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SEW Experts: 5 Ways to Discover Link Building Ideas
Coming up with great link building ideas can be a challenge. It requires creativity, research, and thinking outside the box. In today’s Link Love…
SEW Experts: Social Media and Online Commerce: Birth of Socialommerce
With all the media attention focused on Microsoft’s not-so-friendly takeover bid of Yahoo, a below-the-radar acquisition target proves why social commerce is the future…
Search Headlines & Links: February 20, 2008
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along…
Search Engine Strategies London – Day Two
Search Engine Strategies London has wrapped up Day Two and the 2,000 attendees have adjourned until this morning. Meanwhile, the bloggers, videographers and photographers…
Lunar Eclipse: Google Earth Shows When in Google Sky
A total lunar eclipse occurs tonight (Wednesday, February 20, 2008) for skywatchers in the United States. The total eclipse of the moon will also…
How to Drive More Organic Traffic by Understanding Search Engine Algorithms
This morning over at Seattle-based blog SEOmoz, Rand Fishkin asks “What is an Algorithm? How does it apply to the Search Results at Google,…
Google Tightens Restrictions on AdWords Display URLs
Beginning April 1, Google will no longer make exceptions to its policy requiring advertisers to match the display URL in an AdWords ad to…
Microsoft-Yahoo Fight Heats Up
Microsoft’s unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo is heading down an unpleasant path. This week, Microsoft is reportedly undertaking a proxy fight, sending letters directly…
Landing Page Optimization for SEM: Design and Execute
Landing page optimization: design and execution. First, let's kill all the designers.
SEW Experts: Landing Page Optimization for SEM: Design and Execute
As a search marketer, you need to understand landing page optimization because it impacts your results. Higher conversion means a bigger impact for everything…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: February 11-15, 2008
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.
Search Headlines & Links: February 19, 2008
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along…
Search Engine Strategies London — Day One
Search Engine Strategies London 2008 is underway. With Day One under our belts, we’re happy to share some of the coverage of the event…
Snakehead Fish Crosses The Pond?
A giant snakehead fish (the ” Jaws” of freshwater fish in Southeast Asia) was caught by a fisherman in England. The snakehead hooked in…
Ralph Wilson’s Introduction to Search Marketing at SES London
Condensing the essentials of search engine marketing into a one-hour session is a formidable challenge. This morning at SES London Dr. Ralph Wilson, Founder…
American Express Axes Ellen DeGeneres: Au Natural On Amex Site
In an ideal world, American Express would AX the Ellen DeGeneres ads and spend a fraction of the marketing budget on au natural SEO…
How To Outrank Your SEO Competitors
SEOs and Small Business Owners: Type-A personalities. What to do when your competitors outrank you in search engines.
Advertising Placements by Industry and Top Sponsored Links, January 2008
The industry breakdown of ad placements and unit types, and the top 25 companies placing sponsored links.
SEW Experts: How To Outrank Your SEO Competitors
Clients and readers often ask why a site that’s younger, smaller, or just plain “uglier” outranks them. There really isn’t a simple answer. In…