Search Engine Forums Spotlight: December 14, 2007
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:
Google Project 'Knol'
Search Engine Watch Forums
"I wonder how this will play out with Wikipedia, seems like it would be a better source for information."
SEO Dilemma: Site Created Using All Images
High Rankings Forum
"We were recently contacted by a professional legal firm to perform SEO on their website. The marketing firm they hired designed and developed their site using probably 90 percent images. Even the majority of the copy is an image."
Multiple Hyphens in Root Domain = Spam?
Search Engine Watch Forums
"It's my opinion that the search engines must be on the look out for things which are easily manipulated for SEO purposes. Domain purchases with keywords stuffed in them, using multiple hyphens, seems to me to be something that could cause a red flag to be raised."
Good Local Business Domain Name for SEO
Cre8asite Forums
"There is already an established brand, it is not particularly strong, and the potentially matching domains are already taken. So this leaves us with tackling the most likely search terms and competing against those using them."
Sites Dropped from Live Search?
Search Engine Watch Forums
"There have been a lot of reports of sites going missing from Live Search since they did their search engine re-vamp around the 1st of October or thereabouts."
Key Words in Dynamic URLs?
High Rankings Forum
"Test it sometime on any phrase that is even remotely competitive -- without changing anything else -- and you'll get to have one of those A-Ha moments when you see exactly how little loading up the URI matters."
Google URL Removal Tool for a Subdomain?
Search Engine Watch Forums
"Does anyone know how to use the tool to remove a subdomain? It doesn't seem to be one of the options in Webmaster Tools."
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.
- Privacy Hounds Up Ante on Google/DoubleClick Deal, ClickZ News
- Top 10 Reasons to Double Your Search Budget for '08, ClickZ Experts
- How to Embrace Multichannel Behavior, ClickZ Experts
- Interview: Jeremy Allaire, CEO, Brightcove: We Made Multiple Bets, and The Platform Side Won, paidContent
- Competitive Search Engine Optimization, Bruce Clay blog
- 'Point and Shop' With Nokia, Local Mobile Search
- Should All These Searches Be Forgotten?, Search Engine Land
- Path Intelligence Monitors Foot Traffic in Retail Stores By Pinging People's Phones, TechCrunch
- Paid Links are Bad... No, Good... No, Bad..., SoloSEO
- Will Google Replace Some Ads with Organic Search Results?, SearchViews
- Running a stumble viral marketing campaign, Venture Skills
- Google goes Black Hat with Doorway Page Program, John Andrews
- Mobile Ad Forecasts Too Rosy?, Local Mobile Search
- Google Trends Works For SEO, Local SEO Guide
- 7 Ways to Use Google Knol, Small Business SEM
- Web Site Usability Developers Have No Idea What They're Doing, Cre8pc
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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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