Archive for July 31st, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
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Del.licio.us Now Delicious.com, With Improvements
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen…
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Google Tests Related Search Phrases Inline With Search Results
Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for “related” search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result’s URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron’s blog:…
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Britain Clears The Way For Google Street Views; Google Argues No “Complete Privacy” In US StreetView Court Case
Watchdog clears Google’s street cameras from The Guardian reports Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office has officially given their approval over the privacy risks with the Street Views option in Google Maps. Meanwhile in the US, Google is arguing in a court case against StreetView that there is no “complete privacy.”…
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Do The Google Webmaster Support Reps Really Work?
Maile posted a Google blog post named A day in the life of webmaster support. The blog post basically takes you through a typical day at Google for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts. Here is the video, it is about 7 minutes long and is fun to watch:…
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Report: Google To Develop A Venture-Capital Unit
Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm from the Wall Street Journal reports Google is in the early stages of putting together a corporate venture-capital unit, within Google. Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, is reported to be leading up the new unit….
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How To Get New Web Sites To Rank Quickly
What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age. Sites that were around a few years ago had fewer competitors, so it was easier for them to rank. As they aged…
-
Is Google Universal Search A Walled Garden?
Although Google Universal Search (GUS) is still very much in flux, it’s been a part of the SEO landscape for a while now. In that time, there have been some good studies about how often GUS presents video results, and some research into how it ranks videos versus text…
-
Report: Newspapers, Yellow Pages Battle For Local Online Advertising Revenues
A new report from analyst firm Borrell Associates contains fairly dire revenue projections for both local newspapers and print yellow pages ($5 billion in projected print revenue losses in five years). The newspaper angle is picked up today by the Wall Street Journal and PaidContent, which both lay out some…
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A Small Business Marketing Success Story: K9cuisine.com
Being small is hard enough. But being small and in retail? That’s like having two strikes against you before the game even begins. From setting up relationships with banks, to finding trustworthy suppliers, to building a loyal customer base, being a small retailer is a challenge many businesses can’t…
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Brand New Beijing Olympics Satellite Imagery in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
- Eye on Earth Water Watch (and Virtual Earth), Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
- Google LBC Communications Options Explained, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Maps and the wrong URL, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Maps Reincludes "Fix Incorrect Marker Location" Feature, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist", The Smoking Gun
- Microsoft Virtual Earth Deprecation Reminder, Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
- Avoiding tolls, Google LatLong
- Google Street View car pulled over by police for driving in bus lane, Telegraph
Link Building
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
- Content and Marketing Lessons Learned from The Dark Knight, SEOmoz
- Getting Paid to Edit the Search Results, SEO Book
- Google Webmaster Tools Incorrectly Reporting Some 404 Errors, Search Engine Roundtable
- How Do You Tell Your Client about the SEO Work You’re Doing?, Search Engine Roundtable
- It’s an SEO and PPC Party, but are They Missing an Important Friend?, Serengeti Communications
- SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings, Search Engine Journal
- The Future of SEM Education, Search Engine Watch
- What are the Most Important Search Engine Optimization Practices?, Search Engine Roundtable
- I Have A Question: The Best Of Q&A, SEOmoz
- Introducing the New Froogle Performance Dashboard, The Matchbox
- Submit Your Google Sites Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
- The Importance of Context in Content, SiteLogic
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
Web Analytics
Other Items
Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
-
Del.licio.us Now Delicious.com, With Improvements
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen…
-
Google Tests Related Search Phrases Inline With Search Results
Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for “related” search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result’s URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron’s blog:…
-
Britain Clears The Way For Google Street Views; Google Argues No “Complete Privacy” In US StreetView Court Case
Watchdog clears Google’s street cameras from The Guardian reports Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office has officially given their approval over the privacy risks with the Street Views option in Google Maps. Meanwhile in the US, Google is arguing in a court case against StreetView that there is no “complete privacy.”…
-
Do The Google Webmaster Support Reps Really Work?
Maile posted a Google blog post named A day in the life of webmaster support. The blog post basically takes you through a typical day at Google for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts. Here is the video, it is about 7 minutes long and is fun to watch:…
-
Report: Google To Develop A Venture-Capital Unit
Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm from the Wall Street Journal reports Google is in the early stages of putting together a corporate venture-capital unit, within Google. Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, is reported to be leading up the new unit….
-
How To Get New Web Sites To Rank Quickly
What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age. Sites that were around a few years ago had fewer competitors, so it was easier for them to rank. As they aged…
-
Is Google Universal Search A Walled Garden?
Although Google Universal Search (GUS) is still very much in flux, it’s been a part of the SEO landscape for a while now. In that time, there have been some good studies about how often GUS presents video results, and some research into how it ranks videos versus text…
-
Report: Newspapers, Yellow Pages Battle For Local Online Advertising Revenues
A new report from analyst firm Borrell Associates contains fairly dire revenue projections for both local newspapers and print yellow pages ($5 billion in projected print revenue losses in five years). The newspaper angle is picked up today by the Wall Street Journal and PaidContent, which both lay out some…
-
A Small Business Marketing Success Story: K9cuisine.com
Being small is hard enough. But being small and in retail? That’s like having two strikes against you before the game even begins. From setting up relationships with banks, to finding trustworthy suppliers, to building a loyal customer base, being a small retailer is a challenge many businesses can’t…
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Brand New Beijing Olympics Satellite Imagery in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
- Eye on Earth Water Watch (and Virtual Earth), Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
- Google LBC Communications Options Explained, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Maps and the wrong URL, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Maps Reincludes "Fix Incorrect Marker Location" Feature, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist", The Smoking Gun
- Microsoft Virtual Earth Deprecation Reminder, Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
- Avoiding tolls, Google LatLong
- Google Street View car pulled over by police for driving in bus lane, Telegraph
Link Building
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
- Content and Marketing Lessons Learned from The Dark Knight, SEOmoz
- Getting Paid to Edit the Search Results, SEO Book
- Google Webmaster Tools Incorrectly Reporting Some 404 Errors, Search Engine Roundtable
- How Do You Tell Your Client about the SEO Work You’re Doing?, Search Engine Roundtable
- It’s an SEO and PPC Party, but are They Missing an Important Friend?, Serengeti Communications
- SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings, Search Engine Journal
- The Future of SEM Education, Search Engine Watch
- What are the Most Important Search Engine Optimization Practices?, Search Engine Roundtable
- I Have A Question: The Best Of Q&A, SEOmoz
- Introducing the New Froogle Performance Dashboard, The Matchbox
- Submit Your Google Sites Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
- The Importance of Context in Content, SiteLogic
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
Web Analytics
Other Items
Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
-
Del.licio.us Now Delicious.com, With Improvements
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen…
-
Google Tests Related Search Phrases Inline With Search Results
Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for “related” search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result’s URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron’s blog:…
-
Britain Clears The Way For Google Street Views; Google Argues No “Complete Privacy” In US StreetView Court Case
Watchdog clears Google’s street cameras from The Guardian reports Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office has officially given their approval over the privacy risks with the Street Views option in Google Maps. Meanwhile in the US, Google is arguing in a court case against StreetView that there is no “complete privacy.”…
-
Do The Google Webmaster Support Reps Really Work?
Maile posted a Google blog post named A day in the life of webmaster support. The blog post basically takes you through a typical day at Google for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts. Here is the video, it is about 7 minutes long and is fun to watch:…
-
Report: Google To Develop A Venture-Capital Unit
Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm from the Wall Street Journal reports Google is in the early stages of putting together a corporate venture-capital unit, within Google. Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, is reported to be leading up the new unit….
-
How To Get New Web Sites To Rank Quickly
What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age. Sites that were around a few years ago had fewer competitors, so it was easier for them to rank. As they aged…
-
Is Google Universal Search A Walled Garden?
Although Google Universal Search (GUS) is still very much in flux, it’s been a part of the SEO landscape for a while now. In that time, there have been some good studies about how often GUS presents video results, and some research into how it ranks videos versus text…
-
Report: Newspapers, Yellow Pages Battle For Local Online Advertising Revenues
A new report from analyst firm Borrell Associates contains fairly dire revenue projections for both local newspapers and print yellow pages ($5 billion in projected print revenue losses in five years). The newspaper angle is picked up today by the Wall Street Journal and PaidContent, which both lay out some…
-
A Small Business Marketing Success Story: K9cuisine.com
Being small is hard enough. But being small and in retail? That’s like having two strikes against you before the game even begins. From setting up relationships with banks, to finding trustworthy suppliers, to building a loyal customer base, being a small retailer is a challenge many businesses can’t…
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Brand New Beijing Olympics Satellite Imagery in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
- Eye on Earth Water Watch (and Virtual Earth), Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
- Google LBC Communications Options Explained, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Maps and the wrong URL, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Maps Reincludes "Fix Incorrect Marker Location" Feature, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist", The Smoking Gun
- Microsoft Virtual Earth Deprecation Reminder, Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
- Avoiding tolls, Google LatLong
- Google Street View car pulled over by police for driving in bus lane, Telegraph
Link Building
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
- Content and Marketing Lessons Learned from The Dark Knight, SEOmoz
- Getting Paid to Edit the Search Results, SEO Book
- Google Webmaster Tools Incorrectly Reporting Some 404 Errors, Search Engine Roundtable
- How Do You Tell Your Client about the SEO Work You’re Doing?, Search Engine Roundtable
- It’s an SEO and PPC Party, but are They Missing an Important Friend?, Serengeti Communications
- SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings, Search Engine Journal
- The Future of SEM Education, Search Engine Watch
- What are the Most Important Search Engine Optimization Practices?, Search Engine Roundtable
- I Have A Question: The Best Of Q&A, SEOmoz
- Introducing the New Froogle Performance Dashboard, The Matchbox
- Submit Your Google Sites Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
- The Importance of Context in Content, SiteLogic
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
Web Analytics
Other Items
Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen captures:
Click to continue reading…
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen captures:
Click to continue reading…
Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for “related” search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result’s URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron’s blog:
Click to continue reading…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
-
Del.licio.us Now Delicious.com, With Improvements
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen…
-
Google Tests Related Search Phrases Inline With Search Results
Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for “related” search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result’s URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron’s blog:…
-
Britain Clears The Way For Google Street Views; Google Argues No “Complete Privacy” In US StreetView Court Case
Watchdog clears Google’s street cameras from The Guardian reports Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office has officially given their approval over the privacy risks with the Street Views option in Google Maps. Meanwhile in the US, Google is arguing in a court case against StreetView that there is no “complete privacy.”…
-
Do The Google Webmaster Support Reps Really Work?
Maile posted a Google blog post named A day in the life of webmaster support. The blog post basically takes you through a typical day at Google for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts. Here is the video, it is about 7 minutes long and is fun to watch:…
-
Report: Google To Develop A Venture-Capital Unit
Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm from the Wall Street Journal reports Google is in the early stages of putting together a corporate venture-capital unit, within Google. Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, is reported to be leading up the new unit….
-
How To Get New Web Sites To Rank Quickly
What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age. Sites that were around a few years ago had fewer competitors, so it was easier for them to rank. As they aged…
-
Is Google Universal Search A Walled Garden?
Although Google Universal Search (GUS) is still very much in flux, it’s been a part of the SEO landscape for a while now. In that time, there have been some good studies about how often GUS presents video results, and some research into how it ranks videos versus text…
-
Report: Newspapers, Yellow Pages Battle For Local Online Advertising Revenues
A new report from analyst firm Borrell Associates contains fairly dire revenue projections for both local newspapers and print yellow pages ($5 billion in projected print revenue losses in five years). The newspaper angle is picked up today by the Wall Street Journal and PaidContent, which both lay out some…
-
A Small Business Marketing Success Story: K9cuisine.com
Being small is hard enough. But being small and in retail? That’s like having two strikes against you before the game even begins. From setting up relationships with banks, to finding trustworthy suppliers, to building a loyal customer base, being a small retailer is a challenge many businesses can’t…
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Brand New Beijing Olympics Satellite Imagery in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
- Eye on Earth Water Watch (and Virtual Earth), Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
- Google LBC Communications Options Explained, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Maps and the wrong URL, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Maps Reincludes "Fix Incorrect Marker Location" Feature, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist", The Smoking Gun
- Microsoft Virtual Earth Deprecation Reminder, Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
- Avoiding tolls, Google LatLong
- Google Street View car pulled over by police for driving in bus lane, Telegraph
Link Building
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
SEM Industry
SEO & SEM
- Content and Marketing Lessons Learned from The Dark Knight, SEOmoz
- Getting Paid to Edit the Search Results, SEO Book
- Google Webmaster Tools Incorrectly Reporting Some 404 Errors, Search Engine Roundtable
- How Do You Tell Your Client about the SEO Work You’re Doing?, Search Engine Roundtable
- It’s an SEO and PPC Party, but are They Missing an Important Friend?, Serengeti Communications
- SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings, Search Engine Journal
- The Future of SEM Education, Search Engine Watch
- What are the Most Important Search Engine Optimization Practices?, Search Engine Roundtable
- I Have A Question: The Best Of Q&A, SEOmoz
- Introducing the New Froogle Performance Dashboard, The Matchbox
- Submit Your Google Sites Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
- The Importance of Context in Content, SiteLogic
Social Media
Video, Music & Image Search
Web Analytics
Other Items
Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:
Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for “related” search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result’s URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron’s blog:
Click to continue reading…
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen captures:
Click to continue reading…
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen captures:
Click to continue reading…
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