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Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: All That Glitters Is Not Chrome; Google AdWords Separates Content and Search Network Stats; Google Analytics Now Shows When a Visitor Uses Chrome; and more.

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All That Glitters Is Not Chrome
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With the launch of Google’s Chrome browser Tuesday, the Google machine moves into another territory. Will it grab a decent amount of market share and reignite the browser wars? Does Google even want it to?
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(Google) Insights on VP Candidate Sarah Palin
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The recently announced Google Insights tool provides unprecedented data on Google’s user searches and trends. Here are three quick tips on how to leverage Google Insights, whether you’re running a Presidential race or a brand marketing campaign.
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News from the Search Engine Watch Blog

Google AdWords Separates Content and Search Network Stats – FINALLY!
Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 5, 2008

In the Search Engine Watch forums, user searchengineman (Does he wear a cape? I hope so!) noticed a change to his AdWords statistics. Now, he could check separate statistics for ads on the content network and ads via search. So how did he feel about it? In the words of a famous …
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Google Analytics Now Shows When a Visitor Uses Chrome
Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 5, 2008

Want to know when the uber early adopters and drinkers of the Google kool-aid are browsing to your site? Then check your Google Analytics. GA is now showing Chrome in the browser section of your data. Chrome is the Google-developed browser that was released into, what else, beta this week. Anyone checked …
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Incentives Key to Mobile Marketing Success
Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 5, 2008

Incentives can help mobile users overcome their initial negative reactions to mobile advertising, according to survey data released by ABI Research.
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Sugarrae: Google Pushed Twitter To NoFollow All Links?
Posted by Frank Watson Sep 4, 2008

While the rest of the world was distracted by the launch of Chrome, Sugarrae aka Rae Hoffman – definitely a woman who “pulls rank” – was covering the nofollowing of links over at Twitter at the behest of Google. Her argument is powerful and once again challenges Google for pushing sites …
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As consumers cut back, marketers offer Ôï¿Â½Ã”¢Ô¯Ô¿Ô½ԯԿÔ½recession specialsÔï¿Â½Ã”¢Ô¯Ô¿Ô½ԯԿÔ½
Posted by Greg Jarboe Sep 4, 2008

Earlier this week, comScore released the results of a study examining recent changes in consumer attitudes and perceptions about the state of the U.S. economy. The study found that consumers in all income segments are cutting back on spending due to concerns about the economy, and that they were …
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Top rated WebProNews Videos from SES San Jose 2008
Posted by Greg Jarboe Sep 5, 2008

Earlier this week, I listed the Ôï¿Â½Ã”¢Ô¯Ô¿Ô½ԯԿÔ½Top 10 Videos on YouTube from SES San Jose 2008.Ôï¿Â½Ã”¢Ô¯Ô¿Ô½ԯԿÔ½ Well, the WebProNews Video Blog has some top-rated videos from last monthÔï¿Â½Ã”¢Ô¯Ô¿Ô½ԯԿÔ½s SES conference that you wonÔï¿Â½Ã”¢Ô¯Ô¿Ô½ԯԿÔ½t find on YouTube Ôï¿Â½Ã”¢Ô¯Ô¿Ô½ԯԿÔ½ at least not yet. Here are three of them: SES: The Power of Thumbnails …
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Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions

WOW – Content & Search Split at last.! Sep 4, 2008
Happened to me in Mid Update Google finally split Content and Search. 1 minute ago. Caught me off guard! At last. https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93322&ctx=tltp Searchengineman
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Need Your Help in URL Strucutre with subfolders? Sep 5, 2008
Hi webmasters, Which would be the Best URL structure from below three options for search engine portal like database of reviews and User/Expert reviews. *1) Yoursite.com/Reviews/Digital-Cameras/123 2) Yoursite.com/Digital-Camera-Reviews/123 3) Yoursite.com/REviews/Digital-Camera-Reviews/123* I Need to confirm with you before apply the some permanent changes in my site so please advise in this case of sub folder/product.i tried …
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Multiple sitemaps on robots.txt Sep 3, 2008
Hi, How can I add different sitemaps on the robots.txt file? like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /whatever Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap1.htm Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap2.htm Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap3.htm etc. Thank you for your comments.
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