SearchDay | CEOs Should Drink the Social Media Kool-Aid
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: CEOs Should Drink the Social Media Kool-Aid; Search Engine Submission 101; New Search Engine Wolfram Alpha Launches to Much Buzz; and more.
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: CEOs Should Drink the Social Media Kool-Aid; Search Engine Submission 101; New Search Engine Wolfram Alpha Launches to Much Buzz; and more.
Today’s Top Story:
Erik Qualman |
CEOs Should Drink the Social Media Kool-Aid SEW EXPERTS: SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Inferior companies and products can no longer hide behind massive marketing budgets. The days of shouting and imposing your message on the masses is gone. » Full story » Print version |
Search Engine Watch Experts Columns
Ron Jones |
Search Engine Submission 101, Part 2 SEW EXPERTS: SEM 101 Search engine submission is not a silver bullet that will instantly launch you into higher rankings. Today, submitting XML Sitemaps is not necessary, but could potentially offer better response time. » Full story » Print version |
Michael Boland |
Twitter and Local Search: A Status Update SEW EXPERTS: LOCAL & MOBILE SEARCH Twitter search brings structure to all the noise with an index of real time conversations. but is the excitement around Twitter causing us to force unnatural mashups, as with local search? » Full story » Print version |
News from the Search Engine Watch Blog
New Search Engine Wolfram Alpha Launches to Much Buzz Posted by Nathania Johnson May 19, 2009 In the 1957 movie Desk Set, Katharine Hepburn plays a researcher at a TV station who feels her job is threatened when Spencer Tracey comes along and installs a computer that could spit out the answers in a fraction of the time. Ultimately, Hepburn was still needed because, of course, … » Continue reading |
Search Market Share Remains Stable in comScore’s April 2009 Rankings
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 19, 2009
comScore has released its April 2009 search engine rankings and things remained relatively stable. The good news is that for 4 of the top 5 engines, search queries were on the rise:
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Search Plus Display Still Hottest Online Ad Combo in Q1 2009
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 19, 2009
Yesterday, comScore held its State of the U.S. Online Retail Economy for the first quarter of 2009. Their data showed that search is still a potent way to reach customers online, but driving consumers to search via display advertising is even more powerful. While most categories are taking a hit due …
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Google, Microsoft Increase Search Share in Nielsen April 2009 Rankings
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 19, 2009
Google search grew 7.8% and Microsoft grew 72% in Nielsen Online’s April 2009 search market share rankings. Yahoo! and AOL did not fare as well, declining 2.8% and 8.8% respectively. Ask.com saw some nice growth at 5.9%. Here are the top 10: …
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Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions
AdWords – A Lost Opportunity May 14, 2009 Needless to say I spend a lot of time looking at Google SRPs. They must be far and away the most valuable real estate on the Web. So why is so much space wasted? Specifically, the organics typically stretch half way across the screen, followed by a huge white space, … » Join the discussion |
Yahoo Search Engine Ranking Positions May 15, 2009 Hi There – I have a couple of sites that do really well on Google i.e. #’s 1 and 2 positions for their keyword phrases. Although, both of these sites don’t do very well at all on Yahoo. Both of these sites have the Yahoo Business Directory links and I … » Join the discussion |
Google Soon to be Squared May 18, 2009 “Expected to be launched in Google Labs by the end of the month, Google Squared could quite possibly be one of Google’s significant achievements. Searching via Google Squared means searching for pure information.” http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090512-201139 *UPDATE:* The URL below has been an error page since this announcement but earlier today it began resolving … » Join the discussion |