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IAC’s CitySearch Buys InsiderPages
VentureBeat reports that Citysearch/IAC is the mystery buyer of InsiderPages — purchase price not disclosed. I would guess it wasn’t more than 2x what the...
Local Search : User Recommendations Make Your Business Money
Today I made plans to go out tomorrow evening to a Thai restaurant in Tampa, my new hometown. I’ve only been here 3 weeks and...
Google ReBang : Chinese Language Zeitgeist
Yesterday Philipp Lenssen found that Google has added “/rebang” to their robots.txt file. Usually when Google is going to launch a new service or channel,...
Has SEO Ruined PR & the Press Release?
Public Relations and Press Relations are built upon the foundation of the PR practicioner being a middle man between the business world and the media...
Microsoft Acquiring TellMe Voice & Directory Assistance?
TechCrunch is reporting that voice services and automated directory assistance (DA) provider TellMe, which I’ve written about several times recently, is being acquired by Microsoft....
SEO Clinic : Submit Your Site for SEO Advice
SEO Clinic is a new project we are now offering on Search Engine Journal for webmasters and site owners which are not experiencing their desired...
11 Networking Tips for Search Marketers
As a relative newbie to the industry I’ve managed to befriend experts, become a contributor to Search Engine Journal and win an iPod. Not bad...
Fuzzy Zoeller Sues Over Wikipedia Profile
Remember Fuzzy Zoeller, the controversial golfer who caused problems with Tiger Woods after his first Masters? Well, Fuzzy is in the news again, this time...
Yahoo Benefits from new Panama Advertising System
comScore has released some data which shows significant gains in the amount of search advertisements which were clicked during the first week of the new...
Google Video, AdSense & Content Syndication
The NY Times reports (via LostRemote) on how Google is boosting video content syndication from major media partners like Dow Jones: Google is working with...
The Oscar Goes To – According to Google Trends
Just a couple of hours to go and it will be clear which movie is getting the Oscar for best film. I was wondering whether...
Last Week in China – Chinese New Year, Baidu in Japan and More Google
The Chinese New Year is a week old now and slowly life is getting back to normal in China. Even the firecrackers will stop waking...
What Diggers (Did) Miss Out On
Dave Naffziger posted a list of 183 Sites and Blogs of the Alexa’s Top 10,000 that are banned from Digg.com. Now it seems that the...
Did Digg Lift Some Site Bans?
Do you believe that? I was working on a longer article about the Digg.com bans, because ReveNews.com, a blogger News site with over 20 Bloggers...
Ready to Become an ODP Editor at Dmoz.org?
Less than a week after motsa’s announcement at the Resource Zone Forum for Dmoz Editors that the Abuse Form is available again (see SEJ coverage...
Domain Name & Web Site Appraisals
Today on Digg.com, one of the top stories is a domain valuation tool run by DNScoop which valued YouTube at $969 Million and Digg.com at...
Weather.com Adds Interactive Radar Maps Powered by Microsoft
In a nice pickup for Microsoft, Weather.com has made the switch to Virtual Earth powered maps which feature interactive radar maps powered by Microsoft.
Yahoo! 2007 Searchlight Awards : Surprise Winner
I had the honor of being a panelist for the 2nd (now) Annual Yahoo! Searchlight Awards. Also on the panel were Brad Berens, iMedia Communications,...
Search Engine Journal $595
Advertise on the Search Engine Journal for only $595 per month (Less than $2 CPM). Average of 17,810 visits per day in October 2006 (total...
New Yahoo! Show Slightly Off Key
It’s ironic that Yahoo! hired Lloyd Braun from ABC to create new in-house content just as user generated content took off. The only thing that...
Putting An End To Supplemental Hell Because Of Site Moves, Site Restructure Or Big Site Launch
Loren’s post and Matt Cutts comment about sites being de-listed from Google because of down-time and also some discussions about problems with site moves from one...
Should URLs in links use index.html?
When it comes to the best URL structures and formats, the most common question I get is in regards to the best way to reference...
WikiAnswers : The Wikipedia of Q&A Sites
Answers.com has completed the first stage of integrating content into WikiAnswers, a Wiki Q&A service. The content on WikiAnswers is an ongoing collaboration of shared...
The Mobile Search Battle
Here’s a nice overview piece — together with the requisite “who will win?” dramatic elements — from BusinessWeek, covering mobile search: The emergence of Internet-connected...
Microsoft’s Digg Competitor : MSN Reporter
Now that AOL has entered the social news arena with Netscape and Yahoo has incorporated various del.icio.us and Digg influenced services into its social media...
Ask.com & LookSmart Renew AdCenter License
LookSmart announced today that Ask.com, has extended its license of LookSmart’s AdCenter for Publishers through 2009. Ask.com uses LookSmart’s AdCenter as a component of its...
How to Increase Diggs Via Email & Instant Messenger
Neil Patel has a short and simple post today over at Pronet Advertising with the message against “Spamming Digg through Instant Messenger.” Neil’s theory is...
Link Building via Hosting Blog Carnivals
Blog Carnivals are posts, articles, and columns on particular topics which are passed on from different blogs, with each blogger adding their own thoughts and...
Amazon.com Should Acquire StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is becoming more and more popular by the day and has established itself as a dominant social network, site traffic builder and Internet navigational...
Google is Wikipedia’s Sugar Daddy
Hitwise put together some data which shows the increase of Google traffic to Wikipedia over the past year and reveals that Google downstream traffic to...