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Belgian editors go after Yahoo News
According to a story by AFP, Belgium’s French-speaking newspapers are seeking redress from Yahoo News — after taking action against Google News a year…
Social search engine Sproose surpasses 250,000 unique users 30 days out of beta
Sproose, a recently launched social search engine, today announced that it has surpassed 250,000 unique users in just 30 days out of beta. Additionally…
Linkbait in 2007
Over at Search Engine Land, guest blogger Nick Wilson offers up a 2007 Guide To Linkbaiting. He outlines the risk/reward potential of three types…
Dell Says Buy A Computer And We Plant A Tree
Dell CEO Michael Dell used the CES event in Las Vegas last week to announce his company’s new “Plant A Tree For Me” campaign.…
Google Patent Hints at Ad Relevance Factors for Contextual Ads
A new patent application from Google gives hints about its plans to include relevancy factors in its contextual ad algorithms. According to Bill Slawski…
Google Updates AdSense Policies
Google updated its policies for publishers in the AdSense program last night. Jennifer Slegg has a very thorough breakdown of the changes, with special…
Two- and Three-Word Queries Rule
According to data collected from users of European Web analytics provider OneStat, most people use 2- or 3-word queries in search engines. The RankStat…
Weather.com’s SEO Efforts Rest Heavily on Analytics
Data from Coremetrics Web analytics informs virtually all of the site's search marketing efforts.
Using Web Analytics to Drive SEO Decisions
When creating a search marketing program for Weather.com, the marketing team at The Weather Channel Interactive depended heavily on Web analytics to inform both…
Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 17, 2007
A selection of stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with today’s search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog:…
Former About.com Boss Heads to IAC
Former About.com and AllBusiness.com CEO Peter Horan has been named CEO of IAC Media & Advertising, overseeing Ask.com, Citysearch, consumer applications and portals, and…
Wired Writes Yahoo’s Eulogy
Wired reporter Fred Vogelstein has penned a 3,200-word eulogy to Yahoo, “How Yahoo Blew It.” The story chronicles Yahoo CEO Terry Semel’s refusal to…
An Introduction to SEO Best Practices
Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans.
What Are SEO Best Practices?
Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans. Following best practices can greatly…
SEMPO Brings “State of Search Marketing” Survey to Europe
For the first time, SEMPO is fielding a European version of its State of the Search Marketing Industry survey. It’s designed to estimate the…
Miva InLine Ads Now Self-Serve
Pay-per-click ad network Miva is consolidating its search ads, contextual text ads and in-line text ads under a single management console. Dubbed Miva Monetization…
Speaker Proposal Guidelines for SES Latino 2007
Thanks for your interest in speaking. This page provides background on how to make a speaking pitch to Nacho Hernandez, the conference chair of…
Jimmy Wales Discusses Search Wikia on MarketWatch
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales went face to face with Bambi Francisco on today’s MarketWatch, and shared more about the concept of Search Wikia, a…
Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 16, 2007
Below is a selection of stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with today’s headlines from around the Web: From The SEW…
The Search Engine Report – Number 121
Search Engine Watch Editor Elisabeth Osmeloski recaps important news in search during December 2006 & January 2007.