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The Inside Track on Priceline and Google
Priceline CMO Brett Kellner joined us this week at Google’s New York headquarters (via conference call) to chat about travel trends in vertical search,…
SES NY Foosball Challenge
Come join us at the Stone Temple Consulting “Foosball Challenge”. We are giving away a pair of iPod Touch’s to the team (one per…
PPC Triage Now! Emergency Action Steps for Dying AdWords
Lately prospective clients have been coming around with extremely colorful and eerily similar Google PPC disaster stories. Cost are skyrocketing, conversions are plummeting, and…
Revised Google Quality Rater Guidlines Surface
Updates to the Google Quality Rater guidelines have popped up, and Brian Ussery has written up a nice summary of the revised standards. There’s…
Yahoo! Goes on a Date with Microsoft
Just one week after cozying up to AOL, Yahoo met with its patient suitor, Microsoft. While arrangements for the highly anticipated union were reportedly…
Defining Yourself Through Search
Your online persona is defined by what shows up in the search results. What do the SERPs say about you?
Universal Pictures Part II: Sizing up the Local Video Market
At the intersection of video and SEO, local search sites and IYPs – as the traditional "owners" of local – have the most to…
Making the Most of a Search Marketing Conference
If you're heading to SES New York next week, you should be preparing your questions for speakers now. Be bold, creative, and persistent, and…
SEW Experts: Defining Yourself Through Search
Your online persona is defined by what shows up in the search results. What do the SERPs say about you? In today’s SEM Agency…
SEW Experts: Making the Most of a Search Marketing Conference
If you’re heading to SES New York next week, you should be preparing your questions for speakers now. In today’s SEM Crossfire column, “Making…
SEW Experts: Universal Pictures Part II: Sizing up the Local Video Market
Last month, we looked at the opportunity for SMBs to use universal search to their advantage by producing and distributing online video. But what…
American Express Advises Clients to Avoid SEO
Interesting that an American Express Web site was the subject of a Search Engine Watch Experts site clinic last month. The current edition of…
Defending SEM During a Recession
If a recession does come, search marketers will need to defend their budgets, and even their jobs. Defining past value to the company, and…
Press release about AOL acquiring Bebo ranks #1 in Techmeme
Nathania Johnson did a great job earlier today covering the news about the AOL acquisition of Bebo for $850 million cash. But, there’s a…
Yahoo to Begin Indexing Microformats
As part of its move toward a more open search platform, Yahoo announced today that it will begin supporting microformats and other semantic Web…
Andrew Goodman Talks About SES Toronto at SES London
In this video interview at SES London 2008, Andrew Goodman, the Principal of Page Zero Media, talks about the implications of Google’s increasing ability…
Matt Bailey Discusses SEO, SEM and OSU at SES
Matt Bailey of SiteLogic found a way to work OSU into a discussion of SEO and SEM at SES London last month. Now, I…
Video interview with Bruce Clay at SES London 2008
I did a video interview with Bruce Clay, President of Bruce Clay, Inc., at SES London 2008. Bruce talked about how the changing world…
Google on Global Search Standards: Thanks, But No Thanks
Google has politely turned down a cordial invitation to support technology that would control how the search engine lists articles and photos. The technology…
AOL Buys Social Network Bebo for $850M
AOL will buy Facebook competitor Bebo for $850 million cash. Combining social network Bebo’s estimated 40 million users with AIM and ICQ will boost…