Highlights from the SEW Blog: August 27-31, 2007

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

We’ve collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

From the SEW blog:

Organic Search

  • SEW Experts: Tools of the Trade
    Mark Jackson recommends several useful tools for running an effective search engine optimization campaign.
  • SEW Experts: Waiting for Google to Exhale
    Kevin Ryan asks what universal search and refined paid search are really changing.
  • Google, Yahoo! and Server Status Codes 404 and 410
    Both Google and Yahoo treat server codes 404 and 410 as though they are the same. But they are not the same.
  • Yahoo Support for Dynamic URL Rewriting
    After years of helping people get rid of Session IDs on their URLs, this is a really great thing to see.

Search Advertising

  • Tighten the Coupling: Text Ads and Videos
    As online videos and their consumption continue ramping up, we should consider this coupling as more than an afterthought.
  • Yahoo Adds New Features To Panama
    Twenty ads per ad group and the ability to view performance numbers, as well as edit, copy, delete and create new ads, tightens the user experience.
  • SEW Experts: Tips for Being a Great PPC Client
    Tony Wright tells you what it takes to be a great PPC client, getting the most out of the client-agency relationship.
  • Microsoft to Update Trademark Dispute Handling in adCenter
    the way Microsoft deals with trademark infringement accusations against advertisers will change starting on September 10

Linking Issues & Social Media

  • SEW Experts: The Great Link Buying Debate
    Sage Lewis reviews the arguments for and against buying links, which was a hot topic at SES San Jose last week.
  • NoFollow as an SEO Optimization Tool
    Matt Cutts suggests that you can freely use NoFollow within your own site to control PageRank flow, including on your own internal links, without fear of it being seen as a poor quality signal by Google.
  • What People Reveal
    The updates you share at college reunions would be different than your chats with daily running buddies. Likewise, your communications on social sites seem to vary too.

Analytics & ROI

  • SEW Experts: Segmenting Site Visitors to Enhance Conversions
    Eric Enge tells you how to segment your site visitors for actionable analyses that are so important for Web site success.

Local & Mobile Search

  • Yahoo, Now with More Local Listings
    Directory Publisher R.H. Donnelley announced today that it will partner with Yahoo to give its advertisers more substantial presence on Yahoo Local.

Vertical & Specialty Search

  • Keep an Eye on Image Search
    Image search is playing an increasingly important role in search engine optimization, and SEOs should develop strategies for optimizing a web site to receive this type of traffic.
  • SEW Experts: Crafting a Social Media Strategy Around Travel
    Elisabeth Osmeloski tells travel site providers how to take advantage of social media and traveler reviews.
  • “Prom Queen: Summer Heat” – the blinkx interview
    Grant Crowell interviews Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of the video search engine blinkx, on their partnership with media studio Vuguru, their exclusive broadcast of the Emmy-nominated video series “Prom Queen,” and the future of video content and search.
  • Search engine to aid diagnoses
    A diagnostic search engine is being used at the University of Virginia hospital.

Small Business/Big Brand SEM

  • SEW Experts: Scaling Your Big Business Internationally
    Aaron Shear tells you what to expect when expanding your business internationally.
  • Search and Offline Converge
    At Search Engine Strategies in San Jose last week, ClickZ editor Matthew Nelson saw lots of evidence of the interaction between search with other media.

In-House & Outsourcing

  • SEW Experts: In-House Vs. Outsourced: What Is the Best Solution?
    Chris Boggs ponders the relationship between in-house and agency search experts, asking the question, “Can’t we all just get along?”

SEM Industry Issues

  • Who Makes Your SEO Dream Team
    Rhea Drysdale blogged her SEO Dream Team including many of the usual suspects. Who would you pick if limited to a team of seven?
  • The Economist Examines Google
    Google is hated and feared by many, as The Economist outlines, but it seems it is their motto of “Do No Evil” that gets people annoyed.
  • More Exec Moves at Yahoo
    Yahoo, which has undergone a few rounds of reorganization this year, is in the midst of more changes in its ad sales business.
  • Scoble Predicts Google Death By Facebook
    Blogger Robert Scoble boldly outlines a future search engine combination of Facebook-Techmeme-Mahalo technology that will spell doom for Google.

Searching/Search Technologies

  • New Yahoo! Shortcuts Announced
    Yahoo! announced the addition of 3 new enhanced shortcuts designed to refine searches more rapidly.

More from the SEW Blog

  • Google Adds China.com As Search Partner
    Google announced it will partner with Chinese internet service provider, China.com to provide search results for the site’s portal and China.com’s search results.

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