SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 10, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Hot On Sphinn: Using Excel For SEO, Paid Links, Link Building Strategies & More Every day, your peers in the search industry are reading and voting on articles that are shared […]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

  • Hot On Sphinn: Using Excel For SEO, Paid Links, Link Building Strategies & More

    Every day, your peers in the search industry are reading and voting on articles that are shared on our sister site, Sphinn. The most popular content goes “hot” — i.e., it reaches the Sphinn home page — when it acquires enough community votes or when a Sphinn editor promotes it as an “Editor’s Choice.”
    This is […]

  • Google Street View Coming To Germany

    In the face of resistance from several European countries and agencies, Google says it will launch Street View in Germany before the end of the year. The road-based photo-mapping tool will be available in 20 of Germany’s biggest cities by November, the AP reports.
    One thing unique to this launch is that Google will let Germans […]

  • Internal Google Document Reveals Struggles Over Data, Privacy: WSJ

    Google’s internal debates over privacy and how to monetize the mountains of data it has about its users — including whether to monetize it at all — are detailed today by the Wall Street Journal. The lengthy article examines a confidential, seven-page “vision statement” that made the rounds at Google as far back as 2008. […]

  • Search Engine Land’s SMX East 2010 Comes To NYC: Why You Should Go!

    In less than two months, Search Engine Land’s SMX East search engine marketing conference comes to New York City from Oct. 4-6. Involved with generating business for your company? You should be there, to ensure you’re keeping up with the burgeoning medium of search.
    SMX East isn’t just for search marketers, though there’s plenty for […]

  • Why Display Matters to Search Marketers: SMN Webcast Thursday

    This Thursday at Search Marketing Now, Jeff Green, CEO of The Trade Desk, will present a webcast that looks explains the relationship between search advertising and display advertising, and why it is important to for marketers to engage in both, in order to reach the growing online audiences.
    “Why Display Matters to Search Marketers – […]

  • When Social Media Conflict Comes To The Farm

    When we think of social media, the image that comes to mind is remote workers scattered in coffee shops across the world, working for virtual corporations — the last place that comes to mind is probably a dairy farm in Ohio. Earlier this year, social platforms became the tool in a public relations war between […]

  • Reader Q & A: How Link Signals Can Be Misunderstood

    Most readers here are familiar with the concept of search engine “signals”, i.e., things the bots look for and count, and algorithm’s use and score, in order produce the search results page.
    While all of us agree such signals exist, this doesn’t mean we all agree what those signals are and to what degree any of […]

  • Building & Selling An SEO Company – 5 Keys To Success

    I’ve spent the last decade in the search optimization business as a principal, entrepreneur, expert and executive—building the Netconcepts search business, selling the company to Covario, and the past 7 months leading the integration of these businesses into a powerful new entity. I came into this business knowing very little about SEO. I have learned […]

  • Google To Drop Old Keyword Tool By End Of Month

    The Google AdWords Blog announced they are taking the new keyword tool out of beta. The “new” keyword tool has been in beta since September 2009 and we ultimately knew Google would phase out the old keyword tool in exchange for this new one. Now we know when.
    Google said the old keyword tool, […]

  • 5 Rules For Successfully Selling Search Services

    I’m a pretty idealistic person. I’ve been known to put unicorns and rainbows in my presentations. And I like to sit back and fantasize about various pie-in-the-sky scenarios. In one such (recurring) “blue sky” daydream, I head to the office on my bike under dawn’s pink glow. As I enter the office, the sun is […]

  • South Korea Begins Formal Investigation After Raiding Google’s Offices

    South Korea Police Raid Google Office from the New York Times reports South Korea has started a formal investigation against Google over the Street View privacy topic that has been haunting Google for the past few months.
    Google’s South Korea offices were raided today by the South Korean police. Korean National Police Agency […]

  • A Plea To Let International Users Decide What Language They Speak

    Where I live and what language I speak are not necessarily the same thing. And because today, I’m connecting in Vienna doesn’t mean that I want German content. And please dear website owner, remember that borders are artificial – my world centers around me not around a political line on a map. Center on me!

  • UCSD Student, Professor Try To Solve Google’s Street View Privacy Problem

    A grad student and his professor have developed software that eliminates (some) people from Google Street View images. And that could be a boon to Google’s ongoing battles over Street View and privacy.
    Arturo Flores, a computer science grad student at UC San Diego, and Serge Belongie, his professor, have published their findings (1.7mb PDF) in […]

  • Twitter Builds Its Ad Sales Team

    As Twitter continues to take steps to execute on its business plan, the company has announced two important hires today: Dan Coughlin as Director of Sales for the Eastern Region, and Amanda Levy as Director of Sales for the Western Region. Coughlin comes to Twitter from Facebook, where he worked for four years and was […]

  • Mobile SEO Tip: Transcoding Services Can Dilute Link Popularity

    Usablenet is one of the most popular mobile web platforms available, because they provide a turnkey solution for businesses that are looking to take advantage of mobile web traffic. According to their web site, they have built mobile solutions for over 300 companies, many of which are Fortune 100 companies like Dell, Delta Air, Walgreens […]

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  • 885 Social Sites, SEO & Marketing: Fine Tuning Your Marketing Strategy – Angie's (@AngsCopywriting) shared a treatise on social media & SEO marketing – doing it right and wrong, measuring effots, considering the human factor.
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About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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