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SearchDay | Before You Start Link Building

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Before You Start Link Building; Microsoft, hakia Launch Contextual Ad Networks; SearchIgnite Adds Click Attribution; and more.

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SEW Expert - Eric Enge Eric
Enge

Before You Start Link Building
More SEW EXPERTS: BY THE NUMBERS SEW EXPERTS: BY THE NUMBERS
Link building is not something you should launch into without doing some planning. You need to think through the overall plan, because doing so will help you obtain significantly better results.
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Search Engine Watch Experts Columns

SEW Expert - Mark Jackson Mark
Jackson

Is Twitter a Google Killer? Not Yet
More SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO
The easier a search engine is to manipulate, the less likely it is to deliver quality results. Right now, Twitter Search is just too easy to manipulate.
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SEW Expert - Erik Qualman Erik
Qualman

CEOs Should Drink the Social Media Kool-Aid
More SEW EXPERTS: SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 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.
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News from the Search Engine Watch Blog

Microsoft, hakia Launch Contextual Ad Networks
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 21, 2009

Two new contextual ad networks are available for online publishers and advertisers. First up, Microsoft has removed the “beta” label from its Content Ads network. Participating online publishers include WSJ.com, FOX Sports, and RunnersWorld.com. Meanwhile, semantic search engine hakia has also launched their contextual ad network, dubbed CONTEXA. ReadWriteWeb.com is their …
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MapQuest Now Optimized for Android
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 21, 2009

One of the most popular online mapping tools is now optimized for Android, Google’s mobile operating system. AOL-owned MapQuest has announced that it’s now optimized for Android and users of the new 1.5 version will have access to draggable maps. …
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Google Friend Connect Launches Recommendation Widget
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 21, 2009

One of the foundations of the social web is viral content, which is, at its core, based on recommendations. It’s why sites like Digg are so popular. That’s why it’s no surprised to see Google Friend Connect launch a recommendation widget. Via the new widget, sites using Google Friend Connect to …
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Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions

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 …
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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 …
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How do I solve this problem? May 12, 2009
For years many of our pages had first page rankings on Google. Over the last couple of months Google is now deciding to show our home page for most searches where we return even though those pages are less relevant. e.g. If you are searching for a divorce …
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