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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...
AskCity vs. Citysearch : IAC Local Search Properties
There’s something of a dance going on between the new AskCity, which got huge amounts of coverage since launch a week or so ago, and...
Local.com Adds Holiday Shopping Guide of Local Retailers
Local.com has debuted a new online gift guide to make it easier for consumers to shop for holiday gifts in their area via Local.com, here’s...
Pay-Per-Post Blogging OK With Search Engines
Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz had the chance to pose a question to representatives of the major search engines which has been on the minds of...
Search Keyword Prices & Branding
SEM firm Fathom Online has been reporting flat (or declining) average keyword prices for the past several quarters. But that doesn’t entirely make sense. Paid...
Google Audio Ads On The Radio
Google Audio Ads, the radio advertising division of Google AdWords, is part its development stage and Google is now beginning a limited test of the...
Get Links from .gov Sites
Ever wonder how you could obtain one of those juicy links from .gov sites which may or may not give your site super link building...
Zillow Free Listings & Other Features
Plugging a hole that has existed since launch earlier this year, real estate valuation site Zillow is going to start allowing local realtors to post...
Google, Click Fraud and Hezbollah & Al Qaeda Terrorist Groups?
At the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago, Webmaster Radio‘s Jim Hedger is currently holding a press conference which is making public the investigative report...
Japan’s Bloggers Focused on Companies & Brands : Social Media Implications
I found this news piece a bit interesting when sifting through the press wires this morning; Technorati Japan has worked on an amazing study which...
Yokel Brings Local Shopping Search to Smart Phones
Yokel, Inc. has added new capabilities for local shopping search from smart phone devices including the Treo, Blackberry or Motorola Q, which all can now...
Powerful Linking for Google
Aaron Wall at SEObook has put together a thought provoking post on current linking techniques, structure, and how Google reliance on trusted sources & domains...