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The Truth About Conversion Rate Optimization: It’s Not About You and Me!
In the blizzard of advice about CRO, it's easy to lose sight of the fundamentals. One fundamental truth about optimization: it's not about what…
Bing Improves Facebook’s ‘Like’ Results – Is This A New Ranking Factor?
Yesterday Bing announced that specific links that have been ‘liked’ by your Facebook friends will be highlighted in the search results page. This is…
Who Leaked YouTube’s Talks With Next New Networks to The New York Times?
According to Claire Cain Miller and Brian Stelter of The New York Times, “YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to…
Carol Bartz’s Leaked E-mail RE: Yahoo Layoffs
Following up on our previous story about the latest round of Yahoo layoffs, a copy of an internal e-mail memo from CEO Carol Bartz…
5 Tips on Link Bait Campaigns
With a little planning and repetition, your link bait campaigns will become more successful. Here are some ideas on how to produce a brilliant…
Yahoo Video To Close March 15, 2011
Yahoo Video is no longer allowing uploads and has announced it will be deleting all videos and shuttering this product in March 15, 2011,…
Bing Incorporates FanSnap into Event Search
To enable users make a better decision whilst searching for tickets to concerts and sporting events, Bing have incorporated FanSnap into Bing Events. The…
searchenginewatch.com’s Top 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2010
With many search and social networks releasing their Top 10 queries and trends for 2010, we thought we’d jump on the bandwagon to find…
International Social Media Marketing: Addressing Cultural Quirks
Statistics and anecdotal evidence of how the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) use social media.
Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Access Email
The Sixth Court of Appeals ruled that police need a search warrant to get ISPs to divulge emails, Tech News Ninjas reported. This is…
Jeopardy! Pitting Humans Against Computer Searching For Answers
IBM will be pitted against the two most successful Jeopardy contestants in a test to see if the computer can search its database and…
Twitter Top Trends for 2010 Contained Sponsor Promoted Tweets
A number of the Trending Topics listed in Twitter’s year end top trends lists contained listings from sponsor’s promoted tweets. Two movies that made…
Ad Networks, Content Networks, and the Economy of Syndicated Video
Grab Networks' proposition to brand advertisers using video: why focus solely on video portals when video is being embedded and watched all over the…
French Create Google Tax, Starts Jan. 1
The new tax on online advertising spends called the “Google tax” was passed by the French government this week and will start Jan. 1,…
Google Crawler May Have Helped Leak Colorado Drug Informants
Colorado sheriffs are working with Google to find out how their database “mistakenly revealed the identities of confidential drug informants and listed phone numbers,…
How Will SEO Evolve in 2011?
SEO, rather than being purely an ongoing process of optimization, will be more influential as part of a campaign-led marketing strategy. We'll need to…
Yahoo’s Holiday Layoffs: 650 Let Go
Yahoo laid off “about 650” people this morning — roughly 4 percent of the company’s entire workforce of 14,000 — according to a local…
Google Fights Claims of Bias in Instant, Local Search
Google has been busy defending itself from accusations of bias in its local, organic, and paid results in recent weeks. Yesterday, Amit Singhal, Google…
Renowned Agitator Michael Moore Offers To Help WikiLeaks Founder
Film director Michael Moore has offered to help bail out Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, and provide him a server to continue hosting his…
SEW Forums Adds New Forum On CMS SEO
Many website owners use CMS to generate their sites – so Search Engine Watch Forums has added a special place for you to get…