Maps sticker which was spotted at a London restaurant: Smart! The technique is usually...
Yahoo Bugs Anti-Keyword Spam Initiatives Deactivating Advertiser Accounts
It seems that some Yahoo advertisers are having problems with the new Yahoo Search Marketing’s bulk upload feature and user accounts becoming deactivated. Florian Reichling...
Google Plays Hardball Over YouTube
New NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker blasted Google-owned YouTube on Wednesday, complaining YouTube wasn’t doing enough to stop users from uploading copyrighted clips of NBC...
Google Webmaster Tools – Query and Link Stats File Converter
Carsten Cumbrowski, a Search Engine Journal columnist, has developed a tool which some webmasters may find useful. It converts the .CSV files which can be...
Fight Over MySpace.com Domains
MySpace has made an interesting move by protecting the branded MySpace.com domains which have been registered by MySpace users. MySpace is not letting corporations take...
Google Changes Webmaster Guidelines & Penalized Sites
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped has picked up on a slight adjustment to Google Webmaster Guidelines in terms of penalizing sites. Previous Google Webmaster Guidelines:...
Google Base Attributes Redefine Online Shopping
About two weeks ago I received a call from my friend Brian Smith of SingleFeed and Comparison Engines for some feedback on the addition of...
Ultimate Guide to Link Baiting and Social Media Marketing
Andy Hagans, the laziest man in SEO, has put together his Ultimate Guide to Link Baiting and Social Media Marketing which covers the art of...
11 Ways to Increase Online Conversions
Sure, SEO, Social Media Optimization and Paid Search Marketing can drive hordes of highly targeted traffic to your web site. But is your site’s structure,...
Google Presently : Google PowerPoint?
The Google Operating System Blog has the scoop on a new Google tool called “Presently” will let users convert documents into PowerPoint style presentations including...
Yahoo’s Overture Keyword Selector Tool Working Again
After experiencing a lot of downtime last week, Yahoo Search Marketing’s Overture Keyword Selector tool is up and running again. Search engine marketers and search...
Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Marketplace Design’ Ranking Launches Today
Yahoo Search Marketing has upgraded is expected to upgrade their ad ranking system from an auction bidding model to their Marketplace Design system today by...
Yahoo Publisher Network Updates Policies and Quality Guidelines
Yahoo Publisher Network has made some updates to its quality guidelines and program policies. The change which sticks out the most is the limitation of...
YouTube & Google Agree to Remove Viacom Videos
Chad and Steve (and their investors) have to be glad they don’t own YouTube anymore. After failing to reach an agreement (apparently) with Viacom, YouTube...
Digg Payola Backfires for Social Media Spammer
Muhammad Saleem, the new addition to the Pronet Advertising blog, today made a post exposing how the owner of a site named BringPopcorn.com tried to...
Bill Gates & Charlie Rose Talk Search Engines & Microsoft Vista
Charlie Rose interviewed Bill Gates last November on Microsoft Vista and Gary Price yesterday spotted that PBS reran the show, there is now a transcript,...
SuperPages.com Gets Into Social Media
SuperPages has had user reviews for some time. Today it announced “Reviewer of the Week,” a competition seeking to drive more engagement and more reviews....
MapQuest : Maps, Directions & Cheap Gas Prices
Just in time for a 1,500 mile road trip tomorrow, AOL owned MapQuest has announced the launch of their new MapQuest Gas Price Finder which...
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo Top Popular Global Web Properties
A recent ComScore study showed that in 2006 International usage of Google grew 13%, projecting it to the #2 spot in the Top Global Web...
Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog Interviewed by Lee Odden
Lee Odden of TopRank has interviewed MyBlogLog’s CEO Scott Rafer about the success of MyBlogLog and how it feels to be the newest delivery to...
Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestion Tool
Now that Yahoo Search Marketing’s Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool is on the fritz and there are really no signs of it coming back to life...
Comment for David Pasternack. Second and Final Delivery Attempt.
Did you notice that the last post by Mr. David Pasternack, titled ” “Is SEO “rocket science?â€: A Q&A with Dave Pasternack” from January, 23rd...
Neil Patel & Cameron Olthuis Join Text Link Ads
SEO, social media optimization & link building experts Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis have announced on their Pronet Advertising blog that they have been hired...
Google Q4 Revenues Exceed Expectations, Up 16% over Q3 2006
Google’s 2006 Q4 earnings beat Wall Street expectations when they announed today that revenues were up 67% over Q4 2005 and 16% more than last...