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The Art and Science of SEO Site Audits [Best of SEW 2010 #10”
SEO audits are essential. Here are tips on how to get started with your own technical SEO audits, diagnosing on-page and off-page issues that…
Tis the Season to be Shopping: How Virtual Goods Are Impacting Holiday Shopping Culture
E-cards to virtual meals - how virtual goods have changed in 15 years.
Click Fraud: What Is Your Ad Network Doing About It?
Click fraud is a serious problem. With proper vigilance though, your ad networks should be able to spot it and remove it.
comScore: Bing Search Share Sees Gains in November
Bing continues to grow its share of U.S. searches.
Search Week in Review for Dec. 18, 2010
Here’s a roundup of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Dec. 12 to Dec. 17, as reported by Search Engine…
Google Doing Body Searches
If you have a compatible browser Google offers an internal search of the human body in a new offering from Google Labs. Called Body…
Advertising On Twitter Hot Commodity To Major Brands
Seems Twitter cannot meet the demand from advertisers right now, Wired Magazine reported. The “company has signed on more than 80 of the largest…
Delicious May Live On Outside Yahoo
The Delicious blog told its members that they were looking for a way to cointinue outside of Yahoo and for them not to panic…
Google Refuses To Release Data CT Attorney General Wants To Check For Criminal Activity
Outgoing Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal requested the data collected during Google’s Streetview data recordings and the civil investigative demand had a Friday deadline which…
Google Releases 3D Maps v5.0 for Android
Yesterday Google released 3D Maps for Android phones equipped with Google Maps 5.0. Rather than stitching images together, Google Maps 5.0 uses scaleable vector…
New York City Wants to Build the Next Google
New York City’s Bloomberg administration wants to build the next Google in New York. Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, Robert Steel, gave his first…
Search is Search, Social is Social: Treat Them Separate
SEOs should keep doing the normal things to improve rankings in the SERPs. Tweets and Likes may generate some traffic, but these "social signals"…
Tron: Legacy Tie-ins Launch iAds for iPad, Yahoo Search & Virgin’s Project Magazine
Walt Disney Co.’s new Tron: Legacy movie is proving to be a strong marketing vehicle for tech companies who want to promote the potential…
Blekko Makes Your Facebook Likes Searchable
Search engine upstart, Blekko, has done in weeks, what seems to have taken Bing months to do – integrate Facebook like data into search…
Google AdWords Placement Targeting Campaign Tips
A step-by-step guide for advertisers on how to set up placement targeted campaigns.
Yahoo! Video Becomes #2 Video Site — Just Before Being Shuttered
Frank Watson reported earlier today that Yahoo! Video will close on March 15, 2011. A few hours later, comScore Video Metrix reported that Google…
R.I.P. Delicious, AltaVista, Alltheweb & 5 More Yahoo Products
The hits just keep coming at Yahoo. A day after laying off about 4 percent of employees and shuttering Yahoo Video, a screenshot leaked…
Star Wars Reference Hidden In Google AdWords Thank You Video
The Google AdWords team, who are celebrating 10 years of AdWords, sent this hilarious video out to advertisers yesterday in 43 different languages –…
Carol Bartz Has No Flickr Account Writes Flickr Enthusiast
Following Carol Bartz’s email, announcing 650 layoffs at Yahoo (just days before the holidays), Thomas Hawk, an enthusiastic Flickr user – one of the,…
Has Google Jumped the Shark?
Google's core product (search) has become steadily inferior while distracting people with "cool" technologies. Here's my wish list of things Google should change in…