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SEW Experts: The Future of SEM Education
Online advertising continues to grow in both good times and bad. That’s good news for search marketers. In today’s SEM.edu column, “The Future of…
SEW Experts: Link Building: Understand Where You Are To Know Where You’re Going
In link building, if you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up someplace else. In today’s link building column, “Link Building: Understand…
Pre-SES San Jose 2008 Conference blog coverage!
Exclusive pre-SES San Jose 2008 conference interview with Orion Keynote panel speaker, Rob Murray, iProspect! Read all of Rob’s SEM insight at SEMGeek blog…
SearchDay: What’s Wrong With Being Cuil?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: What's Wrong With Being Cuil?; Google vs. Yahoo on Paid Links; Marchex Launches Integrated Local Ad Platform;…
What’s Wrong With Being Cuil?
Cuil may be a good search engine...someday. But launching it as a "Google-killer" was a mistake. What have we learned today? First, make sure…
Italian Broadcaster Sues Google, YouTube for $779 million
Google is facing another YouTube law suit, this time from Italian broadcaster Mediaset, which is controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The suit was…
Marchex Launches Integrated Local Advertising Platform
Marchex is integrating online and offline lead generation methods in its launch of Marchex Connect 2.0. The local advertising platform offers three products: online…
Yellow Pages Beat Other Local Media in Online Sales in 2007
Local directories made 9% of their gross revenues online in 2007, while other local media such as newspapers and TV only made 5% online.…
Ask.com and IAC Beat the Street:: 2Q 2008 Earnigs
Some skeptics have publicly predicted the death of Ask.com. With IAC planning to spin off its properties into four units, that’s a bold prediction…
Ask.com Parent Co. IAC Posts 7% Growth for Q2 2008
IAC, the parent company of top-5 search engine Ask.com, has posted a 7% year-over-year growth in revenue for the second quarter of 2008. IAC…
Google vs. Yahoo on Paid Links
Google created a firestorm in the industry with its Paid Links directive. So where does Yahoo stand in the Paid Links debate?
SEW Experts: What’s Wrong With Being Cuil?
Cuil may be a good search engine…someday. But launching it as a “Google-killer” was a mistake. In today’s Searching for Meaning column, “What’s Wrong…
SEW Experts: Google vs. Yahoo on Paid Links
Google created a firestorm in the industry with its Paid Links directive. So where does Yahoo stand in the Paid Links debate? In today’s…
SearchDay: Press Releases and Search Engine Optimization
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Press Releases and Search Engine Optimization; When's an Outage More than Just an Outage?; Google's Sergey Brin…
Google’s Sergey Brin on Local Mobile Search
In 2005, O'Reilly proclaimed it the "Year of Local Mobile Search," but that didn't work out. While this year may not merit that title…
Cloud Computing Unites Yahoo, HP, Intel
Yahoo, Intel and Hewlett Packard announced an alliance to advance “cloud computing,” backing a global trend that threatens Microsoft’s iron-fisted grip on packaged software…
Press Releases and Search Engine Optimization
Issuing press releases without regard for SEO is a wasted opportunity. Combining press releases with SEO efforts can help gain presence in the editorial…
The Real Reason No One Can Beat Google
When it comes to beating Google, many entrepreneurs attempt to have what they consider better results than Google. Whether its indexing a trillion pages,…
T. Boone Pickens Sells Entire Yahoo Stake, 10 Million Shares
I was literally in the middle of writing a post entitled “All Quiet on the Yahoo Front” when news broke about T. Boone Pickens…
20% of Primetime Television Now Watched Online
Online video consumption has been on the rise for a while, and now Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI) is releasing demographic and behavioral data…