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Tracking a package through MSN Search
MSN has just announced that you can track packages through its MSN Search portal.

To track packages with MSN Search, simply head to search.msn.com, and enter your FedEx, DHL, UPS, or USPS tracking number.

MSN package tracker is one of the MSN Instant Answer search tools. Its great that search engines are providing all of these additional features to make our lives even more easier. But as the features grow, so does the competition and battle for the top search engine.

Who knew that search could be this exciting?

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SEO: Coherent Link-Building Strategies For Your Web Site (Turks.US)
In the art of search engine optimization (SEO), link-building strategies are a major part of improving your Website’s overall profile and performance.

Is Hiding Content With “Display: None” Legitimate SEO? (Search Engine Land)
If you’re doing SEO on a site with thousands or tens of thousands of pages, it’s likely you’re working with some sort of content management system (CMS). However, CMS systems frequently cause problems with search engines. The great majority of the time these problems arise through ignorance on part of the CMS software developers. Basically, if the developers are not familiar with how search …

How to Hone Your Persuading Skills by Reading Biased Splogs

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Official - Mahalo is Spam, According to Google's Internal Spam Documents
Post about how some Mahalo pages fit Google’s webspam guidelines for remote workers rating spam.

How to Sell Remnant Ad Inventory
Tips on how to increase the value of a website when there is more ad inventory than advertiser demand.

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SEO Porn Links
Some interesting SEO and marketing related resources I recently came across.

Need an SEO Consultant? Hire Jonah Stein
My SEO friend Jonah Stein just quit his job and decided to go it alone. If you are looking for an SEO consultant he is a sharp guy worth talking to.

May I Write a Post for Your Blog?
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SEO poisoning attack hits big sites; Can the defenses scale? (ZDNet)
Security researcher Dancho Danchev said Friday that SEO poisoning attacks have scaled up and are attacking well known sites. Google has been filtering its results as a defense, but Danchev’s latest finding brings up an interesting question: Can the defenses scale? First, a few key points. SEO…

Community Powered Search
Eurekster is a different kind of search engine. It is based on community decisions on what the top results should be.

What you would have to do to get inclusion into Eurekster is to create your own swicki. It would be tailored to your particular interests. The swicki will then scan all of the updated pages from your particular site. As people use your particular swicki, the system will learn behaviors of people, and rank your site accordingly.

In a basic approach, a Swicki is a search engine that learns from your users. Results are produced for relevancy, and a buzzcloud of searches are created based on only what users care about.

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The Changing Face of Link Buying
Many people who have been traditional link buyers are wrapping their links in a bunch of packaging that makes the link buy look and feel natural.

How Competitive Will the Web be in 3 Years? 5 Years?
Post about a software program which hints at just how competitive the web will be in a couple years.

Finding Search related Jobs

Jobs in Search is exactly what it says. Jobs in the search industry. If you are looking for a job at a Search Engine company, Search Engine Marketing firm, Search Engine Optimization company, New Media, Digital Media, and any company that provides services and products aimed at the search industry, this is a site to look into.

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The Economics of Credibility
If you are a publisher and your business model requires you to find new customers every day then you need to keep competing for attention. In many markets that will put you in a Jim Cramer-like position where you end up making some bad calls that cost you a lot of money in the long run.

Link = Vote? Want Some Personalized Free Professional Help?
In a marketplace where links are votes, many marketers are using email to beg giving away their services.

How to do Local SEO from Facebook (Search Engine Roundtable)
Andrew Shotland aka Local SEO Guide has a very cool writeup on Facebook Pages and Local Search Engine Optimization . He explains that it’s possible to do local SEO from your Facebook page and illustrates the process, which includes setting up your own blog, installing a Facebook application called SimplyRSS, keeping content updated regularly, and networking on Facebook very often. Does it …

AT&T’s Mobile TV Service Will Launch In May; About Four Months Late (CBS News)
AT&T (NYSE: T) said today that it will begin offering Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO mobile TV service in May. The company provided the details in an e-mail today, saying more information will be available next week at CTIA in Las Vegas. But for now, it says the service will launch in select markets with two exclusive handsets, the LG (SEO: 066570) Vu and the Samsung Access, and plans two name …

Google will not take enterprise search away from us - Microsoft

Microsoft thinks that enterprise search belongs to them. Even though Google has been in the game since the early 2000’s.

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Yahoo and Zillow Home Valuation
Yahoo has teamed up with Zillow to create a home valuation search on Yahoo real estate.

The value of homes can easily be searched for free, and users can find an instant home value estimation based on homes in the general area of your search.

When you search for a residence, a map with your area is put together with 10 other comparable properties in the area are drawn out. Yahoo has also integrated a trend graph to show price trends historically for the area in question.

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The Economics of Credibility
If you are a publisher and your business model requires you to find new customers every day then you need to keep competing for attention. In many markets that will put you in a Jim Cramer-like position where you end up making some bad calls that cost you a lot of money in the long run.

How to Launch a New Website With (and Without) SEO in Mind (Search Engine Roundtable)
Ann Smarty has written a post at Search Engine Journal about how the mindset of webmasters who launch sites with and without SEO in mind. If SEO is a priority, choose a relevant domain name and think over website structure. Of course, that’s how you’d approach it if search engines were important. But what if they weren’t? If search engines didn’t exist (or rather, you’d like the search …

Nationwide Google Wireless ISP Plan, Try #2
Google is looking to get permission from the government to use whitespace to set up a nationwide wireless ISP.

Same Game, Different Name
Here s a quick break down of all the jargon said in SES conferences worldwide. That s quite a bit of jargon I will also explain words that some SEOs use to keep non initiates in the dark….
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Yahoo Building Buzz with Buzz
Despite its lack of success against the giant in the search engine field Yahoo seems to understand Web 2. better than Google. Its newest service Yahoo Buzz accepts input and votes from users. Is it merely a clone of Digg or something more …
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The Tools Between You and Your Audience
Some software saves time and money, other software programs and tools cost you both, offering an all-around negative value propisition.

9 SEO FireFox Plugins I Can’t Live Without (Search Engine Journal)
Yes, I know there are much more great FireFox plugins but I am sharing only those I am using myself and find really useful. Before I start, here is an overview of what I am going to talk about: Plugin Most useful feature How often I use it SEOQuake Any page instant SEO analysis A few times a day SearchStatus Google, Alexa, […]

eBay Ditched CJ and ValueClick
eBay dumped using Commission Junction in favor of creating their own in house affiliate program.

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The Future of Selling Media Online - Free then Pay for Popular Content
One of the easiest ways to monetize content is to give away your best content free to build exposure for it, and then turn that content to premium content that you sell AFTER you have social proof of value, many inbound links, solid rankings, and a large traffic stream.

Community Powered Search
Eurekster is a different kind of search engine. It is based on community decisions on what the top results should be.

What you would have to do to get inclusion into Eurekster is to create your own swicki. It would be tailored to your particular interests. The swicki will then scan all of the updated pages from your particular site. As people use your particular swicki, the system will learn behaviors of people, and rank your site accordingly.

In a basic approach, a Swicki is a search engine that learns from your users. Results are produced for relevancy, and a buzzcloud of searches are created based on only what users care about.

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Idiocracy in Action
In many ways marketing seems to be heading down the Idiocracy route.

Nationwide Google Wireless ISP Plan, Try #2
Google is looking to get permission from the government to use whitespace to set up a nationwide wireless ISP.

Link = Vote? Want Some Personalized Free Professional Help?
In a marketplace where links are votes, many marketers are using email to beg giving away their services.

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Yahoo Ads in eBay
As a result of eBay and Yahoo’s partnership, Yahoo has begun to display ads on eBay auction search results pages. The terms of the deal also include Paypal integration into Yahoo Channels and Yahoo Search.

The ads have just been starting to show up in the results pages, and I personally have yet to come across them in any pf my searches, however Loren Baker suggested searching for a misspelling “burberry rain boats” to get results. Through this search I was able to see the nicely integrated ads, offering the corrected spelling products.

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LookSmart Publisher platform
Looksmart has released its new publisher platform. The new publisher ad platform works much like other search engine publisher platforms, whereas ads are easily displayed on sites, and generate revenue per click.

Through LookSmarts AdCenter you can sell online ads directly on your site to advertisers, and actually determine your own CPC’s. This approach helps publishers grow direct relationships with advertisers.

LookSmart allows you the opportunity to white label AdCenter solutions. The hosting, sales, and service are fully hosted through LookSmart, and pricing is fully determined by you.

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Top Keyword Terms Companies are Buying
Nielson Netrating has done some homework and developed a list on the Top 25 Companies By Sponsored Link Impressions list.

Its a pretty interesting list that shows the top 3 keywords that are bought by some major companies.

Here is a sample of that list:

• eBay - myspace, ebay, maps
• NexTag.com - dell, airlines, ipod
• Vonage - verizon+dsl, at&t, sprint
• Time Warner - mapquest, dictionary, maps
• Amazon.com - books, haunted+lighthouses, log+splitters
• Microsoft - hotmail, mortgage+calculator, movies

I think by far, Amazon.com has the best list.

Clickz has some other charts from the report that show the Advertising Breakdown by Industry, Advertising Breakdown by Ad Unit Types, and Top 25 Companies by Sponsored Link Impressions.

[via ZDnet ]

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Superpages now uses Microsofts Maps
Apparently the Superpages.com directory has made the change into using Microsofts Live Local virtual earth maps. Not sure when this change occurred, but Greg Sterling has recently noticed this update.

It’s a nice new feature for Superpages to ad to their local directory. It adds a nice touch for local searchers. The current version of the maps embedded into the Superpages directory has three views, standard, aerial, and birds eye.

As recently reported, Superpages.com is rumored to be up for sale from Verizon.

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Microsoft Live’s new markets
The Microsoft Live team has just launched the Live search service into 34 new markets.

The new markets include:

China - Simplified Chinese
Netherlands - Dutch
Belgium - French
Belgium - Dutch
Brazil - Brazilian Portuguese
Denmark - Danish
India - English
Russia - Russian
Sweden - Swedish
Taiwan - Traditional Chinese
Arabia - English
Argentina - Spanish
Austria - German
Chile - Spanish
Finland - Finnish
Greece - Greek
Hong Kong SAR - Traditional Chinese
Hungary - Hungarian
Indonesia - English
Ireland - English
Malaysia - English
New Zealand - English
Philippines - English
Poland - Polish
Portugal - Brazilian Portuguese
Singapore - English
South Africa - English
Switzerland - German
Switzerland - French
Turkey - Turkish
Czech Republic - Czech
Slovakia - Slovak
Slovenia - Slovenian
Latin America - Spanish

Microsoft is on the run, trying to launch into as many markets as it can in an effort, im sure, to stay side by side with its main competition in the search world, Google.

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Matt Cutts Answers some questions on Google Video

Google’s Matt Cutts answered some questions recently on Google Video. Check these videos out if you are really into search, Matt has some good thoughts down.

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Finding Search related Jobs

Jobs in Search is exactly what it says. Jobs in the search industry. If you are looking for a job at a Search Engine company, Search Engine Marketing firm, Search Engine Optimization company, New Media, Digital Media, and any company that provides services and products aimed at the search industry, this is a site to look into.

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Understanding “Organic” Link Building in 2008
Links are much less representative of tangible value and reasonable editorial votes than they were just a few years ago.

Nationwide Google Wireless ISP Plan, Try #2
Google is looking to get permission from the government to use whitespace to set up a nationwide wireless ISP.

Google’s Performics problem (InfoWorld)
Companies that provide services for improving Web sites’ search-engine rankings and running effective search-engine ad campaigns have a new competitor: Google. Bundled in the  DoubleClick acquisition came Performics, which provides search-engine marketing (SEM) and search-engine optimization (SEO) services. This has created concern for SEM and SEO service providers, which now face …

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May I Write a Post for Your Blog?
If you ever wanted to interview me, or wanted me to guest post for your blog now is your chance. You can choose the topic(s) and I will try my best to answer your interview questions or write a post for your site.

SEO Clients Not Being Responsive? (Search Engine Roundtable)
What do you do when you have an SEO client but they refuse to give you access to their servers and do not act upon recommendations that you’re giving nearly blindly since you have no access to their statistics? It depends on how you approach the client when offering services. Before a contract is signed, it’s ideal to tell the client that you will need full access up front. Since there is …

Introduction Thread #2
It turns out the Drupal setup for comments per page leaves the maximum at 300, and our original introduction thread exceeded that…so it is time for a new one. Who are you? What do you do?

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Google’s Performics problem (InfoWorld)
Companies that provide services for improving Web sites’ search-engine rankings and running effective search-engine ad campaigns have a new competitor: Google. Bundled in the  DoubleClick acquisition came Performics, which provides search-engine marketing (SEM) and search-engine optimization (SEO) services. This has created concern for SEM and SEO service providers, which now face …

SEO Strategies: How To Achieve Higher Search Engine Positioning (Turks.US)
The main objective of any online business Web site is to promote a product or service. The purpose of an e-commerce Web site, is to allow your site’s visitors to buy your products or services directly from your Web site.

Medium Blue Honored by PromotionWorld for Its Continued Excellence in Search Engine Marketing and Client Service (PRWeb)
Search Engine Optimization Company Medium Blue Named Number One SEO Firm in the World for Tenth Time (PRWeb Mar 25, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/search-engine-marketing/optimization-company/prweb797024.htm

Link = Vote? Want Some Personalized Free Professional Help?
In a marketplace where links are votes, many marketers are using email to beg giving away their services.

The Blend - 2008 Online Publishing Business Strategy
Affiliate ads are getting more aggressively integrated into content across the web.