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Marketers Flout Craigslist Rules to Promote WaresFrom furniture sellers to travel site affiliates, marketers are promoting through Craigslist, sometimes disregarding the site’s regulations.

Online Reality Series Draws Major Sponsors"Cube Fabulous" signs Honda, Monster.com and America Online.

Newstex Conducting Gawker, Corante On DemandContent from the two well-known blog networks will be available as part of Newstex’s Blogs On Demand service.

Pixsys Visual Search Almost ImpressiveNow here’s a search engine destined for controversy. Pixsy.com, a “visual search engine” that scours the web for images and videos on RSS feeds and makes them searchable, launched yesterday - for the second time, and it may not be ready still.

Long- vs. Short-Term SEOI’ve always thought of SEO as a long-term process. More of a perpetual process, really. SEO firms (not to be confused with SEO consultants) tend to provide one of two different types of service. There are pros and cons to.

Retail Bonanza Starts With Search ? Part 1Search marketing has become a line item in the marketing budget, but it hasn?t always been this way. I remember it being a tough sell back in the days when search represented less than 1% of the online advertising budget.

Google Spells Out Duplicate ContentEvery time I go to a Search Engine Strategies show I hear at least half a dozen audience questions about duplicate content. What is it, what happens if you have it, how do search engines discover it and so on.

Copywriting Makeover: Facts vs. Fantasy (Part 2 of 2)In Part 1 of this article series we discovered the challenge faced by the copy of Julie?s Jewels Moissanite page. The original copy (PDF) was too factual for visitors to relate to effectively. I outlined the problems and the proposed.

AdSense Partners.Say Bye-Bye to ImagesThere’s a post on the AdSense blog this week that discusses the recent decision to ban the use of graphics next to the Google ads that appear on your page. Images next to ads has long been a controversial practice.

Optimizing Images for Search EnginesOne of the more potentially advantageous yet wholly underused areas for optimization is in image search engines. Yet while site owners and merchants are more often seeing their images show up in the regular search results, few have come to understand the benefits of image search optimization.

Search Engine Forums SpotlightLinks to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Website Optimizer: Better Then You Think? - Will DMOZ Be Back? - Google AdSense: No Images To Be Lined Up With AdSense Ads - Pandia’s Christmas Wish List To Google and more.

A Keynote Conversation with Danny Sullivan and Jason CalacanisAt Search Engine Strategies Chicago’s keynote interview on December 5, conference chair Danny Sullivan asked online industry gadfly Jason Calacanis a series of questions, some provocative. Would Calacanis bite?