SEO.
Free Pot
The subject line in my inbox was pretty compelling. An offer like “Free Pot,” after all, is hard to pass up… if you’re into that kind of thing.…
Social Bookmarking Made Easy By Socializer
I reported on a tool named Socializer, an automated social bookmarking service that you can easily add to your content. This service…
Amazon Changes “Did You Mean?” Result For “Abortion” Query
Wired News reports that Amazon has changed the way to handles the search query “abortion.” In that past, Amazon would place a…
Esther on Goodmail
Tech investor Esther Dyson weighs in on the AOL/Goodmail debate with an editorial in the New York Times (registration req.) today. Venerable…
Clusty Adds Search Feature To Help Cluster Results For End User
Clusty, a search engine that is focused on clustering results, has added a new feature according to ResourceShelf that makes viewing clustered…
Growth in Ad Spending Led by Internet in 2005
Advertising on the Internet increased by 23.3 percent in 2005, compared to the previous year. The data are from preliminary figures released…
Bluefly’s Handbag Catfight
Bluefly’s launched a new lead-gen promotional campaign, the IT-Bag-a-Day Giveaway. They’re giving away 45 “to-die-for” designer bags between now and the end…
Ultimate Googling with Advanced Dork Firefox Extension
Search Engine Journal covers at new Firefox extension named Advanced Dork that enables advanced Google searches with a right click on your…
iOffer Pokes Fun at eBay
eBay is a tough one to compete with, but an easy target. While P2P commerce site iOffer might not follow an auction…
Didn’t Get That Wedding Gift? Blame The Search Engines!
Search engines are appearing to be indexing gift registries and ranking them well enough to be found by unsuspecting online consumers. This…
Google Buys Writely
As rumored, Google bought Writely. As John Battelle so, uh, rightly points out, Mountain View is head-to-head with Redmond, from demographic site…
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…
Music’s Payola Compared with Web’s Link Buying
Techdirt compares buying links to payola, “the illegal practice of record companies paying money for the broadcast of records on music radio.”…
Don’t Overlook SEO for Your Podcasts
Even though podcasts are audio files, there are a number of steps you can take to optimize them so that they’re more…
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?…
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