Danny Sullivan

Member since: 04-28-08

Website: http://searchengineland.com/

Recent Posts

Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trump Google For News & Can't We Measure Twitter Correctly?
Give Me Some Feedback On Potential SMX Advanced Sessions
SearchWeek: March 15, 2010
Live Blogging SXSW: Ev Williams Keynote
Live Blogging SXSW: Social Search, A Little Help From My Friends
Live Blogging SXSW: RIP Jeff Goldblum, Truth Vs. Web BS
Live Blogging SXSW: Can The Real Time Web Be Realized?
Google Is Bing's 4th Largest Referring Source
SearchWeek: March 8, 2010
Search Month: February 2010 Search News, In Review
SearchWeek: March 1, 2010
SearchWeek: February 22, 2010
Twitter Gets Its Own URL Shortener To Stop Scams; Good Marketers Need Not Fear
Math Engines: For Multiplying Mixed Fractions, It's Wolfram Alpha Over Google & Bing
SEMPO Elects 2010 Board Members
A Guide To SXSW For Those Interested In Search Engines & Search Marketing
Media News Junkies Meet Mediagazer
How To Speak At SMX Advanced Seattle 2010
Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up?
How Wikipedia Turned PPC / Paid Search Into SEM
Yes, More Are Seeing A New Google Look-And-Feel
Need To Learn Search Marketing? Come To SMX Boot Camp!
Google Advertises Chrome ... On Bing!
Google Real Time Search Now Shows Updates From Facebook Fan Pages
Italian Court Finds Google Execs Guilty Of Violating Privacy Code

Recent Comments

Give Me Some Feedback On Potential SMX Advanced Sessions
Jonathon, 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 Sessions
Brad, 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 Sessions
Footinmouth, 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 Source
Kgamache, 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 & Bing
Nice, 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 Of
The 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 Gates
Michael, 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 Gates
Michael, 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 Gates
Michael, 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 Gates
Legato, 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 Gates
Legato, 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 Attack
no1onsports 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 Bing
Thanks, 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 Results
Thanks, 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 Results
Matt, 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 Problems
Joe, 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 Tag
Yahoo 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 Brin
Dunno, 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 Results
Yes, 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 Room
I 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

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