Jun
30
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Search June 2008 Index UpdateYahoo has warned us of an up and coming Yahoo Search index update. Priyank Garg & Sharad Verma of Yahoo Search said, [...]
Jun
30
Yahoo Search June 2008 Index Update
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Yahoo has warned us of an up and coming Yahoo Search index update. Priyank Garg & Sharad Verma of Yahoo Search said, Yahoo will “be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days, but expect the update will be completed soon.”
The last Yahoo update was just [...]
Jun
30
Search Biz: Yahoo Morale OK, Musical Chairs At Google, Microsoft, Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook Board, & Tech Giants Fight “Patent Trolls”
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Lots of action for SearchBiz today; let’s start with Yahoo. Fortune reprints a purported Yahoo employee email that is very upbeat and flies in the face of the gloom and doom analysis going on in the blogs. Meanwhile, TechCrunch reports on another executive loss at the company, while Carl “proxy fight” Icahn uses his blog [...]
Jun
30
Search Biz: Yahoo Morale OK, Musical Chairs At Google, Microsoft, Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook Board & Tech Giants Fight “Patent Trolls”
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Lots of action for SearchBiz today; let’s start with Yahoo. Fortune reprints a purported Yahoo employee email that is very upbeat and flies in the face of the gloom and doom analysis going on in the blogs. Meanwhile TechCrunch reports on another executive loss at the company, while Carl “proxy fight” Icahn uses his blog [...]
Jun
30
Yahoo Officially Discontinued The Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool
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I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool no longer takes you to the tool, instead it redirects you to the Yahoo Search Marketing landing page. I emailed Yahoo for a statement, and they have confirmed that they have decommissioned the tool.
There are tools you can use within the [...]
Jun
30
Google Blocks Anti-Obama Blogs Flagged Incorrectly As Spam
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My day started reading about how Google was reportedly censoring
anti-Barack Obama blogs by shutting them down on Google-owned Blogger. I
quickly did some debunking in a comment on our Sphinn site — but still,
Google probably needs to do more to ensure its Blogger spam [...]
Jun
30
Blog Your Way to a New Career
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Today Chrissy Scivicque from OfficeArrow.com shares her story of building up her blog, selling it and then being hired to keep developing it - many bloggers dream.
There’s no denying it: blogging is now considered a legitimate way to launch the career of your dreams. The opportunities for bloggers are numerous and they only continue to [...]
Jun
30
Fred, YouTube Sensation
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This video has over 2.7 million views on YouTube. And over 23.000 comments. It’s by YouTube sensation Fred, 14-year old Lucas Cruikshank’s fictional 6-year old with “anger management issues”, as his channel explains – and this is by far not his most popular video. Some of his other videos, done in a high-pitched voice, fast [...]
Jun
30
Asides: Easy, Free Event Invites
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Check out Goovite for easy, free event invites
Jun
30
Over the last week I’ve run some Crazy Egg heat map tracking on two posts on Digital Photography School (both of which got to the front page of Digg and got a lot of traffic) that both highlight to me a very simple method of increasing the number of pages that people view when they [...]
Jun
30
Matt Cutts On SEO Tips & Fighting Spam
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Google’s Matt Cutts has recently provided some advice on SEO and explained how Google combats spam.
Matt recently was interviewed by Jefferson Graham of USA Today. The article was named Google’s Cutts: Good directions drive traffic to your website. The article covers five topics of SEO including keyword phrases, title tags, links, blogs and [...]
Jun
30
Competitors Taking Action Against Competitors For Search Ad Trademark Infringement
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Search ads trigger trademark lawsuit from rival from News.com reports on another search ad trademark lawsuit. This one differs in that the plaintiff is not suing a search engine, but rather suing his competitor.
NameSafe sued LifeLock for allegedly allowing one of their resellers to show search ads with NameSafe’s trademarks within the ad copy. [...]
Jun
30
One could liken Google to a house that keeps expanding, with new room additions every few months. Google’s house is already the largest on the block and it seems to keep getting bigger. Two related moves represent further expansion. The first is the announcement last week of the Google Media Server, which conveys content from [...]
Jun
30
As anyone who has seen the Terminator or Matrix movies can attest, if machines rule the world humans are in deep trouble. Similarly, if you allow machines to control the PPC keyword creation process you are guaranteed to both leave opportunity on the table and flush money down the toilet.
The reason is simple: [...]
Jun
30
Over the last two weeks I’ve been running a 10 part series here at ProBlogger on 10 ways that you can let your blog go and what you should do about them. The series is now complete with the following 10 methods to let your blog go.
Lack of Posting
Getting Off Topic
Becoming a Self Centered Blogger
Great [...]