Earlier in the month Google began its unofficial crackdown on pages which openly sell links in an effort to capitalize on their Google PageRank. Google’s crackdown; lowering the PageRank of those pages.Danny Sullivan eluded to this in October and we published the unofficial confirmation of this via Matt Cutts a couple of days after the [...]
Well, another Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Cowboys whooped the Jets, and like most Americans, I woke up this morning feeling like I’m carrying a bag of sand in my midsection, wondering how I ate so much turkey and trimmings, finishing them off with more turkey for desert and then some turkey again [...]
The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until something happens that will make most people happy.Here are two posts related to this subject from this month where I actually left long comments already, before I decided to make [...]
We have all heard of, and commonly utilize, Yahoo Search Marketing, Google AdWords, Ask.com Sponsored Listings, and MSN adCenter and most search marketers are generally happy with their proven results. Although these powerful search marketing solutions are robust and drive millions of searches and clicks per day, there are many other paid search engines that [...]
Interesting thread on DigitalPoint this morning about the influx in traffic from images indexed in Google Images and other image search engines, and how they can attract a decent amount of traffic. In some circumstances, a well optimized image file with a keyword rich filename, alt tag and title (if it is hyperlinked) can show [...]
Gary Price noticed a rather intriguing Google domain transfer yesterday which occured in a batch which included mostly the domains reflecting the names of Google products and misspellings : GTaxes.comThis may be a clue that Google will be offering a tax preparation service, or some kind of spinoff from Google Finance where users can take [...]
Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) basic link building for blogs begins with listing them in blog directories. Personally, I love launching a new [...]
Paglo which just launched yesterday in beta claims itself as the Google of IT. A free and on-demand service for IT professionals, Paglo allows searching for businesses’ IT data and answers to computer , network and security questions. As an innovative search engine, Paglo combines multiple trend setting technologies that enable businesses to gather [...]
Hey, look! After dropping to a Google Toolbar PageRank 4 earlier in the month when Google cracked down on paid links, Search Engine Journal has returned to a PageRank 7. What do you know, seems that after adding a couple of tweaks to the linking structure and adding a couple of NoFollow’s, Google has returned [...]
On the same day that AOL introduced AOL Video Ticker Ads, Google AdSense is expanding their Video AdSense units to the UK, Ireland and Canada, in the safe beginnings of an International rollout which target other English speaking countries.Following their success in the U.S., we’re rolling out video units over the next several days to [...]
