Search Engine Journal

Semanti is your new search assistant and enhancer. It connects your social life and your browser-based collection of information (bookmarks) to search as well as helps personalize your search experience...

By now you must have read about today’s biggest news - Google Chrome OS. The Official Google Blog just broke the news, Google Chrome is about to give birth to a full blown Operating System By virtue of its name - Google Chrome OS will be built on the Chrome architecture...

SheSpeaks.com conducted a great survey of women’s online and computer habits, and published the results in a comprehensive 65-page document. It’s a fascinating study that looks mainly at women’s social habits online, and most definitely has implications for online marketing...

I don’t know whether you ever get this thought when touring the web, but there are some sites that I think ‘I wish I could get my hands on it!’…where you can see that SEO hasn’t even been given a second thought, but where great gains could be made from a few simple improvements!  ...

Yahoo is about to launch a new search-related product called Search Pad. This search feature which may be mistaken for Google’s now defunct Notebook service will enable users to save and organize search results...

A Disconnect Between Social Media Marketing And Amazon.com Recently I had an interesting interaction with Amazon’s affiliate program. Rather than telling you the story from start to finish, I am going to Tarantino it. I am going to tell you what happened, and then take you on a journey...

Users are the most important “elements” (forgive me the “impersonalization“) of any websites (especially social media ones of course): that’s them who build content and promote it by spreading the word...

Google Australia has added real estate search to its Google Maps service. This new feature will provide up-to-date listings of real estate property available in the market culled from inputs from Google’s real estate industry partners...

Bing was launched by Microsoft as a consolidated search engine brand and technology which the company hopes to compete side by side with Google. Bing’s much awaited launch caused some real buzz in the Internet world...

Honestly I didn’t notice the difference until I read from Mashable that Google have changed the way it displays search results. As usual, I couldn’t find any announcement about it at the Official Google Blog...

So while U.S. Anti-Trust Regulators are planning to investigate Google’s deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues amounting to $125m, Google continues to make Book Search a better and worthwhile service for their users...

A couple of days ago, Google announced the beta launch of AdSense for Mobile Apps. This is a new facility which iPhone and Android app developers can use to earn extra bucks by displaying text and image ads on their applications...

Tonight, Facebook will start allowing Facebook fan pages owners to get their preferred vanity URLs. If you will recall, Facebook started allowing Facebook users to grab their preferred vanity URLs for individual profiles and fan pages...

I already listed a couple of great Greasemonkey scripts combining Bing with Twitter: This time I am following up with more cool Greasemonkey scripts for early Bing adopters: 1. Bing Numbered Results: add numbers to Bing results: ...

In my last article, 8 Key Points to Multiple niche Sites And Controlling Back Links, I cautioned that you need to be careful that a niche focus site might overtake the main site in the SERPs for a particular phrase. One question that came up in the comments of that article was how to prevent this...

Chromatik is an experimental search engine by Exalead that offers a fun way to search for images by color. Search images by any imaginable combination of colors; Add keywords; Adjust image luminosity and saturation...

So finally, Google is opening up its Voice Account service, formerly known as Grand Central. The Official Google Blog announced that email invites will be sent out to those who have requested for an invitation when Google Voice was launched in March 2009...

First of all, let me start with a little disclaimer that I doubt about the ethics of the tool reviewed below...

Layoffs and budget cuts abound, there is no doubt that this recession is putting some serious pressure on marketers of all types...

Google Labs is testing on an experimental service which could probably pave the way for Google’s entry into the tourism vertical...

Yesterday Google, in cooperation with a group of tech companies, create a new search service with the specific aim of helping users find community service and volunteer events, and allowing them to share it to anyone...

Saving Google results as an Excel file may open up plenty of possibilities for advanced analysis you would never think of before. SEOquake is a FireFox addon that has plenty of options - and one of them is the ability to export Google search results in a CSV file which you can open with Excel...

I have said numerous times how much I love using Excel to get better organized. And using it for managing your link building campaigns is a must. Below I am listing a few examples created by others (maybe I’ll follow-up sharing my own)...

Before sometimes we published an article on 70+ Most Useful Mashable Posts for Search Marketers and Developers, which was gone hot over the Sphinn and was very popularise in the SEO industries...

Yahoo has just announced the launch of My Display Ads, a self-service display ad solution aimed to assist small and medium-sized businesses to put their ad campaigns on Yahoo’s content network. Yahoo...

I feel kinda stupid. Either I didn’t read the AdWords Help on Ad Serving settings closely enough (again), or AdWords made something super non-intuitive (AGAIN). More likely, a little of both...

I just receievd a message from a colleague that Yahoo has raised their Yahoo Search Submit (Paid Inclusion) price by more than 100%, without first notifying the ‘advertiser’...

Bounce Rate is one of the SEO key success factors that are always under the close radar for web analytics professionals and there are enough reasons for webmasters and Internet marketing professionals to be concerned about high bounce rates...

Given the global buzz and controversy over the Iranian protests after the questionable results of the Presidential election on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites which have been used by Iranians to bypass local censorship; Google has added Persian (Farsi) translation to their Google...

When it comes to the translation of web pages, or making your website easily available in other languages, ‘Google Translate’ is a very useful tool. You may not even realize it exists, which would be because it doesn’t on the dot com Google...

I have previously looked into ways to track Youtube - today I decided to share some cool tools that allow to track Flickr in a number of ways: 1. Track Flickr by a Keyword: Trackle, a handy tool reviewed by me previously, that allows to monitor Flickr site by any keyword...

I have already overviewed some ways to get more organized with Google calendar, and I am now planning to start the series reviewing advanced free productivity tools from time to time. The first tool in the productivity series is RememberTheMilk - a multi-feature productivity tool. 1...

I have noted a few times how Google’s RELATED: advanced operator may be useful. Today I am reviewing a tool visualizing how this operator works...

I have shared a few tools to combine Google and Twitter search. Now it is quite natural that some people would want to add Twitter search to Bing: 1. Greasemonkey script #1 inserts relevant Twitter discussions to the right of the general Bing results. It also acts as an ad blocker: 2...

Microsoft has filed a lawsuite against three individuals in Vancouver, British Columbia - Gordon Lam, Eric lam and Melanie Suen plus several corporations and unnamed parties. In the said lawsuit, Microsoft seeks around $750,000 in damages...

The use of TinyURLs for sharing links is getting popular in both Twitter and Facebook. Not only does those TinyURLs shortened the URLs of links that you share but it also these links look trendy...

Google SERPs consist of the page titles and search snippets generated based on your search query. The words used throughout the SERPs (excluding the search term itself) are your keyword closest neighbors, its related words that are often used in the same context...

A while ago, Google launched smart, stylish and faster web browser, Google Chrome, and after its launch, many more users downloaded it, and considered switching to it. Being an SEO Consultant so I needed an SEO toolbar for web browsers like Firefox and IE...

Google has just released a new and improved version of its web-optimized iGoogle for iPhone and Android devices...

A week ago, Twitter announced that it will start verifying accounts of Twitter users to prevent further impersonification of famous people...

Twitter SEO can help you take one more step towards owning your online reputation. When people think of Twitter, they don’t usually think of it as a SEO or reputation management tool...

Loop11 is a user-experience testing tool: it allows anyone to conduct user testing on any kind of the web interface. What’s more, it is completely free (but in private beta: you will have to send the request to register but as far as I understood everyone is invited to)...

As most of you have already heard, Google Webmaster Tools is getting a facelift. Changes include a simpler dashboard and more intuitive navigation, more top search queries and message subscription, among others...

It has always been a tricky path to make your page listing in SERPs stand out based on something else except for unique and catchy copy. Making your title in ALL CAPS in one such quite questionable tactic discussed at WebmasterWorld forums...

The day you open your business you become vulnerable to the good and bad publicity you can get from either satisfied or dissatisfied customers. That is the price you pay to run a business. It happens to everyone regardless of what you do...

So the title may be a bit aggressive, but come on, let’s be honest with ourselves, there are two types of people in the world of SEO. First, those people that are really good at implementing what they learn. And second, those people that only read about it and they never take action...

The Internet is a war zone. You build a site, do all the work you can on it and start promoting it. And as long as you are doing more than your competition, you will win, for a while. But only for a while. When you are on top, you are THE company every other competitor is gunning for...

Nowadays people search is as hot as never before - with so many social media networks people join to develop online connections and manage reputation it has become necessary to unite them all. I’ve seen and tested a few people search engines before - none of them seemed really impressive...

If you’re a serious SEO, this is the post to show it in the ‘Comments’ below. The following example is a real world example, from a large site, and not for the faint of heart. Keep in mind that we’re looking for tips that work in the real world, not Utopia...

We created aPPC ROI Calculator over at FuelInteractive.com to help you in a couple ways: If you haven’t started PPC yet, you can forecast your ROI. If you’re already running PPC, you can play with the metrics and see how you might increase ROI...

Ever since the launch of new Microsoft’s search engine Bing, people have been actively comparing it to Google (to have some fun just try this example: try searching for [linux] on both of them - classic!) So (just as you might have expected) I am offering you some tools that will make comparing...

We all are knew that how Google Toolbar is important for SEO and Online Marketers. We can use Google Toolbar in Firefox and Internet Explorer. The Google Toolbar has improved significantly since its introduction and now offers a number of useful features...

The Google Lat Long Blog has announced their roll out of the Local Business Center dashboard containing local listing and search data...

As I’m returning from SMX Advanced in Seattle, I keep thinking about the presence of Bing and the lengths at which Microsoft is going to promote their new search engine...

If this is any indication of the trend to come in the search engine market, it looks like Yahoo might be in serious trouble while Google may be slightly threaten...

There’s so much ‘noise’ in the world of Internet marketing, and especially about SEO, that I sometimes feel the edges are blurring...

If you are a non-US Internet user or just have to deal with multi-lingual or international sites, you should find the following addons useful: Google Global is a must-have FireFox addon for browsing international Google versions...

I’m not going to assume that Google’s sudden announcement of Google Square has anything to do with Microsoft Bing. Nevermind if Google intentionally or unintentionally announced Google Wave a few moments ahead of Microsoft’s announcement of Bing’s launch...

Shortly after the last holiday shopping season, marketers whipped out their calculators and started crunching the numbers...

As a professional blogger who talks about blogging, I get asked fairly often questions related to search engine optimization. Too often, it seems that these bloggers get too immersed into the inane tactics of SEO that they lose sight of the big picture...

We all know about and probably use Google Safe Browsing tool - the best idea is to use it to identify one of the reasons of a possible Google penalty...

Invesp has listed the Top 50 SEO blogs based upon their blogrank ranking structure, which looks at over 20 different factors to rank blogs such as Feedburner stats, indexed search pages, inbound links and different 3rd party ranking criteria...

Remember how I mentioned why it is a good idea to find each person across several social media networks and befriend him everywhere...

I spent the first couple years of my SEO career in the B2C arena and everybody wanted and needed SEO to establish their presence online. Individuals really understood that they needed SEO to make an impression on the internet...

It looks like the folks at Microsoft could no longer contain the excitement over their new search engine Bing. Bing is now alive and is starting to roar ahead of the June 3 schedule. That means you can start playing around Bing.com...

I have once looked into how Google may be viewing trust and authority where the most important difference is that trust is attributed to the domain whereas authority is attributed to a page. In both cases, the factors influencing Google’s opinion of the site are primarily external: i.e...

Ask ten SEO professionals whether it’s better to have all your content on one site or split it up, and you’ll get eleven answers (yeah, I’m usually able to see both sides of things and offer both opinions accordingly!)… Yet under certain circumstances, it just makes a great deal of...

I have looked already into ways to speed up some SEO tasks with FireFox shortcuts as well as create your own...

Google Enhancer is this week’s featured SEO FireFox addon for adding a few really nifty features to Google search results page: Google SERPs enhancer: Numbers search results (note: like other numbering tools, this one counts clustered results and blended search results as separate...

Many of our PPC clients(and from what I hear from other pros and agencies, many of their clients) at some point start to believe they shouldn’t be spending money on keywords for their brand names, service name, or product names. They want to advertise only on more general keywords...

Last week I read an article on BusinessWeek.com that presented the results of a survey of c-level executives regarding employees and social networks...

I ran across this on Facebook the other day: Brutal. Thankfully, my parents aren’t there yet. But more and more I’ve got coworkers, friend’s parents, industry peers and clients “friending” me on Facebook...

An interesting thread on WebmasterWorld forums discusses ways to diagnose a possible Google penalty. If you suspect your site / URL is being filtered out / penalized (e.g...

So, you can audit a site. I’ll bet you have a methodology in place to do it a thousand times over. You probably do it pretty darn well. You insure the proper keywords are in page titles, canonical issues are addressed, internal anchor text is optimized, and so on. You know your stuff...

I’ve been asked a few times what I think about NicheBot, so I decided to go ahead and review the tool. The first thing that came to my mind was that the service clearly has some reputation management problems...

Facebook announced Tuesday that it has received an infusion of $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet firm, which has a 1.96% ownership in Facebook...

Writing follow-up posts is a great blogging tactic that allows to: Better target your audience needs: the fist post discussion shows the blogger what appeals to the readers; Research various angles of the topic in more detail...

There has been a lot of talk about whether or not keyword and description meta tags are even worth doing anymore. Here’s my opinion – YES...

BLVD Status is a great free traffic analytics utility allowing for a number of great features, tracking search referrals and keyword positions being one of them...

Memorial Day weekend usually marks the beginning of the summer vacation months, warm weather, remembrance, outlet store sales and of course, travel...

Ambiently is a “discovery engine” (as they prefer to be called) because as opposed to “search engine” that searches based on the keyword you specify, Ambiently discovers more pages based on the URL you are viewing...

I’m very happy to announce today that Search & Social Media, LLC, the parent company of Search Engine Journal, has hired Ann Smarty as our Director of Media for the Search & Social Media Network...

I’m currently reading Don’t Make Me Think (A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability) by Steven Krug...

FireFox about:config stores the browser configurations. To access them , simply enter about:config in the address bar and hit "Enter". Last week I shared a quick tip on tweaking FireFox spell checking behavior with about:config settings - and found that many people liked it a lot...

Google is giving geo map developers a new option to earn revenue from their Google Maps API implementation...