One of my biggest business flaws was perhaps starting off with a fairly low self-esteem. Because of that, I catered toward people who were whiny, wanted free stuff, and never had any intent of buying anything. Being naive, and wanting ... Go to Full Article

When you start typing a query into a search box at many search engines, you may see a dropdown appear under the search box which offers selectable suggestions for query terms even before you may have finished typing. ... Go to Full Article

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Google’s advertising model goes beyond the Web to places like televison. Yesterday, the Official Google Blog ran a post on TV advertising through Google, Tuning in to TV data, which told us that they are gauging interest in ads shown on ... Go to Full Article

Twitter is always making news. Now they are putting together a robust search service that may help them get that news out faster and more efficiently than Google itself. Rafe Needleman over at cnet put together a report shortly after ... Go to Full Article

It seems that the most news about Google these days comes from their relationship with politicians and process in Washington, DC rather than making money selling advertising through its search engine. Recently, its been discussed here ... Go to Full Article

When I mention Thesis a lot of people don’t really get the value of it, to them Thesis is just a design. However they don’t understand Thesis and miss the real value of Thesis as a framework. First off we need to understand what a good ... Go to Full Article

Stacy (YHOO) gazed at the single white rose. The diamond tennis bracelet. The silver Porsche 911 997 GT2 topped by a red bow and an oversized tag reading “I’M SORRY.” She turned to Brad (MSFT). “Oh, Brad,” she gushed, a tear in her eye. ... Go to Full Article

Poor Google. It seems just about anything it puts together becomes fair game to hackers and manipulators. While the search engine spends its day keeping spam out of its web index, it’s apparently unable to prevent Google Trends from ... Go to Full Article

A set of internal working documents from the censorship department at Baidu, China’s largest search engine, were leaked. These documents are quickly appearing on blogs, forums and across the internet both in China and around the world. ... Go to Full Article

I have been doing some experiments lately to gain organic traffic to some of my websites by creating pages with internal search results and letting them get indexed via forum signatures. And so far it did increase my organic traffic a ... Go to Full Article

Following the expansion of their trademark policy to the UK last year, Google has widened its looser trademark policy which basically allows all-comers to bid on trademark keywords increasing the cost of trademark advertising via the ... Go to Full Article

What were the things you know now that you wished someone had told you when you started out? Personally, I wonder whether I would have actually listened had someone told me. Some things I just had to learn by making dumb mistakes. ... Go to Full Article

Hello, my name is Gabriel, like the angel, but not quite the same. I've been studying SEO trends for over 10 years now. I started learning back when I was a Quality Engineering Intern for EarthLink, Inc. Which basically means I stuck ... Go to Full Article

Let's just get to the point. Nofollow is lame. It takes value out of participating on other people's sites. It gives people, sites, and companies the ability to revoke value for their communities at a whim. If you are building value in ... Go to Full Article