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Yahoo Search Indexing Google AdWords Links
Some disturbing news about Yahoo Search and the indexing of Google AdWords links. Seems that the Yahoo index is including Google AdWords and other PPC...
Linkbait Driving the Creative Side of SEM + How to Develop those Links?
I saw first hand the decline of an SEO company that fell because (among other still contentious issues) it focused primarily (and at times quite...
MIVA Unveils MIVA Monetization Center
MIVA, who is better known as one of the larger 2nd tier PPC search marketing networks unveiled at their headquarter in New York City yesterday...
Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton vs. John Edwards : Looking at Search Stats
Barack Obama is filing his campaign papers and beginning his exploratory committee which basically means that leading up to the 2008 Presidential Election, Obama, John...
SOAP API : Alternative to Google Search API
Google is not offering feeds to their search results (besides Google Custom Search) and new API keys are no longer available, what’s a web publisher...
Yahoo Answers Adds Stars : Sharing, Votes & Networking
The Flickrization of Yahoo continues… Yahoo Answers has updated with a new sharing system which lets Yahoo Answers users share Questions & Answers they feel...
Mobile Local Search : New Findings & Data
comScore is putting out two reports on cell phone usage and attitudes in the US. Here’s the press release. I’ve written up the top-level findings...
Google Checkout vs PayPal : JPMorgan Report
JPMorgan as put together an overview of a study they recently undertook where they surveyed over 1,000 consumers to gauge their online spending behavior, adoption...
Don’t Put All of Your Search Marketing Budget in the Google Basket
Yesterday Greg Sterling reminded us all of Google’s search engine dominance and the growth (or decline) of the market share of Yahoo!, Ask.com, Live (MSN)...
Vertical vs. Horizontal Search Engines
So-called vertical search is all the rage. Why? Partly because “horizontal” (general) search has limitations and partly because it’s almost impossible to get VCs to...
Google Pulls Links to Yahoo Maps & MapQuest
In a “why didn’t they do that earlier?” news story of the day we read that Google has taken out the links to Yahoo Maps...
How Blogs Help SEO
Great post from Lee Odden today on how blogs and blogging helps the SEO of a site with a blog, or a business using a...
Google SafeSearch Results for ‘Sex Video’ Block Wikipedia
Was going through my referring keywords today and noticed a rather odd term sending in Google traffic; “sex video.” Knowing that I’ve posted stories about...
Megite : Interview with Matthew Chen of Megite.com
Today I had the chance to speak with Matthew Chen, the co-founder of Megite, which is a real time news aggregation service. You’re probably familiar...
Building the ‘Local Internet’
The NY Times’ Bob Tedeschi writes about an emerging category of sites forming a kind of “virtual town square,” so-called hyperlocal content sites (awkward term)...
2007 : Year of Google Base
Brian Smith of Comparison Engines has a very indepth post about how he feels Google Base will break out of its shell in Q1 2007...
SponsoredReviews.com Joining Paid Review Services
Another paid blogging review service is popping up soon to join ReviewMe and PayPerPost; SponsoredReviews.com. The service is being launched by Text Link Brokers (no,...
Smart Spam via .EDU Link, Greed and Stanford Site Exploit
This post looks like taken straight from the SEOBlackHat.com Blog, but it is not. I am showing you in detail a very clever trackback spam...
Google AdWords & Domain Parking : Garbage Paid Search?
Richard Ball emailed today to fill us in on the current issues he’s having with a large amount of Google AdWords Paid Search (not contextual)...
Malware Warnings in Google Searches
Chris Boggs points to the Malware Warnings that Google is serving on specific searches which may lead to sites which are peddling malware : While...
Social Media : Get Used to It
For the past couple of years I have been preaching the gospel of user-generated content and reviews. I often encountered considerable skepticism from former colleagues...
Google PageRank Update: What it Really Means
It’s confirmed, Google just launched a new PageRank update. We’ve been expecting one in January and now virtually everyone is excited about their improvements or...
YouTube More Popular Than MySpace.com?
Found via Digg, Smaran Dayal looks at an Alexa comparison of YouTube and MySpace over the past six months which shows that although MySpace shows...
Questions for StumbleUpon: What Would You Ask Their Co-Founder?
I’ve got an SEJ interview coming up with Garrett Camp, co-founder and chief architect of StumbleUpon. You’ve most recently heard of StumbleUpon in regards to...
Seo Is Simple Revisited
A client pointed me to one of the latest installments about how easy SEO is. This time it was Blogoscoped that laid out the easy...
Why Yahoo Needs MyBlogLog, and Vice Versa
Yahoo has made another successful and smart social media acquisition in MyBlogLog which can now be added to their list of grassroots early adoption web...
Microsoft Analytics to Challenge Google?
Rumor is floating around that Microsoft is about to come out with a free web analytics service which will rival Google Analytics. The project is...
How to Spam Digg Comments, by Neil Patel
Neil Patel of Pronet Advertising takes the time to remind us all that Digg.com’s homepage is not the only traffic driver on the social news...
Apple iPhone : WiFi, Google, Yahoo & Mac OS X
The rumors were true. Here’s the news. Here’s the WSJ (sub req’d) article. From ComputerWorld: The entire front of the quadband GSM phone serves as...
Social Media Marketers: Have You Tried Digg + MySpace?
So um, is there any kind of social media marketing besides Digg bait? Does craigslist spam count as social media marketing? ;P What ever happened...