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Issues Facing Search & Search Marketing
Where Do We Go from Here? from Kevin Ryan at iMediaConnection has him surveying members of a panel he’s assembled on the topic of…
New Estimate Puts Web Size At 11.5 Billion Pages & Compares Search Engine Coverage
It has been ages since I’ve seen anyone try to estimate the size of the web. Now a new paper puts it at 11.5…
Writing for Search Engines… and Users
Time and again we see people obsessing over web page copy, attempting to achieve some sort of magical “keyword density” or other elusive goal…
Bids Going Up? Boost Conversion To Compete!
PPC Advertising Connects to Conversion Rate at ClickZ from Fredrick Marckini looks at why understanding your conversion rate — and getting it higher —…
Questions Raised On ClickTracks Use Of Alt Text
Over on Threadwatch, Clicktracks Inserting Hidden Links in Customers Pages? has discussion of how ClickTracks tracking code made use of an ALT text attribute…
Search Engines and King Content
Thousands of articles, books and forum entries detail how to make your site search engine friendly, but ultimately, one rule stands above the rest:…
How Major Search Engines Regionalize
An overview to how regional editions of the major search engines are created.
Countries And Languages
Explains issues about using domain names and page language to please country-specific search engines.
Blair “Liar” Linkbomb Highlights Country-Specific Skewing
A search putting the UK prime minister at the top of Google UK but not Google.com highlights how search engines more and more are…
Gigablast Now Indexing More than 2 Billion Pages
Matt Wells over at Gigablast has had his web crawler really cranking lately. According to the Gigablast homepage the database now provides access to…
Google and Google Bombing Now Included New Oxford American Dictionary
A brand-new edition of the “classic” New Oxford American Dictionary was released today and includes over 2,000 new words. Among the new words added…
Google Files Complete Quarterly Report With SEC
Those of you who like to pour over Google’s financials might be interested in having a look at their latest quarterly report (68 pages)…
Latest Google Parodies
Spotted via Google Blogoscoped, Google Content Blocker is a parody of a pretend Google feature that blocks editorial content on pages, leaving only ads.…
Giant Lists Of Search Blogs
Need more search blogs? Here are two resources that aim to point you to all the search blogs out there! The first comes from…
Slides, Transcript Of Google Investor Day & Google’s 70 Percent Core Time
Didn’t want to listen to the webcast of Google’s first shareholders day last week? Hey, I tried. But it kept repeatedly dying repeatedly right…
Apartment Rentals, Traffic — Merging Other Data Into Google Maps
I’ve been collecting a variety of ways people have been creatively merging data from various places outside of Google into Google Maps for a…
Music Search: A New Search Battleground
Internet search firms target music business from News.com looks at how search engines are eyeing music as a new search battleground. Interesting is the…
SEMs: Agency Churn Is Coming
Search agencies take note! Churn is coming to your space. So says Gary Stein of JupiterResearch, in SEM Agencies: Prepare to Play Musical Clients…
Don’t Like Google? Declare Your Site A Google Free Zone!
It’s not unusual to hear people express all types of gripes about Google, but it is extremely rare for someone to actually react by…
Dictionary Spam, Meet Number Spam
Dictionary spam is when someone creates a web page that seeming has every word in the dictionary, in hopes of capturing someone who might…