SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 5, 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:

• How To Speak At SMX Advanced Seattle 2010

  Want to speak at our SMX Advanced Seattle search marketing conference this coming June 8 & 9? Our show that sells out every year? Here’s everything you need to know about doing it! We have TWO different pitching opportunities. First, we ask for session ideas as part of the session […]

• Bing Maps Rolls Out Its Largest Image Update

  Bing Maps has rolled out what Microsoft is calling its “largest amount of new imagery ever in terms of square kilometers.” Apparently that represents 6.7 million square kilometers.
  There’s new aerial and Bird’s Eye imagery across many countries on several continents. The full list is below.

• Bing, Yahoo Discussing Future Of Yahoo Site Explorer

  One more piece of news from the “Ask the Search Engines” session at SMX West on Thursday: Yahoo and Bing are in the midst of discussions to decide the future of Yahoo’s popular Site Explorer SEO tool. Yahoo’s Arnab Bhattacharjee told conference attendees that the two companies are now going through discussions on how to transition […]

• Yahoo Updates Desktop Search Marketing Tool

  During SMX West this week, Yahoo announced an update to its Yahoo Search Marketing Desktop tool for managing PPC campaigns. If you weren’t at the show to see it yourself, this Yahoo blog post details some of the upgrades that are now available: […]

• Solving Website Indexing Problems

  Crawling and indexing issues can really put a damper on your efforts to rank well for a variety of competitive and non-competitive terms. Solving indexing issues is definitely an important step towards increasing your keyword ranking footprint. And, the more real estate you own by solving those issues, means you’re taking the next steps in […]

• Bing & Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag

  More than a year since the three major search engines united to announce the canonical tag, neither Bing nor Yahoo formally support it. But that could be changing soon. Speaking during the “Ask the Search Engines” session at SMX West on Thursday, reps from both search engines said they’re in the process of supporting rel=canonical right […]

• SMX West 2010 Day Three Coverage

  Day three of SMX West 2010 is in the books, and that wraps up the main conference portion this year’s event. (There are in-depth training sessions on Friday.) We live-blogged today’s keynote, and a variety of bloggers and webmasters covered the rest of the day’s sessions and news. Here’s a recap of the SMX West […]

• Eye Tracking Study: Users Largely Blind To Real-Time Results In Search

  Online marketing firm OneUpWeb recently conducted an eye-tracking study about the impact of integrating real-time data into search results. The study involved 44 people divided into two groups: “consumers” and “information foragers.” The difference between the groups involved the tasks they were given: […]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Google Adds Sidewiki Control to Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable

Business Issues

• Analyst: Google’s YouTube to Exceed $1 Billion in Revenue in 2011, mediamemo.allthingsd.com
• Bing Goes Farming, www.bing.com
• Different Day, Different Lawyer, Same Meritless Claim: A Classic Race to the Courthouse, officialblog.yelp.com
• Google Docs welcomes DocVerse, googleenterprise.blogspot.com
• How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked The Harvard Crimson, www.businessinsider.com
• Viacom vs. Google court fight heats up, CNET News
• Yahoo Set to Open Checkbook for Audience, Technologies, Ad Age

Link Building

• Strategic Link Building: How to Productize Link Acquisition and Dominate Your Niche, SEOmoz
• What are some effective techniques for building links?, YouTube Blog

Local, Maps & Mobile

• A new way to edit places on Google Maps, Google LatLong
• Google Maps Avoid Tolls Feature May Cost You, Search Engine Roundtable
• Microsoft to sell phone on Verizon by summer-source, Reuters

Paid Search & Contextual

• Facebook Ads Can Now Do Local Targeting for Thousands More Cities, Inside Facebook
• AdSense Data Link With Google Webmaster Tools Failure, Search Engine Roundtable
• Targeting Placements ‘Above the Fold’ on Google’s Content Network, Search Engine People
• Tips For Mobile Search & Adwords, ppcblog.com

Searching

• Let Yahoo! Be Your Date for All Things Oscar, ycorpblog.com

SEM Industry

• Ruud Questions: Tadeusz Szewczyk aka Tad Chef aka Onreact, Search Engine People

SEO & SEM

• .TV Domains Can’t Set Crawl Rate in Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
• Are You Chasing Off Topic Traffic, www.wolf-howl.com
• Learning SEO: It Can Get Noisy, SEO Book
• The Google 7 Day Index Delay?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Whiteboard Friday – Twitter as an SEO Research Tool, SEOmoz
• Why a Search Engine Might Choose Something Other Than Meta Descriptions for Page Summaries in Search Results, SEO By The Sea

Social Media

• LinkedIn Marketing Tips, Online Marketing Blog
• Six Types of Social Spammers, Search Engine Journal
• The 10 Billionth (Or So) Tweet, TechCrunch

Video, Music & Image Search

• Clicker Redesigns Its Online Video Guide, New York Times
• New Default Size for Embedded Videos, youtube-global.blogspot.com

Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:

• SMX West 2010 Liveblogging Coverage
• How to Put the Kibosh on Content Scrapers & Thieves
• Internet Marketing Interview with Joanna Lord
• Encourage Customer Reviews: 4 Tips to Get People Talking About Your Small Business
• SEO Wins & Sins: 5 Questions with Industry Leader Joe Laratro
• Penalties, Bans, and Paid Search
• Mistakes the SEO Industry Does All Over Again