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Microsoft Takes Stake in CareerBuilder

Microsoft has acquired a minority equity stake in job search engine CareerBuilder, owned jointly by newspaper companies Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy. In addition, the…

By Kevin Newcomb · 09 May 2007

Industry

Yahoo Auctions to Bid Adieu

June 16th will see the closing of Yahoo Auctions in the US and Canada, according to the Yahoo website. The services will continue to…

By Frank Watson · 09 May 2007

Industry

Google Print Ads Now in AdWords Console

Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim has posted screenshots of the new Google Print Ads interface in the AdWords console. Google announced last month that…

By Kevin Newcomb · 09 May 2007

Local

Travel Search Overview: Informative or Commercial?

In the United States, the summer travel season is about to begin and the most used method for booking and researching travel options is…

By Frank Watson · 09 May 2007

Industry

Gates Plans to Spend Remaining Time Focusing on Search

Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates said yesterday that he plans on spending his remaining 15 to 18 months of active duty at the…

By Kevin Newcomb · 09 May 2007

Analytics

Maximizing Existing Site Traffic to Improve User Retention

Eric Enge reviews the improved SEO performance and user experience created by some relatively simple upgrades in technology.

By Eric Enge · 09 May 2007

Social

User-Generated Videos On Your Domain?

Do you already produce or license video content for your site? Do you incorporate user-generated content and sharing tools now? Then encouraging your visitors…

By rumo · 09 May 2007

Industry

Handling Search Marketing in Large Organizations

Paid search and organic optimization require different strategies when working to bring them into large organizations. Melanie Mitchell shares her experience of setting up…

By Melanie Mitchell · 08 May 2007

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: May 8, 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…

By Kevin Newcomb · 08 May 2007

Industry

Setting Up Search in Large Organizations

Creating a search marketing strategy for any company can be a daunting task. That’s especially true when the company has more than 50 different…

By Kevin Newcomb · 08 May 2007

Industry

New Release of Google Analytics

Google Analytics has come out with a new major release. With this release, Google closes the gap between their solution, and that of many…

By Eric Enge · 08 May 2007

SEO

More Search Marketers Weigh in on Paid Links

The debate over whether paid links should count in Google’s ranking algorithm has been going strong, sparked most recently by Google’s spam-buster Matt Cutts.…

By Kevin Newcomb · 08 May 2007

Video

blinkx Adds French VODEO.TV Content

Through a partnership with VODEO.TV, a video-on-demand French language portal, video search engine blinkx has added 1500 hours of French television content to its…

By Amanda Watlington · 08 May 2007

Content

Rules of Engagement: Creating Effective Content

Rule #1 of website copywriting and content management is simple: Engage the reader. To engage the reader and be successful in search, you need…

By Mark Jackson · 08 May 2007

Industry

A/B Testing is Not as Easy as Learning Your ABCs

The challenges enterprise sites face when attempting to A/B test for performance in search marketing.

By Aaron Shear · 08 May 2007

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: May 7, 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…

By Kevin Newcomb · 07 May 2007

Industry

Highlights from the SEW Blog: May 7, 2007

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

By Kevin Newcomb · 07 May 2007

SEO

Press Releases Can Be Good, But When They’re Bad They’re Ridiculous

I was checking my various sources of news this afternoon and came across a couple of PR articles at eMediaWire that seemed of interest…

By Frank Watson · 07 May 2007

Analytics

Web Analytics Shootout Data Released

Stone Temple Consulting (STC) has released the first findings from its 2007 Web Analytics Shootout: a competitive comparison of 7 Web analytics vendors, whose…

By Kevin Newcomb · 07 May 2007

SEO

Selling or Servicing?

Lee Odden recently interviewed Gord Hotchkiss, and the interview covered some interesting ground. In particular, Gord talked about how Google’s moves towards personalization are…

By Eric Enge · 07 May 2007