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ad:tech – Your Cred Is Slipping!
Jeez, guys – get it together! ad:tech is burgeoning in size and global reach as the online advertising industry’s all-encompassing (and theoretically, all-knowing) mega-conference. But if they don’t…
VNU Buys Into Blogs; Denton Giggles to the Bank
This is the first blog publishing deal that feels really corporate. A pact was reached between Nick Denton’s Gawker Media and VNU,…
On Library Card Catalogs, OPACs, The Perfect Search & Teaching Searchers
My mind is going a million miles a minute over the whole “Perfect Search” discussion that kicked off this week. Instead of…
Pimp My Searching: Internet Movie Database
Danny mentioned yesterday we’ve been planning a “Pimp My Search Engine” series to help readers get more out of their favorite search…
More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem & Creating The Search Dialog
Yesterday, I wrote of how search engines could do a better job of query refinement and indeed did so in the past,…
SEO Big With Small & Medium Sized Businesses
No Guesswork Here: Web Sites Work For SMBs at InternetNews.com has a few search stat tidbits worth noting. A survey has found…
BodyBuilding.com Builds $48 Million In Sales Off Natural Search
Via Gary Stein, How BodyBuilding.com pumps up sales by word of mouth marketing from Internet Retailer looks at how BodyBuilding.com expects to…
Is Your Site “Trust Worthy”?
Consumer Reports WebWatch wants “Trust Worthy” publishers to raise their hands — in a full-page October 24 “New York Times” print ad.…
Update On Search Ranking Factors List
Earlier I posted how Rand Fishkin had created a list of nearly 100 factors that search engines might consider in ranking web…
Robert Scoble Wants What We Had — Better Query Refinement. So Do I!
Robert Scoble’s just finished reading John Battelle’s book The Search and ponders creating a new chapter to follow John’s ending one on…
Being Indexed Versus Being Ranked
SEO Practices: Indexing and Ranking from Mike Grehan at ClickZ is a good reminder that being indexed by a search engine isn’t…
Clusty Celebrates Its First Birthday
It was a year ago today when Chris and I published our introduction to Vivisimo’s new metasearch/dynamic clustering product for the consumer…
Listings Hijacked At MSN, With A Little Help From Google
Google 302 and MSN from Dave Naylor is chock full of badness on the parts of both Google and MSN, showing how…
SEO Still A Low Priority for Many Marketers When Compared with Paid Search
A brief Media Daily article titled: Marketers Slow To Embrace Optimization, Say Search Experts, reports on a panel of heavy hitters that…
Don’t Overlook B2B Search Engines for Search Marketing Opportunities
Sites specializing in business-to-business search may seem like fallow fields for search marketing efforts, but in fact the opposite is true. Business…
And Debunking Urban SEO Myths!
Speaking of debunking urban myths, how about those of the SEO world? I just posted about a list of things that may…
Rundown On Search Ranking Factors
Search rankings aren’t all about PageRank. Even Google will tell you they have many, many “signals” that are measured to rank a…
Interactive best practices, Yahoo!-style
You would expect a company like Yahoo! to know a thing or two about online advertising. Marketers in attendance at today’s OMMA…
Branding & Search Panel Highlights
OMMA Conference Track: Maximizing Brand Advertising Via Search from SearchViews gives you a few highlights from a panel at OMMA this week…
Yahoo Desktop Search Out Of Beta, Gets LiveWords Contextual Search
Desktop Search Goes Live! at the Yahoo Search Blog covers how a new LiveWords button has been added to Yahoo Desktop Search…
One Strong Cuppa Joe
Consummate campaigner Juan Valdez, along with the GEICO Gecko, took home the “top icon” title, winning the surely very scientific popularity poll…
Linking Neighborhoods, Illustrated
Threadwatch points over to the Picture of Link Neighborhoods post at Jim Boykin’s new SEO blog, where he posts a nice illustration…
A Behavioral Network for Branding Campaigns
Tacoda’s CPM-based behavioral ad network, which the company talked about in April, officially launched today. Called Audience Networks, it boasts approximately 60…
Avoiding Holiday SEM Blunders
The holiday season will soon be upon us, and it can be a fantastic time for search marketers, provided you make all…
Begging For Free Links
When Money Can’t Buy You Link Love from Rand over at SEOmoz is a nice rundown on ideas for gaining links when…
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