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Confessions of an SEO Copywriter (You don’t need a lot of copy)
One of our very own SEW experts, Tim Ash is featured on the cover of the summer edition of Online Strategy Magazine. In it,…
Local Search Summit:09 Joins SES San Jose and Social Media & Video Strategies
Right after I posted Optimized Schedule for SES San Jose Plus Social Media & Video Strategies I discovered that there’s going to be another…
Building Directory Links: A Valuable SEO Tactic?
One of the longest-tenured tactics in link building is to build links within topical free and paid directories. Is that still a valuable SEO…
Groundhog Day: Yahoo! and Microsoft Said to Be Nearing a Search Deal
Yahoo! and Microsoft are reportedly at it again. According to Kara Swisher’s mole at Yahoo!, a team of Microsoft search execs (some of which…
SEW Awards Deadline Extended – Now July 21
My phone has been ringing off the hook today with last-minute submitters to the Search Engine Watch Awards asking for an extension to today’s…
A Modest Proposal: Technology in Search
Many times, clients have been wowed by technology, but later dissatisfied with the service and strategy they received. Those are the ones who realized…
Top 10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, June 2009
This month's top 10 search terms in 10 categories by search volume, from Hitwise.
Twittergate: Hacked Docs Stir Up Questions of Ethics and Security
Recently a hacker obtained confidential documents containing information about Twitter’s business plans as well as user accounts and passwords. The hacker sent the documents…
Google Reader’s New Sharing Options (Plus a Shared Items Twitter Sharing Tip!)
Google Reader unleashed new sharing options this week, continuing the slow but steady trend of turning the newsreader into a social media platform. Let’s…
Zobrist Offers Search Friendly URL Service for IBM Websphere Commerce Customers
E-commerce sites are prone to be developed by systems that employ dynamic URLs. You know, those long URLs with numbers and gobbledy gook. Now,…
SearchDay | Re-Thinking Link Building
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Re-Thinking Link Building; Microsoft Steals Tiny Share from Yahoo; Welcome to Your Google-Branded Life; and more.
Google Revenues Increase 3% Year-Over-Year in Q2 2009; Paid Clicks Hold Steady
Google released second quarter earnings for 2009 today, and the news was relatively positive. Revenues increased by 3% year-over-year, coming in at $5.52 billion.…
Google PSA: News Publishers Can Use Robots.txt to Block Us
Google is once again reminding news publishers that they do not have to be indexed by the search engine. All they have to do…
Re-Thinking Link Building
I've yet to meet anyone who loves to chase down links, and the time involved can become costly. Is passing the task off to…
Microsoft Steals Tiny Share from Yahoo! in comScore’s June 2009 Rankings
comScore has released their June 2009 rankings and the search market share landscape looks the same as it has for a long time. Yahoo!…
Optimized Schedule for SES San Jose Plus Social Media & Video Strategies
One of my Twitter followers, b_young of California, asked me to put together an optimized schedule for both the Search Engine Strategies (SES) San…
Scour Incorporates Real-Time Results into Regular Results
Real-time search is all the rage lately, with Twitter fueling the movement via its search of user feeds. Of course, this all really started…
Welcome to Your Google-Branded Life
It’s 6:30 am. Your alarm goes off. On your Android phone. You turn it off, roll over and check your GMail before dragging yourself…
Hunch Adds Shortcuts to Help Users Navigate Topics
Hunch, the decision engine that launched just after that *other* decision engine, has already added an update to their site. They’ve added “shortcut topics,”…
SearchDay | Can Crowd Sourcing Deliver Effective International SEO?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Can Crowd Sourcing Deliver Effective International SEO?; Google Voice Launches Mobile Apps for Android, Blackberry; BingTweets Mashes…