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Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Sage's Twitter Promotion Experiment; Bing Continues to Boom, At Google's Expense; Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile Updated; and more.
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Sage’s Twitter Promotion Experiment SEW EXPERTS: PROMOTION & LINK BUILDINGHow do people feel about selling or being sold in social media? Is charity one thing, but for-profit something different? » Full story » Print version |
Search Engine Watch Experts Columns
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Do Accents Really Matter in International SEO? SEW EXPERTS: INTERNATIONAL SEM Do search engines these days compensate for accented characters automatically? Some argue that all you need to do is directly place the character in HTML and Google will do the work for you. So what’s the story? » Full story » Print version |
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Improve Your SEM in Time for the Holidays SEW EXPERTS: BIG BIZ While it’s the beginning of ramp-up time for your holiday paid search campaigns, you’re nearing the end of your opportunities for SEO improvements. But there’s still time for changes to increase those free holiday visitors in November and December. » Full story » Print version |
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How to Chase the Long Tail SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO Publishers that understand how to leverage the existence of the long tail can reap rich awards for their efforts, but chasing it isn’t easy. Can you afford not to chase it? » Full story » Print version |
News from the Search Engine Watch Blog
| Bing Continues to Boom, At Google’s Expense Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 25, 2009 The August 2009 search rankings by comScore are out and the news continues to be good for Bing. Microsoft sites grabbed an additional 0.4% share. Meanwhile, Google lost 0.1% share as did AOL, which is powered by Google search. Yahoo! and Ask.com remained steady. This brings Bing’s market share gains since … » Continue reading |
| Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile Updated with My Location, Search Features Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 25, 2009 Google has updated its mobile app for Windows Mobile. The update includes My Location, Google Suggest and Search with Maps. My Location gives local results for searches. Now, if you’re searching for local pizza, simply type in pizza instead of a longer query like “pizza + city + state.” Google Suggest is … » Continue reading |
| Google Sidewiki Enables Comments for Every Web Site Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 25, 2009 A new Google Toolbar feature allows web users to read and comment on any and every web site. The feature is called Google Sidewiki and is available for the Firefox and IE versions of the Toolbar. Unlike blogs, the most recent comments won’t appear first. Instead, Google has, of course, developed … » Continue reading |
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| Goby.com’s Local Search Concept: Good Idea, Not Ready for Primetime Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 25, 2009 Goby.com launched this week, promising to help people find things to do with their spare time or help them find interesting things to do on vacation. The idea is to type in the type of thing you want to do, where you want to do it and when you want … » Continue reading |
Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions
| Duplicated Content in Subdomains Sep 23, 2009 I am helping someone with an SEO issue and wanted to run this by the forum. On their website, they have the main domain (example.com) and about 8-10 additional subdomains for different cities where they do business (newyork.example.com, atlanta.example.com etc). The content on these additional domains is 98% … » Join the discussion |
| NEW Google Beta Keyword Tool – (Screen Shots) – Anyone else have this. Sep 23, 2009 I noticed a preview of a beta version of the Keyword Tool, in one of our accounts: Anyone else have access to this in an Adwords account? —————————– Initial Impressions: I’m disappointed that the option to only get traffic stats for *specific words seems to have vanished.* There are more words displayed yay…but if you … » Join the discussion |
| Google Adwords Preview Tool – Natural Results are not Geo-Targeted Sep 22, 2009 Perhaps someone could verify this. https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargetingPreviewTool You would assume the _natural results_ would also be based on the GEO-TARGET of the location chosen to test (The ADS are). I am suspecting that the *natural results* are not based on the location of the test but are showing normal local preview … » Join the discussion |