Archive for the 'SEO/SEM News' Category

Google Reconsideration Request: Never Lie to Google
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

The head of Google Webspam team, Matt Cutts recently sent out a tweet in regards to Google reconsideration request.
Well, Matt often communicates with the webmasters & SEO via Twitter, and occasionally give out useful tips. So lets see what was Matt saying this time:

As you can probably see the screen shoot from Matt’s Twitter [...]

Google Rooms: Before it became Google Lively
Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Before Google’s 3D chat world Lively was released, the product was actually named Google Rooms. Here are some left-over screenshots that was leaked from Google’s servers shortly after Lively was launched.
The Official Google Rooms logo used in all the rooms directory. It shows a palm tree from the island room -

The screen shoot bellow [...]

Speech to text Search: in Google
Monday, July 14th, 2008

Google has recently released a well-working iGoogle gadget that allows the user to extract text information from the video content. The Elections Video Search gadget or you can access it in its standalone page – lets you search for keywords across YouTube’s US politician channels, like Barack Obama’s. Clicking on a result item will load [...]

Google Referrals Program: Comes to an End
Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Google recently announced that they are ending their AdSense referrals program. The service will officially stop on August 2008. In past AdSense referrals allowed you as a webmaster to include links from different kinds of products; health, real estate, shopping, computers, travel, Google-suggested products like Firefox or the Google Pack download, and many more product [...]

Google Toolbar for Firefox 3: Download
Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Are you using Firefox 3 but you miss the Google Toolbar? Well, Google toolbar is now working with Firefox 3 and available for download.
Some silent features of Google Toolbar:
- Add buttons to the Toolbar: to search your favorite sites. View button gallery
- Bookmark frequently visited pages: and access them from anywhere
- Search smarter with [...]

SMX East Oct 2008: Registration is now Open!
Saturday, May 24th, 2008

New York City Search Marketing Expo show- SMX East Registration — is now open. The SMX East will be held on coming October 6-8, 2008 in the Jacob Javits Convention Center [see in Google Maps].
SMX East will offer programming for internet and search marketers of all skill levels. You should Register now for SMX East [...]

Twitter Traffic Tracking: How To Track Twitter Traffic?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Twitter has become a great platform to network, discuss, and share links, including your own blog posts! But how do you measure the traffic you are getting from your tweets, especially if people are using applications like Twhirl, or even say a mobile phone? Michael D Jensen of SoloSEO shared a special trick which is [...]

Matt Cutts Spam Video: O’Reilly’s Web Conference
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

The video lasts about 10 minutes and Google’s Matt Cutts talked in the O’Reilly’s web conference about spam. He briefly describes what spam is and how Google detects it. He also touched a bit on which kind of systems are better made to defend against it, and also, how you can protect your own site [...]

Farecast: acquired by Microsoft
Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Microsoft has recently acquired the Seattle based travel search company Farecast, which has been the sole target of acquisition rumors for last few momths. The buyout of Farecast was confirmed on the Farecast Blog :
Were excited to confirm that Farecast has been acquired by Microsoft! This acquisition creates tremendous opportunities for the Farecast team and [...]

Orkut Mobile: Orkut goes Mobile
Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Orkut has recently released a mobile version of their homepage at m.orkut.com (you can view it on the your desktop browser too), as the Inside Orkut blog reports. Inside this new Mobile Orkut, you will see a reduced version of the default Orkut, including features like Scraps, Updates from your friends, an alphabetically sorted list [...]