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Matt Cutts Confesses To Being GoogleGuy

In Monday Morning Roundup, Rand Fishkin writes: Did anyone blog about Matt outing himself as GoogleGuy during SES? I believe his exact words were “I backed into that…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Aug 2006

Industry

MSN Talks Spam Defenses; Takes Weekends Off From Indexing

This morning I uncovered two threads at WebmasterWorld that provide information on MSN from spam defense to when search indexes get updated.…

By Barry Schwartz · 26 Jun 2006

Industry

Daily SearchCast, June 23, 2006: Google Sells Baidu Stake While Expanding Its Own Numbers In China; Google Testing Ads In Video; & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Google selling its stake in the Chinese Baidu search engine; Google planning to expand employees for its own…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Jun 2006

Industry

AdWords Tweaks & Bug Fixes Documented

I reported this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable on Small But Important New Google AdWords Features & Fixes. eWhisper at WebmasterWorld…

By Barry Schwartz · 22 Jun 2006

PPC

Yahoo To Reduce Search Ad Minimum Bid In UK To 5p?

I reported this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable that Yahoo may be reducing the minimum bid price from 10p to 5p.…

By Barry Schwartz · 16 Jun 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: June 14, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Jun 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: May 16, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted yesterday to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Danny Sullivan · 17 May 2006

Industry

Conference Coverage: PubCon 2006 & SES Japan 2006

PubCon has been happening out in Boston, while Search Engine Strategies is going in Japan. Here’s a round-up to some coverage on…

By Danny Sullivan · 20 Apr 2006

Industry

Conversion Value Revealed When Using Google AdWords Conversion Tracker

When using the Google AdWords Conversion Tracker, you just may be revealing more about your conversion values than you might realize. When…

By Jennifer Slegg · 17 Apr 2006

Industry

Welcome Back To Google, BMW — Missed You These Past Three Days

I said BMW would be back soon after they got banned on Saturday. Matt Cutts over at Google lets everyone know they…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Feb 2006

Industry

Google Launches Robots.txt File Checker; Now We Need Robots.txt Standardization

Google now provides a way to check on that through the Google Sitemaps program. A real life example of how nice this…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Feb 2006

Industry

Google & Search Engine Cached Pages Legal, If They Offer Opt-Out

Via Boing Boing and News.com, interesting news that a case saying the Google cache violates copyright has been ruled in Google’s favor.…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 Jan 2006

Industry

Jennifer Slegg Joins SEW Blog As Contextual Correspondent

I’ve written before that Search Engine Watch doesn’t focus on contextual advertising because it’s not search. Having said this, with two major…

By Danny Sullivan · 16 Jan 2006

Industry

Search Engines As Leeches, The Difference Between Paid & Free Listings & Keyword Price Rises

Jakob Nielsen’s just posted a Search Engines as Leeches on the Web article that makes a good point, don’t be too search…

By Danny Sullivan · 09 Jan 2006

Industry

Search Engines Making Millions Off Type-In Traffic From Domains

Masters of their Domains is a great article from Business 2.0 that WebmasterRadio’s Monte Cahn of the Domain Masters show turned me…

By Danny Sullivan · 05 Jan 2006

Industry

Being A Big Voice In SEO

How do you get to be a big voice in SEO? There’s a series of posts out there now offering such advice,…

By Danny Sullivan · 04 Jan 2006

Industry

MSN Getting Cleaner Look In The Microsoft Three Portal Strategy

I want Microsoft to pick a portal brand and go with it. We’ve had MSN. Then this year, we got the new…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Dec 2005

Industry

Google AdSense For Domains Program Overdue For Reform — And Yahoo & Microsoft Should Also Take Note

A program from Google that puts paid links on parked domains need changes to benefit surfers and advertisers -- and Yahoo needs…

By Danny Sullivan · 20 Dec 2005

Industry

Google Sandbox, Sandbox-Like Filters & Escaping With Trusted Links

For well over a year, there's been massive debate and speculation that Google puts all new sites into a 'sandbox,' preventing them…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Dec 2005

Industry

Search Engines Forum Spotlight

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Just how Important is SEO in a Business Start Up…

By Chris Sherman · 02 Dec 2005

SEO

WebmasterWorld Out Of Google & MSN

Well, that didn’t take long. I wrote on Monday about how WebmasterWorld head Brett Tabke decided to ban all search spiders including…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Nov 2005

SEO

WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling

Wow. Brett Tabke drops the nuclear bomb of banning all spiders from WebmasterWorld. He explains here that heavy rogue spidering is the…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Nov 2005

SEO

Major Security Flaw With Google Sitemaps Stats

David Naylor points out, as does this WebmasterWorld thread spotted via Threadwatch, a pretty surprising security oversight with Google’s new Sitemaps stats…

By Danny Sullivan · 18 Nov 2005

Industry

Summaries from WebmasterWorld PubCon 10

The WebmasterWorld PubCon 10 Conference (congrats Brett!) just concluded in Las Vegas and as I mentioned yesterday, Barry Schwartz (aka RustyBrick) was…

By Gary Price · 17 Nov 2005

Industry

Matt Cutts Has a Cup of Coffee at PubCon Conference

Like he does at many of the Search Engine Strategies conferences, RustyBrick (Barry Schwartz) is blogging from the WebmasterWorld PubCon currently underway…

By Gary Price · 16 Nov 2005

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