SearchCap Newsletter Begins Friday & Search Month Open For Signups

The formal launch of Search Engine Land remains December 11. However, Barry and I have decided to kickstart the daily SearchCap newsletter this Friday. You can now also signup for our monthly newsletter, which will now be called Search Month. More on this, plus information on the three different feeds we offer, in the post below.

Our Search Engine Newsletters & News Feeds is a new page on the site that covers every newsletter and feed that we currently offer. That’s a good place to orient yourself, if you want more beyond this post.

Until now, I’ve had only one email newsletter signup box on the site. That’s for SearchCap, our daily newsletter. If you signed up for that, you’ve been getting a rundown of anything we’ve posted on the site. Now that will stop. Anyone on that newsletter will get a notice about this particular post, then you probably won’t get another email until Friday, when SearchCap gets going.

Barry and I still need to be watching all the news happening in search even if the site isn’t formally up. So, we figured why not — we’ll push out headlines to everyone on the SearchCap newsletter. In addition, we may start posting a few stories in addition to headline round-ups from Friday onward. It actually helps a bit in the design process if we have some real content to work with over here.

Let me stress that I was very, very hesitant to post anything on the site until December 11. My fear was that people might mistakenly assume that what you see now is how the site is going to look going forward, if we did that. Plus, Barry and I and all the Search Engine Land correspondents are out at SES Chicago next week. That naturally makes for slow posting, and I didn’t want to start the site up and further give the wrong impressions.

Fortunately, I’ve got a good sense that people are realizing what you see here now is definitely going to change when we formally launch. Plus, while posting may be slow, I think many people will find what’s going up to be helpful, especially the headline summaries. So we’re diving in. I’m not calling it an alpha, beta or gamma launch! It’s just us moving in, getting comfortable in the new place and talking with the neighbors and friends that come by until we get everything unpacked on December 11. By the way, I hear links make a very nice housewarming gift :)

Back to SearchCap. If you take that newsletter, you’ll get updated on everything that happens here, once per day, via email. Don’t want it via email? Then you can take the corresponding SearchCap feed.

In addition to SearchCap, you can now signup for Search Month. I originally planned to call the newsletter SearchCap Monthly, but I thought Search Month was a better name. It goes out — yes — once per month, just after the first of the month. So the first issue will come out just after the new year.

Tomorrow I will post my 120th (and last) monthly newsletter over at the Search Engine Report. That will be 10 years of doing a monthly recap of news, rain or shine. At first I thought about not continuing on with the monthly grind. But I find combing through all the stories to be a useful reflection on what happened. Plus, I still get plenty of people who like having that once-a-month recap. So I’ll be carrying on through Search Month –and if you don’t want it via email, you can take it via the corresponding Search Month feed.

Now that big orange box at the top of the page? That gets you going with our main Search Engine Land Feed, which will send you an alert about any post we do here. Throughout the day, you’ll get notified about all of our posts. In addition, you’ll also automatically get sent SearchCap and Search Month to your feed reader, so you don’t need to signup for those feeds separately.

By the way, the formal launch will have 125×125 graphical ads, six spaces strictly limited. Patrick Gavin over at Text Link Ads just became our first official sponsor, and thanks for your support, Patrick! If you’re interested, drop an email to sales@searchengineland.com for more information.