SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 5, 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: Google Elections: Super Tuesday Map And Twitter Updates Google’s LatLong blog has two posts relevant to today’s "Super Tuesday" US presidential primaries. The first is about a Super Tuesday primary map […]

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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:

  • Google
    Elections: Super Tuesday Map And Twitter Updates
    Google’s LatLong blog has two posts relevant to today’s "Super Tuesday" US
    presidential primaries. The first is about a Super Tuesday primary map that
    presents a range of content, including video, on election results — as Google
    has in the last couple of primaries. The map also features real-time
    Twitter…
  • MicroHoo: Boon
    Or Bust For Yahoos?
    Yahoo has had a morale problem for some time, according to anecdotal reports
    from company insiders. Jerry Yang and other executives at the company have
    been trying urgently to fix that and restore the company’s former, dare I say
    it, esprit de corps. I had been told by one…
  • When Linking
    Experts Go Underground
    For years I’ve seen a free and flowing stream of information and advice about
    how to build links, and as the engines have improved detection of the junk,
    the better link builders continued to thrive while those who sold crappy
    services to crappy content ran for cover. At least…
  • Five Simple
    Linkbait Metrics (& How To Measure Them Cheaply)
    Many people jump into social media marketing because they feel they "should be
    doing it". Many times companies don’t take the time to identify their goals
    and why they want to engage in a campaign. Identifying and measuring social
    media metrics can be easy and inexpensive. Here are some…
  • A Bad Month For
    SEO’s Reputation
    We seem to be going through another wave "SEOs are scumbags" incidents, and I
    find myself with little energy to push back against them with yet another
    defense of the industry. It’s not that SEO doesn’t deserve better treatment.
    It’s just that I feel anything I could say, I’ve said…
  • Search
    Illustrated: Building A Company With Social Media
    So much discussion in the SEO community today centers around social media
    because of its potential to drive traffic, increase awareness, and build
    links. The challenge of this new medium, though, is to marry social media
    tactics with real business goals. Today’s infographic explores some ways that
    a business…

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

Business Issues

Link Building

Local, Maps & Mobile

Microhoo!

Paid Search & Contextual

Primary Elections

Searching

SEM Industry

SEO & SEM

Social Media

Video, Music & Image Search

Web Analytics

Other Items

Last 20 Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social
News Sharing Site:

  1. 25 Websites every seo should know
  2. Google Predicts Super Tuesday
    Results
  3. Rounding Up the Search Industry
    Recaps
  4. A Bad Month For SEO’s Reputation
  5. Search Illustrated: Building A
    Company With Social Media
  6. How To Educate SEO/PPC Staff from
    Scratch
  7. Rewriting URLs: SEO for Dynamic
    Sites
  8. Don’t Touch Me, You’ve Got ‘Kudos’
    Bill Slawski!
  9. Does The Search Engine
    Optimization Expert Really Exist?
  10. Search Engine Optimization For
    Your Flash Site
  11. Optimizing the Planet: SEO on a
    Global Scale
  12. Don’t Waste Money On a So-Called
    SEO Specialist, says AMEX ‘Expert’
  13. Take TopRank Reader Poll: 35
    Online Marketing Tactics for 2008
  14. Why I Don’t Want to Twitter My
    Life Away
  15. How to Successfully Moderate a
    Conference Panel, A Comprehensive Guide
  16. Nofollow Killed Google Social
    Graph API 3 Years Ago
  17. Stop Guessing – Study Your
    Competition!
  18. Search Engine Strategies London
    2008
  19. The frog the scorpion and the
    alligator: A Parable
  20. How to Herd Organic Search Traffic
    to Your Blog

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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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