SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 24, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Video As A Search Marketing Tool For SMBs Video is becoming an important part of local search marketing campaigns, and this week’s SMX Local Mobile conference features speaking talking about how […]
Danny Sullivan on July 24, 2008 at 7:08 pm | Reading time: 7 minutes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Video As A
Search Marketing Tool For SMBs
Video is becoming an important part of local search marketing campaigns,
and this week’s SMX Local Mobile conference features speaking talking
about how small and medium businesses can use video to be more effective
with their online marketing. Video solutions providers to these panels are
Jared Simon, VP of Business… - C’mon
Microsoft — Say You’re In Search Because You Love It, Not Want To Earn
From It
Sigh. Reading Stephen Ballmer’s latest "rally the troops" memo over yet
another Microsoft reorganization, I just want to scream at the man and the
company in general that they’ll never win at search if they don’t get it
through their heads that it’s not about selling ads but serving… - The Inmates
Are Running The Search Engine Asylum
For search engine marketers and clients to communicate effectively, they
must utilize a shared, common vocabulary. Some search engine marketing
terms and concepts are easy to explain, such as query terms, commonly
referred to as keywords or keyword phrases. And some concepts require a
little more clarification. For example,… - The Day
After: Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google
We’ve been assured that just because content sits on Google’s Knol site,
it won’t gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain.
OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how’s that holding up? I found 1/3
of the pages listed on the Knol home page… - Microsoft
Live Search Coming To Facebook
When Microsoft made its investment in Facebook I always had thought that
Live Search would come to the site, together with search monetization.
Later it appeared that search wasn’t part of the deal. Facebook’s
competitors all have web search, including Google’s much publicized deal
with MySpace. Well today Microsoft announced… - Live
Blogging Yahoo SMX Local-Mobile Keynote
I live blogged the Yahoo keynote so forgive the grammatical errors and
typos. Frazier Miller: Rise of the Local Web, A Perfect Storm. Miller gave
an engaging keynote that covered both online and mobile, user demand and
advertising. Miller defined local in terms of four Yahoo properties:
Search, Yahoo Local,… - Google’s
Blogger Makes Up 2% Of All Malware Hosts
Blogspot.com cited as the No. 1 host for malware from News.com reports
Google’s Blogger accounts "for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts."
Sophos, an antivirus vendor, published a report showing the state of
malware injections and attacks throughout the web. Specifically, hackers
can set up "malicious blogs" on the… - Yahoo
Acquistion Architect Johnson Departs Microsoft
Kevin Johnson, who was arguably the primary architect of the now
apparently failed Yahoo acquisition, is leaving Microsoft to run Juniper
Networks. Simultaneously the company is reorganizing the division that
Johnson ran ("Platform Services") into two: Windows and Windows Live +
Online Services. Here’s the official Microsoft announcement from
yesterday…. - Yahoo Takes
One More Step Away From Competing In Paid Search
I reported earlier that Yahoo wasn’t allowing new advertisers join the
Yahoo Ambassador program, but it seems much worse then that. I reported at
the Search Engine Roundtable and we have reports at PPC Hero that Yahoo is
closing down the whole program as of September 30th. Yahoo sent their… - A Visual
Dictionary For The Web
One of the most popular vertical search features on the web is image
search index. What’s really remarkable, however, is how little has changed
in the core technology approach to the indexing of multimedia over the
last decade. When I was the head of product at FAST back in… - Last Call
For SMX London Session Ideas
I’m in the process of finalizing the agenda for our SMX London conference,
which will be posted in early August. If you’ve got a unique, compelling
idea for a session you think we should consider for the conference, I’d
like to hear about it. And don’t delay—tomorrow is the last…
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Google
Account Phishing Attempt Using Orkut, Google Blogoscoped -
Yahoo Gives IMAP Access to All Users Through Zimbra Desktop,
Read/Write Web -
Official Gmail Blog: Making security easier, Official Gmail Blog
Business Issues
-
Baidu Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results, MarketWatch -
Gaffes: Ad-free Google News generates $100 million a year — and soon,
some lawsuits, Valleywag - Is
Google’s Proprietary Tech Stack Destroying Its Acquisitions?, TechDirt -
How Google could lose the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit – Part II,
E-Consultancy -
ReachLocal Hires a CFO, Screenwerk -
Spain’s Telecinco wins lawsuit against YouTube, INQUIRER.net
Link Building
- Knol’s
Nofollowing Of Links, Google Blogoscoped -
Rankings, Reputation, & Optimization, Link Building Best Practices -
Reciprocal Linking for Ranking is Anything But Dead, Web Optimist - Link
Building with Customers, Search Engine Watch -
What’s in a Good Link?, WebProNews
Local, Maps & Mobile
-
Announcing trueSpace for Virtual Earth 3D Development, Virtual Earth,
An Evangelist’s Blog -
Video in Virtual Globes, Google Earth Blog -
Waiting For Android, Forbes -
Orange Ad Campaign: I Am Lost?, Mobile Marketing News
Paid Search & Contextual
-
Google Adwords Certification Exam – More Than Just A User Manual, SEO
Speedwagon -
Inside AdWords: (Ad)Word of the Day: Conversion, Inside AdWords
Searching
-
Google Indexing FTP Address URL’s = Big Security Risk!, SEOptimise -
Good-bye, Google Bomb, Washington Post
SEM Industry
-
Tiers of Transparency: The Ethical Brand Ambassador, SEOmoz -
Unsubscribing to seomoz for a bit., Matt Cutts -
Is this the end for Matt Cutts, David Naylor -
Why I No Longer Blog for SEOmoz, SEO Theory -
SEO Haters: Misconceptions and Misinformation, Michael Gray -
Tamar Weinberg: Search Blogger of the Day, The SEO Scoop
SEO & SEM
-
Big Brand Understands SEO, DerekChew.com - Can You Be
Penalized in Search Engines For Broken Web Links?, Search Engine
Roundtable - Get
your search fix with two videos, Matt Cutts - Google
Sitemaps URLs Have "High Response Time" Message, Search Engine
Roundtable - Is
Microsoft Not Serious About Webmasters?, Search Engine Roundtable - MSN Live
Sending Odd Referrals — QBHP — to Websites, Search Engine Roundtable -
Optimizing for Multiple Word Order Search Phrases, SEOmoz -
SEO "key" to image-based marketing, Digital Response Media -
Seven Building Blocks of a Destination Website: #3 Website Design,
Search Engine Guide -
Source Ordered Content: SEO Benefits (and Drawbacks?), Search Engine
Journal -
How to Combat Complaints Sites in Google : Open Discussion, Search
Engine Journal
Social Media
-
Digg To (Finally) Integrate OpenID, If This Picture Is To Be Believed,
TechCrunch -
How To Reorganize Management For Social Media, Search Marketing and
Internet Advertising, Cshel -
Facebook Takes The Fast Lane To Boring, TechCrunch
LinkedIn: La red profesional lader ahora en espaeol, The LinkedIn Blog- The
Top 4 Best Facebook Practices, Search Engine Watch -
Geographic divide of social networks, Hitwise
Where Are My Followers?, Twitter Blog
Video, Music & Image Search
-
Inappropriate Google Image Search, Amit Verma -
Study examines YouTube popularity, BBC NEWS -
Yahoo Music buyers are approaching the DRM pain barrier, The Guardian -
Windows Live Photo Gallery will Soon Recognize Faces in Pictures,
Digital Inspiration
Other Items
- Researchers borrow
from Google PageRank for network defense service, ZDNet - Podcast:
Google Launches Knol – Should Wikipedia Worry? Will Google Buy Digg? Plus
More, Daily SearchCast
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Blogging? - 6 Sure-Fire Tactics to
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With David Mihm - Create an Effective Strategy
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