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Answers.com Advertising on Howard Stern Show
Ready for an example of a search engine using “traditional media” to advertise? All morning I’ve been hearing a commercial for the vertical search…
Dan Senor Not Joining Google
So we had a report last month that Google had hired Dan Senor as vice president of global communications and strategy, replacing the spot…
Yahoo Search Subscriptions Brings Premium Content Into Web Search
Yahoo has released a new Yahoo Search Subscriptions (beta) service that unites regular web search results found from crawling the open web with listings…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Jun 16, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Click Fraud Roundup
A recap of recent stories and news about click fraud over the past few weeks.
Mid-June 2005 Search News Recap Posted
If you’re a Search Engine Watch member, the latest edition of Search Engine Update newsletter has been posted. It recaps top stories in search…
Search Trends & Seasonality
With proms in the US happening in May, those looking for dresses clearly get going the month before, right? That’s what Hitwise’s Bill Tancer…
C’mon In Brand Owners, The Search Water’s Fine
It’s not all about conversions, in the search marketing game. I was at a conference two months ago where a brand marketer said he…
SMAUK Releases First Year Program; Names Officers
The votes have been counted, and the fledgling Search Marketing Association UK has named its officers for the first year as well as a…
Search? Email? Banners? Get A Common Metric To Balance Right
Debating between putting your money into search, or email, or banners (or anything, for that matter). Jeanne Jennings in Search, Banners, E-Mail: A Tale…
Top UK Shopping Sites For May 2005
Top 10 UK shopping comparison sites from Netimperative runs down the top 10 shopping search engines for the UK market in May, as provided…
Looking At AOL’s inStore Shopping Site
inStore Online from Internet Retailer is a nice look at AOL’s shopping site, inStore, from a retailer and strategic perspective. Launched last September (see…
Searchblog’s Battelle Launching Blog Ad Network
Wired Co-Founder Nears Launch of Blog Ad Network look at how John Battelle, author of Searchblog and the upcoming book The Search, is branching…
Tips On Improving Landing Pages
11 Ways to Improve Landing Pages at Digital Web looks at simple things to consider to ensure that when people land at your web…
Report Suggests Paid Search Disclosure Could Be Better
Last week, I participated in a panel at the Trust or Consequence: How Failure to Disclose Ad Relationships Threatens to Burst the Search Bubble…
Case Study Of Copy Changes To Improve Rankings
Copywriting Makeover: Search Engine-Friendly Can Also Mean Visitor-Friendly from Search Engine Guide gives you a before and after look at how copy was changed…
MSN Censorship & Revisiting The Need For Better Disclosure
Chinese target Web’s ‘prohibited language’ from the Associated Press looks at how those in China wishing to blog on MSN’s new MSN Spaces service…
Replacement For Jux2: DoubleTrust
We loved Jux2, the meta search engine that let you compare search results from major search engines. It sadly closed last month, as we…
MSN Shopping Gets A Blog
Spotted via the Organized Shopping blog, MSN Shopping Insider is a new blog from MSN that is aimed to discuss MSN Shopping. The first…
More On AOL’s SEO/SEM Campaign
AOL.com’s Search Effort: Music Visitors Up, So Are Keyword Prices from MediaPost is an update on the story we blogged earlier, that AOL is…