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Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon, the web surfing social network, is hands down a long term traffic builder for blogs, online businesses, and Web 2.0 services. For a quick...
Flickr Moving to Yahoo ID Login System
Flickr, the photo publishing, sharing & tagging network, has just announced that they will be cancelling their older email address based login system, and migrating...
Yahoo Says Overture Keyword Tool Not Dead Yet
There have been reports around the Internet today about Yahoo Search Marketing canceling the Overture Keyword Selector Tool, which has been a staple of Keyword...
Google Adds Local OneBox Results
Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land points to a Google Blog posting that announces Google will be displaying local results with reviews and links to...
Yahoo Links Badge from Site Explorer
Want to show off the incoming links to your site? Yahoo Site Explorer has now come out with a badge for publishers & bloggers to...
Serph : Social Media Meta Search Engine & Tracking Service
Cameron Olthuis announced this morning that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will let users find what “other people...
Microsoft Vista’s $500 Million Marketing Campaign
Microsoft is pumping out a global $500 million Vista advertising campaign which is expected to serve 6.6 billion impressions in the first few months. Marketing...
Watch the Sunrise on Google Earth
Google Earth and the Discovery Channel have worked together to bring “sunrise on demand.” The two have introduced a new layer on Google Earth which...
Yahoo! Mobile Bookmarks Text Messages Sites to Cell Phones
Gary Price ran across a Yahoo7 (Yahoo Australia) service which text messages Yahoo Bookmarks to the mobile phone. From Yahoo7: A Yahoo! mobile bookmark (or...
CBS Denies Booble.com Super Bowl Commercial
Remember Booble.com, the porn search engine which took advantage of the Google layout, logo and name association when it first launched? Well according to Booble.com,...
Search Engine Strategies & Email Spam
I’m a big fan of Search Engine Strategies Conferences on Search Engine Marketing and try to attend and cover all of them that I can....
Topix.net & Tribune Partner for Classifieds Project
Who knows what’s going to happen to the Tribune Company (as it tries to sell itself). But for the time being it has taken a...
LinkedIn takes on Xing, or the other way around?!
I wanted to follow up on my post LinkedIn versus Xing (aka Open BC) from November earlier, but did not get around to it until...
Last week in China – Google Net Negative and again MySpace
Last week was about the latest China internet Statistics. The China Internet Network Society (CNNIC) published its half yearly report (In Chinese). The number of...
Congratulations Danny
Matt McGee from SmallBusinessSEM.com noticed at the end of last week that Google had a major update of the PageRank data for the Google browser...
ShoeMoney Subpoenaed Over Slanderous Blog Comments
Jeremy Schoemaker, an A List blogger who is also known as ShoeMoney, contacted me yesterday and discussed a recent legal document which was served to...
A Link Is Not A Vote, It’s A Pointer
Loren’s note about the article by Graywolf that talks about Google’s changing and unwritten policy on the usage of the nofollow tag got me thinking...
Weather.com Yahoo! Search Box
Weather.com is the site maintained by cable television’s Weather Channel and usually my first stop when it comes to checking the weather. I noticed that...
Hillary Clinton, Yahoo Answers & the Power of Social Media
Hillary Clinton has turned to Yahoo Answers, the social media driven Q&A experience from Yahoo, to look for some ideas on how normal Americans would...
MySpace.com & Yahoo Top Sites People Spend Most Time On
Compete.com just published a blog entry ranking the top 20 sites which Internet users waste their time on. The first two are predictable, MySpace.com and...
Matt Cutts vs. V7N Links : Matt Wins
Over the past day some jabs and nudges were traded back and forth (all in good fun I believe) between Matt Cutts and John Scott...
Branded Content and Targeting Your Social Media Marketing Initiatives
As a former editor I love to see this growing fervor around social media marketing. I remember some heady days at WebProNews when we got...
Microsoft Busted For Paid Wikipedia ‘Spamming’
Microsoft has recently come under fire by Wikipedia and its founder Jimmy Wales after it was made public that Microsoft was contacting technical writers and...
Fox Supoenas YouTube & Google for User Identity
Fox has supoenaed Google’s YouTube to find out which users uploaded episodes of 24 and The Simpsons according to Google Watch’s Steve Bryant. The subpoena...
China Has 137 Million Users That Need a Purified Environment
The number of internet users is up to 137 million according to the latest report from the China Internet Networking Information Center. A report released...
SimplyHired Job-a-Matic Syndication Strategy
SimplyHired (and its competitors Indeed, among a couple others like Oodle) promise to take the pain and inefficiency out of searching for a job by...
Google Receives 1,000,000 Job Applications a Year
Here are some amazing numbers, Google receives over 1,000,000 job applications a year and denies 99.5% of them. In 2006 Google hired only 5,000 new...
Yahoo Search Marketing’s New Quality Ranking : Patent Info & How To’s
On Monday February 5th, Yahoo! will be going full speed ahead with the US based relaunch of Yahoo Search Marketing and its new ranking model...
Yahoo! Q4 Earnings Beat Estimates
Here’s the partial release text (full text here): SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 23, 2007 – Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today reported results for the fourth...
NOFOLLOW Wikipedia to PageRank Zero Campaign
For those of you who missed the big news Sunday & Monday, all outbound Wikipedia links are using a NOFOLLOW tag, which basically means they...