Topic: Organic search

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 29, 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: The Long Tail of Paid Search Account Effort If you spend enough time sitting at your desk in summer, you can go slightly insane. That aside, daydreaming sometimes leads to back-door […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 23, 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: The Link Builder’s Guide To Analyzing SERP Dominators For Link Opportunities This article walks you through the tools, processes and strategies for identifying the most powerful players in your keyword space […]

SEO

Hitwise: Natural Search Referrals On The Rise

As a followup to last week’s report that fewer searchers are clicking on paid ads, Hitwise has released a follow-up report showing that organic search referrals are on the rise. “For the majority of categories measured at Hitwise, search is the top source of traffic referrals and the share has increased year-over-year,” writes Heather Dougherty. […]

PPC

Yahoo Shuts Down Publisher Network RSS Ads

The next Yahoo program to be discontinued are the Yahoo Publisher Network RSS ads. Here is an email I just received from Yahoo: We wanted to let you know that we are closing our Ads in RSS program effective February 2, 2009. We have ended this beta program to focus on other more broadly used […]

Google Provides Answers Your Local Search Questions

In an earlier post, I solicited questions for Google about local search. My intention had been to present them at the What’s New in Local Search panel at SMX East this morning. But I didn’t get my act together to distribute them at the session. Google’s Eric Stein, who was on the panel, coordinated the […]

Yahoo’s Google & Microsoft Deals, Side-By-Side

I was off most of Friday when the Google-Yahoo deal was announced — and then details of Microsoft’s last proposal to Yahoo also came out. Today was catch-up, and I wanted to put the deals next to each other in chart form. Google-Yahoo doesn’t seem as bad as some are making out. I may do a longer post on all […]

Video Search: New Column From Search Engine Land

Our newest Search Engine Land column, Video Search, launches today. Video Search looks at how search engines index videos, and explores the unique search engine optimization techniques that can make videos visible in search results. Our video search columnists are: Grant Crowell, CEO and Creative Director, Granttastic Designs Bob Heyman, Chief Search Officer, Mediasmith Eric […]

PPC

Yahoo, PayPal Team Up On Checkout

Building on their existing alliance, Yahoo and PayPal today announced that Yahoo Sponsored Search results will feature a blue shopping cart icon linking to merchants that accept PayPal Express Checkout as a method of payment. Participating merchants’ search listings on Yahoo will be enhanced with the shopping cart icon, pointing consumers to a bright orange […]