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Google

Google’s Matt Cutts Keynote At SES London

A Keynote Conversation with Google’s Matt Cutts from Search Engine Roundtable provides live blogging of Google’s Matt Cutts talking to Search Engine Land executive editor Chris Sherman during the keynote at SES London today. Matt covers: Eloping, a nice Valentine’s Day topic His typical day fighting spam Google search algorithm evolution Debunking myths How SEOs […]

Google News

Google News: Top Of Mind, Even If Not Top Of Traffic

I’ve often written about how Google News comes under far more criticism and attention than its apparent usage as a news resource, considering other sites like Yahoo News have more traffic. Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog? from Greg Jarboe at Search Engine Watch tries to understand the Google News obsession.

Google

Google Webmaster Central Leaves Beta; Its Blog Gains Comments

Google Webmaster Central has officially come out of beta, about a year-and-a-half after Google Sitemaps — core of the service later renamed Google Webmaster Central — launched. To celebrate, a new era for Google. The Official Google Webmaster Central Blog becomes the first official Google blog to gain comments. Google announces both news items here, […]

Paid social

Eurekster Adds More ‘Wiki’ To Swickis

Eurekster, the social-vertical search engine, has introduced some new features that make its flagship product Swickis more social. Swickis are social site-search widgets. Eurekster has added “Q&A” functionality to Swickis and the ability for site users to add links directly into the site’s index. And you can now vote on the relevance of any result […]

Google Ads

Google Ads Getting New Google Checkout Badges

  Since Google Checkout was launched last June, merchants in the program who also advertise on Google through Google AdWords have had little Google Checkout shopping cart icons in their ads. Today, Google Checkout announced the icon will be updated to a badge format similar to the Google Checkout buttons used by merchants since the […]

Apple

Social Media Marketing Is Ethical!

There seems to be a lot of misconception that social media marketing isn’t ethical. Almost daily, I come across bloggers who denounce SMM as spam or suggest that social media marketers are poisoning the community well. In reality, they either aren’t properly educated or perhaps only see the "bad apples" of social media marketing. It […]

PPC

Special Valentine’s Day Cards For SEOs

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and it is the time of the year to show your love. Why not show your love to your favorite SEO via an e-card tailored towards SEOs? Internet Traffic Solutions has SEO e-cards that you can send to your favorite SEO or SEM. Messages include, “I love you more than links […]

Content

SingingFish.com Now Redirects To AOL Video Search

Gary Price reports that SingingFish.com now redirects to AOL Video. AOL purchased SingingFish.com from Thomson Multimedia in November 2003. In June 2005, AOL revamped their AOL Video Search, which included having results from SingingFish. Now, SingingFish is set up as a 301 redirect (permanent redirect) to video.aol.com.

SEO

InfoSpace Joins Forces With FAST For Mobile Search

InfoSpace and FAST announced a partnership at 3GSM conference that seeks to marry InfoSpace’s carrier relationships and content expertise with FAST’s search technology and PPC platform on mobile devices. The companies will be offering their new “white label” services and platform to wireless carriers in the U.S. and Europe. That makes the combined InfoSpace-FAST effort […]

PPC

Wordtracker Adds UK Keywords Option To Keyword Tools

Wordtracker, a very popular keyword tool used by search marketers, has added UK keywords to their existing tools. This means, those wanting to target the UK region, will have an option to specify UK keywords only and will be shown related keywords based on that data.

Google

Google Search Results Now May Display Malware Warnings

Google Operating Systems reports that Google has changed the way they handle warning searchers of sites that may contain malware on them. It notes that a search on beautiful free screensaver currently brings up a result from elitesavers.com that has a message from Google reading: “This site may harm your computer.” That message links directly […]

Google Maps

Google Maps Adds “Report Incorrect Data” Link

Mike Blumenthal reports that Google has added an easier way to report inaccurate data found within Google Maps. For any unverified business listing, Google will show a link that reads “report incorrect data” that takes you to a page to easily notify Google of the problem. For example, currently this business listing shows the link, […]

Content

Google Loses In Belgium Newspaper Case

A Belgium court has found that Google did violate copyright when including material from several Belgian newspapers in its search index. Google may have to pay a fine, but the ruling is far more positive for the company. Google can continue to index content without explicit permission. NOTE: The story is developing, so I will […]

SEO

You Hum It, These Search Engines Claim They’ll Find It

Recently a couple of search engines have come to my attention that are designed to allow you to hum a few bars of a tune into them, and then they’ll tell you what the song is. These are Midomi and Humming Search from Nayio. That’s the promise; the reality was disappointing.

Paid social

Sproose – A Social Search Engine

Sproose is another social search engine where you get to vote for your favourite websites/pages, and to that extent it’s very similar to previous social search engines that I’ve looked at recently. It’s got the double ‘o’ in the name which always helps, and uses terminology that sounds familiar, such as ‘Knowledge Rank technology’. However, […]

Content

I Have A Link Building Secret

Link building secrets? That search on Google comes up with over 20 million matches. How secret is anything out there with so much discussion about it? And which of those 20 million shiny nuggets are real secrets rather than fool’s gold? Here are just some of the secrets you have to choose from:

Bing

Microsoft, Google & Others To Build New Wireless Device?

Both the Seattle PI and the Seattle Times have details about a group of technology companies — including Microsoft and Google — seeking permission from the US Federal Communications Commission to test a prototype device that uses "white space" radio spectrum freed up as TV stations go digital. Could it potentially be a way for […]

Google

Ask.com Chooses Central Washington For New Data Center

Ask.com, Intuit bringing new data centers to state reports that Ask.com has selected Washington State for the location of a new data center, designed to help save Ask.com money on power. Although Ask.com did not mention which building they have selected, we know they “signed a lease in an existing building in Moses Lake.” Rumors […]

Content

Google Accused Of Profiting On Film Piracy: Discussions Continue

Media Firms Say Google Benefited From Film Piracy [paid sub. required] by the Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been accused of profiting from pirated movies. Specifically, there are two web sites that allegedly offered pirated movies. Google is said to have supported them in part by an ad rep suggesting they bid on […]

Google

Google’s Agent Rank / Author Rank Patent Application

Google returns results based upon content appearing upon individual pages, or at specific URLs. But that content could come from different authors, who have different levels of control over it. For example, a blog page may have posts written by more than one author, comments penned by others, and advertisements showing ads that even the […]

Link building

Link Building Webcast Next Week

You’re invited to join Search Engine Land columnist Eric Ward when he presents Online Publicity and Link-Building 2007, a free webcast from our sister site Search Marketing Now. The webcast is Thursday, February 15 at1:00 PM Eastern (6:00 PM GMT), and will last 45-50 minutes including a live Q+A session with Eric. If you haven’t […]

Bing

Exclusive Interview with Microsoft Live Search’s Justin Osmer

This week, I talk with Justin Osmer from Microsoft, a Senior Product Manager with the Online Services Group, which includes both MSN and Windows Live, including Windows Live Search. Obviously, the last few months have been busy ones at Microsoft, with the roll out of Windows Live and the transition from MSN Search. We talked […]

SEO

22 Links To Coverage About The SEO Is Bull Debate

Over the past two days, there has been a ton of debate over Jason Calacanis’s post calling SEO "bull." Since then, Danny’s done a long response, Jason’s been challenged (and accepted) to have his site SEOed and much more. Here’s a rundown and a rough timeline of developments:

Content

Powerset Licenses Xerox PARC Natural Language Tech

Both VentureBeat and the New York Times are out today with an update on Powerset, which has won the rights to natural language search technology from Xerox PARC that it hopes will make it into the new Google, when Powerset finally launches. VentureBeat also gives us news of at least one person from Yahoo now […]

Google

dMarc Founders Tuneout Of Google AdSense For Audio Plans

dMarc Founders No Longer At Google at paidContent.org reports that the founders of dMarc have left Google due to differences of opinion and remuneration. Chad and Ryan Steelberg bios), the founders of dMarc Broadcasting, sold the company to Google on January 17, 2006 for $102 million in cash and with potential to earn up to […]

Content

The Long List Of Linkbait Articles

Lyndon Antcliff posted The Enormous Linkbait List that contains well over 65 links to articles on the topic of linkbaiting. The articles are grouped by blogs such as: Problogger, SEO Book, SEOmoz, Matt Cutts, Search Engine Journal, Link Building Blog, Tropical SEO, Performancing, Stuntdubl, Copyblogger, Modern Life is Rubbish, Jim Westergren, Pronet Advertising, Graywolf, Cartoon […]

Google News

Diggers Can’t Handle The Truth (About SEO)

It’s been a busy day, with me trying to provide some more balance and education about search engine optimization in today’s Why The SEO Folks Were Mad At You, Jason article. About two hours ago, I noticed it drew the attention of those on Digg. It jumped to the Tech News popular page, in fact. […]

Google

3 Ranking Survival Tips For Google’s New Personalized Results

The effects were subtle. The average person searching on Google probably didn’t notice. For most, the results of last Friday’s rollout of the long-tested, debated and awaited personalized search results for the masses was an entirely unremarkable event. For the search marketing industry, it was cataclysmic. In short, it’s a game changer. Those who adapt […]

Link building

Why The SEO Folks Were Mad At You, Jason

Jason Calacanis is riled up about SEO today, telling the world that "90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman" and still confused over why the "SEO folks" were mad at him when he said "SEO is bull" during our keynote conversation at SES Chicago last December. I love Jason. I […]

Content

The State of Search Engine Marketing 2006

Search marketing is thriving, according to SEMPO’s annual “State of Search Engine Marketing” survey, with North American advertisers spending $9.4 billion on search engine marketing in 2006, a 62% increase over 2005 spending. SEMPO collected data on spending trends on paid placement, paid inclusion, organic search engine optimization (SEO)and SEM technology platforms. The survey drew […]

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