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Google Celebrates 100,000th Knol
A few weeks ago, Google Knol received its 100,000th entry. Google Knol launched as a Wikipedia-esque knowledge sharing product last summer. In October, Google…
Web Analytics 101, Part 1
Web marketers who ignore analytics are like doctors who start writing prescriptions before bothering to examine or diagnose the patient. Without looking under the…
Are Rankings Still Relevant?
Are we heading toward an age where site ranking doesn't matter? By incorporating searcher behavior into their algorithms, search engines are no longer serving…
Is Google’s New Preference Option Building Trust Ranking?
The introduction of Google’s latest search feature “Preferences” where you get to add sites whose results you prefer to be a source of your…
Forget Behavioral Targeting, Body Targeting Could Soon Be ‘The Thing”
We soon may be able to give a search engine information on our body size and outstanding features and get true tailored search results…
SEW Experts: Web Analytics 101, Part 1
Web marketers who ignore analytics are like doctors who start writing prescriptions before bothering to examine or diagnose the patient. In today’s SEM 101…
SEW Experts: Are Rankings Still Relevant?
Are we heading toward an age where site ranking doesn’t matter? By incorporating searcher behavior into their algorithms, search engines are no longer serving…
Lycos Dropping Lycos Mail, Tripod February 15
Well it looks like one of the last of the old school search companies is closing its email service and website creation and hosting…
SearchDay | Of Local Search, Love Meters, and Raking Leaves
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Of Local Search, Love Meters, and Raking Leaves; Google Offers Free TV Ad Creation with SpotMixer; New…
Of Local Search, Love Meters, and Raking Leaves
This week saw a series of events and announcements that indicate more love for local search, despite a continually faltering economy.
Stock Price Low Yet New Yahoo CEO Could Make $19 Million Plus?
Apparently the new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could make well over $19 million dollars this year, according to Reuters. This despite the fact that…
Realtor Century 21 Moving Its TV Spend To Online Advertising
One of the largest national realty companies, Century 21, has decided to move a large part of their TV advertising budget for 2009 to…
HelloMetro Hiring Journalists to Cover Local News for Their Online Sites
HelloMetro is hiring former print journalists to cover the news for 10 of their local sites. They hope this will bring better local coverage…
Federal Court Dismisses Online Travel Hotel Tax Suit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has dismissed a suit brought forth by Pitt County, North Carolina (Greenville, NC is located…
Google Apps Get an Added Layer of Security
Just a few days after the announcement of the Google Apps reseller program, comes news that an added layer of security has come to…
Google Offers Free TV Ad Creation with SpotMixer
Google TV Ads is now offering free tv ad creation with a self-serve video ad creation solution implemented inside AdWords. The solution was developed…
Truveo Video Search to be Added to SFGate.com
AOL’s Truveo video search has been added to SFGate.com, the online site of the San Francisco Chronicle. The search is currently implemented on the…
Top 10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, December 2008
This month's top 10 search terms in 10 categories by search volume.
SearchDay | Bribing People To Send You Emails
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Bribing People To Send You Emails With $50 Gift Cards; Google Lets Go 100 Recruiters, Reorganizes Engineering…
Adults Outnumber Teens on Social Networks
By sheer population numbers, 35 percent of online adults outnumbers 65 percent of online teens on social network sites.