Adam thinks that Flickr will be bought by Google early next year. This isn't the first "Google wants to buy Flickr" rumor I've heard, but it is the first one I've seen on a blog.

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Some more interesting details regarding the iProspect acquisition by Isobar Worldwide are revealed by Mediapost.

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Gigablast, an internet search engine corporation, unveiled its "Custom Topic Search" (CTS) tool. The new tool offers webmasters the ability to tailor their website's search to a custom topic. The topic may be defined by a list of hundreds of arbitrary websites.

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Since Microsoft officially announced the availablity of the MSN Desktop Search their blog has received over 100 comments which includes some interesting and useful feedback.

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Hitwise announced in its Internet usage report that Google is dominating the holiday search engine traffic.

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"Yahoo kicked the engineers aside quite some time ago. Co-founders Jerry Yang (does he still carry the title of "chief yahoo" on his business card?) and David Filo probably still do engineering type stuff, but the business is handled by people who know how to run a large media company.

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I haven't said much of anything yet about MSN Spaces, but it's been amusing to watch the reaction to their lame attempt at censorship of blogs.

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Google announced late last night that they have launched seven non-english editions of their extremely popular Google News service. The news sites all have a similar appearance, but they are in seven different languages. They also are focused on the geographic region they serve.

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Nothing's better that to announce something that will happen in the future. You get the publicity without actually having to deliver the goods.

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America Online is offering a beta version of their desktop search utility, which is powered by Copernic. This download is available to all AOL members. The AOL/Copernic partnership also indicates that desktop search has become another hot spot for search developers.

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Barbara Wawa featured the 10 Most Fascinating People on tonight's 20/20. I really don't like "Babs" so we hope you enjoy the sacrifice we suffered to bring you this transcript and screenshot. ;-)

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Our friend, Amanda Watlington, has been keeping a low profile since her departure from iProspect, but she resurfaced at SES San Jose and appears to have moved on to better things.

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Join now to take advantage of the Lightspeed Affiliate Bonus Program. Three top performing affiliates by year-end will be rewarded with cash bonuses on top of their regular commissions..

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Shannon Bauman, Associate Product Manager of Google Groups announced the launch of a new and improved Google Groups.

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Singingfish which was acquired by AOL a year ago has revamped their multimedia search engine for the public.

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Chris Gaither takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the increased number of press releases that mention of Google.

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SEO Experts Robin Nobles and John Alexander will be together in Disneyworld Orlando to conduct their SEO Mastery Workshop on December 6 thru 10.

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Many marketers know that search engine marketing is among one of the best methods to get visitors to their websites. It's a profitable way to reach new subscribers and new customers.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Up and coming web browser Firefox is looking to secure allies as it prepares to challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer for browser dominance. One of the potential partners being spoken of is search engine Google.

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An Internet marketing slip-up in the presidential candidates' websites was uncovered by Atlanta search engine optimization company (SEO) Prominent Placement.

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Search Cacher released its innovative ESA-series appliances, an integrated hardware/software enterprise search solution for Intranet and Internet deployment.

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With desktop search being one of the remaining frontiers for the search engine industry, there is competition to see who can develop an effective means of searching contents on a computer. Recently, a few software packages have upped the ante considerably. Copernic, Blinkx, and the announcement of Mac's Spotlight are a few of the better-developed solutions.

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In search of the tools to make strategic decisions about paid search advertising, Atlas DMT, a digital marketing technology provider and an operating unit of aQuantive, released research demonstrating the rank of a paid search listing and its impact on conversions.

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Which Search engines provide the most relevancy for website ad producers & SEO specialists? I believe the answer is in letting the market (the end user) decide which search engine brings the most meat to the table. This can easily be determined by viewing the little known unique visitor statistics of the top search engines. Could knowing which search engines are receiving the most traffic aid you in SEO, and thus increase traffic to your own website? The very thought is extremely tantalizing.

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Continuing their (exponential?) company growth, Google has introduced another service, this time, aimed at the mobile phone generation. SMS, short for Short Message Service, allows mobile phone users to send text messages to one another. In this case, users send queries, in text message format, to Google search.

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News releases issued over PR Newswire's premium national newsline, US1, will now automatically be optimized for better search engine placement and enhanced access reporting, the company announced today.

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The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) is launching a first-ever comprehensive survey to estimate the size of the North American advertiser spending on search engine marketing and critical trends in the burgeoning SEM sector.

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DoubleClick released a new white paper on search engine marketing considerations for optimal campaign performance.

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This new technology will allow users to browse the internet from any Palm Pilot or Blackberry device, as well as internet enabled mobile phones. SearchGuy Mobile has been tested in over seven countries, with an average result time of just over two seconds per search query. SearchGuy Mobile will officially launch on Nov. 1st as a wholly owned subsidiary of SearchGuy.com.

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The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) appointmed of three new members to its Advisory Board that will provide different perspectives of the online industry and non-profits to help with the organization's strategies and goals.

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The geniuses at Google Labs (labs.google.com) are always coming up with new innovative ways to allow people to search for information. With over a billion pages indexed, Google is the largest search engine and should stay that way for the foreseeable future.

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If you've ever suffered from back pain you'll relate to the grief that I discuss in this article. You'll relate even more if your back pain started on the onset of your SEM career. Not surprisingly, mine did.

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If you're sick of being #987 for your best Google keyword phrase, here are simple-to-implement changes that can skyrocket your listing (and they don't have anything to do with what is ON your page!)

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With more and more experts and search engine enthusiasts claiming the right way and the wrong way to handle link swapping, link exchanging or reciprocal linking!

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If you've been sitting and wondering why the traffic to your website is trickling in to your website ever so slowly then this article is intended to help you add some much needed oomph to your marketing campaign by using a linking strategy.

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When Google launched Adsense, millions of website owners scurried to sign up. By adding "AdWords Text Ads" to your website, you can make a nice little income with no work on your part. Once the code is placed on a page, Google scans it for a theme and shows ads related to the content it finds.

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On Sept. 2, Google announced that they would now allow their AdSense clients to post ad code in two or even three places on their site.

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Marketers stake much of their livelihood on keywords, whether for proper search engine optimization or targeted pay-per-click advertising. One challenge faced by inexperienced marketers involves knowing which phrases to target out of hundreds of combinations.

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I discussed how Google's Page Ranking System has become obsolete, but at the same time, many business savvy entrepreneurs still give it credit and could possibly discredit or credit your website accordingly to it's rank.

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Recently there has been a spate of well publicized court cases against SEO companies who have been involved in dubious practices such as making false claims or false guarantees.

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As you know, a Flash movie as the index page of a site has always been a major problem with search engine optimization. There's simply no content for the search engines to index.

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As if Google.com had any problems with acquiring new technologies along comes Picasa.com and helps Google let people share graphics and video for free!

Google.com has always been synonymous for giving people what they wanted and best of all for free. Since this recent acquisition, Google continues to snap up quality companies that it feels that is inline with its vision.

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For a long time now, marketing gurus all over the world have been talking about google page ranking. Page ranking is simply Google's way of measuring your pages accordingly.

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If you're going to sell any type of product or service online, you're eventually going to have to optimize your Web site for the Search Engines, in order to boost traffic and sales.

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What is CSS? CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a webdesign language that is used to increase the look and feel of your website. It can be of great use when you are optimizing your website for search engines. Search Engines go through your website as fast as they can. So usually its better to have less code and more content. CSS allows you to use simple tags in your code and have high effects.

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Both search engines and customers love fresh, updated information. Some people groan at the thought of having to work so hard at adding new content, but it's not as complicated as you think!

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Starting out, the two biggest keys to success in the search engines (Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc.) are content and incoming links. People argue about which plays the largest role, but I just suggest doing your best at both.

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Daniel Boone was known as one of the most famous trailblazers. Boone helped blaze a trail which later became known as the Cumberland Trail. A few years later Boone blazed the trails from the Carolinas to the, then, western territories, those trails became known as the Wilderness Roads. While people can blaze trails in the wilderness, search engine spiders cannot. Search engine spiders require through your site to find your pages.

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Well, I bet many of you have been trying to find tools to help you in optimizing your website for search engines. So I thought I would throw together an article with a list of really useful tools (and of course ill give you a link to their websites so you can download them to!)

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In the world of search optimization, one thing is clear… content is king.

The more content (and keyword specific content), the more information the search engine spiders have to ‘crawl'. When I say crawl, this is what I mean…

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In the PPC world the more you pay the higher you rank. A #1 ranking on Overture for "search engine placement" would cost $8.01 and a #3, $5.25. It has generally been understood that this is a major difference between the PPC engines and the natural engines. You can't buy placement on the natural search engines … or can you?

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So, you want your Web site to rank high on Google and other search engines.

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So, you want your Web site to rank high on Google and other search engines.

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Many website owners put the cart before the horse- anxious for search engine traffic and rankings, the first thing they do once their site is complete is buy a "submit to 1,000 search engines for $29" service. Unfortunately, what they receive is a tenfold increase in e-mail spam but no increase in search engine traffic.

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One of our members asked for a study of keyword location on a page. Is it more effective to have your keyword mentioned in the top third, middle third or bottom third of a page?

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In a few weeks, users of MSN Hotmail will be offered 250MB of storage space. The upgrade will take place in early July, Microsoft announced today.

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It is a well known fact that writing, distributing and posting articles to various location on the web is an extremely effective way to generate targeted traffic and establish yourself as an experienced marketer in your field. Unique articles that help solve the reader's problems, assists the reader in advancing their marketing acumen, or otherwise generally inform tend to stay posted on many web sites throughout the Internet and usually generate targeted traffic for the writer.

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Joel Johnson created a buzz by reporting that some Gmail invites and emails aren't getting through to Hotmail users. Several reports also claim the emails aren't getting through Yahoo! Mail filters.


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There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the search engine world of late and there are lots of conspiracy theories as to why these things happen.


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If you want to create web pages optimized for a search engine, one of your first tasks will be finding relevant keywords around which the page should be built. The more specific you can be in selecting relevant keywords the better chance of getting targeted traffic to your web page.

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You've likely heard of the movie, Jerry Maguire, with its famous line, "You had me at hello." Jerry Maguire was luckier than web sites we find in search engines. Many web sites don't attract user devotion at the first word, let alone after scanning the home page.

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Search engine optimization is a precise process... without the right tools you could be losing business to your competitors. With WebPosition Gold, you get the complete view of your search engine results:

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Unlike part one , the rest of this article series will outline fewer Google API applications, as it focuses on only one thing. By the time you finish reading it, you will know how to implement what in my humble opinion, is the best way to use certain Google API Applications to enhance your own site.

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There is no doubt that competition between businesses on the World Wide Web is increasing. If you aren't feeling the heat yet, you will soon enough. In order to survive, you must have a sharply focused strategy in all aspects of your online presence.

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With thanks once again going to Andy Beal, WebProNews has discovered a bad case of spam on Teoma's search engine results. A search for the keywords "company names" finds that one site has several mirrored listings in the resources section.

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Recently DarkBlue.com initiated a competition to see who could rank #1 for the keyword nigritude ultramarine. The idea of the competition is to see what works and what does not work in search engine optimization of websites. To aid in creating useful findings, the competition has two winners. The first winner will be announced in early June and the second winner will be announced in July. The idea is to see who can get to the #1 position in a short amount of time as well as to see who can optimize the best for the long term.

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nterview With Gimpsy Founder - Mordechai Chachamu
Gimpsy is a different kind of directory, listing only sites that provide online activity or help you accomplish a specific task. Gimpsy founder, Mordechai Chachamu explains why.

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Load all the keywords you want. Set up all the landing pages you want. Create enough ways for your prospects to find you at the top of Google. It doesn't matter. You'll be bypassed by savvy searchers soon enough if you aren't careful about content.

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Searching online can not only be fun, but you sometimes need to be downright inventive.
For those of you who have been searching online for years now, you've probably adapted ways & techniques to find what you are looking for quickly.

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The question for this article is whether or not you should use "absolute url's" or "relative url's"? Not only that, this article researches whether or not Google ranks these methods differently.

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This is a sly traffic idea I got from my Kentucky cohort Garrett French. Garrett writes for WebProWorld.com.

Garrett and others in the search engine optimization forum noticed a large number of visits from people using either Google's image search:

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