MarketingVOX:
Google has announced that in the near future, advertisers will be able to schedule when their ads will be shown. For instance, a company that is only selling to businesses in the United States, might want to disable their advertising in non-business hours.
Presently, one has to turn the advertising off and on by hand. This [...]

Yahoo Search Blog:
Yahoo has announced that they released an algorithm change late last week. No word yet on what exactly changed.

ClickZ:
In the next few months, Commission Junction will be switching from HTML based links to Java based links. While the change should be seemless for website users, it has the potential to be a nightmare for CJ Publishers, particularly the larger ones. Many large, successful affiliate sites have hundreds of links scattered through-out their entire [...]

I, Cringely:
Bob’s latest article is a solid exploration of the problem of click fraud, and of problems within Google itself.

CEO Bill Leake Shows How to Avoid Search Engine Marketing Malpractice at the 2006 SMP Event:
Apogee Search’s Bill Leake will be speaking at he 2006 Software Marketing Perspectives Conference and Expo, held June 12-14, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
“The Software Marketing Perspectives Conference is one of the few places that you can have [...]

The last few days, the comment spam here has been insane.
Since the start, this blog has gotten a few spams every day. I moderate everything here, so deleting them wasn’t a very big deal.
In the last 24 hours, however, I’ve received over 200 spam posts. That was too much. So, I went and installed Akismet, [...]

Internet Marketing Blog:
John points out an interesting and possible consequence of Google’s push for the NoFollow attribute.

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Matt’s dissertation should address the issue for most sites that have been having indexing problems over the last few things. It’s clear that it’s not one big problem (such as full machines), but a slew of little problems.
If this post doesn’t seem to address your situation, please let us know [...]

I, Cringely:
Cringely follows up on last week’s article on the structure of the personal computer industry, and how Google fits in.
As usual, Cringely’s point of view is both insightfull and entertaining.

Ok, Google certainly receives its share of complaints here, but I have to give credit where credit is due: Google Trends is one of the most interesting things released by Big G in some time.
For instance, while I was aware that “search engine optimization” receives more traffic than “search engine marketing”, I was a bit [...]