Search Engine Forums Spotlight

By Kevin Newcomb, Search Engine Watch, Feb 16, 2007

What's new in search? Find out here, with these links to some of the latest topics being discussed in our own Search Engine Watch Forums, and other search marketing forums across the Web:

How Do Links And Traffic Find You After You've Added Good Content?
Cre8asite Forums
"If I have an unknown Web site, and I write some great article, what's the next step?"

Starting My SEO Strategy
High Rankings Forum
"Okay, now I have been teaching myself SEO, and I have to implement it for the company that I am working for. So how do I start?"

Quality Score Column
Digital Point Forums
"Unfortunately, due to a technical issue, you may notice that the minimum bids for some of your keywords increased dramatically, despite them being high performing, good quality keywords."

How To Find A Good SEO/M Firm
Cre8asite Forums
"I know there are millions of SEO/M firms out there... how do I choose?"

Anybody have an extra $10?
Search Engine Watch Forums
"It looks like Google has just determined that $10 CPC's are the new baseline for advertising on Adwords. Is this a Glitch?"

If I Had $10,000 And 40 Hours/week - How Would I Promote My Website?
Cre8asite Forums
"How do successful website owners allocate their time? If I want to launch a new site with a bang, where do I allocate the marketing money?"

SEM Strategy For Consultant
High Rankings Forum
"I will be developing the Web strategy for a consultant/professor who wants to position herself as a leader in her field."

Adwords Editor, Why?
Search Engine Watch Forums
"Why in the world would anyone use the AdWords editor, or any PPC campaign editor?"

"Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval" - part of the Google picture?
Webmaster World
"There are MANY ways of weighting (rankings) documents within the Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval system and as always, ‘playing with the dials’ will produce different effects."

Search Headlines

We report the top search marketing news daily at the Search Engine Watch Blog. You'll find more news from around the Web below.

• We Tried That Already, ClickZ
• All About Title Tags, Search Engine Guide
• 10 Likely Elements of Google’s Local Search Algorithm, Small Business SEM
• What’s The Most Effective Word You Can Use In A Headline?, Speaking Freely
• Secrets of the H1 tag revealed, Cornwall SEO
• Decker Gets Rid of Mitgang, Got Ads?
• Clarifications upon the Performancing Sale - Interviews with Nick Wilson and David Krug, Problogger
• Query String Usage in adCenter: Part 1 - What Exactly Is a Query String?, adCenter Blog
• Worried about page views dying? Don't be., Web Analytics Demystified
• How To Drive Traffic to Your Blog - The Advice of a 12 Year Old, Problogger
• Google AdWords Quality Score Has Major Bug, Search Engine Land
• Defending NoFollow Against Angry SEOs, Search Engine Journal
• Third-Party Serving In Search: The Solution To Click Fraud And Other Dilemmas?, Search Insider
• The Ultimate Guide To Increasing Web Traffic, Link Building Blog
• Advertising Breakdown by Industry, December 2006 and January 2007, ClickZ Stats
• The Story of Sergey Brin, Moment
• NearByNow, the shopping mall search engine, Venture Beat
• Let's stop the "Yahoo ripped off Digg" meme right now., Jason Calacanis
• I-Spy poaches Yahoo search chiefNet Imperative
• The real secret to a successful blog/book/business..., Creating Passionate Users
• A metric for messaging, Now What?
• Measuring social activities online using my visitor engagement metric (Part V in a series), Web Analytics Demystified
• SportsGuy gets a book deal, The Online Marketing Guy

Editor's note: A special thanks to Peter Da Vanzo and John Scott of v7n for their help in compiling the Search Engine Forums Spotlight.