ejd

Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 12:17 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.3dogmedia.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter has so many benefits and the opportunities you can find on Twitter are endless. It isn’t going anywhere and with over one million users, everyday that passes before you join is a missed opportunity for you.

Stop asking how and why. St read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 3:30 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
James Duthie tries to answer the question... Is social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 10:04 am
Posted By: toddmintz 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Networking
David Mihm discusses why it is advantageous to be an early adapter of technology as opposed to a herd follower. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Posted By: ciaran 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://voices.washingtonpost.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
The Washington Post reports on a planned feature of IE8 that could have grave repercussions for anyone using 3rd party analytics or ad serving software, as users may be able to block them.
"It has the potential to undermine the economies of the Int read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: miguelstil 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
An impactful story that shows that in a fast Web 2.0 world dominated by superfluous applications and services, there are still services that bring value in our lives. read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 6:18 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Mobile Search
Jeff Quipp writes, "Are iPhone type PDAs the way of the future. Will most searches be performed from such devices? I don’t think any of us can argue against it … it will happen … and in fact the transition is well under way. Accordingly, I thought t read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Posted By: philbutler 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
In the name of Google, and of Microsoft and of Yahoo!… Amen!

This is what the search world looks like since a few years. We fail to talk about something else when it comes to search engines. Even when pretty faces like Powerset and hakia dare to read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: billslawski 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://everydotconnects.com)
Category: Networking
What kinds of dangers might lurk on social networks when people set out to use them for nefarious reasons?

The article explores a scam that happened on Plurk and Twitter, but raises questions about how any social network can be abused. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: miguelstil 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Searching
Does a "social search engine" like newly launched Delver have a chance of becoming the new IT? Google's Joe Kraus does believe that social is "the new black" but how can a social startup compete with Google? Maybe the competition is out of the quest read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 1:33 am
Posted By: ViperChill 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A strange new bug in the search feature of the Yahoo Directory seems to be showing sites either hosted or extensively cross-linked with the site you are searching for. read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 8:14 pm
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Rand doesn't buy the "flash is now SEO friendly" spiel for a second. Here's why... read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: SEO
Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 11:34 am
Posted By: davidmihm 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: SEO
Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you improve your read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 3:54 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 1:44 pm
Posted By: JGFox 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bramblog.com)
Category: SEO
From the story: This is pretty cut/dry - we found a couple of cloaked redirects on Trulia’s site. It looks like they’re doing it simply to pump the PR of specific pages, and to get some good sitewide one-way links. read more »
33 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.splitbrain.org)
Category: Google Other
So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: rhcerff 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Ask.com
Ask.com... getting closer to core search or simply trying to increase the number of searches? Barry Schwartz gets to the nitty gritty... or not. read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:53 pm
Posted By: dlarson104 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://humor-2-0.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Hilarious list of the things a wife (or any spouse) have in common with Twitter - the site we all speak to more often than speaking to our spouses anyways! read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: cre8pc 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Sometimes the fault lies not with the SEO, but with the fact that nobody followed their guidance. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 5:11 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Stoney deGeyter writes, "Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. One of the primary areas of concern is making sure the search engines not only continue to deliver traffic to your new location, but read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Social Media
Mack Collier writes, "More businesses than ever are exploring the possibility of using social media tools and sites to help grow their business. But many of these efforts aren't very effective, and I think that is due to many businesses simply misu read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 2:33 am
Posted By: miguelstil 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Aside misinformation regarding Yahoo! Search and Microsoft, what else is wrong with The Telegraph? It occurs to me that the purpose of the Telegraph.co.uk article mentioned in the opening of this entry is to promote search engines affiliated with th read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: cre8pc 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Networking
What if we could make ‘Net communication more bendy, fluid, mingly, or centered where we can be together in the same space, rather than continue to go into our separate rooms, slamming the door behind us. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 6:16 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
From the page: "The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web."

I suspect this number will increase substantially each year for so read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 1:47 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 168 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Whenever I take part in a Site Review session at some conference, one of my fellow panelists will inevitably tell a webmaster something like, "You don’t have an XML sitemap. Create one and submit it to the search engines as soon as you can." But I b read more »
9 Comments     

Top 10 Most Sphunn
In What's New

  1. 5 Counter-Intuitive Holiday Season ... (20)
  2. DeSphinn Topic Suggestions So It's ... (18)
  3. Google 2009 Holiday Gifts (18)
  4. Fifteen Marketing Books Every Marke... (17)
  5. The Pros and Cons of Junky SEO-Only... (16)
  6. How to Use Twitter as a Twool (15)
  7. Interview with Social Media Markete... (15)
  8. What Can or Should Be Included in a... (14)
  9. SEO Tops Recession Internet Marketi... (14)
  10. Top 12 Facebook Marketing Hacks (13)

Latest Comments

Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
• SMX West - Feb. 10-12, 2009
• SMX Munich - April 22-23, 2009
• SMX Social Media Marketing - April 29-30
• SMX Advanced - June 2-3, 2009

Search Marketing Now

Learn more about search marketing through free online webcasts and webinars from our sister site Search Marketing Now.

Upcoming Webcasts: