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Google Sitelinks – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The addition of sitelinks to the top listing in certain Google searches can be a boon to site owner. Unfortunately, as with all tests of new technology, this…

By Chris Boggs · 16 May 2008

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Yahoo, WPP Partner To Sell Ad Inventory

Yahoo just announced they will be partnering with WPP to provide access to their advertising inventory to the clients and agencies associated…

By Frank Watson · 15 May 2008

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SEW Experts: Google Sitelinks – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The addition of sitelinks to the top listing in certain Google searches can be a boon to site owner. Unfortunately, as with…

By Kevin Newcomb · 15 May 2008

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SEW Experts: Training Your Search Marketing Employees – Part 2

Advanced practitioners come to an agency with the skills in place to help grow the business. That’s why we hire them. In…

By Kevin Newcomb · 15 May 2008

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SearchDay: Delving into SearchMonkey

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Delving into SearchMonkey; Ask.com to Acquire Dictionary.com; Keeping SEO Staff Motivated; and more.

By Kevin Newcomb · 15 May 2008

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Yahoo Responds To Icahn

Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board Roy Bostock fired back a reply, on behalf of the beleaguered board members Carl Icahn has been…

By Frank Watson · 15 May 2008

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Delving into the SearchMonkey

Yahoo announced today the general public availability of their SearchMonkey program. This is a program that has been in beta testing with…

By Eric Enge · 15 May 2008

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Yahoo’s SearchMonkey Open for Developers, Launches Contest

Recently, Yahoo announced SearchMonkey, which will allow developers access to open source to create applications for search results. Well, today is the…

By Nathania Johnson · 15 May 2008

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Yahoo Confirms Icahn Proxy Fight

Yahoo has confirmed that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has initiated a proxy fight via an open letter to Yahoo’s board of directors…

By Kevin Newcomb · 15 May 2008

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Comcast Aquires Social Networking Site Plaxo

Plaxo has signed an agreement to be aquired by cable giant Comcast, accoring to a post on the Plaxo blog. The two…

By Nathania Johnson · 15 May 2008

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Ask.com to Acquire Dictionary.com Family of Reference Sites

IAC-owned Ask.com has agreed to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. The move will help Ask.com fulfill…

By Kevin Newcomb · 15 May 2008

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Icahn Trumps Yahoo Board: “You’re Fired!”

Yahoo may need to fight off Carl Icahn Syndrome by Proxy today. Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) is a type of factitious…

By Kevin Heisler · 15 May 2008

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SEW Experts: Keeping SEO Staff Motivated and Driven

Talented link developers are hard to find — you want to retain them as long as possible. In today’s Link Building column,…

By Kevin Newcomb · 14 May 2008

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SEW Experts: Facebook & MySpace Connect: Good Idea or Social Media Catastrophe?

Both MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect will soon let users’ personal information follow them as they traverse the Web. In today’s…

By Kevin Newcomb · 14 May 2008

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SearchDay: Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO; Google's Superiority Complex; Emotional Motivators in Landing Page Optimization;…

By Kevin Newcomb · 14 May 2008

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Google News Clusters: Keep ‘Em Un-Separated

The Google news team has improved the “clusters” in their search results. Clusters are similar news stories that are grouped together. Previously,…

By Nathania Johnson · 14 May 2008

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Search Engine Watch Forums Names Chris Boggs Associate Editor

Chris Boggs, manager, Search Engine Optimization for Brulant has joined Search Engine Watch Forums as Associate Editor. Chris is a highly sought…

By Kevin Heisler · 14 May 2008

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Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO

There’s been a lot of talk recently about how SEO is dead, and branding will rise out of its ashes. I have…

By rumo · 14 May 2008

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Google’s Superiority Complex

In the end, is Google's search advertising system better than Yahoo's, or are they just monetizing better? It sounds like a little…

By Kevin Ryan · 14 May 2008

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Advertisers Can’t Sell Hard Liquor But Google Can

Google AdWords has a strict no advertising rule for hard liquor, as they call it. You will not find ads for terms…

By Frank Watson · 14 May 2008

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SEW Experts: Google’s Superiority Complex

In the end, is Google’s search advertising system better than Yahoo’s, or are they just monetizing better? In today’s Searching for Meaning…

By Kevin Newcomb · 13 May 2008

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SEW Experts: Emotional Motivators in Landing Page Optimization

Visitors will arrive at your Web site with their own needs, perspectives, and emotions. In today’s By the Numbers column, “Emotional Motivators…

By Kevin Newcomb · 13 May 2008

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SearchDay: Don’t Hire a Butcher to do a Baker’s Job

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Don't Hire a Butcher to do a Baker's Job; Small Business Owners Need Twitter and…

By Kevin Newcomb · 13 May 2008

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Yahoo Chief Scientist Andrew Tomkins Interviewed by Eric Enge

SEW Expert Eric Enge published a terrific interview on his Stone Temple blog with Yahoo Chief Scientist Andrew Tomkins, who keynoted SES…

By Kevin Heisler · 13 May 2008

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Small Business Owners Need Twitter and LinkedIn

It's a time investment. But something worth having takes time. Keeping up with what's going on in your industry and creating a…

By Carrie Hill · 13 May 2008

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