The Ones That Don't Come Back
High Rankings Forum
"I just can't take on a client that doesn't know what they are doing or has a terrible model. I want them to succeed and if I can't see a way to help them succeed, I just can't throw my time and their money away."
How Should Search Engines Protect Privacy?
Search Engine Watch Forums
"...what worries you on privacy? What are you afraid of? What would you like to see implemented?"
AdSense Updates Their Terms & Policies
Webmaster World
"AdSense updated their terms as well as their policies today. And here is your complete update and rundown of all the changes, and what they mean to you."
New Domain for New Product Line
High Rankings Forum
"Cross linking is not necessarily a bad thing as long as you're not duplicating content and not having two sites simply to trick the engines into ranking both well for the same search terms."
Urchin 6, How do you like it?
High Rankings Forum
"...the part I love the most is where you can see which search engines and which search terms are bringing you revenue. That one little thing has helped me to better target some terms that I would have never thought of, and they're search terms that convert very, very well."
Site Targeted CPM Ads Negative Impact
Webmaster World
"Basically our algorithm looks at your page and the overall eCPM it's generating. If there's a CPM [cost per thousand” advertiser who has targeted your site and is bidding more than your current eCPM, then we display their ads. So, you should only see an increase in earnings because of CPM ads."
What Degrees Or Professional Backgrounds Do SEO/SEMers Have?
Search Engine Watch Forums
"There's still no BA in search marketing. With the industry so young, most have come into it from other backgrounds. What were you in your old life, and does any of that help you now?"
Internet Archive Sued
Webmaster World
"The legal implications of a site's robots.txt file are at the core of the case, but copyright issues related to caching are likely to come into play as well."
Optical Character Recognition And Crawlers
High Rankings Forum
"OCR is being employed by Google in their push to scan all sorts of books from libraries and such. It's something they're interested in doing obviously. That's completely different from what their spider can or can't do though."
Visitor Numbers Impact Algorithm, Search Engine Results Pages
Search Engine Watch Forums
"Measuring time has typically in the past been done by clickthrough, but can there be other newer methods? In this thread, members discuss if traffic/visitors to a site are factored into the search engine's algorithm to make an effect on rankings."
Interlinking of Related Sites
Webmaster World
"There is a stigma that the SEs [search engines” may frown upon networks run by the same person/company. Do you believe this to be true?"
Need Writing Strategies for Directories
High Rankings Forum
"I am beginning to plan for directory submissions for a site I'm designing and I'm trying to write copy with niche keywords for my directory descriptions."
Search Engine Forums Spotlight courtesy Search Engine Guide.
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