Alek Komarnitsky did a little searchbot experiment. For a long time, he had a special robots.txt file that commanded search engines to ignore a

We released a press release on Wednesday at Right Media that talks about some statistics for the Right Media Exchange over the last six months. Being a stats nut, I love this kind of stuff and thought it would be worthwhile to share here.

Ulco from Netters.nl has written a post on bid management tool from Search Works leaks Adwords data. 

Hitwise reported that early last month, YouTube

Remember looking at your web analytics and seeing higher bounce rate from visitors coming out of Google content network? Ever wanted to know exactly who these

The Daily Blog Tips blog has just released the first of its Blogger Face-Off series. This is where 2 bloggers are asked the same questions and their answers are posted side by side. This week the Daily Blog featured 2 very popular bloggers: Jeremy Shoemaker and Darren Rowse.

A little while I ago, I wrote an article on this blog titled

What does a blogger, vlogger, or podcaster do when the “chill” sets in?

That chill can be a lot worse in some parts of the world than others.

Our last post on

Yahoo has recently clarified that they’ll be sticking with the $0.10 min bid in the U.S. and discontinuing grandfathered bids.

Which should make it surprising that they’re dropping the minimum in the UK to 5p – except that 5p works out to roughly 10c. So it’s about the same in both places.

Some updates have hit Google’s Personalized Homepage (unfortunately a shorter/catchier name was not among them), including one that makes the tabs a little more interesting.

The

Though the authority of Wikipedia is still debated

ViTrue, a consumer-created advertising platform is working with Pringles to create the snack food

Many SEO specialists have taken exception to repeated comments made by Jason Calacanis, who claims that the profession is mostly comprised of charlatans and two-bit tricksters who rely on little more than shady smoke and mirror tactics alongside technical chicanery to boost a site

Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites can be fun and useful – many of them are quite valuable, as well – but they generally lack credibility in the

Irina Slutsky has been working on something fun: The Vloggies Show. This will highlight the interesting video from around the Internet that

Branding is important when it comes to social media marketing. If you are trying to use social media sites for exposure and traffic not only is it important to brand your domain name, but it is also important to brand your user name by keeping it consistent throughout all social sites.

If you’re one of those bilingual types, Google wants your help. Though Google has an automatic translation tool, it’s difficult to teach robots the nuances of language

Last week, Google unveiled its Premier Apps service amid much blogosphere banter and speculation, namely to the tune that the search company is now, in effect, throwing its hat in the ring as a direct competitor to Microsoft in the enterprise sector when it comes to office applications.

Two key features of Premier Apps immediately stood out most analysts when Google released the initial feature list:

So Viacom is apparently bragging about how traffic to its properties, including Comedy Central, has climbed by as much as 90 per cent since it told YouTube to take down 100,000 or so of its video clips. And much of that traffic boost is people coming to watch videos, the company says.

For the first time the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be broadcast live on VH1 Classic, and be streamed on AOL without commercials. The ceremony will air on Monday March 12 at 8 pm.

Previous induction ceremonies were only offered on a tape delay basis on VH1.

The story in Wired magazine entitled

Gord Hotchkiss recently wrote an excellent article for Media Post’s SearchInsider explaining click fraud from Google