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SEW Experts: Avoid Getting Coding Problems Flagged by Search Engines
Some common SEO and Web development practices can be used quite legitimately, yet still could look like spam to search engines. In today’s Web…
SearchDay: Some New SEO Services Not So Special
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Some New SEO Services Not So Special; Newspapers Bleed Red Ink: Death by Internet; SEO Quarterly Web…
Some New SEO Services Not So “Special”
Many SEO agencies are running out of ways to draw in large clients, especially when so many offer little to no value over the…
Nikki Catsouras, Death on Highway, Search Engine Victim
Nikki Catsouras has achieved Internet immortality. She was an 18-year-old college freshman living in California with her parents and two sisters in 2006. Nikki…
Live! From Redmond, It’s Microsoft Powerset Live!
Ya-Who? Seems Microsoft has already forgotten the Sunnyvale search engine. Microsoft has agreed to buy Powerset, the semantic search engine touted as the next…
Newspapers Bleed Red Ink: Death by Internet
Journalists are a dying breed. Newspapers face death by Internet. It's time to rethink journalism as a career choice.
SEO Quarterly Web Site Review: Villas of Distinction
This travel site already has three of the key ingredients to success: Web site depth, links to the site, and age of domain. The…
Local.com Partners with Hearst’s White Directory Publishers
Local.com has announced a new advertising partnership with White Directory Publishers, a division of Hearst Holdings. Through the agreement, Local.com will be able to…
Google Nixes AdSense Referrals, AdWords PPA; Rebrands DoubleClick Performics
Google has a slew of announcements about its advertising products, including AdSense, AdWords, and DoubleClick. First up, AdSense is no longer accepting referrals. They’re…
Yahoo Releases Search Index Update
Yahoo has announced its latest search index update. So, if you see a change up in your rankings, now you know why. But earlier…
Adobe Provides Flash Technology to Google and Yahoo for Better Indexing
For years SEOs have been about the inability of search engines to crawl flash pages. But now Adobe is making an effort to keep…
SEW Experts: Some New SEO Services Not So “Special”
Many SEO agencies are running out of ways to draw in large clients, especially when so many offer little to no value over the…
SEW Experts: Newspapers Bleed Red Ink: Death by Internet
Journalists are a dying breed. Newspapers face death by Internet. In today’s Search Engine WarGames column, “Newspapers Bleed Red Ink: Death by Internet,” Kevin…
SEW Experts: SEO Quarterly Web Site Review: Villas of Distinction
The latest in a series of site reviews, this week’s subject is a travel site that already has three of the key ingredients to…
SES Awards Entries: Deadline Extension
Due to the volume of nervous and sometimes scary requests for an extension, we are moving back the deadline for entries to July 18,…
SearchDay: SERP Position: It Ain’t Horseshoes
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: SERP Position: It Ain't Horseshoes; If You Give Google A Cookie; If Google Gives You Comics; and…
Mike Moran Exits IBM, Joins Converseon
Mike Moran is leaving IBM after 30 years to take a position in the newly created role of Chief Strategist at social media marketing…
Google Maps Inks 5 Year Deal with Tele Atlas
Google Maps has signed a five year agreement with Netherlands-based digital mapping company, Tele Atlas. Google will now have access to Tele Atlas’ content…
SLI Rolls Out Learning Search Update with New Auto Complete Feature
On-demand search provider, SLI Systems has upgraded Learning Search, a hosted site search solution. The update will include: Faster generation of results. Search queries…
Another Year, Another Reorganization for MIVA
Yahoo is known for its (in)famous reorganizations, but they now face a contender for the title of “Most Likely to Shake Things Up.” Just…