Topic: Search Engine Journal

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Yahoo Directory Places Images On Sponsored Ads

Yahoo Serving Images in Sponsored Search Listings from Search Engine Journal reports the Yahoo Directory is displaying image ads near the sponsored results. The images appear on the left hand side of each sponsored result within the directory pages. The images appear to be hosted by ImageAdvantage and draw your eyes to those ads. For […]

Results Are In For The 2007 Search Blogs Awards

The voting for the best search blogs of 2007 began December 28th. Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal held their annual search blog awards, and after two days of posting the results, all the results are finally in. We are proud to have won in three categories, best search news blog, best search marketing blog, […]

Nominate Us For The 2007 Search Blog Awards (Please!)

Loren Baker and Search Engine Journal are once again holding nominations for the annual Search Blog Awards. The categories are below, and we’ll happily accept your nomination for any you find relevant. In particular, if you’d especially liked a particular blog post on Search Engine Land, we’d encourage you to put that in the running […]

Report: Hacked Pages Remain In Search Engines’ Caches

Search Engine Journal reports that online security firm Aladdin Knowledge Systems identified a potential “flaw, which allows the search engines to deliver malicious pages that have already been removed from the web.” What that means as a practical matter is that hacked pages, which have already been taken down or otherwise cleaned up, may still […]

Google Goes Dark For Lights Out San Francisco

On Saturday, Google went dark in San Francisco. No, it didn’t lose a data center. It simply turned the home page black for the day to support Lights Out San Francisco. The change from white to black wasn’t to actually conserve energy, as Google has determined this doesn’t reduce energy consumption. Rather it was a […]

Live Blogging: SMX Social Media – Micro Communities

While lunching with Danny, Vanessa, and gang (and discussing kosher vampires [Michael Gray: “Do kosher vampires only eat Jewish people?”]) at SMX Social Media, I was asked to live blog the Micro Communities session this afternoon. My first Search Engine Land post will thus consist of me recapping my boss’s presentation. Hooray. Anyway, the Micro […]

Live Blogging: SMX Social Media – Social Media Marketing Essentials

I’m live blogging Search Marketing Expo Social Media. I see that Kim Krause Berg is also live blogging this session for Search Engine Roundtable, so now I feel all this competition with her. (Eric Lander at Search Engine Journal also live blogged it, as did aimClear Blog, so the competition is really heating up now.) […]

The Big Paid Link Debate Roundup

Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank or Rankings on Google from Danny on Sunday has driven a lot of discussion around the blogosphere and SEO industry. I have complied a list of some of the sites that have added additional commentary to Danny’s post. I am sure I have missed some; if so, […]

Screenshots: The New Delicious

If everyone else is pushing out the quick previews of the new Delicious, hey, we’ll add to the screenshot fodder for now. These are from an invite-only preview now out. There’s no set launch date for the public beta, but Delicious founder Joshua Schachter emailed those in the invite with, "While we still have a […]

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SES San Jose Coverage Roundup – August 23, 2007

Below is a roundup of all the coverage I was able to find throughout the day of the SES San Jose conference. This coverage is for the fourth day of SES, taking place on August 23, 2007. If I missed any, please add a comment below. Overall, the coverage has been outstanding throughout the SEM […]