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SEW Experts: Social Media and Online Commerce: Birth of Socialommerce
With all the media attention focused on Microsoft’s not-so-friendly takeover bid of Yahoo, a below-the-radar acquisition target proves why social commerce is the future of search. In today’s…
Lunar Eclipse: Google Earth Shows When in Google Sky
A total lunar eclipse occurs tonight (Wednesday, February 20, 2008) for skywatchers in the United States. The total eclipse of the moon…
Google Tightens Restrictions on AdWords Display URLs
Beginning April 1, Google will no longer make exceptions to its policy requiring advertisers to match the display URL in an AdWords…
Microsoft-Yahoo Fight Heats Up
Microsoft’s unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo is heading down an unpleasant path. This week, Microsoft is reportedly undertaking a proxy fight, sending…
SEW Experts: Landing Page Optimization for SEM: Design and Execute
As a search marketer, you need to understand landing page optimization because it impacts your results. Higher conversion means a bigger impact…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: February 11-15, 2008
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.
Search Headlines & Links: February 19, 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…
Search Engine Strategies London — Day One
Search Engine Strategies London 2008 is underway. With Day One under our belts, we’re happy to share some of the coverage of…
Snakehead Fish Crosses The Pond?
A giant snakehead fish (the ” Jaws” of freshwater fish in Southeast Asia) was caught by a fisherman in England. The snakehead…
Ralph Wilson’s Introduction to Search Marketing at SES London
Condensing the essentials of search engine marketing into a one-hour session is a formidable challenge. This morning at SES London Dr. Ralph…
How To Outrank Your SEO Competitors
SEOs and Small Business Owners: Type-A personalities. What to do when your competitors outrank you in search engines.
Advertising Placements by Industry and Top Sponsored Links, January 2008
The industry breakdown of ad placements and unit types, and the top 25 companies placing sponsored links.
SEW Experts: How To Outrank Your SEO Competitors
Clients and readers often ask why a site that’s younger, smaller, or just plain “uglier” outranks them. There really isn’t a simple…
SEW Experts: American Express Axes Ellen DeGeneres: Au Natural On Amex Site
SEO success lives or dies in the proper execution of necessary SEO components. Recommendations alone don’t make your site rank. In today’s…
SEO, Social Marketing & Scientology
My last post, about how YouTube’s new features will affect internet marketers, garnered a lot of attention—but not from SEO and PPC…
The Speed Of The Web: Do We Realize How Far We Have Come
You hear it all the time, “the world moves fast” with high speed connections and wireless access, we have come a long…
Hello Google Porn
Porn transmitted onHello.com, a Web site owned and operated by Google, helped catch an alleged predator in South Carolina. This isn’t another…
Gathering of the SEM bloggers at Search Engine Strategies London
When Search Engine Strategies London gets underway on Tuesday, Feb. 19, there will be more than a dozen chieftans of the SEM…
Search Engine Forums Spotlight: February 15, 2008
Found in the search marketing forums: SES New York Parties; No Follow: Do You Follow?; Optimizing Flash in 2008; and more.
Search Headlines & Links: February 15, 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…
Win a Free Pass to SES New York with the SES Affiliate Program
You’ve seen all the reasons to attend SES London, and you can be sure that SES New York will be just as…
Seven reasons to slip over to Islington for SES London
Let’s say you’re a savvy, seasoned search engine marketer. You can easily send some of your junior staff members to Search Engine…
The Great Nofollow Link Debate of ’08
Google product launches: huge success. (Some, not so much.) Their most (un)popular? The nofollow tag.
Google PageRank: Simplified
On a scale of 1 to 10, what's your Google Toolbar PageRank? Why high PageRank is Fool's Gold.
SEW Experts: Google PageRank: Simplified
Google’s PageRank may be the single most divisive element in the search optimization game. In today’s Outsourced column, “Google PageRank: Simplified,” William…
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