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SearchDay | How Long Should It Take for SEO to Show Results?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: How Long Should It Take for SEO to Show Results?; The Future of the Mobile Web: To…
How Long Should It Take for SEO to Show Results?
How long it takes to show results from SEO will depend on several factors, including age of the site and the level of competition.…
Yahoo! Contributes to Development of Semantic Tagging Format
If you’ve ever used tagging to bookmark or organize content, you know that there can be many different tags associated with a variety of…
Follow Search Engine Watch on Twitter
It’s #followfriday on Twitter, that day when you spam your followers with lists of names you drop to impress them…or something like that. In…
Twitter and the Wild West
Trying to keep up with the latest Twitter applications can be daunting. Dozens of new Twitter apps have come out over the past year.…
AOL Goes for Local with the Acquisition of Patch and Going
AOL is making local a core part of their business model. And it’s a worthy goal. Local searches grew 58% in 2008 and $103…
Bing Adds Translation Instant Answer
One of the great things about Live Search that has carried over to Bing is Instant Answers. There are shopping, travel and sports Instant…
9 More Google Updates to Shake a Stick At
At the end of last week, Google released so many updates, we had to consolidate them into a single post. This week, the Google…
The Future of the Mobile Web: To App or Not to App?
Improved capabilities of the Safari mobile browser in the latest iPhone have lots of implications for mobile local search. They essentially make it easier…
Top 10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, May 2009
This month's top 10 search terms in 10 categories by search volume.
$14 Million For CircuitCity Domain, Brand = Good Link Buy?
Aaron Wall does a great analysis of the smart play by the company that bought the CircuitCity domain and brand out of bankruptcy as…
SearchDay | Can Bing Really Bring It for PPC Advertisers?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Can Bing Really Bring It for PPC Advertisers?; Link Marketing for Drop Shipping Retailers; Putting the M…
Will New CFO Morse Answer Yahoo’s SOS
Yahoo announced the appointment of a new CFO today – Tim Morse “will be responsible for the company’s finance, investor relations, and mergers and…
Three Lists from SES Toronto’s Social Media Panel
In the “Social Media: Do Big Companies Get It?” panel at SES Toronto, it turned out that the three presenters each offered a checklist…
Top Stories from SES Toronto: Day 2 (Belatedly)
I should have posted the top stores from Day 2 of SES Toronto yesterday, but I have some really lame excuses for why I…
How’s Your Whuffie Doing?
This week at SES Toronto, Tara Hunt shared some insights from her new book, The Whuffie Factor. In Hunt’s definition, “whuffie” is social capital,…
Can Bing Really Bring It for PPC Advertisers?
Advertisers want to know if Bing can really provide a new experience for searchers, or if it's just Live.com with a cooler name. Bing…
Hitwise Adds to Good News for Bing
We’ve already seen comScore and StatCounter report an auspicious start for Microsoft’s newly launched Bing search engine. Now, Hitwise shares Initial Bing Stats for…
Link Marketing for Drop Shipping Retailers
It can be challenging to develop links for drop shipping sites, since many of these sites are selling the exact same products. Finding a…
Putting the M Back in SEM
If you wait around long enough, anything will come back in style. Now that the link economy has sprung up, flourished, and begun to…