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User-Edited Locations on Google Maps
Google Maps users now have the ability to edit locations on Google Maps for all users to see. It’s starting with the ability to…
Poynt Gives New Local Search Option for Windows Live Messenger Users
Windows Live Messenger users have a new option for local search in the U.S.: Poynt. Multiplied Media has teamed with Idearc to deliver Superpages.com’s…
Search Marketing Staffing Crisis
The search marketing staffing crisis has escalated. A solution: for industry leaders only.
Content Advertising Explained – Part 3
Content ad copywriting: The Good, The Bad and The Malthusian.
SEW Experts: Search Marketing Staffing Crisis
There’s a tradeoff most people face in the process of hiring a search marketing team: hire people with less business experience who are likely…
SEW Experts: Content Advertising Explained – Part 3
Content ads need to work harder than search ads to distract the reader’s attention from the Web site content that attracted them in the…
Search Headlines & Links: November 16, 2007
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 Forums Spotlight: November 16, 2007
Found in the search marketing forums: Pricing PPC Campaign Management; Confirmed: No Penalty for Invalid Pages; Google's Neglected Property; and more.
Microsoft Exec Claims They Will Have 30% Search Market Share
Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, said he thinks Microsoft can get a 40% share of the search market in the…
Thanksgiving Turkey, Image Search, and Missed Opportunities
Thanksgiving is a major holiday for my family. With the first changes of color in the foliage, I begin the counting the weeks until…
The 10 Most Common SEO Mistakes
There are surely hundreds of different ways that people can mess up their sites. Based on our experience from working with scores of clients,…
Clickable Areas on AdSense Redefined
Google announced today on the Inside AdSense blog that it has redefined the clickable area of its text ads to make only the ad’s…
Local Search: Competing All Over the Map
Mapping local search: from MapQuest to Google Maps to Everyscape. Who's going to win the map wars?
SEW Experts: Local Search: Competing All Over the Map
Google Maps, launched with AJAX functionality, draggable maps, and satellite imagery in late 2005, started an “arms race” in development of new features and…
Brand Strategies for Search Marketing – Part 1
Do you buy brand keywords? Question No. 1 CEOs ask big brand, large enterprise search marketers. This week: brand strategies and quality management (paid…
A Winning SEO Plan To Create Buzz, Traffic, Links
SEO PR strategies: How to create a cool contest, give away free prizes, generate SEO buzz.
SEW Experts: Brand Strategies for Search Marketing – Part 1
Whether you’re an agency, consultant, or in-house search expert, it’s likely that you will eventually need to answer this key question from your CEO:…
SEW Experts: A Winning SEO Plan to Create Buzz, Traffic, Links
How do you engage users, create buzz and generate links all at the same time? In today’s Link Love column, “A Winning SEO Plan…
What Local Can Learn from Universal Search
Local content providers can learn from the trend toward blended search results.
Search Headlines & Links: November 14, 2007
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…