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FTC Sends Letter to Search Engines Regarding Paid Ads Versus Natural Search Results

Bill Hartzer

The FTC has sent a letter to many of the major search engines, including AOL, Ask.com, Bing, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Google, and Yahoo!, the FTC is warning the search engines that consumers must be notified that paid ads are paid ads–and it must be very clear which search results include paid ads and which do not.

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Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2009 On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content. Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook

Bill Hartzer

Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google , Yahoo! , There are certain web pages on Facebook, mainly the Facebook Email Opt Out web page, that are getting indexed by the search engines. In fact, Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing.com.

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Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

Bill Hartzer

What’s interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. When it comes to search engine optimization , historically it always been about links. Search engine like Google, Bing, and Yahoo! It is, after all, pretty cool stuff.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

E-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. RSS feeds are another good opportunity, both for content discovery and because users sometimes utilize them to power link modules on a blog or other site, in which case they become a direct source of links. However the collective payoff can be substantial so it’s worth devoting some resources to it.

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The Humanization of Search & Why Business Owners & Marketers Should Care

Jason Yormark

If you sell products online, always be thinking about how to help search engines better match relevant queries to products in your data feeds. Optimizing these feeds ensures the right people find your right products. Like any small to medium sized business owner, you have to manage your time and money wisely.

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The Humanization of Search & Why Business Owners & Marketers Should Care

Jason Yormark

If you sell products online, always be thinking about how to help search engines better match relevant queries to products in your data feeds. Optimizing these feeds ensures the right people find your right products. Like any small to medium sized business owner, you have to manage your time and money wisely.