Search Headlines & Links: January 17, 2008

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:

  • Is Google Having Severe Growing Pains?
    Seems our favorite nine-year old is having severe growing pains lately. And fellow relatives, we are all being impacted by the growth spurts lately.
  • Searchable Social Media and Adding to the Global Conversation
    Rising Voices, a citizen media outreach initiative of the Global Voices, has just released the first of a series of planned guides, An Introduction to Citizen Media.
  • Google.org Reveals Five Focus Areas
    Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, today announced the five core initiatives that it plans to focus on over the next five to ten years.
  • Measure Blog Success without Spending a Fortune
    20 outstanding blog analytics tools that won’t break the bank.
  • Selling CEOs on Search Engine Marketing
    What’s the biggest mistake any search engine marketer can make? Blowing a presentation to decision-makers.
  • SEW Experts: Search Engine Year-End Predictions: 2007 Scorecard
    Last year, many industry watchers made search predictions for 2007. So how did some search gurus do?
  • SEW Experts: PPC.edu: Learn AdWords, Yahoo Search, adCenter Online
    SEO can take months or longer to get the results you’re looking for. What’s the alternative? PPC advertising.
  • Hugo Guzman: Ode To Search Optimization
    SEOBook guest blogger Hugo Guzman of Zeta Interactive wrote an inspiring ode to our industry today.

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