A Geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter is a new completely free eBook describing Twitter promotion potential and tactics. The book will guide you through Twitter basics to advanced actionable advice: the power of 140 characters and how

Google Adwords publisher who wants to have a low minimum CPC bids on their ads need to do something with the landing pages of their Adwords ads. Adwords has incorporated landing page load time in its keyword’s quality score. Hence, the slower an ad landing pages load, the lower the keyword’s

A long time aggregator of information provided by third parties, the perfectly named local search engine; Local.com, has launched their own proprietary local consumer ratings and reviews system whcih allows users to create an account and enter ratings and reviews for any business listing that appears

Michael Gray delivered an excellent presentation as part of the Bot Herding panel at SMX Advanced 2008. His discussion focused on the topic of PageRank sculpting, and more specifically - how important it should be on your list of priorities as an SEO. Agreeing with much of Michael Gray’s thoughts

The battle still remains between the two largest online social communities, Myspace and Facebook. While many people think Myspace is “dead”, the site was up a 7% in May compared to May 07’. Facebooks’ numbers were quite impressive increasing 83% from May 07’ according to Nielsen Online reported

Google is doing their part to celebrate gay pride and gay marriages in California with a new addition their search results for gay oriented terms; flying the gay pride flag between the organic search results and the Adwords search results on the right side of the serps. A colleague sent me a screenshot

Back in March Hitwise published its UK search report on differences between plural and singular keyword forms echoed by multiple bloggers enthusiastically encouraging webmasters to focus efforts on plural because plural form was proved to send more traffic. Recent news on Google Trends new makeover

If you’re the top honcho of one of the major internet player, and it happens to be your first year anniversary on the job - would you be happy knowing that the men and women who are supposed to greet on this special dare are leaving your company one after the other? Alright, that was a badly conceptualized

An often discussed lately geo targeting and IP delivery poses another rather interesting question: how to deal with multi-language countries like Canada or Switzerland? IP delivery won’t work here as people located on the same territory may speak different languages and interested in the corresponding

Careerjet, a job search engine celebrating its 8th birthday has many great accomplishments to its credit. First, the engine supports 56 country specific sites in over 20 languages. Second, it has launched public APIs and innovative affiliate programs for both online and offline partners. The crawlers

Microsoft has announced that it might open a Search Technology Center (STC) in Europe next year. The STC will be created to hasten Microsoft’s investment Live Search as well as to disrupt the search and advertising marketplace to their advantage. “As I stated in my May 18 memo about our Online

A couple of weeks ago Search Engine Journal covered the controversy behind Google StreetView and their Google Armada trespassing on private property and filming homes and the happenings on such property despite obvious no trespassing postings. The story was about a small St. Paul Minnesota suburb named

Before I start reviewing available tools showing which keywords your competitors rank high in Google, let me describe how you can use this information: do not just copy-paste your competitors’ keywords, use it as additional help for your keyword research; compare which keywords your competitors

In what could be another blow in Yahoo’s fate, Yahoo EVP Jeff Weiner unexpectedly bolted out from the Yahoo camp due to personal reasons as explained by Yahoo President Sue Decker in email (via Techcrunch) to Weiner’s team. I wouldn’t question why  instead of CEO Jerry Yang, it was

A SEJ reader sent in the following question: Is it a must to create a sitemap for your site and submit it to Google? Can it harm? This is an often asked question, surprisingly. Webmaster forums keep discussing horror stories how their site traffic dropped after they created a sitemap and submitted it

“In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.” This sentence was probably the most overlooked part of the Yahoo & Google press announcement which was sent out

The verticalization of search has made its way into the analytics market, as Indeed.com, the search engine for jobs, has announced the launching of Indeed Job Analytics. Indeed Job Analytics reports are customized for each company and will answers many questions commonly asked by employers, that normal

I have recently covered a number of topics on backlink analysis, so make sure you haven’t missed anything: Tools to explore backlinks anchor text; Advanced link: operator to explore your competitor’s backlinks (in Yahoo); Analyzing your competitor’s backlinking strategies. Today I am going

A few days after the Yahoo-Google deal was finalized, Bilionnaire Carl Icahn commented a rather unexpected remark especially coming from somebody who was opposing Yahoo’s decision not to except the Microsoft bid. What’s even worst, that someone has even waged a proxy battle to overthrow

Do you love Search Engine Journal? One of our lovely and loyal readers, a staff member of Dr. Michael Dorausch (who we sent to SMX Advanced) and Planet Chiropractic, sent us this appreciative photo this morning, via Twitter and Flickr : Wowza! After picking my jaw up off the floor I was thinking that