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Topix.net buys .com domain, worries about Google rankings
Kevin Delaney of The Wall Street Journal Online reports that Topix.net, the news search site owned by Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune, has bought its…
Search Engine Placement Tips
Tips and methods of improving how a page is ranked by search engines, without resorting to spamming. How to use meta tags.
Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 13, 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…
Google and Microsoft Rumors: Implications for Mobile Local Search
Rumors continue to swirl this week about a potential Microsoft acquisition of Tellme. This was first reported by TechCrunch back in February. Now the…
Search Share Slipping, But Still Strong
A new Digital Outlook Report from Avenue A | Razorfish found that search continues to play a key role in the success of online…
Viacom Sues YouTube, Google for $1 Billion
It had to happen sooner or later. Someone is suing Google via YouTube for $1 billion for massive copyright infringement. Viacom filed a suit…
How Long Does it Take a New Site to Rank in the Search Engines?
Here is the first of a series of case studies I plan to publish here in SEW. Our first volunteer is Follow the Drinking…
Divvio – Web Content Program Guide
Music, video and so much rich media exists online but organising it for easy access has always been a hurdle. The bookmarking sites have…
Want to Get Into Social Media? Get Vertical.
We mentioned ClickZ’s coverage of a new JupiterResearch social media report, which said that more marketers are expected to get involved with social networking…
Marketers Increasingly Turn to Social Networks
In 2007, as many as 48 percent of brand marketers will deploy marketing on social networking channels, up from about 38 percent who were…
Blinkx launches video search optimization wiki and handbook
Blinkx issued a press release this morning announcing the launch of its wiki-style, Video Search Optimization community forum site – to help marketers, advertisers,…
Search Share of Digital Spending Slips
Avenue A | Razorfish released its third annual Digital Outlook Report yesterday, a hefty 143-page book examining the state of digital media in 2006.…
Top 10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, February 2007
A look at the month's top search terms in 10 categories.
Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 12, 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…
Brian Induni Interview about the Web Analytics Association
Brian Induni is the Executive Director of the Web Analytics Association, and we recently spoke about the formation, role, and future of the WAA.…
Is Google Indexing Speeding Up?
Bill Hartzer has started a thread at WebmasterWorld suggesting that Google is speeding up the rate at which it is indexing new content. Bill…
The press failed to see “search” as a kind of journalism
The State of the News Media 2007 was released today on Journalism.org. Among the news nuggets in the 160,000-word report (yes, it is 160,000…
Difficult SEO Clients
There’s no such thing as the perfect SEO client, but everyone knows that some are more difficult than others. Shari Thurow describes three of…
Will MySpace launch social news search?
According to Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog, MySpace plans to get into the social news search business with a launch sometime early in the second…
Did-It’s Wise Lands at Right Media
Former Did-It CEO Bill Wise has been named president of Remix Media, a division of ad exchange Right Media, according to MediaPost. Remix media…