SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 17, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries Advanced link building queries, for the link builders who use them extensively, remain a closely guarded secret. It’s easy to understand why. For […]

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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:

  • 21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries

    Advanced link building queries, for the link builders who use them extensively, remain a closely guarded secret. It’s easy to understand why. For one, they want to protect a valued link source from getting flooded with link requests from the general link-seeking public. Secondly, there are some choice opportunities out there that would lose their […]

  • Google Image Swirl: A New Way To Browse For Similar Images

    The newest addition to Google Labs is a mashup of Google Images, Google Similar Images and the visual query refinement tool, The Google Wonder Wheel. Called Google Image Swirl, the new tool clusters similar images based on characteristics found in both the text surrounding images, as well as using some of the visual analysis techniques […]

  • Social Ratings: Scaled Ratings Vs. Booleans

    For years now, it has been a commonality for social media sites to rate content and commentary on a sliding scale. Sites like YouTube and Yelp allow users to rate and review content on a five-point scale, while sites like StumbleUpon and BuzzFeed want to just know if you like it or not.
    Scaled ratings
    Historically, stars […]

  • 6 Ways Local Domains Crush Dot Coms In International SEO

    Local domains are a winner in international SEO – here are 6 reasons why they show a clean pair of heels to dot coms. And a few tips to watch out for as far as SEOs becoming enchanted with the tempting charms of the dot com and leaving the narrow path to success.

  • Google AdWords To Step Up Account Disabling & Improve Communication Process

    Back in October I reported on Google mass banning AdWords advertisers, unfortunately then, the feedback from Google on the reason was very limited. Today, I spoke with Nick Fox, Google’s Business Product Management Director for AdWords, about new changes taking place today and tomorrow related to advertiser bans.
    Starting tonight, Google will begin permanently banning […]

  • Google Earth iPhone App 2.0 Available Soon

    A new version of Google Earth for the iPhone is due soon, and among its new features is one with a personal touch: the ability to see maps you’ve created and/or saved in Google Maps. To make this happen, the new Google Earth iPhone app will add the ability to login to your Google account […]

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About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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