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The Curious Case of Music Disappearing from YouTube Videos
Lately, many have noticed that copyrighted music has mysteriously been removed from user-submitted videos on YouTube. Now, YouTube is addressing the occurrences with a…
Google Website Optimizer Announces Website Workout Winners (Plus, Visualize Testing!)
Last June, Google Website Optimizer launched the Website Workout contest, where companies could submit their websites for analysis. Four winners were chosen and they…
Obama Aide: Broadband Portion of Stimulus Package for Timely Needs, Not Overall Goals
An aide of President-elect Barack Obama is clarifying what can be expected from the broadband portion of the stimulus bill currently being constructed in…
Nielsen Online December 2008 Search Engine Share Rankings
Nielsen Online has released its search engine share rankings for December 2008. Google had a big year-over-year gain with Yahoo, AOL and Ask seeing…
Google Lets Go 100 Recruiters, Reorganizes Engineering Team
Google has reduced their recruiting efforts and, as such, layoffs have come to their recruiting team. About 100 contract recruiters will be getting the…
Bribing People To Send You Emails With $50 Gift Cards
Whenever you're doing a promotion of any kind, the key to success is to measure it. Set out goals, costs, and end results.
SEW Experts: Bribing People To Send You Emails With $50 Gift Cards
Whenever you’re doing a promotion of any kind, the key to success is to measure it. Set out goals, costs, and end results. In…
SearchDay | Training Your Content Developers on SEO Copywriting
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Training Your Content Developers on SEO Copywriting; Tibet's Revenge; Google Maps Adds Features to Local Business Ads;…
Online Display Ad Pricing Drops in Q4 2008
Pubmatic has released online ad pricing data for the fourth quarter 2008. They found that ad pricing dropped in Q4, likely due to an…
Google Releases New Sitemap Generator
Google Webmaster Central has created a new sitemap generator and released it to the general public. The new generator is open source and uses…
Matt Cutts: Hate Review Sites With No Reviews? Tell Me About It
Google’s spam guru Matt Cutts is asking for people to help his team address the issue of review site pages with no reviews. In…
Google Maps Adds Features to Local Business Ads
Google Maps has updated features for local business ads. First up, the pop up box for a local business listing will now include interactive…
Reciprocal Links And Yahoo: Some Interesting Reading
Okay I would not have bothered to read Yahoo’s latest patent on reciprocal links if it were not for two blog posts by Bill…
Google Apps Reseller Program Could Become Biggest Affiliate Program
Google is building a reseller program for its apps and training future affiliates to build up their market share of email, calendaring, project management…
Tibet’s Revenge
There's quite a bit of controversy over things like censoring search results. Judging by the majority of the responses I received on last week's…
Training Your Content Developers on SEO Copywriting
Large-scale websites by their very nature demand a large-scale content development effort. One big challenge is figuring out how to populate such a site…
SEO Training Workshop on Blogs at SES London 2009
One of the four SEM and SEO training workshops that will be held at SES London on Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, will be focused…
SEW Experts: Training Your Content Developers on SEO Copywriting
SEO copywriting can be a misleading term. Too often, writers will get stuck on the SEO part and lose sight of the other, more…
SEW Experts: Tibet’s Revenge
There’s quite a bit of controversy over things like censoring search results. Judging by the majority of the responses I received on last week’s…
SearchDay | Should You Target the Head or the Long Tail?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Should Your SEO Strategy Target the Head or the Long Tail?; Report: Carol Bartz to Become Yahoo…