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PayPerPost Moves to Full Disclosure
PayPerPost has rolled out a new Terms of Service which, as effective today, requires bloggers to announce that specific Postvertising is indeed paid for.
MySpace.com on Cingular Cell Phones
Reuters reports the announcement coming today: Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular social-networking site MySpace.com on its phones...
Yahoo : No Click Fraud, But Plenty of Goodwill
Nice play on words from the Yahoo Search Marketing team as PepperJam reports on the back and forth requests for credits due to apparent ‘click...
Google Cell Phone (GPhone) and Its Prospects
Om Malik has an interesting post and speculation about mobile carrier Orange, mobile device maker HTC and Google teaming up for a Google-branded phone. Here’s...
Google Defines Good Linking & Bad Linking
Google’s Stefanie Ulrike Dürr has laid down the defining lines in the battle of link building and the value of link popularity. In summary, the...
Want to learn for real how to increase conversion, sales and ROI?
Marketing Experiments is looking for quallified Research Partners for the year 2007 who will work together with MEC using their GrowthEngine technology and methodology on...
Last week in China – A Lot of Baidu and a bit of Microsoft and Google
Last week in China, a Lot of Baidu and a bit of Microsoft and Google There hardly goes a week by that Baidu is not...
Google & Expanding Beyond the PC
There’s a long article today by Kevin Delaney in the WSJ (sub req’d) about Google’s efforts to woo advertisers into its print and audio ads...
Google Domain Registration : $10 a year?
Google has entered into the domain registration game via a partnership with eNom and GoDaddy, wherein Google is only offering the registration of .com, .net,...
2006 Search Blogs Awards — Nominations Now Open
It’s December 2006 which means like last year, Search Engine Journal will be hosting and holding our annual Search Blogs Awards. Last year was our...
Yahoo! Answers : Survey Says Users ‘Get’ Social Q&A
Yahoo! Answers is celebrating its 1st birthday today with a party and the release of some interesting survey data which shows why Q&A type services...
MySpace.com The Biggest?
There’s no offical comScore release out yet, but several sources are reporting (this is the TechCrunch post) that MySpace has become “the biggest site on...
decipho : New Social Search Engine
Decipho, a new search engine built upon categorization, voting, ranking and social media measurement, has launched today with some most interesting features, one of my...
Yahoo! Answers Celebrates First Year
Yahoo! Answers, the leading Q&A site on the web, has just turned one years old and is celebrating its thriving community of users and their...
Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’ Open to New Advertisers
This morning Yahoo! announced that its new search marketing platform, Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’, is now available to advertisers that wish to open a new...
Google Maps Plus Box : Local Meets Organic Search
Matt Cutts touched upon the addition to Google Maps powered collapsible maps Plus Box integrated within Google’s organic search results over the weekend, and I...
Search Marketing Recruiter : Josh Gampel
Looking for the SEO or Search Marketing dream job? Jessica Bowman of Business.com recommends the services of Josh Gampel, who is with recruitment firm Mangieri/Hull...
Yahoo Search Index Updating
Yesterday webmasters began noticing shifting and changing within Yahoo Search results. Usually, before such changes occur, Yahoo posts a Weather Report on the Yahoo Search...
Yahoo Paid Inclusion : Informative Overview
Yahoo has been practicing paid inclusion under the Yahoo Search Marketing and Inktomi umbrellas for almost 5 years, yet for some reason Paid Inclusion does...
Yahoo’s Reorganization is ‘Genius’
Bill Wise of Media Post has put together a thoughtful review of Yahoo’s reorganization. I had heard a couple of people referring to the Yahoo...
Google Earth Meets Wikipedia & Geographic Web Layering
Google has aggregated what it’s calling a “Geographic Web Layer” in Google Earth. It’s a collection of photos and informational content from Wikipedia, Panoramio and...
Google Traffic Distribution Dominated By Search
Hitwise’s Bill Tancer recently posted about the distribution of Google’s traffic across its many properties. As you might expect and has been historically true, that...
Google Says Click Fraud Less than 2%
Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim has an exclusive story running that Google AdWords Click Fraud is at or below 2% and that Google has the proof....
Yahoo Shopping Needs a Facelift
After Yahoo! showed me their new site for the holiday season, I was pretty much underwhelmed. How could Yahoo! Shopping not introduce something incredibly bold...
Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking
An online shoe store owner is threatening to sue a blogger Dean Hunt (DeanHunt.com) unless the blogger ‘lowers his Google ranking” for a keyword phrase...
Deals.com : Social Media Meets Couponing
Deals.com is a new service which mixes the online coupon clipping services of sites like DealofDay.com or SlickDeals with the social news popularity voting of...
Last Week in China – Myspace in China, Yahoo Faltering and Baidu Jumps the Sea of Japan
Some of the more noteworthy tidbits that happened in China last week, ok, in the last 2 weeks, as I was busy getting some sun...
Google AdWords Served on Orkut Terror & Jihad Groups
Over the course of the Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference last week Search Engine Journal covered the Google AdSense Clickfraud Botnet story broken by WebmasterRadio.fm’s...
Ask.com Sponsored Listings Traffic & Conversion Quality
Over at Search Engine Watch Forums, a member asks about Ask.com’s Sponsored Listings and the quality of traffic coming from them. Seems that results are...
Directory Listing Updates : Keep Your Details
Jessica Bowman, Director of SEO for Business.com, has been updating core directory listings over the past week and lends some good advice on keeping track...