The Search Engine Land team is growing. We've gained two new editors this month, Matt McGee and Elisabeth Osmeloski, plus Melissa Cormier came on as our editorial assistant in August. Below, an update on the entire team, and what we each do. Danny Sullivan, Editor-In-Chief: Danny oversees the entire Search Engine Land website, directing coverage plus writing articles about search, search marketing and the search industry. More about Danny's background can be found here, here and on his personal blog here.   Chris Sherman, Executive Editor: Chris oversees Search Engine Land's columnists [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from August 2008: 1) Google's Email, Gmail, Having Major Issues - It is not uncommon for Gmail (Google Email) users to complain about outages and issues with sending and receiving email. But right now, there are hundreds of Gmail users complaining that Gmail is down or simply not sending or receiving emails. A current search at Twitter on Gmail will return hundreds of messages with Gmail complaints. I am personally receiving a "Temporary Error (502)" and was receiving other weird errors when trying the Gmail interface. Some ar [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from July 2008: 1) Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google? - Can any start-up search engine "be the next Google?" Many have wondered this, and today's launch of Cuil (pronounced "cool") may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to be a comprehensive index of the web, offers a unique display presentation, and emerges at a time when people might be ready to embrace a quality "underdog" service. The big question [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from June 2008: 1) June 2008 California Fire Maps - Wildfires, again, in my home state of California. People are looking for maps of where they are at, so here are some resources. =================== 2) Yahoo The Failure: Myth Versus Reality - As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, let me be the contrarian about her future. I admit, I find it as hard to believe as anyone that Yahoo has much life left in it after all the executive departures this week, plus the latest news of Delicious founder Joshua Schacter going. But since [...]

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Search Engine Land will be going through a redesign in about two months, which we think will make it easier for people to find the vast amount of content we have here and publish each day. Our design and development spec is all set. Now it's just time to find a company or companies to help us make it a reality. While we have a short list in mind, we wanted to put out a public invite to anyone who reads us and thinks they'd be perfect for the job. Interested? Read on... Scope of Project With the performance goals listed below in mind, we are looking for a crisp, clean redesign of the site o [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from May 2008: 1) Playing With Live Search Cashback - Microsoft launched Live Search Cashback, and this takes you through the experience of using Cashback as a searcher. It has been a rainy week here in New York, and I figured I would start my search and shopping experience looking to buy an umbrella using Cashback. =================== 2) Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope Application Blasts Onto The Desktop - Microsoft has launched (an appropriate metaphor this time) its Worldwide Telescope desktop application. You must download the softw [...]

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Search Engine Land ran a reader survey recently to help our advertisers know who comes to the site. Now I have a different one that I'd really encourage everyone to take. This is designed so that we know what readers like in terms of content and how we can improve things going forward. It's fast to do, plus you could win a ticket to our upcoming SMX East show. The survey is here. Please give us your thoughts! [...]

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We're very happy to announce Search Engine Land en Español, which is being produced by our SMX Madrid partners OME. It has launched to coincide with the opening of the first SMX Madrid show tomorrow. On the site, you'll find selected articles from Search Engine Land which have been translated into Spanish. Occasionally, we'll pick up articles from Search Engine Land en Español, as well. [...]

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I'm happy to formally announce that Search Engine Land has joined John Battelle's Federated Media advertising network. Yes, we're still selling our own advertising directly (and our team is more than happy to help!). Yes, we're still doing our own thing editorially and are owned by our parent, Third Door Media. Partnering with FM allows us to try some other ad formats and be part of a great collection of other independent authors. One of the things FM has pioneered is conversational marketing, where brands want to spark discussion among pundits, analysts, and others. It's a new t [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from April 2008: ======================================== Top 10 Most Popular Stories: April 2008 ======================================== 1) Twitter Wrote This Column For Me - By now you have probably seen a bunch of talk about Twitter. And after all of this talk you might be still thinking: OK, so what the heck is Twitter really and why should I care? How is it going to help my business at the end of the day? Rather than writing this column myself, I decided to let Twitter (or more specifically, my extended Twitter network) write [...]

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A big "thank you" to all 375 of you who completed our Search Engine Land audience survey. We won't ask again for another year. Promise. You're a very impressive group in terms of seniority and buying power. Here are a couple of the survey results: a third of you said you have been in SEM for more than 5 years 37% of you work in SEM for a company and 32% work for an SEM or full service agency you are hands-on: 66% of you said you conduct search marketing campaigns, while 23% said you manage people who conduct campaigns 20% of you are responsible for spending $2 million or more annually o [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from March 2008: ======================================== Top 10 Most Popular Stories: March 2008 ======================================== 1) Open Letter To Google: Do The Right Thing, Divest Yourself Of Performics - At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Performics to people who want to rank well on -- um -- Google. Conflict of [...]

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Our newest Search Engine Land column, In The Trenches, launches today. In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. In today's debut article, Josh Dreller comments on news from the search engines, offers an in-depth look, "What You Don't Know About Quality Scores May Kill You," and describes this week's free tips and tools. Read on in In The Trenches, March 28, 2008. [...]

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There's a lot of business news in search that we think is important for both searchers and search marketers to know about. But we don't want all the search business news to drown out other things we post on Search Engine Land or get lost in headlines as part of our SearchCap newsletter. That's why we're debuting the Search Biz column today. It'll be listed on our columns page shortly, and you can subscribe to it as a newsletter or feed that way. It'll come out roughly daily -- whenever we think there's enough business news of importance to warrant doing a post. Hope you enjoy it! You'll fi [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from Februrary 2008: 1) Microsoft Makes $45 Billion Bid To Buy Yahoo - Microsoft is to bid $31 per share to Yahoo's board of directors to purchase the company, a deal potentially worth $45 billion. Details, some history, and analysis. =================== 2) How To Shout On Social Media Sites Without Screaming - No feature that I can recall in recent memory has polarized the social news sphere more than the ability to mass-alert stories to other users for immediate votes. StumbleUpon has the "send to" feature, Propeller has &quo [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from January 2008: 1) 20 Awesome Images Found In Google Maps - The introduction of satellite images into map search interfaces has excited both virtual sightseers and local app developers. Further innovations like Google's Street View have caused consternation from privacy advocates while further pumping up the buzz about online mapping. In 2008, we can expect further innovations that stretch the envelope while dynamic map interfaces solidify as basic table-stakes for all local sites. In gearing up for this year in local search, I thoug [...]

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Our newest Search Engine Land column, Video Search, launches today. Video Search looks at how search engines index videos, and explores the unique search engine optimization techniques that can make videos visible in search results. Our video search columnists are: Grant Crowell, CEO and Creative Director, Granttastic Designs Bob Heyman, Chief Search Officer, Mediasmith Eric Papczun, Director, Natural Search Optimization, Performics Sherwood Stranieri, Director, Natural Search, SMG Search In today's debut article, Grant Crowell looks at the fledgling effort by Internet Yellow Pages sites [...]

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Heads-up to all of you faithful Link Week and Paid Search column readers: Today we're swapping days for the columns. Paid Search will now appear on Mondays and Link Week on Tuesdays. No worries if you've subscribed to the feed for either column—you'll still get the content you've asked for. [...]

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On Friday, Search Engine Land published a piece about the Wired How To wiki, and how easy it was to gain a link from it. Our piece -- which I gave the go ahead to -- generated some serious spam issues for Wired, generated discord within the search marketing community, and injured the search marketing industry in general. I apologized in a note in the original piece to Wired, but Wired deserves a separate apology, along with other parties here. Our intention was never for search marketers to spam the Wired wiki. Honest. I'd assumed this was self-evident. A prominent search blog can't point at [...]

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The agenda is now up for our first SphinnCon internet marketing event -- SphinnCon Israel, to be held on February 5 in Jerusalem. Below, more about the inaugural event and details about the low-cost networking series that is backed by Search Engine Land's forum site, Sphinn. The idea behind SphinnCon is simple. Many readers know about our SMX: Search Marketing Expo conference series. Those aren't going away, but we also know that we can't bring a traditional two or three day conference to all the cities in the world that people wish for. SphinnCon is designed to be "low impact," [...]

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