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Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 18, 2005

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: NY Times Agrees to Buy About.com…

By rumo · 18 Feb 2005

Industry

Search Engine Showdown: Black Hats vs. White Hats at SES

What does a 'hardcore search engine optimizer' look like? Does he wear a black hat? With little holes cut out in the…

By Andrew Goodman · 17 Feb 2005

Industry

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.0: What About Search?

In the article: IE 7.0: Missing the Search Boat?, Susan Kuchinskas takes comments (or lack thereof) by Bill Gates about the “full”…

By Gary Price · 16 Feb 2005

Industry

Intent, More than Tactics, Define Search Engine Spammers

Although most search engines post spam policies, there are many gray areas and ambiguities that can trip-up inexperienced site owners making their…

By rumo · 16 Feb 2005

Industry

What, Exactly, is Search Engine Spam?

There's a subtle boundary that separates acceptable search engine optimization practices from the shadier techniques used by spammers. How can you recognize…

By Bill Hunt · 16 Feb 2005

Industry

Ouch! When Related Sites Trigger Spam Penalties

Creating a link farm, or a collection of web sites for the sole purpose of pointing to one another to boost search…

By rumo · 15 Feb 2005

Industry

Avoiding Search Engine Woes with Multiple Domains and Websites

Operating multiple sites using numerous domains is a great strategy for businesses appealing to a wide range of customers. But this approach…

By Grant Crowell · 15 Feb 2005

Analytics

Searcher Behavior Prior to Making A Purchase

DoubleClick in conjunction with comScore has released a new report today, Search Before the Purchase (6 pages; PDF), that looks at 12…

By Gary Price · 14 Feb 2005

Industry

Local Search Marketing Tactics

It's tempting to think of local search as merely a subset of a broader search marketing campaign, but best results come with…

By Shari Thurow · 14 Feb 2005

Analytics

Fresh comScore & NetRatings Stats Posted

I’ve updated the long-standing comScore Media Metrix Search Engine Ratings and Nielsen NetRatings Search Engine Ratings pages I maintain with figures that…

By Danny Sullivan · 11 Feb 2005

Industry

Australia’s Ansearch Set for March Launch

Ansearch Set For March Launch We’ve been tracking Ansearch, a new search engine from Australia, since November. The ZDNet article: Fledgling Aussie…

By Gary Price · 11 Feb 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 11, 2005

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 11 Feb 2005

Industry

Big Four Confirmed For Indexing Summit

The Indexing Summit is on! The what? Earlier this year, I said it would be great to have some type of indexing…

By Danny Sullivan · 10 Feb 2005

Industry

Web Standards vs. Search Friendly Sites: Can You Have Both?

Web designers don't understand search optimization, and search marketers are clueless about usability and style—at least according to conventional wisdom. The good…

By Bill Hunt · 10 Feb 2005

Industry

Is Hatemongering A Problem On Orkut?

Free speech versus providing an outlet for people to spread hate is an issue that Google will need to deal with on…

By Gary Price · 09 Feb 2005

Industry

Surveying the Search Landscape

Danny Sullivan's keynote address at Search Engine Strategies has become a must-see event for conference attendees. At the Chicago conference he took…

By Mike Grehan · 09 Feb 2005

Industry

Google and Trademark Infringment Issues Discussed on NPR

For those of you who track trademark infringement issues and search engines, National Public Radio aired a five minute story this morning…

By Gary Price · 08 Feb 2005

Industry

Pinging Moreover To Feed MSN

Back in December, we wrote of the Moreover ping server that helps the news search engine understand when you’ve published new feed…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Feb 2005

Industry

Report: Most Search Marketers are Unsophisticated

The majority of search marketers are unsophisticated, despite having worked in the field for two or more years, according to a study…

By Greg Jarboe · 08 Feb 2005

Industry

Lobbying for Your Search Marketing Budget

Total marketing spend is not growing at most companies, and marketers are working hard for every part of their budget. To accommodate…

By Patricia Hursh · 07 Feb 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 4, 2005

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 04 Feb 2005

Analytics

How Much Are Top Rankings Worth?

How much is being in the top results of a search engine worth? Wired tries but doesn’t really get an monetary answer…

By Danny Sullivan · 03 Feb 2005

Industry

Yahoo Seeks SEM Manager

Nice mention by Barry of Yahoo wanting someone to do search engine marketing for its own properties. It’s not the first search…

By Danny Sullivan · 03 Feb 2005

SEO

Big Company SEO Can Take Time

Corporate SEO Implementation: From the Inside Out from ClickZ looks at how SEO can be a complicated process when trying to push…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Feb 2005

Industry

IBM’s WebFountain Takes A Blow

IBM’s WebFountain search engine has gotten some attention in the past as a potential Google killer, though it was never released to…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Feb 2005

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