I’ve written before about how there are many women are involved in search and search marketing, but blogrolls like ours can still feel man heavy. Fortunately, there are some new blogs up from women in search, including Google Webmaster Central’s Vanessa Fox. Here’s a round-up.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Pandia is offering a free custom search called the Search Engine Detective, a meta search engine which lets you do specialized searches for anything search engine related. Search Engine Detective give you two options: “All the best sites about search engines” searches a wide variety of sites and blogs on search engine optimization and the […]
For a lot of people, link building is a drag. It’s like going to the dentist or writing that tax check every quarter… you don’t really want to do it but you know you have to. It’s that drag factor that makes a lot of people look for short cuts and easy methods to hurry […]
Joe Whyte has an excellent write up at the Search Marketing Standard blog on how to build up a blog community. He gives the classic ten point list, for his part one of a series in this column. Here is a quick summary of the ten point list: Network with others in your industry Learn […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Webmaster Central has officially come out of beta, about a year-and-a-half after Google Sitemaps — core of the service later renamed Google Webmaster Central — launched. To celebrate, a new era for Google. The Official Google Webmaster Central Blog becomes the first official Google blog to gain comments. Google announces both news items here, […]
Lyndon Antcliff posted The Enormous Linkbait List that contains well over 65 links to articles on the topic of linkbaiting. The articles are grouped by blogs such as: Problogger, SEO Book, SEOmoz, Matt Cutts, Search Engine Journal, Link Building Blog, Tropical SEO, Performancing, Stuntdubl, Copyblogger, Modern Life is Rubbish, Jim Westergren, Pronet Advertising, Graywolf, Cartoon […]
Over the weekend, search marketing blog SEOmoz launched a new design and section of of the site named YOUmoz. YOUmoz is a place you can go and post your own content or rate the posts that others submit. You can listen to an MP3 file of all the new features over here. SEOmoz also made […]
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from January 2007:
Todd Malicoat created a new Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) seeded by Lee Odden’s comprehensive list of must read search marketing blogs. You can access Todd’s Google CSE over here, I like some of the results so far. Todd, also added the search box to his right side navigation, just in case you forget about […]
Google has created the Librarian Central Blog just in time for ALA Midwinter. The decision to create the weblog arose from their request for suggestions from librarians on how to improve the Google Librarian Newsletter, the two common ones being ‘make it a blog’ and ‘give us more current information’. The new weblog provides access […]
I love that people can comment at Search Engine Land directly within stories. I not only want comments — I want people to contribute links as well. I thought it would be useful to talk more about this, plus get feedback from readers on how we can improve the commenting system going forward.
First Graywolf’s blog was hacked, then I just found Stuntdubl has gone down when I was about to send some link love his way. I’ll hold that for tomorrow. They’re not the only ones. The culprit is over here and writes (NOTE: Links no longer work as this WordPress hosted account was promptly suspended for violating the terms of service): My name is XXX. […]
Earlier I did a review of traffic stats for Search Engine Land in December 2006. Today, I’m looking at what happened on the site yesterday, in terms of most popular stories. I can’t promise to do this every day. But doing a daily stats review is part of my regular routine, and it helps me […]
Can’t get enough about search marketing each day? Lee Odden has a cure for information underload: A huge list of more than 250 search marketing blogs, updated every Friday (here’s the list of new blogs added last Friday). Have a blog and want to get added to the list? Simply link to the list and […]
Search Engine Journal has announced all the winners of the 2006 blog awards that we voted for a couple weeks ago. Here are the winners broken down:
Matt Cutts called for Google to have more people blogging and monitoring communities interested in their products and hints at leaving Google.
Hitwise reports that Google Blog Search has passed Technorati in visits this week. Hitwise explains that when Google added a link from Google News to Google Blog Search in October, the traffic for Google Blog Search spiked by 168%. Hitwise reports that currently about 60% of Google Blog Search traffic comes from Google News referrals.
Search bloggers around the globe are celebrating the holiday season by giving the gift of competitive intelligence. From sharing their most popular posts to giving up all of their precious web statistics – a community of search bloggers are sharing more than they ever have.
The 10e20 blog complies a list of the sites they know are banned from Digg.com. There has been a recent wave of Digg bans, and reportedly, once your banned, you cannot get back in. Here is a current list of banned sites as per 10e20’s post.
Now that Blogger is officially out with a new version, I guess Google’s ready to get behind the service in a big way. The screenshot above shows a new promotional “tip” I just got in my web search results. I’ve never seen anything like that before for Blogger nor that I can recall for any other […]
There’s an amusing item over at the Google Operating System (Unofficial news and tips about Google) weblog on What Google Can’t Do, and screenshots are included. The things that Google can’t do include translation, mail, blogs, news, ads and a few other things as well. It’s a very tongue in cheek piece, and it should […]
It’s official. Search Engine Land has now formally launched. I know, I know — we’ve been posting for over a week here. But now our new design is (mostly) in place, so it’s time to declare ourselves fully operational. For those who are interested, here’s some more background about the site, our name, our look, our […]