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Enhancements to Sitemaps Announced At SES New York
In November Google, MSN and Yahoo! announced that they were all going to support a unified protocol whereby webmasters could notify the search engines of the URLs on…
A Week in the Life of a Paid Search Marketer
See what it's really like to spend a week at a search engine marketing conference, as columnist Tony Wright walks you through…
Google Settles Copyright Suit Over Google News
Google has settled a copyright suit filed by French news agency Agence France-Presse over Google News’ use of its content, according to…
Microsoft is Down, but Don’t Count Them Out
Microsoft has clearly stumbled in implementing its search and online advertising strategies. They were late to the search game, depending on Overture…
Remapping Dynamic URLs to Static URLs can Increase Traffic
Our second case study has been brought to us by PlumberSurplus.com. In this case study we explore what happens with all the…
U.S. Search Engine Rankings, February 2007
Search volume rose 19 percent over February last year; Google retains its dominance in search share.
AOL, MSN, MySpace And Yahoo! Strike Deal for Video
News Corporation and NBC today announced the launch of an Internet video distribution network that will bring as soon as this summer…
Innovectra Launches LeadStream
Local search consultancy Innovectra is launching a local search product today at the Kelsey Group’s “Drilling Down on Local” event. The new…
Get Your Sponsors First?
“If you want to put a film festival a long way from the highway, good luck. But if you have an exit…
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…
Beware of Averages
Are the visitors you drive from search made up of low-income, under-educated 30-somethings, or high-net-worth, highly educated retirees and their grandchildren? You’ll…
Microsoft’s Appeal to Hollywood
Microsoft is reaching out to Hollywood studios to offer their assistance on anti-piracy efforts for its MSN Soapbox video sharing platform, currently…
MSN Rectifies CPC Bug
Microsoft adCenter fixed the bug that boosted many people’s CPC late last week, a company employee said today. All CPC and billing…
Microsoft adCenter System Error Causing High CPC Jumps
Posters at the DigitalPoint forum spotted a major glitch in the MSN adCenter. I contacted my reps and they were well aware…
Search Biz Lends A Hand
In the analytics area, the big search and portal businesses are lending a hand to the display ad marketplace. It makes economic…
Yahoo! Sings The News – Will Investors Sing the Blues
Singing newscasters? Why not just buy the Naked News – or is that next? Is something wrong at Yahoo! ? Have the…
MSN Reporter – A Digg Competitor from MSN
The LiveSide Reporter notes that MSN Reporter, in beta since October 2006, has launched in three markets — Netherlands, Belgium and Norway.…
Sweethearts Search, Buy Valentines on the Web
Organic search results drove equal or higher visits and conversions to e-commerce sites for Valentine's day.
Niched or Vertical Approach Popular in Chinese Search
The allure of 1.3 billion people has many international corporations adapting their marketing and product offerings to the Chinese market. The search…
Microsoft Selling Ads on Live Online
Microsoft is going to run PPC ads on the Live Online site, according to an email sent out today. The funny part…
PPC Back Fill Map or Who Is King Of Garbitrage
While this is not news – it really should be. Most of the small search engines are arbitraging one way or another.…
Video From The Professionals
Everyone will be hawking their video wares at the NATPE conference this week. Some 8,000 attendees are expected in Las Vegas. Producers…
Wikipedia and Amazon Taking on Google
Update: Liana Evans of Seach Marketing Gurus has done a great job of journalism and corrected some of the errors that myself…
Does this MSN Behavioral Search Matter?
Read the latest from MSN about its Behavioral Search, in recent MediaPost interview. It’s interesting that behavioral search produced CTRs up to…
Microsoft Using Baidu PPC Ads. Does Google Know?
Okay this seems a little too like the end game of DodgeBall…. Microsoft agrees to serve Baidu paid listings in its Chinese…
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