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Ask.com Relaunches AskKids (Resource Shelf)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:01:46 GMT

A new look and a number of new features are now available. Worth a look and something to share with students, parents, and educators. Search Engine Watch Blog has an in-depth look.

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MapQuest adds Citysearch to Results (All Points Blog)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:13:37 GMT

MapQuest has partnered with Citysearch to add its content (reviews, menus, photos) to results. - MapQuest Blog - via Search Engine Watch

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SES San Jose: Social Media Marketing (SEOCentro - SEO News)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:14:48 GMT

Social media marketing is fast emerging as a must-have in search strategies. In this session, industry experts Vanina Delobelle, Global Product Director for Monster, Erik Qualman from Search Engine Watch and Global VP of EF Education, along with Brnet Csutoras, Online Marketing Consultant offered some tips to successfully integrate social media into your search marketing...

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Google AdWords Hides Low Volume Keywords (Search Engine Roundtable)

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:11:33 GMT

At Search Engine Watch, member abbotsys notices that the Quality Score for low volume keywords is good -- but if you look closely at the keyword analysis, the ad isn't even running! According to Google, those ads are not showing...

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Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options: SES San Jose (SEOCentro - SEO News)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:09:23 GMT

We are sitting in on the Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options panel. Andrew Goodman is moderating the panel this afternoon. Were going to start off the panel with Sage Lewis, Search Engine Watch Expert & President of Sagerocks.com. Sage talks about how there is more media to buy now than ever before, but there is not more money to spend and that there is a larger...

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Semantic Search : How will it change out lives? (Search Engine Roundtable)

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:02:00 GMT

Moderator: Kevin Ryan, VP, Global Content Director, SES & Search Engine Watch Speakers: Amit Kumar, Director Product Management, Yahoo! Search Nagaraju Bandaru, Co-Founder & CTO, BooRah Erik Collier, VP, Product Management, Ask.com Tim McGuiness, VP of Search, hakia.com Scott Prevost,...

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Watch your words - US Patent office is giving out trademarks! (All Points Blog)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:23:17 GMT

A word update: cloud computing - Dell wanted a trademark. US Patent Office said no because the term is descriptive and generic. - Sam Johnston hyperlocal - HelloMetro got a trademark on that! - Search Engine Watch

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Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Kevin M. Ryan Incisive Media (SEOCentro - SEO News)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:06:05 GMT

Our third set of internet marketing conference tips come on day one of the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose and are appropriately from Kevin M. Ryan , Vice President, Global Content Director, Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch . Kevin Ryan has been involved with numerous conferences over the years working for various interactive and internet...

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Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Kevin M. Ryan Incisive Media (Online Marketing Blog)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:29:14 GMT

Our third set of internet marketing conference tips come on day one of the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose and are appropriately from Kevin M. Ryan, Vice President, Global Content Director, Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch. Kevin Ryan has been involved with numerous conferences over the years working for various interactive and [...]

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SES San Jose 2008 (Ramblings About SEO)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:51:37 GMT

Thousands of people are going to make their way out to Search Engine Strategies San Jose and those of us at Stone Temple Consulting are no exception. Both Eric Enge (me) and John Biundo will be there. As announced yesterday on the Search Engine Watch blog, we have organized a search engine foosball smackdown. [...]

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Search Engine Watch: Microsoft Wins on Mapping Georgia Online (All Points Blog)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:20:16 GMT

Nathania Johnson at Search Engine Watch did due diligence and queried Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Virtual Earth, Ask and AOL and found that Microsoft has the most information and can geocode key cities like Ts'khinvali.

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Web Site Performance and SEO (Aaron Shear on SEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Shear) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:47:00 GMT

If you keep up with my posts on Search Engine Watch, you will notice that I regularly talk about how site performance can be a significant driver in SEO, especially with Google. Many large companies take this data for granted; they are worried about up time and browser performance. Which in most cases is a good thing, however a search engine like Google may be testing your response rate...

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Uncle Sam Competes With Comscore's Press Release (Search Engine Guide)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:21:52 GMT

by Sage Lewis Search Engine Watch steals the show this week with three informative articles. We learn about Microsoft's BrowseRank, Compete's site traffic comparison tool and China's search engine Baidu's soaring profits. Google makes an appearance this week as well. Search Engine Roundtable reports on Google's governmental search engine, Uncle...

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Interview: Eric Qualman - SES 2008 San Jose Q&A (Marketing.fm)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:16:03 GMT

Eric Qualman is a Search Engine Watch Expert and the Global VP of Online Marketing for EF Education. He will be speaking on the upcoming panel at Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose on the Social Media Track Social Media Marketing: What is it and What is it Good For? More information about [...]

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Interview: Erik Qualman - SES 2008 San Jose Q&A (Marketing.fm)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:16:03 GMT

EriK Qualman is a Search Engine Watch Expert and the Global VP of Online Marketing for EF Education. He will be speaking on the upcoming panel at Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose on the Social Media Track Social Media Marketing: What is it and What is it Good For? More information about [...]

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Waking Up Later? Strongly Considering It Now (Cartoon Barry Blog)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:02:20 GMT

Since starting at Search Engine Watch taking over for Gary Price to work as the News Editor with Danny Sullivan, I have been waking up pretty early to get all the blogging mostly done before the normal work day. This started about 2.5 years ago, and my typical day started with me getting up at 5:45 (now a bit earlier) and leaving the house by 6am. This worked out well, since Danny was...

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Poll: Do You Outsource Your Link Building? (Search Engine Roundtable)

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:48:43 GMT

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread asks whether SEOs perform their link building inhouse or if they outsource the link building efforts. Only two people answered the poll but both said they do it in-house. It's no surprise, really, since...

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Search marketing Thoughts (Blog Catalog Blog Directory)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:39:51 GMT

Personal blog of Chris Boggs. Not often posted to, due to Chris' writing for Search Engine Watch Experts and for Search Engine Roundtable, in addition to plain old client work.

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Daily Search Coverage & Link Finds: July 1, 2008 (Cartoon Barry Blog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:10:54 GMT

Daily Search Coverage: Search Engine Watch Forums is back. Yahoo did a search update. Google dropped pay per action and launched an affiliate network. Google indexes Flash. Google advises on hiring SEOs. The July Google webmaster report is back. Yahoo stopped the Overture tool. Where can you find Google ads on Yahoo? Search Engine Roundtable Topics:...

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Search Engine Watch Forums Goes Offline: Hack? Server Issue? (Search Engine Roundtable)

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:41:50 GMT

For the past few hours, Search Engine Watch Forums has been returning a server starter page from Red Hat Linux. It seems like many, if not all, the internal forums, such as the Google forum page are returning 404 not-found...

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