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Oil and Water? SEOs vs. Content Owners
When it comes to bringing an outside SEO consultant in, content owners need to pay attention to the role corporate politics and the review…
Getting Vertical Search Right: A Sneak Preview
At SES San Jose later this month, a panel of experts will discuss vertical search in a Googlized world, where we've created more advanced…
Google Offers Guidance on Starting a Multi-Lingual Site
Do the Beijing Olympics have you thinking global? If so, you may be considering whether or not to offer your site content in another…
New Yahoo BOSS Applications: Smells Like Cuil Spirit
Yahoo recently launched BOSS, aka Build your Own Search Service. Third party developers wasted no time making use of the API to build their…
Hit Me While I’m Down: Google Warns on AOL Investment Loss
Google has filed a quarterly report with the SEC that includes information about its 5% stake in AOL. The news is not good for…
blinkx Seeks to Acquire MIVA for $1.20 Per Share
Online video search engine blinkx has sent a letter to digital advertising company MIVA, seeking to acquire it for $1.20 per share. Yesterday’s closing…
SEW Experts: Oil and Water? SEOs vs. Content Owners
When it comes to bringing an outside SEO consultant in, content owners need to pay attention to the role corporate politics and the review…
SEW Experts: Getting Vertical Search Right: A Sneak Preview
At SES San Jose later this month, a panel of experts will discuss vertical search in a Googlized world, where we’ve created more advanced…
SearchDay: Link Building with Customers
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion:Link Building with Customers; Avoiding Online Missteps with Generation Y and Millenniums; Google to Update Content Network; and…
Is John McCain or Barack Obama Winning the YouTube Vote?
Yesterday, Rasmussen Reports said that the “news you watch says a lot about how you’ll vote.” According to the pollster, 87 percent of Fox…
Link Building with Customers, Part 2
Customers are one of your most valuable link building resources, because they're already sold on your product or service. Cultivating positive relations with clients…
Avoiding Online Missteps with Generation Y and Millenniums
Often, millions of dollars are spent on tailoring a marketing message to a youth audience, and not enough is spent to tailor the actual…
Omniture’s SearchCenter Now Integrated with Chinese Search Engine Baidu.com
One day before the Olympics in Beijing, Ominture has announced that its SearchCenter integration with Chinese search engine Baidu.com is now available. “Successful search…
Internet Traffic Growth Rates May Be Lower than ISPs Claim
Internet service providers love to talk about how much traffic is rapidly increasing by the year and how they’ll either need to charge more…
Google to Update Content Network as Part of DoubleClick Integration
Google has announced new features that are coming to the Content Network. They said the new features are part of the integration process with…
Let the Games Begin: Yahoo and Icahn Make it Official
Yahoo has officially appointed Carl Icahn to its board of directors, and board member Robert Kotick has officially resigned. The moves were all part…
Pew Internet & American Life Project: 49% Use Search Daily
How often do people use a search engine? The percentage of Internet users who use search engines on a typical day has soared from…
SEW Experts: Link Building with Customers, Part 2
Customers are one of your most valuable link building resources, because they’re already sold on your product or service. In today’s linkbuilding column, “Link…
SEW Experts: Avoiding Online Missteps with Generation Y and Millenniums
Often, millions of dollars are spent on tailoring a marketing message to a youth audience, and not enough is spent to tailor the actual…
Microsoft Webmaster Tools Update
Microsoft has just released an update to their Webmaster Tools. It’s a significant update, with lots of new functionality in it. My guess is…