SearchDay | Must We Unlock the Deep Web?
KevinRyan |
Must We Unlock the Deep Web? SEARCHING FOR MEANINGSearch engines are good at what they do, but they aren't especially great at it. Local information, research documents, mountains of medical data, and other information lies buried beyond the reach of GoogleBot and other crawlers. But is any of that information really useful? » Full story » Print version |
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Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team, Part 1 BY THE NUMBERS The success of your testing program relies heavily on the cooperation of many people in your organization. There are some key roles that you'll need to fill with the right kinds of people, or your ideas will never see the light of day. » Full story » Print version |
CarrieHill |
Six Things You Might Be Doing Wrong (And How to Fix Them)! LITTLE BIZ When you look at what is and isn't working for a small business Web site, you'll find that the most frequent issues fall within six categories. Some are flaws in site architecture, while others are the result of poor planning or marketing discipline. All are fixable, if you know what to look for. » Full story » Print version |
MarkJackson |
Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO AU NATURAL Google's rules for improving Quality Score of AdWords ads will sound familiar to anyone who's been doing SEO. By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well. » Full story » Print version |
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Google Updates Search Results for iPhone Posted by Nathania Johnson Nov 12, 2008 iPhone users, get happy. Google has updated the search results for your device. It's a cosmetic change that displays the results in a more user-friendly way. However, I was only able to get the updated results by going directly to Google.com in Safari on my iPhone. I was not able to ... » Continue reading |
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New Yahoo! Home Page Includes Updated User Interface Posted by Nathania Johnson Nov 12, 2008 The new Yahoo! front page went into testing a couple months ago. The redesign effort also coincides with the new user interface, YUI 3. Here's a peek: Nicholas Zakas of the Yahoo! User Interface team expanded on the UI efforts by explaining the goals for the framework of YUI 3: Eliminate global dependencies. ... » Continue reading |
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Women Plan to Spend Less this Holidays, First Cuts Going to Themselves Posted by Nathania Johnson Nov 12, 2008 Women are planning to spend less according to two surveys released today. In a survey by the Marketing to Moms Coalition, moms plan to cut spending on holiday gifts. Offline is expected to be hit the hardest, with an 8% drop over last year. Online will decline by 2%. 87% of moms ... » Continue reading |
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Google Tracks Flu Trends Across the United States Posted by Nathania Johnson Nov 12, 2008 Every year the flu hits and while it may just seem like a miserable couple of weeks for those who get it, it actually kills 500,000 people worldwide a year. Google is releasing a new tool called Google Flu Trends which tracks search queries to show where the flu is flaring ... » Continue reading |
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Incisive Media Promotes Matt McGowan to VP/Publisher for Digital Marketing Businesses Posted by Greg Jarboe Nov 11, 2008 Incisive Media announced today that Matt McGowan is being promoted to vice president and publisher for its digital marketing businesses, including the ClickZ network, Search Engine Watch and the Search Engine Strategies conference series. Matt, who was formerly the global VP of marketing for the group, will oversee ... » Continue reading |
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acceptable conversion ratio Nov 11, 2008 What is a reasonable target for converting fisrt page visitors to a sale or a lead » Join the discussion |
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Main site PR benefit to backlinks to internal pages? Nov 12, 2008 Hey wise folks, I have a program on my e-comm site where users will end up with their own unique links to mini-stores on my site. For example, John Smith's area might be found at www.example.com/john-smith There is very strong incentive for John to market that link specifically, as traffic to ... » Join the discussion |
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How can I find out who is linking to my site? Nov 7, 2008 What is the best way to find out who is linking to my site? And is there a way to find out when a site's link is going to appear as paid to google. For example i have found that many sites have a recip link form for viewers to ... » Join the discussion |
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Biography
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.
Article Archives by Kevin Newcomb
Google Chrome OS: So What? - Jul 8, 2009
Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle - Jun 17, 2009
Putting the M Back in SEM - Jun 11, 2009
Google Changes Course on Nofollow - Jun 3, 2009
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