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Keeping SEO Staff Motivated and Driven
With the proper incentives, you can keep your link marketers productive and driven while reducing staff turnover. Talented link developers are hard to find…
Delving into the SearchMonkey
Yahoo announced today the general public availability of their SearchMonkey program. This is a program that has been in beta testing with limited partners.…
Yahoo’s SearchMonkey Open for Developers, Launches Contest
Recently, Yahoo announced SearchMonkey, which will allow developers access to open source to create applications for search results. Well, today is the day that…
Yahoo Confirms Icahn Proxy Fight
Yahoo has confirmed that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has initiated a proxy fight via an open letter to Yahoo’s board of directors notifying them…
Comcast Aquires Social Networking Site Plaxo
Plaxo has signed an agreement to be aquired by cable giant Comcast, accoring to a post on the Plaxo blog. The two companies had…
How to Bury Negative Online Mentions of You – Intermediate Level Tactics
Yesterday I published a post on the Search Engine People site titled 50+ Sites to Help You Bury Negative Posts About You or Your…
Wikipedia Traffic Grows 8,000% in 5 Years Due to Search Referrals
Nielsen Online has released data showing that Wikipedia’s 8,000% growth in the past 5 years is attributed to search. Really? Is that what happens…
Ask.com to Acquire Dictionary.com Family of Reference Sites
IAC-owned Ask.com has agreed to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. The move will help Ask.com fulfill its recent…
Icahn Trumps Yahoo Board: “You’re Fired!”
Yahoo may need to fight off Carl Icahn Syndrome by Proxy today. Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) is a type of factitious disorder which…
eMarketer Lowers Social Network Advertising Projections
eMarketer is lowering projections for social network advertising from $1.6 billion to $1.4 billion for 2008. Two reasons are attributed to the adjustment: a…