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Upcoming Search Engine Strategies Events
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Since Our Last SE Update:
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Below is a recap of major articles from our daily SearchDay newsletter, SEW Experts columns, and important Search Engine Watch Blog postings since the last newsletter. Want to receive these stories daily or via RSS/feed? See the Search Engine Watch Newsletters & Web Feeds page for sign-up instructions.
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Organic Search
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=== SearchDay: June 6, 2007 ===
Distilling Universal Search
=== SearchDay: June 5, 2007 ===
Ask.com Launches Major Updates
=== SearchDay: May 23, 2007 ===
Is Your SEO Strategy Global?
=== SEW Experts: June 12, 2007 ===
Web Site Architecture Structured for Success
=== SEW Experts: June 5, 2007 ===
Will Google’s FeedBurner Scorch Organic SEO?
=== SEW Experts: May 29, 2007 ===
Using a Corporate Blog for CRM
=== SEW Experts: May 22, 2007 ===
Blog Your Way to the Top
=== From the SEW Blog: ===
- Top Three SEO Mistakes
SiteLogic’s Matt Bailey has distilled the essence of SEO into three common mistakes many businesses make.
- Mapping The Minds of Visitors Helps Categorizing, Keyword Development
Bill Slawski, of SEO by the Sea, wrote an interesting article about mapping visitor intent to help develop effective categories and keywords for your marketing efforts.
- Ask Launches Ask3D
Following hot on the heels of the recent announcement by Google of its Universal Search, Ask has now released something with very similar attributes, but significant and interesting differences.
- Ask.com: The Other Search Engine?
Ask.com is positioning itself as “the other search engine,” making a play to get users to think about Ask in addition to Google when they think of search.
- Interview of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella at SMX Advanced
Nadella leads the engineering team for Microsoft’s Search, Advertising, and Commerce platforms.
- NY Times Goes Deep on Google
An article in Sunday’s New York Times goes in-depth with Google’s Amit Singhal, one of the Google engineers on the search quality team primarily responsible for building, maintaining and tweaking its ranking algorithm.
- The End of SEO, or a New Beginning?
At SES Toronto this week, Google’s Universal Search, personalization, and the death of SEO were among the hot topics discussed.
- Identifying a Google Penalty
Often when a site loses its search rankings suddenly, a webmaster may not know the cause.
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Paid Search
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=== SearchDay: May 31, 2007 ===
In the Mix: Search in the Overall Marketing Mix
=== SearchDay: May 22, 2007 ===
What Does Universal Search Mean for SEM?
=== SEW Experts: June 11, 2007 ===
Five Tips for Hiring a Paid Search Agency
=== SEW Experts: June 4, 2007 ===
Setting Campaign Goals and Metrics for Success
=== SEW Experts: May 21, 2007 ===
Ego Bidding Gone Wild
=== From the SEW Blog: ===
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Linking Issues & Social Media
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=== SEW Experts: June 14, 2007 ===
Creating Link Bait With Hot Content and Promotions
=== SEW Experts: June 7, 2007 ===
Let’s Go Viral
=== SEW Experts: May 31, 2007 ===
Avoiding Low-Quality Links and Link Networks
=== SEW Experts: May 24, 2007 ===
Building the Love
=== From the SEW Blog: ===
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Analytics & ROI
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=== SEW Experts: June 13, 2007 ===
Priming Your Quality Score to Boost Campaign Results
=== SEW Experts: June 6, 2007 ===
Making the Case for Portfolio Based Bid Management Tools
=== SEW Experts: May 30, 2007 ===
A Look at Latency In Search Engine Ranking
=== SEW Experts: May 23, 2007 ===
Digging Deeper Into the Latest Release of Google Analytics
=== From the SEW Blog: ===
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Local & Mobile Search
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=== SearchDay: May 30, 2007 ===
Search to Go: Meeting the Needs of the Mobile User
=== SEW Experts: May 25, 2007 ===
Getting Hyper-Active in Local Search
=== From the SEW Blog: ===
- Google Patent Details Mobile Search Plans
A new patent application published today may reveal some of Google’s plans for mobile search.
- Local.com on a Roll II
Following its string of recent announcements, Local.com today unveiled a new mobile search product.
- Google Adds Neighborhood Search
Google has added a neighborhood search capability for 50 U.S. cities, catching up with sites like Ask.com, Trulia and Yelp.
- SpotRunner Dives Deeper into Local
Yesterday, local video ad and distribution provider Spot Runner announced a deal with Lexis Nexus Martindale Hubbel. This gives the company closer access to local advertisers in the legal vertical by opening up a single point of entry to a broad base of private attorneys.
- Google Picks Up Geo-locating Photo Service
Google will acquire Panoramio, a Spanish community site that links photos with the geographic location at which they were taken.
- Cable TV and Local Search
Cable television providers are testing the waters of on-demand programming. The next step could be to integrate small business video advertising to on-demand menus.
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Vertical & Specialty Search
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=== SEW Experts: June 14, 2007 ===
The Business Case for Expanding B2B SEM
=== SEW Experts: June 8, 2007 ===
Balancing Video Quality and Search Optimization
=== SEW Experts: June 1, 2007 ===
The Local Video Revolution
=== From the SEW Blog: ===
- Blinkx savors IPO success, announces video search growth plans
Blinkx’s CEO tells Reuters UK what lies ahead for the video search provider.
- Hakia Holds Concert To Launch Music Search
Hakia is throwing two concerts to promote the launch of their new music search.
- Technorati Retools, Gets “Universal” Too
The biggest change is a shift away from searching only blogs to include more kinds of user-generated content, including photos and video.
- People Search Makes up 30% of All Searches
This is yet another vertical search area where specialized search tools that access uniquely structured databases can do quite well.
- Calacanis Launches Human-edited Search Engine
The former CEO of Weblogs Inc. and GM of Netscape has revealed his latest project: a human-edited search engine/wiki/directory called Mahalo.
- Interview with FeedBurner’s Rick Klau
There are benefits to full-post RSS feeds that many people are missing.
- Info Pros Are Searching
This week, the Special Libraries Association held its annual confab in Denver. Perhaps the SLA is improperly named now, as this gathering of over 5,000 information professionals are focused on finding and delivering appropriate online resources.
- RSS Mashups – Emerging Tools with Great Potential
What I’d not considered until the launch of Yahoo Pipes is the employment of mashup tools to filter information, making it possible to spend less time getting more of what I want from the Web.
- Avvo: Web 2.0 For Legal Search
Like other legal search destinations in this space such as FindLaw and LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, new legal search destination Avvo offers users search tools to find lawyers in different categories and in different locales.
- AOL’s New Video Search Tools for Developers
AOL has recently followed a successful industry trend by “giving away the good stuff” to build a following.
- Blinkx to power Ask.com’s video search – interview with blinkx CEO
Already the world’s largest video search engine, blinkx today expanded its reach an exclusive video partnership with Ask.com.
- Google Adds Transit Data to Maps
Train, bus or subway stops on Google maps now link directly to more detailed information about a specific station, route, or schedule.
- Google Video Expands Focus on Search
Google has revamped its idea of what Google Video should be: a Web-wide video search engine.
- EveryZing – Beyond Podcasting
The multimedia search and advertising platform is extending their market offering beyond podcasts.
- Flickr Adding 7 Languages To System Today
The photo-sharing community hopes “to help the global Flickr community more easily explore, find, manage and share photos.”
- Google’s Ajax Feed API Interview with Mark Lucovsky
The very cool thing about this API is that it enables you to easily access RSS and Atom feeds, and create mashups of the feeds.
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Small Businesses & Big Brand SEM
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=== SearchDay: June 13, 2007 ===
Laying the Foundation for In-House SEO Success in Large Organizations: Part I
=== SearchDay: June 14, 2007 ===
Laying the Foundation for In-House SEO Success in Large Organizations: Part II
=== SearchDay:May 24, 2007 ===
How Do B2B Buyers Search?
=== SEW Experts: June 12, 2007 ===
Redesigning Your Small Business Web Site
=== SEW Experts: June 5, 2007 ===
Leveraging Big Business Assets for Better SEO Visibility
=== SEW Experts: May 29, 2007 ===
Universal Search for Small Business: What You Need to Know About Google’s New Search Results
=== SEW Experts: May 22, 2007 ===
Convincing the Executive Team to Invest in SEO
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- How To Market A Website for $100
Patrick Sexton interviewed some major players in the search space and asked them all how would they market their website if they only had $100.
- Big Brands Shy Away from Social Media
Many major brands shy away from social media environments because they can’t control them. This creates a great opportunity for smaller players to get high-level attention from the market.
- New Rules of PR Podcast with Greg Jarboe
One of the big shifts that Greg sees is that there is much more of an opportunity to use PR to talk directly to your end customers.
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In-House & Outsourcing Issues
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=== SearchDay: June 13, 2007 ===
Laying the Foundation for In-House SEO Success in Large Organizations: Part I
=== SearchDay: June 14, 2007 ===
Laying the Foundation for In-House SEO Success in Large Organizations: Part II
=== SEW Experts: June 15, 2007 ===
When the Honeymoon Ends, In-house
=== SEW Experts: June 1, 2007 ===
Nobody Likes to Hear Their Baby is Ugly
=== SEW Experts: June 8, 2007 ===
Predicting the ROI for Future SEO Efforts
=== SEW Experts: May 25, 2007 ===
Measuring ROI Can Be Difficult for SEO
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SEM Industry Issues
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=== SearchDay: June 7, 2007 ===
Measuring Search Marketers’ Job Performance
=== From the SEW Blog: ===
- Search Still Leads Online Ad Spending
According to the IAB, search advertising made up 40 percent of the $16.9 billion spent in the U.S. for online advertising last year.
- What Should Ask.com Do?
An interesting discussion has begun on several blogs this week considering what Ask.com should do to be successful.
- Microsoft’s Berkowitz: Consider aQuantive Deal a Merger
At a JP Morgan Technology conference Tuesday (link to webcast), Steve Berkowitz, Microsoft’s senior VP of online services, told investors that they should consider the company’s $6 million purchase of aQuantive as “more of a merger” than an acquisition.
- “Microsoft Does Not Need Yahoo Anymore” MSN Strategist Claims
With the purchase of aQuantive and its other advertising assets, Microsoft says it no longer needs to buy Yahoo to conquer the online advertising world.
- Google Buying Feedburner?
Sources have confirmed that Google is acquiring Feedburner for close to $100 million.
- Google Is Big Brother
The messages may be mixed, but the intent seems to be focused: “Total Global Domination.”
- Will Ad Targeting Change?
Now that the ad network/server companies are shifting around, we should make our online ad targeting dreams come true.
- Who Said It…
After major ownership changes have been announced in the online ad business, let’s try to match the players with these “unquoted reasons” for the moves.
- News from SES China
Several intrepid travelers made the trip to Xiamen for SES China last week.
- Google is a Data Company
Google’s core expertise is not as a search engine company, or an advertising company. Google is a data company.
- FTC Looking at Google-DoubleClick Deal?
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google’s planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick
- Kevin Ryan on the Future of Search Engine Strategies
Kevin spoke with Rand Fishkin at SES Toronto, where he offered some insight into the direction SES may be heading, and shared with Rand Incisive’s plan to create an advisory board for the SES conferences.
- IDC Predicts Beginning of End for Search Dominance
According to a new report from research analysts at IDC, search is about to lose its dominance of the online ad market, to be overtaken by video and rich media ads by 2011.
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Search Engines, Tools & Technology
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=== SearchDay: Apr. 1, 2007 ===
Are Bid Management Tools Dead?
=== From the SEW Blog: ===
- Google’s Cross-Language Search Launches
The cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) technology which Google VP Udi Manber previewed at Searchology last week has launched.
- Google Tracking Hot Trends
Google has introduced Hot Trends, “sharing the hottest current searches with you in very close to real time.”
- Google Can Now Find Faces
Google Image Search is adding face-recognition technology, as well as new features to filter images from news stories.
- Universal Search Boosting Map, Video Traffic
Hitwise’s Bill Tancer has published an analysis of traffic data on Google’s various properties, comparing them before and after the Universal Search launch.
- Sputtr: Many Search Options, One Place
For those who like to search using multiple engines, but who are tired of opening multiple browsers or tabs, there’s now a simple, elegant solution.
- Microsoft Planning Next Search Engine?
Microsoft is rumored to have “gathered a team of twenty or more ‘rock star’ developers” to build its “next-generation” search engine.
- Google Defends Data-Retention Practices
In response to an E.U. Article 29 Working Party investigation, Google has changed its data retention policies again.
- Google Privacy Practices Under Attack
Privacy International, a London-based privacy watchdog group, has issued a report citing Google’s privacy practices as the worst among large online destinations.
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