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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 becoming increasingly important. News and blog…
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…
AOL CertifiedEmail Is Not E-mail Postage
AOL is not charging postage for e-mail. There’s been a lot of misinformation about that point in the past week, as a…
Google Sitemaps Stats On Most Common Words In Your Anchor Text & Site Content
Along with the cool new robots.txt checker, Google Sitemaps has also released stats showing the most common words used on pages within…
France’s Exalead Continues Growing, Database Passes 4 Billion Page Mark
Throughout 2005 one of the most impressive new, general purpose, web engines was Exalead from France. Several of our posts are linked…
The chrisisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg & gurtieisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg SEO Contests
I know, I know. I swore off writing about SEO contests. But the chrisisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg SEO contest is different, as it involves…
Google Bans BMW Germany, Ricoh Germany
Last week, I wrote about BMW Germany being spotted spamming search engines. Google’s Matt Cutts posted on Saturday that the site is…
Targeting Local Searchers
Although SEM on local search verticals bears many resemblances to global search marketing, there are subtle nuances and differences in searcher behavior…
Everything’s Contextual
Was scanning through my Google Gmail spam folder the other day and noted… not contextual ads… but contextual spam recipes. They appear…
BMW Germany Dinged For Doorway Spam
How about a little old skool search spam? OK, Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped points out in BMW’s Doorway Pages that the…
World Association Of Newspapers Dislikes Search Engine Exploitation, Clueless About Robots.txt Banning
Newspapers want search engines to pay over at News.com covers the World Association Of Newspapers planning to challenge the “exploitation of content”…
Bloggers have options, but where’s the money?
Google’s looking to improve it’s standing with bloggers by offering up some AdSense tips for bloggers. The Inside AdSense blog shares tips…
But does it sell cars?
Land Rover North America is out with a new marketing effort that aims to show off what the vehicle can do. The…
Sharing and Sending Web Content and More Via SMS
I’m constantly sending reminders to myself and others via SMS (text messaging). In today’s SearchDay overview of the new Google Toolbar 4…
About/NBC Blog
Another sign the pace of change in digital media has hit ludicrous speed: a “were blogging” announcement seems quaint. Under a cross-promotional…
What’s the Domain Threshold?
A reader called in and asked if there was any research I’ve come across that determines the maximum length a URL can…
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