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[2004-11-30] Meta-Search Engine Integrates PPC and Local Search
Rather than build an index of the entire Internet from the ground up, meta-search sites like WiderSearch.com create an umbrella of results from a number of different search engines.
[2004-11-30] Blog + Feed + Press Release = Top Yahoo Rankings in 1 Week
I just had a great Yahoo experience with one of my sites this past week. Within the last 7 days, I've gone from being invisible on Yahoo to having top listings on a number of targeted keywords and I thought some of you might find it useful if I explain how it happened.
[2004-11-30] Google Offers Share Buyback
Reuters reminds us that Google still has the small issue of 23.4 million shares that were not correctly registered with the SEC.
[2004-11-30] How To Improve Your Search Engine Ranking
With search engines like Google currently indexing over 8 billion pages, it is becoming more and more difficult to get a top search engine ranking. Type in a popular search phrase such as "Internet Marketing" into Yahoo or Google and you will be returned over 8 million results!
[2004-11-30] Ten Steps To A Well Optimized Website - Step 6: Human Testing
Welcome to part six in this search engine positioning series. Last week we discussed the importance of internal linking. In part six we will cover the obvious and yet often overlooked importance of its appeal to a real-live human being.
[2004-11-30] I’m Rubber, You’re Glue Corporate Strategy
Trademark infringement lawsuits while worrisome in the short-term, is ultimately much ado about nothing.
[2004-11-30] Here Comes Bloghorn!
Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft's MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week.
[2004-11-29] Want Press? Just Mention Google!
Chris Gaither takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the increased number of press releases that mention of Google.
[2004-11-29] Ask Jeeves Not in the SEO Business or are they?
Gary Stein picks up on a story we blogged about Ask Jeeves having SEO services. He contacted Ask for an official response, which was...
[2004-11-29] Does Site Match Influence Organic Results in Yahoo!?
In March of 2004 Yahoo! consolidated its paid inclusion programs and branded them under the Overture Site Match brand. Site Match allows you to submit sites to Yahoo, AllTheWeb, and AltaVista for a $49 review fee and a category based cost per click of $0.15 or $0.30. In other words Yahoo! combined their Pay for Inclusion with Pay Per Click.
[2004-11-29] A Search Engine for your Television
Save this CNet article for your coffee break, as it's quite lengthy. Bottom line? Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all working to bring search to a TV screen near you.
[2004-11-26] A Very Froogle Friday
Karen Padham, Froogle Product Manager, wants everyone to include Froogle in the day after Thanksgiving shopping tradition.
[2004-11-25] Ask Jeeves Featured In Today's Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Ask Jeeves internet "butler" in huge balloon form is featured in today's Macy's Thanksgiving day parade seen by millions.
[2004-11-25] Lots of Google Desktop Downloads
John Battelle has data from the Majestic group that demonstrates more than 1.3 million unique users visited the Google Desktop download page.
[2004-11-25] New Google Backlinks Update
A Google backlinks update is now on its way! You can see some changes via the "link:" command in Google.
[2004-11-25] SEO Is Bunk
I find it ironic that SEO firms are drawing moralistic lines in the sand. As I have stated my controversial opinion here before, SEO is bunk. "White Hat", "Black Hat", whatever, it is bunk.
[2004-11-24] Google Euphoria Continues
Just when you though Google's stock was heading for sub-$150, Goldman analyst Anthony Noto initiates coverage on Google with an "outperform" rating and a price target of $225.
[2004-11-24] Search Engine Vanity Overload
Charlene Li points to Ziggs, a new search engine thats helps users find business professionals and helps professionals massage their ego.
[2004-11-24] Ask Jeeves and Lycos offer SEO Services
ISEDB reports on moves by Ask and Lycos to provide SEO services and predicts tough times ahead for SEO firms.
[2004-11-24] Searching Publications with Ebrary
I haven't checked, but I bet Gary Price is all over this story from the Mercury News, "Searching Publications Online".
[2004-11-23] Search Engine Strategies in Chicago
Jupitermedia's Search Engine Strategies Fall Conference & Expo 2004 will be held December 13-16 at McCormick Place-Lakeside Center in Chicago.
[2004-11-23] SEO is Going to Disneyworld
SEO Experts Robin Nobles and John Alexander will be together in Disneyworld Orlando to conduct their SEO Mastery Workshop on December 6 thru 10.
[2004-11-23] Google Names New Vice President of European Operations
Google names Nikesh Arora Vice President of European Operations and strengthens focus on Europe. Arora will lead Google's growing european business.
[2004-11-23] gdSuite: a Google Desktop add-on
gdSuite is a Desktop Search client. This means that you can use gdSuite to search for files, e-mails, web pages you've viewed, AIM conversations you've had, and, in the near future, Trillian chats and Gmail.
[2004-11-23] Google Director Sells 250,000 Shares
Ram Shriram, a director of Google, sold 250,000 shares of Class A common stock last week, according to recent regulatory filings.
[2004-11-23] Searching for Something? Ask Your Butler!
USA Today has a great article on the rise, fall and rise again of Ask Jeeves. From their "highs" of $169 stock price, to the "lows" of an "ask a question" model that never really worked ...
[2004-11-23] MSN Search Listening To Their Users
The Microsoft Search team, in their blog, thanked all of those who have given them feedback "via the website and around the blogosphere".
[2004-11-23] New Froogle Feature Gives Mom Access To Your Christmas Wish List
If you want to make sure you receive the items you need this Christmas, then you need to take advantage of the latest feature at Froogle.
[2004-11-23] Yahoo Search Team Parties In Las Vegas
The Yahoo Search team is back from the WebmasterWorld conference in Las Vegas. It sounds like they had a great time conferencing.
[2004-11-22] Google Sued For Unauthorized Links To Proprietary Adult Images
Adult publisher Perfect 10 has sued Google for allegedly making available 800,000 unauthorized links to images of Perfect 10's nude models, advertising revenue and stealing membership fees.
[2004-11-22] iProspect Jumps the Gun
We were a little perplexed when we saw iProspect's announcement that all of their PPC staff had been given the new Google Advertising Professionals certification.
[2004-11-19] MSN Search Tells Why Pages Are Not Crawled Or Indexed
Eytan Seidman, MSN Search Program Manager, commented in the MSN search blog on the question of why a site is not crawled and why a page may be crawled but not indexed.
[2004-11-19] Yahoo Talks Turkey
The Yahoo search blog team is already in Thanksgiving holiday spirits. In their most recent blog post they discuss how searches are spiking for Turducken, Tofurky and other bird related items.
[2004-11-19] An Online Home-Based Business Can Lead To Search Engine Stress
As a member of several search engine optimization forums, I have recently noticed (especially since Yahoo recently decided to try their hand at competing with Google) that the stress level of many webmasters has gone way up. This applies not only to webmasters involved in Internet-based home businesses, but to webmasters in general.
[2004-11-18] PubSub Launches New Content Search Engine
PubSub reads over 6.4 million weblogs, more than 50,000 internet newsgroups and all SEC (EDGAR) filings.
[2004-11-18] Search Engine Advertising Secrets: How to make headlines, Research Study
Here are several more of the most successful headlines I've used over the past 24 years of helping companies improve their search engine marketing leverage. Let's talk about headlines and search engines advertising.
[2004-11-18] Nokodo's Public Beta Reshuffles the Web
Nokodo Search Engine Technologies has opened a public beta for the Nokodo.com search engine.
[2004-11-18] Google Scholar Beta Launched To Search Scholarly Documents
Google continues its role as the leading search engine innovator with the live beta launch of Google Scholoar.
[2004-11-17] MSN Enhances Multilingual Search
Basis Technology announced that Microsoft has chosen the Rosette Linguistics Platform to support Web searches in its new MSN search engine.
[2004-11-17] Blog Site for Careers in Search Engine Industry
JobsInSearch.com has launched a blog site aimed at providing news, views and information about careers in the search engine industry.
[2004-11-17] Fortune 1000 Companies must Target Single-Word Keywords
Search Engine Marketing Firm iProspect released the iProspect Natural Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Keyword Length Study.
[2004-11-17] MSN Search Blog Takes The High Road
The Microsoft Network search blog team announced a set of principals and aspirations that will guide them in their weblog postings.
[2004-11-16] Google Stock Price Falls Big After Lockups Expire
Google's stock, GOOG, has plummeted more than 6 percent as selling restrictions were lifted on 39 million shares held by early investors and employees.
[2004-11-16] MSN: Desktop Search Screenshot Postings Are Unauthorized
The MSN Search Team pointed out in their blog that postings of screenshots of their desktop search product are unauthorized.
[2004-11-16] Yahoo Has Big Plans For RSS Content Syndication
Yahoo has big plans for RSS Content Syndication according to Jeremy Zawodny, a Yahoo employee.
[2004-11-15] Organic SEO vs. PPC Advertising
When you purchase visitors or "clicks" from a search engine, this is called "pay-per-click" (PPC) search engine advertising (or PPCSE). Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Advertising allows you to quickly get top search engine placement by "bidding" (paying) for keywords related to your product or service.
[2004-11-15] Feedster’s New Blog Search Enhances RSS Search Service
Feedster announced its ability to segment search results by source type. The first example of the resulting specialty search engines is found at blogs.Feedster.com. The Feedster service provides users the ability to search for RSS feeds.
[2004-11-12] Get Better Search Results by Specifying Preferred Geography
Searchers using Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL are learning through experience that they can get better results by specifying their preferred geography in conjunction with a search term.
[2004-11-11] Google & Microsoft Argue Whose Is Bigger
Today, Microsoft unveiled its new beta search engine saying they have "the largest index of information," with over 5 billion web pages.
[2004-11-10] Explore All Link Popularity Options for SEO
SEO has increasingly concentrated on a single factor in the major search engines' algorithms-link popularity.
[2004-11-10] Dogpile's New Enhancements
Dogpile has launched significant enhancements to its metasearch platform. Dogpile's new IntelliFind technology utilizes sophisticated query intelligence to assess the likely intent behind every entered query, enabling Dogpile to return more relevant results from a wider array of content sources.
[2004-11-10] SEO Pressure on B2B Companies
Oneupweb published a research study showing that 46 percent of BtoB Magazine's Top 100 Advertisers showed only nominal search engine optimization or ignored it all together.
[2004-11-10] MSN Set To Launch Search Services
On Thursday, November 11, Microsoft is preparing to launch their search presence to the public… again. A version of their search engine has been available on search.msn.com and on their sandbox site for some time now. This "release" is expected to be a media blitz that will announce MSN Search to the general public.
[2004-11-09] New Toolbar from SEO, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization, Inc. unveiled a first-of-its-kind toolbar that provides instant access to detailed information on backward links to any website for all the major search engines, giving marketing professionals a powerful new aid in their efforts to maximize company Web rankings.
[2004-11-09] Marcel Media's New SEO Services
Marcel Media, a Chicago-based interactive marketing agency, announced today a suite of services designed to help companies drive qualified leads, gain web traffic and win new customers by assuring top level listings on search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
[2004-11-09] Consumer Goods Keyword Prices on the Increase
Nowhere is the dynamic crossfire of the search engine market better revealed than in the volatile fluctuations of the costs of its keywords.
[2004-11-08] Major Search Engines Still Getting the Traffic
Despite recent publicity of several alternative search engines, as well as general excitement for the broader search industry, search traffic and its growth still resides largely with the major engines.
[2004-11-08] Atlas Search Focuses on Marketing Strategy
At AD:TECH New York, Atlas DM released two cases studies demonstrating the success agencies and direct advertisers are having with Atlas Search, the industry's first integrated search marketing and online campaign management system.
[2004-11-08] SEO Company Wins AMA Award
Prominent Placement, Inc., a leading Atlanta search engine optimization company, received AMY Award accolades from the American Marketing Association (AMA) for the firm's strategic Internet marketing campaigns for clients CompuTaught and The Banker's Exchange.
[2004-11-08] Blog Search Engine Brings MoBlogs into Search Engine World
Blog Search Engine and IceRocket Search have partnered to bring cell phone pic blogs, or MoBlogs, into the search engine world with a new search feature which produces image results of the latest MoBlogs images available.
[2004-11-08] Feedster Launches Developer Network and Contest
Feedster has launched its developer network and contest for best new applications and uses for its technology.
[2004-11-08] Ten Steps To A Well Optimized Website - Step 3: Site Structure
Welcome to part three in this search engine positioning series. In the last article we discussed the importance and considerations that much be made while creating the content that will provide the highest ROI for your optimization efforts. In part three we will discuss the importance of site structure.
[2004-11-05] Local Search Platform gets Local Web Search Features
PremierGuide announced the addition of local web search features to the company's flagship local search platform.
[2004-11-05] Get Spidered By Google-Fast-And Get Paid for It!
Google is the king of search engines. No one else even comes close. Due to search partnerships with other sites (like Yahoo) means 250 million searches per month.
[2004-11-03] Nationwide Local-Search Portal Powered by Interchange
Interchange's Local Direct search and advertising platform is powering On-line USA's nationwide local-search portal.
[2004-11-03] Interest in Better Desktop Search Swells
Interest in a better and integrated desktop search product is swelling, and it may add a new dimension to the features that end-users demand. According to IDC, software vendors must decide whether desktop search should be a standalone product or a necessary feature.
[2004-11-03] Interland's Paid Search Advertising Packages
Interland has released MyEzClicks, a suite of paid search advertising packages for small businesses, to existing and new customers with managed services hosting accounts.
[2004-11-03] Steps To A Well Optimized Website: Content Creation
Welcome to part two in this search engine optimization series. In part one we covered the importance and tactics for choosing the keywords and keyword phrases that will provide the highest ROI for your optimization efforts. In part two we will discuss how to properly write content for high search engine positioning.
[2004-11-03] Copernic Initiates European Market Penetration Strategy
Copernic and its international business development partner Contraco initiated a European market penetration strategy by announcing German, French, and Dutch versions of the award-winning Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) product, with an Italian version soon to follow.
[2004-11-02] Yahoo Preparing To Enter Desktop Search Too
When dealing with Internet technologies, following trends seems to be the norm. What one company does successfully, the others will probably mimic in some shape or form. With this in mind, Yahoo has also announced that they too will be releasing a desktop search utility in the near future.
[2004-11-02] Choosing Keywords: What They Don't Tell You
Let me start off by saying that I am no web design expert but I have designed a few websites and the biggest challenge I found was choosing keywords. It seems like it would be easy but it is not.
[2004-11-02] The Reality of Search Engine Submissions
Over the last few months, search engine submissions have changed dramatically. Now is the time to analyze the way we're submitting our Web pages and to rethink our submission strategies.
[2004-11-01] Boston SEO Firm Grows by 100%
The recent buzz surrounding Google's IPO and its surging stock price has brought attention back to a very hot sector of Internet marketing known as search engine optimization (SEO).
[2004-11-01] A9 Releases Toolbar for Firefox
A9.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, released the A9 Toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
[2004-11-01] New Search and Advertising Portal from EZ2 Companies
EZ2 Companies has launched its EZ2Ask.com website, a premium web search and advertising portal.
[2004-11-01] SearchGuy.com Goes Mobile
SearchGuy.com has launched the much anticipated SearchGuy Mobile technology. This new technology will allow users to browse the Internet from any Palm Pilot or Blackberry device, as well as Internet enabled mobile phones.
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