Search Engine Forums Spotlight
What's going on in the search industry? 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:
Reputation Management Advice
Cre8asite Forums
"We're doing some reputation management for a client, where we're trying to push an unfavorable search result off the front page of Google."
How to Increase CTR & ROI on AdWords
High Rankings Forum
"We seem to have very few impressions for what is a highly competitive market place, and the few click we have do not seem to be converting."
New Client Checklist
Search Engine Watch Forums
"We each need a specific set of information from a client when we've sold them on our services. What information do you feel is vital to starting off your SEO campaign?"
Site Target, Do You Allow It?
Webmaster World
"Site-targeted CPM ads can be a great way to earn more revenue from pages that don't perform well with contextual ads."
A Brief History of Changes to the Google Algorithm?
Cre8asite Forums
"I'm new to the SEO world and trying to get a general understanding of how the algorithm has evolved over the past few years. "
Descriptive Text Behind a Background Image
Search Engine Watch Forums
"At first I instantly thought 'hidden text = BAD' but when I looked at it closely I realized he was doing this for a legitimate reason."
Do Women View The Web Different Than Men?
High Rankings Forum
"It's more than just about the copy. It's about the overall design, the images you use, the placement of those images, etc."
Google to Remove Adverts for Essays
Webmaster World
"Plagiarism is a major problem in universities, and these services don't help as they give students materials which the universities are frequently unable to detect as not being from that student."
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.
- Got 100 dollars? 7 Experts share budget website marketing tips, SEOish
- Don't Email Google When you Click on your AdSense Ads by Accident, Search Engine Roundtable
- Facebook Platform: What About the Users?, TechCrunch
- The Death of the Small Guy, Marketing Pilgrim
- Mini-Cities: Is It Already in Trouble?, Screenwerk
- Vertical Search 2.0 -- Can it Kill Personalized Search?, SearchAnyway
- Link Chicanery, The SEM Zone
- Penalized at Digg For Hanging With SEO’s, Cre8pc
- My Public Relations Secrets Revealed, 10e20
- The Ultimate Deadline, Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
- Can Yahoo Mobilize Mobile?, ClickZ
- Microsoft: Agency, Publisher, and Network, ClickZ
- When Personas Fail, ClickZ
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.
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Kevin Newcomb is Search Engine Watch's managing editor. Kevin joined Search Engine Watch in December 2006. He has been covering search marketing, among other online marketing topics, since August 2004, and has been reporting on web-based businesses since 2000.
Before the bubble burst, Kevin was a marketing manager for an online computer reseller, handling copywriting, e-mail marketing, search marketing and running the affiliate program.
With a combination of real-world marketing experience and years of business journalism, Kevin brings to Search Engine Watch a unique ability to deliver news and training materials that help search marketers do their jobs better.
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