News.com reports that Wikia Search is giving up and closing up shop. Search Wikia launched an alpha release in January 2008, where Chris Sherman gave it a poor review.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia, told News.com “It was going to take at least an another year to two before it’s usable by […]
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A sound organic search strategy should be the core of every business’s marketing efforts, but being found is just the beginning. Once you get people to your site, you need to convince them to stay, and show them what you want them to do. … Read Original Post Here
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Many small business owners know that there’s benefit to be had from social networking; the challenge is not spending all of your time Twittering away when you have other work that needs to be done. So how do you keep a social networking plan on track without derailing all of your other responsibilities? … Read […]

According to data released yesterday by the IAB/PwC on Q4 and full year 2008 online advertising revenues, PPC advertising and search gained while other segments declined slightly (”classifieds”) or were flat. Overall, online advertising grew 10.6% in 2008 to reach $23.4 billion. US online ad revenue in Q4 was $6.1 billion, up from $5.8 billion […]

The Norwegian media company Schibsted has decided to close down its Sesam search site.
Sesam was launched in 2005 as a Nordic competitor to Google, with both Norwegian and Swedish sites.
It was originally a regular web search engine powered by Fast.
Last year, however, Schibsted realized that there was no way they could compete with […]

by Stoney deGeyter
In the first six parts of this series we asked questions related to in-sourcing your search marketing efforts. Specific areas addressed were for those considering doing SEO themselves, subbing out SEO to another person, and hiring an in-house SEO with and without SEO experience. In Part V we addressed issues of outsourcing your […]

This is the third part of a five-part series on search engine optimization factors. In this part we will cover topical relevance of links to a site a site s relevance to the search query whether Google manually awards rank to some sites and more. We will also take a look […]

paidContent.org reports that Microsoft has decided to discontinue their encyclopedia software, Encarta. Both the MSN Encarta reference Web sites as well as its Encarta software will be shut down. Microsoft said:
On October 31, 2009, MSN® Encarta® Web sites worldwide will be discontinued, with the exception of Encarta Japan, which will be discontinued on […]

I’ve read so many articles lately about Twitter, from mainstream press to the sports world to the SEO world, that all seem to focus on the “phenomena” aspect of it.  After the Twittles (Twitter+Skittles) thing happened,  it was like a dam bursting.  Everyone wanted to know who was doing what with Twitter, how to use […]

When using social news sites for search marketing, you are inevitably going to run into annoying people. Some, in fact, may be actively trying to undermine your credibility, to further their own agenda. You need to watch out for these troglodytes, and respond appropriately to maintain your own credibility. Here are the 10 worst kinds […]