Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Search Engine Watch Editor Brian E. Ussery noticed Google's Webmaster Guidelines suggestions for improving your sites has removed.getting links from directories. This is not to say Google is not using directories in the algorithm, just they are not pitching for them. Great catch Brian - good article !
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
We have been tracking a Search Engine Watch Forums thread on feature requests for Microsoft adCenter Desktop Beta. That thread has just been updated by adCenterRep with a promise of new features. The new features coming soon to adCenter Desktop...
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
A Search Engine Watch Forums thread suggests that Google AdWords is not monitoring landing pages. Discovery caught a screenshot of a deceptive landing page with Javascript that tried to make a user go to a page that he/she hasn't tried...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
We here at Incisive Media, home of Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies ( SES ), are pleased to announce a few promotions within our event programming team. First off, Stewart Quealy has been promoted to VP of content development. Stew has been programming the Search Engine Strategies events since 2001, most recently as senior conference program director. He will become the senior person...
Internet News (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Google Searches at 63% of the Search Market for August 2008, Search Engine Watch (Setp 19) Comscore figures for the US Market. Google continues to gain from Yahoo and Microsoft. + Google 63% + Yahoo 19.6% + Microsoft 8.3% +...
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Want a quality score of 10? Here's an easy way to do it. On Search Engine Watch forums, abbotsys explains the procedure that was attempted. Take a 2 word keyphrase (e.g. word1 word2). Register a domain with word1word2 in the...
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Google Analytics is a good platform for statistics, but you really can't drill down to specifics and get hourly breakdowns of your conversion data. That's okay -- almost -- because there's a workaround that SteveLaLonde presents at Search Engine Watch...
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Yesterday we talked about how Yahoo is lacking a desktop editor for their search marketing platform. Today, there is a nice thread at Search Engine Watch Forums on the topic of improving the adCenter Editor Beta application. Search Engine Watch...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
At SES San Jose 2008, Rebecca Lieb, Contributing Editor of ClickZ, interviewed Chris Boggs, Search Engine Watch Expert and Manager of SEO at Brulant, which was recently acquired by Rosetta. Rebecca had moderated the SEO Through Blogs & Feeds session and Chris was one of the speakers on the panel. Rebecca asked Chris about blogs and domain strategy. Chris discussed where a blog should be hosted, in...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
In the Search Engine Watch forums , user searchengineman (Does he wear a cape? I hope so!) noticed a change to his AdWords statistics. Now, he could check separate statistics for ads on the content network and ads via search. So how did he feel about it? In the words of a famous Etta James song, searchengineman wrote, "At last." Check it for yourself. There's a new Statistics drop down menu, which...
Money Making and Blogging Tips (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
1. Search Engine Watch 2. SEOMOZ 3. Search Engine Land 4. SEO Inc. 5. Search Engine Roundtable 6. Search Engine Guide 7. Sempo 8. Van SEO Design 9. E Web Marketing 10. Apogee Search 11. Search Views 12. Vizion Interactive 13. Register Everywhere 14. Top Rank Blog 15. Web Optimizer 16. tigglobal 17. Prime Visibility 18. Kichus 19. OZUCS 20. Jnbwebpromotion 21. Purpleclick 22. rbalaji SEO Expert 23....
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
A new look and a number of new features are now available. Worth a look and something to share with students, parents, and educators. Search Engine Watch Blog has an in-depth look.
All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
MapQuest has partnered with Citysearch to add its content (reviews, menus, photos) to results. - MapQuest Blog - via Search Engine Watch
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Social media marketing is fast emerging as a must-have in search strategies. In this session, industry experts Vanina Delobelle, Global Product Director for Monster, Erik Qualman from Search Engine Watch and Global VP of EF Education, along with Brnet Csutoras, Online Marketing Consultant offered some tips to successfully integrate social media into your search marketing mix. Vanina kicked off the...
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
At Search Engine Watch, member abbotsys notices that the Quality Score for low volume keywords is good -- but if you look closely at the keyword analysis, the ad isn't even running! According to Google, those ads are not showing...
