One of the final sessions of the day was the “Meet The News Search Engines” and I decided to check out the session. While there weren’t huge numbers of people like at some of the other sessions, the information gave some great insight into how the news gathering aspects of the search engines come together.

The technology company announced at LinuxWorld an open version of the SUSE Linux distribution.

One of the oldest questions in sales is how to convert visitors into buyers. This question applies to any type of business, whether a car dealer or an ad agency or a great online store with some really groovy products. Chris Richardson attended the session and did a few conversions of his own.

Honestly, I couldn’t give a crap about MSN. Anyone who blogs there, or reads them, doesn’t know the whole story.

Keyword aficionados Matt Van Wagner and Tim Ash had a few key words of their own at the Search Engine Strategies Conference about creating an effective pay-per-click campaign. The keywords of their delivery: slow down, organize, track, evaluate, and adjust.

Reciprocal linking means forming partnerships with other sites who place a link from their Web pages to yours. You then give them a similar link in return.

The recent Forrester Research study, which claims that only 2% of online households in North America use RSS, took the internet marketing world by storm. Does this data really mean that marketers can still afford to ignore this channel?

The citizen journalism phenomenon known as blogging has now reached the attentive and contemplative eyes of one third of the Internet population according to statistics released by comScore Networks. That’s 50 million sets of eyeballs, the majority of which, according to Gawker, seems to be connected to (gasp) upper middle class young males. And with that news, e-marketers around the country are calling emergency meetings as we speak.

The “Link Building Basics” session proved Mike Grehan is the professor of SEO-logy in this business. Even though Grehan wasn’t the only speaker in this session, he’s knowledge is phenomenal. He and the others covered a lot of good ground on the important of links to building a site in this class on link building basics.

Information Week reports on a study from Internet metrics agency ComScore that shows a third of the Americans who are online visited a blog in the first quarter of the year.

For the first time, a satellite broadcaster will have its airplay impact the makeup of the Billboard Top 40.

The deal will see Montreal-based BMO Financial Group sell the US online brokerage to financial services company E*Trade.

An email excahnge that I had this week with a dumb spammer (whose company name I have removed) …

Sources say the search engine company may be ready to acquire introware company Meetroduction.

A joint effort between Microsoft and the New York Attorney General’s office has ended in a settlement won from notorious spammer Scott Richter.

Google announced on Tuesday that Google News will be available for feeds either through Atom or RSS. Any section of Google News is available for the feed system whether it’s entertainment, business or world news.

Why is it that webmasters are so quick to blame Google if their website falls down the search rankings, or out of the rankings altogether? Can it never be their own fault…

A while back, I wrote about a study that suggested the design of blogs was an inhibitor to usability, particularly among those who are less-than-familiar with the various unique elements of a blog.

The heart and soul of the search engine industry is advertising. It’s how those great and wonderful searches get paid for. At this year’s SES: San Jose, a seminar on how get started in search ads as well as how to improve what you have already. WebProNews’ own Chris Richardson sent in a lot of information.

So you’ve got the best blog in the world and now you’re ready to make the world your oyster. I attended the seminar on “RSS, Blogs, And Search Marketing,” on how to do just that. Many times seminars of any kind can be extraordinarily boring if not presented well but this one had a lot of interesting and relevant information.

The search engine and portal company indexes nearly double the items its rival, Google, does.

The Redmond based software monolith, Microsoft, announced they are expanding their MAC instant messaging software. The new tab viewing display will allow users to access both corporate and personal Messenger accounts and set a unique status for each user.