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SEW Experts: Get Your Web Site in Good Working Order: Google Website Optimizer
GWO is the newest search engine acronym. What does it mean for you? In today’s By the Numbers column, “Get Your Web Site in…
SEW Experts: Halo 3 as Meta4 Redux
Last week, the big launch of Halo 3 enticed gamers in droves. In today’s Searching for Meaning column, “Halo 3 as Meta4 Redux,” Kevin…
Search Headlines & Links: October 2, 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…
Henry: Portrait of a Search Engine Serial Killer
It’s hard to pimp your Website in the city that never sleeps. Especially when you’re the Internet Outsider Insider. The who? A man without…
Search Budgets to See Double-Digit Growth
A significant number of advertisers plan to increase both their search ad spend and SEO budgets next year, according to a MarketingSherpa report.
Better Search: Libraries or Engines?
The Engines win by a landslide, at least according to current college students. They preferred searching on Google or Yahoo versus their college library…
Study Shows Many Plan to Spend More on Search in 2008
A significant number of advertisers plan to increase both their search ad spend and SEO budgets next year, according to a MarketingSherpa report. In…
iHeard.com: Web Radio Search Engine
A specialized search engine for finding internet radio stations has just been launched by Fusa Consumer Search Network, Eric Ward reported today. The site,…
Microsoft Acquires Shopping Search Site Jellyfish
Microsoft has acquired Jellyfish, a comparison shopping site that launched in June with a pay-per-action ad model. Jellyfish acts like a reverse auction through…
Yahoo Search Gets Blended, Helpful
Yahoo today launched what it’s calling the “new Yahoo Search.” The biggest changes are the introduction of Search Assist, a pre-search query refinement tool…
Top 10 Reasons You Must Do SEO
Many have claimed "SEO is Dead." The final five reasons why that just ain't so.
Taking the Offline Business Online
Search engines would love to include your small business Web site in their results. They want you to be found. So why are you…
SEW Experts: Top 10 Reasons You Must Do SEO
Many have claimed “SEO is Dead.” In today’s au Natural column, “Top 10 Reasons You Must Do SEO,” Mark Jackson offers the final five…
SEW Experts: Taking the Offline Business Online
Is your small business hiding offline? In today’s Little Biz column, “Taking the Offline Business Online,” Carrie Hill shows you some ways to make…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: September 24-28, 2007
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: October 1, 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…
Yahoo Sponsored Listings Allowing Site Blocking
Yahoo announced it is broadening its Traffic Quality Features for its sponsored ads in an email today. Apparently you are now able to block…
Microsoft Updates Top Ad Algorithm on Live Search
Along with the recent organic ranking improvements Microsoft has made to Live Search, it has also tweaked the algorithm it uses to rank ads.…
Has Change In Google PPC Algorithm Created New Budget Busting Possibilities?
The current cost jumps in cost per clicks at Google may have created a way of pushing a bunch of your less savvy competitors…
Yahoo Calls In Steve Jobs to Inspire VPs
Instead of the rumored mass firing expected to take place at last week’s all-day meeting of top Yahoo execs in Sunnyvale, attendees were treated…