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Is Google Having Severe Growing Pains?
Seems our nine-year old is having severe growing pains lately. Come on, everyone reading this considers Google part of their lives, so why not…
Searchable Social Media and Adding to the Global Conversation
Rising Voices, a citizen media outreach initiative of the Global Voices, has just released the first of a series of planned guides, An Introduction…
Google.org Reveals Five Focus Areas
Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, today announced the five core initiatives that it plans to focus on over the next five to ten years. The…
Measure Blog Success without Spending a Fortune
Search Marketers reach for blog style content management systems more and more these days for marketing applications. Free open source blogging software like WordPress…
Selling CEOs on Search Engine Marketing
https://www.skylinetechnologies.com/services/online-marketing/news/EyeTrack.pdf What’s the biggest mistake any search engine marketer can make? Blowing a presentation to decision-makers. Even with phenomenal results and ROI, a search…
PPC.edu: Learn AdWords, Yahoo Search, adCenter Online
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising: PPC 101.edu and some top paid search blogs.
Search Engine Year-End Predictions: 2007 Scorecard
Search engine gurus: Scorekeepers are grading your year-end predictions. How did you do in 2007?
SEW Experts: Search Engine Year-End Predictions: 2007 Scorecard
Last year, many industry watchers made search predictions for 2007. So how did some search gurus do? In today’s Link Love column, “Search Engine…
SEW Experts: PPC.edu: Learn AdWords, Yahoo Search, adCenter Online
SEO can take months or longer to get the results you’re looking for. What’s the alternative? PPC advertising. In today’s SEM.EDU column, “PPC.edu: Learn…
$25 Million Google Giveaway
When one of the Fortune 50 Most Powerful Women in Business leads a conference call, you can bet Search Engine Watch will be there.…
Hugo Guzman: Ode To Search Optimization
Guest SEOBook blogger Hugo Guzman of Zeta Interactive wrote an inspiring ode to our industry today. He inspired me who is launching his own…
Search Headlines & Links: January 16, 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…
Coolest 3D Search Engine Ever? Ergo Social Media Search
Sure, Google and Yahoo were in Vegas. The keynote takeaway: Bill Gates. Unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator, he likely won’t be back. MSN…
SEMPO State of the Search Marketing Industry Survey Now Open
SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, is once again gathering feedback from search marketers for its annual State of the Search Marketing Industry…
Google American Idol: Competition For AdWords Local Search Talent
Search marketing firms and in-house teams often have a hard time finding qualified PPC employees. Now Google may change all that by challenging students…
What’s Your Link Building Marketing Mix? – Part 2
Google banned paid links; SEOs split in two camps. What's a CMO to do?
Search Doesn’t Matter
Is Google the Microsoft of the new millennium? Does search matter the way IT did four years ago?
Advertising Placements by Industry and Top Sponsored Links, December 2007
The industry breakdown of ad placements and unit types, and the top 25 companies placing sponsored links.
SEW Experts: Search Doesn’t Matter
Is Google the Microsoft of the new millennium? Does search matter the way IT did four years ago? In today’s Searching for Meaning column,…
SEW Experts: What’s Your Link Building Marketing Mix? – Part 2
If you’ve been following the search industry at all for the past year, you probably heard about Google’s war on paid links. In a…