Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
From the SEW Blog:
- adCenter Gets Click Quality Reports
Because all clicks don’t necessarily carry the same value, adCenter categorizes them as either standard quality or low quality. - Did They Really “Give It Up”?
The long-awaited live-blogged session from SMX Advanced, “Give It Up,” where search marketers were meant to share their insider tricks, has now been published after a one-month embargo. - FAST Acquires Personalization/Recommendation Technology
FAST Search & Transfer has acquired AgentArts, a San Francisco-based technology company with a personalization and recommendation engine for music, video, games and mobile entertainment. - Internal Link Structure Optimization
Keeping in mind that your site as a whole only has a finite amount of page rank, you need to decide how to focus it. - Domain Contacts Should Not Change
ICANN has been in the process of determining the fate of domain name ownership information. - SEW Experts: How Many Links Could a Link Lover Love?
Sage Lewis describes the many different ways to count and track your links. What good is link love if you don’t know how many links love you?
Headlines & News from Elsewhere:
- Incisive Media to acquire ALM, Incisive Media
- ALM Sold to Incisive Media, Law.com
- Local.com Could Slap Free411 and Others with Patent Licensing Fees, ClickZ
- Broadband Enterprises Launches Contextual Video Ad Network, ClickZ
- The Challenges Of Bringing Search Marketing In-House, Search Engine Land
- Finding Customers through Anti-Commercial Queries, Search Engine Land
- How Advertising on the Internet Should Work, SEOmoz
- My Newfound Love: Google AdWords Search Query Reports, YOUmoz
- Page Rank, and Query Specific Page Rank, Stone Temple Consulting
- Wikipedia I’m in Ur Index Rulin’ Ur Serpz, Graywolf’s SEO Blog
- The House that Helped Build Google, USA Today
- Deconstructing Grouped Google Results, Search Engine Land
- Sphere Quietly Nailing Its Business Model, TechCrunch
- EBay Refocuses on Classifieds With U.S. Launch of Kijiji, The Kelsey Group
- How Yahoo Can Win at Search, Bronte Media
- Web.com and Websitepros Merge, Screenwerk
- Oh, What a Tangled Web: An Intro to Search Submit, Yahoo Search Marketing blog
- Discover your share of voice with Impression Share reporting, Inside AdWords
- Local.com Could Slap Free411 and Others with Patent Licensing Fees, ClickZ