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SEO

Google’s Record Year; Yahoo Worth ‘Less Than Nothing’ & More Search News

David Lawee, head of Google’s M&A group, is on track to close a deal every two weeks on average, in Google’s most deal-heavy year…

By Danny Goodwin · 22 Sep 2010

SEO

Google’s Schmidt to Colbert: Comment About Kids Changing Their Identity ‘Was a Joke’

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on “The Colbert Report” for a “Google Chat” last night. As Stephen would say, “At least that’s what it…

By Danny Goodwin · 22 Sep 2010

Industry

Embracing the Nation — Why Localizing by Country Works

If you're serious about competing with the locals in any given market, then you need to take your localization seriously, and that extends to…

By Christian Arno · 22 Sep 2010

SEO

Improve Your Rankings by Removing Links

SEOs and agencies need to consider not just how to build quality links for clients, but how to actively manage the link profile and…

By Gareth Owen · 22 Sep 2010

SEO

Bing Social Recommends Twitterers; Paid Search Roundup; Google Transparency Report & More Search News

Bing Social yesterday announced a new feature called People Recommendations to help searchers discover new Twitterers. Based on a search query, the feature is…

By Danny Goodwin · 21 Sep 2010

Analytics

5 Overlooked Actionable Benefits of Attribution

Learn how to leverage the data that's available, and how to capitalize on it.

By Adam Goldberg · 21 Sep 2010

SEO

Google Instant, SEO, and the Future of Search

Eight ways Google Instant could impact search, search engine optimization, and PPC.

By Eric Enge · 21 Sep 2010

SEO

Rosetta Acquires Mobile Firm; Facebook Phone; Google TV SERP Ads & More Search News

Digital Agency Rosetta is beefing up it’s mobile efforts with its acquisition of Level Studios. The deal will add 215 employees to Rosetta, and…

By Danny Goodwin · 20 Sep 2010

Social

How to Create a Social Media Ad Buy on a Budget

With smart research and resourceful planning, you can build a social media ad buy that's set up to succeed. These five simple steps can…

By Nathan Linnell · 20 Sep 2010

Social

The New Business Intelligence of Social Media

Social media research, monitoring, and analytics: the tools, the top five measurable attributes, and how to use this data to improve your ROI.

By Jason Cormier · 20 Sep 2010

SEO

Cuil is Stone Cold – Another ‘Google Killer’ Bites the Dust

As spotted in the SEW Forums by member sitetruth, Cuil appears to be history. Quoting sitetruth’s post from yesterday: “The employees were told at…

By Danny Goodwin · 18 Sep 2010

SEO

SEO Is NOT Dead, Huge SEO Tools List & More – Search Week In Review for Sept. 18, 2010

Here are the columns and news stories for the week of Sept. 13 to 17, as reported by the Search Engine Watch team of…

By Danny Goodwin · 18 Sep 2010

SEO

New Microsoft Paid Search Features & More Search News

Microsoft adCenter is readying some new features for PPC managers. Reports in adCenter will begin showing new information on conversion rates, revenue from conversions,…

By Danny Goodwin · 17 Sep 2010

Industry

Apple iAd — A Summary for Search Marketers

Can iAds succeed? That's the big question. Everything SEMs need to know about iAds, including how they differ from IAB ads, the iAd network,…

By Marc Poirier · 17 Sep 2010

PPC

Unleash Your Full PPC Potential by Leveraging Google AdWords’ Match Types

Exact match, phrase match, and broad match working together: build a winning PPC team.

By John Lee · 17 Sep 2010

SEO

New Yahoo SERP, Mail, Twitter/Facebook Integration: A Fall Preview

Yahoo today previewed some search enhancements they’ll be rolling out this fall, hot on the heels of changes at Google ( Instant) and Bing…

By Danny Goodwin · 16 Sep 2010

SEO

Bing Search in IE9; Skyhook Sues Google; Latest comScore Search/Mobile Stats & More Search News

Fully embracing HTML 5, the IE9 beta was launched yesterday, and the Bing team says their goal is to provide a “very rich” and…

By Danny Goodwin · 16 Sep 2010

Social

Visualizing the Social CRM Process

This simple six-step process will help you create a social customer relationship management strategy for your organization.

By Jacob Morgan · 16 Sep 2010

PPC

Diagnosing the Impact of Optimization on Your Quality Score

These two Google tools can help you understand and track your quality score, as well as the effect of your paid search campaign optimizations.

By Jason Tabeling · 16 Sep 2010

Social

Social Search Circles — Nobody Knows the Pages I’ve Seen

All search is really social search. How subtracting "social" from "social search" prevents us from finding the pages we really want to track down.

By Mark Drummond · 16 Sep 2010