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Jersey Lawmaker: Let’s Squelch What Makes Web Debate Great
First, they play favorites with the smoking ban, now this. My home-state’s lawmakers can be an entertaining bunch, till I remember I pay their salaries. So, the latest…
Tips On Monitoring Online Reputation
If you missed my coverage of the Reputation Monitoring & Management session from the this past conference or the conference last December…
Is Google Getting Sloppy, or Sly?
Last week, Google was rushing to “clarify” statements by its CFO that revenue growth levels could not be sustained, which sent its…
Feedster Enters Asia-Pac Through Japan
RSS feed search engine and ad network Feedster has partnered with Japanese conglomerate Mitsui to launch in Japan. Feedster will provide the…
Something Else the RIAA Doesn’t ‘Get’: Podcasts
Fausto Fernos and his partner produce Feast of Fools. It’s the top-ranked gay podcast on iTunes where it also ranks as one…
Writing for Search Engines by Copying and Pasting
ClickZ links to a great undercover project by the Wall Street Journal named Our Columnist Creates Web ‘Original Content’ But Is in…
EFF Reports Sharp Growth of Anti-AOL Coalition
Non-profits are scoffing at AOL’s invitation to join its Enhanced Whitelist for free. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which organizied a cabal…
Hosted Doorway Pages & Paid Links Back At Stanford University
Bouncing ball time. Last April, I wrote about how the Stanford Daily newspaper was selling links for those seeking to rank better…
Email Bomb Them out of the Stone Age
Get this: According to today’s Wall Street Journal Washington Wire column, the inspector general’s office at the Homeland Security dept. can’t widely…
Google Sitemaps Adds Top Keyword Positions, Top Mobile Queries and CSV Downloads
Google Sitemaps has announced the ability to see your average position for search queries, top search queries from mobile devices and the…
“Strange Bedfellows” Draw A Bead on AOL
Brace yourself, AOL. This is getting really interesting, and really, really weird. Close on the heels of MoveOn.org’s petition earlier this week,…
MoveOn Moves Against AOL
MoveOn.org is accusing AOL of threatening “the very existence of online civic participation and the free Internet as we know it.” How?…
Search Marketing for News and Blog Services
While a good search marketing campaign is obviously targeted first and foremost at the major search engines, other sources of traffic are…
A Word About Comments
A reminder to our readers: This blog accepts comments and we’d like to hear from you. So much so that we’ve just…
GoDaddy Woos the Ladies
Maybe it’s hoping to win back the women it’s alienated with its adolescent Super Bowl ad campaign. Whatever its motivations, GoDaddy has…
Blogathon to a Safer Internet
Last week the European Commission held a worldwide “Safer Internet Day” to draw attention to any potential dangers of using the web.…
Yahoo! Issues “Beliefs”
Search engines are navigating rough political waters, both at home and abroad. They’re filtering search results in China and other countries that…
Lee Odden Interviews Eric Ward
Eric Ward is a long time speaker at the Search Engine Strategies conferences and is considered by many the granddaddy of link…
Google Officially Confirms Traffic-Power Ban From Index
Google’s Matt Cutts has provided official confirmation of a ban on the Traffic-Power domain name and some Traffic-Power client sites. Matt writes…
Specialized Search Tools for Academic Content
When you’re looking for magazine or journal articles, search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better…
New Yorker Forums a Den of Spam
This is strange. The New Yorker’s official forums contain about two spam posts for every legitimate one. The folks at CondeNet should…
Answers.com Adds New Ready Reference Content to Database
It’s great to see that Answers.com, a “ready reference” service with a growing database of factual information from a wide variety of…
IAB Releases Updated Spider List
Spider/Bot Chase Goes Trans-Continental at ClickZ and IAB Updates Bot and Spider List at MediaPost both cover how the Interactive Advertising Bureau…
The Wayback Machine Announces Larger Archive
We’ve noticed that the publicly announced total size of permanently archived web pages found in The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has increased…
More European Automaker Sites Do Doorways & Should Search Engines Be Able To Enforce Spam Rules?
Dave Naylor’s been doing a tour of European automotive sites and finding others that are doing the doorway page dance that got…
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