Danny Sullivan

Member since: 04-28-08
Website: http://searchengineland.com/
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Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trump Google For News & Can't We Measure Twitter Correctly?Give Me Some Feedback On Potential SMX Advanced SessionsSearchWeek: March 15, 2010Live Blogging SXSW: Ev Williams KeynoteLive Blogging SXSW: Social Search, A Little Help From My FriendsLive Blogging SXSW: RIP Jeff Goldblum, Truth Vs. Web BSLive Blogging SXSW: Can The Real Time Web Be Realized?Google Is Bing's 4th Largest Referring SourceSearchWeek: March 8, 2010Search Month: February 2010 Search News, In ReviewSearchWeek: March 1, 2010 SearchWeek: February 22, 2010Twitter Gets Its Own URL Shortener To Stop Scams; Good Marketers Need Not FearMath Engines: For Multiplying Mixed Fractions, It's Wolfram Alpha Over Google & BingSEMPO Elects 2010 Board MembersA Guide To SXSW For Those Interested In Search Engines & Search MarketingMedia News Junkies Meet MediagazerHow To Speak At SMX Advanced Seattle 2010Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up?How Wikipedia Turned PPC / Paid Search Into SEMYes, More Are Seeing A New Google Look-And-FeelNeed To Learn Search Marketing? Come To SMX Boot Camp!Google Advertises Chrome ... On Bing!Google Real Time Search Now Shows Updates From Facebook Fan PagesItalian Court Finds Google Execs Guilty Of Violating Privacy CodeRecent Comments
Give Me Some Feedback On Potential SMX Advanced SessionsJonathon, yes, I was contemplating adding a "big picture" type of session. We do plenty of those at our SMX West and East shows, where there's more ro
Give Me Some Feedback On Potential SMX Advanced SessionsBrad, I saw analytics as part of the attribution, landing page and ad creative panels, definitely. You gotta have analytics to do any of that. But may
Give Me Some Feedback On Potential SMX Advanced SessionsFootinmouth, I did leave off local search. It's important, but we cover it plenty at our SMX West and East shows, and there's only so much room. But I
Google Is Bing’s 4th Largest Referring SourceKgamache, it's not as exact as with browser referrers, where you can tell what was the exact site that sent someone to you. But it's the closest appro
Math Engines: For Multiplying Mixed Fractions, It’s Wolfram Alpha Over Google & BingNice, thanks for that. I'll make a note of it above. Still, Wolfram Alpha saved me from that complication!
AP & Google Reach A Deal – Sort OfThe agreement was to expire at the end of January. Positively end. So what's new is that somehow, the parties are still working together. I think this
Some SEO Advice For Bill GatesMichael, I didn't get into as part of the article about how when I looked at just "bill gates," he wasn't ranking for that.
A title change to just
Some SEO Advice For Bill GatesMichael, if you read the article, it says:
"I’m going to keep everything in basic terms and use your blog to help others who may be in the same sit
Some SEO Advice For Bill GatesMichael, I never said a blogger has to call their blog "X brand blog." In fact, I said the opposite: "Bill Gates blog” might be entirely off."
I ca
Some SEO Advice For Bill GatesLegato, if he has no benefit from being in search engines, then he should block them. But again, he does have a benefit. I know he's Bill Gates. But t
Some SEO Advice For Bill GatesLegato, I'm going to assume that Bill Gates started his blog because he felt he had important ideas to share and get people thinking about. I make tha
Google Just Says No To China: Ending Censorship, Due To Gmail Attackno1onsports this would be the wrong pressure. Chinese people are just as patriotic as those in other countries. An American company telling the Chines
Climategate: Just How Popular Is It, According To Google?Thanks, Michael -- missed that and updated.
Why An Exclusive Wall Street Journal (or News Corp) Deal Wouldn’t Help BingThanks, everyone, on the pokes about the numbers. I did say "maybe they earn a lot less." But to make it absolutely clear, I was simply guessing at so
Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?Dave, enjoying the discussion.
Google News doesn't compete with the WSJ to me. That's because the WSJ has a selection of stories for a particular a
Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?David, we could survive without Google, Techmeme and aggregators in general, if we had to. Google is our largest referring source, which is similar to
Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?Kevin, News Corp actually has skilled search marketers throughout their organization. It's the high level execs who don't seem to know the nitty gritt
The Myth Of Great Search Engine ResultsThanks, everyone, for all the comments. Some responses.
Andrew, yep, those are three common words. But search engines have long used proximity as a
The Myth Of Great Search Engine ResultsMatt, that's it exactly. The first page of results ARE fairly good, as I noted. It's the second page that's largely a mess. I've bolded now that I'm t
Thoughts On Web Developers, SEO & Reputation ProblemsJoe, I don't mean to be dismissive of web developers at all, and my apologies to you or anyone who is taking this post that way.
I totally agree. T
Yahoo Search No Longer Uses Meta Keywords TagYahoo said they simply do not use the tag. They didn't specify ranking versus indexing, I think because the "we don't use it" was pretty clear -- they
Reviewing Some Bad Google Search Results With Sergey BrinDunno, searched for "john wayne airport car rental," and I don't see many trusted brands in there. The description for one of the gives me a quote in
Despite Assurances, Google Place Pages Now Showing In Search ResultsYes, I know the arguments that Google makes for showing partially indexed or "link only" URLs. They're good ones. And yet, they still don't respect a
Google News Labels Some Sources As “Blogs”Ron, it's rare to find a newspaper that fact checks. Trust me, i know. I've been quoted in hundreds of articles -- few papers ever, ever call to fact
Elephants In The Link Building Living RoomI can hear my news editor Barry Schwartz crying right now. You want curated content? Search Engine Land gives it to you each day. It's called