Search Engine Watch recently caught up with Jones to ask him what makes the book so special. The third edition of his "Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing" is fabulous for budding SEOs, and still...
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings [Update: Google Removed App] – Search Engine LandThe app was accidentally released early, no word on when/if it will actually be available again.
Search Engine Watch covers a lot on the topic of analytics. Google covers how to install it here. We'll start from the Google Analytics dashboard for your site. Google Analytics is our analytics platform of choice for this post, though most solid...
YouTube is the second most popular search engine after Google and in the top 5 sites on the entire Internet. Google Product Search, formerly Froogle, was once a free tool to allow anyone with a Merchant Center account to include their products in...
Some believe that the world of search engine optimization (SEO) is changing in the post-Panda world. There is a wide array of uses for content to improve your search engine rankings or just add new traffic to your site.
Covey conveyed in this book hold true in many facets of my life, and specifically with digital marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). I’ve also been writing for Search Engine Watch and/or Clickz for a little over 5 years now, and have been...
A post earlier this week, “SEO, Why You Are Doing it Wrong,” attempted to educate SMB owners about search engine optimization and Google rankings by examining one business who engaged in spammy tactics and was impacted by Penguin.
My favorite food metaphor for the relationship between search, social, and content is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, with SEO [search engine optimization] as the peanut butter, social media as the jelly, and content as the bread that holds it...
In September 2010, Search Engine Watch looked at how funny YouTube videos helped Orabrush make a million dollars in one year. And in October 2011, Search Engine Watch examined how Orabrush got into Walmart.
Search Engine, Browser and Device Stats YouTube is the dominant video search engine – and evolving as a fully-fledged entertainment hub with the obvious short-form video uploads alongside professional content from broadcasters and brands.
We could also rank a site without links, just by keyword stuffing (cramming keywords into my tags and content to the extent that 50 percent of my words were that exact keyword, for example) and cloaking (figuring out how to send search engine...
Officially in alpha, according to backend partner Universal Business Listings, the LPI program will offer top organic rankings in local listings for a fee, sources told Search Engine Watch. One program partner explained to Search Engine Watch how...
Editor's note: This column originally was published on June 7, 2011, and comes in at No.on our countdown of the 10 most popular Search Engine Watch columns of 2011. In addition to, or in the absence of, search queries, recent and historical...
Google does a nice job with their tools, but allows you to get the viewpoint from a second search engine, and you will see different things. Pages with Crawl Errors – this may report different errors than Google
The search engine game has become as much about offering powerful side services as it is about giving the best SERP results. The new version, with a "refreshed look," also covers a lot of ground not typically offered by similar services (say...
When I first found Search Engine Market Share, it looked really promising – an easy way to browse stats per country on a Google Maps mash-up. There are of course plenty of other sites analysing search engine and browser market shares – including...
Patrick Altoft and Bill Slawski have both previously written about a Google patent application showing how a search engine can identify inadequate search content based on statistics associated with search queries and then share this information...
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Editor's note: As 2010 winds down, we're celebrating the Best of 2010, our top 10 most popular columns of the year on Search Engine Watch, as determined by our readers. This unique signature influences how a site is crawled and ranked, and is the...
The action against Torrent-Finder that only acts as a search engine of torrents - legal and otherwise - and is not hosting any torrents has online news blogs asking why other search engines like Google and Bing are not equally guilty
