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Newsletter Archive: 2008

Ill-Advised Ads For Google
Some critics maintain that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) can give away Gmail, Google Docs, Google Analytics, and all sorts of fabulous free tools, but the company's only really successful business is paid search ads...

Date: 2008-12-31

2009 Search Trends to Keep an Eye On
Between the economy affecting stock prices and the potential mergers and acquisitions discussed among several of the major search engines, there is a lot of uncertainty as we head into 2009.

Date: 2008-12-29

Google Blog Search Fixes Link Issue But Still Requires Help!
Google recently confirmed that the search engine is in the process of fixing blogroll issue and will continue to use RSS feed to index the pages.

Date: 2008-12-23

Yahoo! Sets 90 Day Data Policy - Does Google Care?
It seems like Yahoo! is going around in circles at the moment, with the once mighty search engine and portal unsure how to resurrect its corporate lustre.

Date: 2008-12-22

Google Penalizing Your Site?
A new thread has surfaced at the Google Groups that talks about the ways webmasters can tell if their site is penalized by Google or not. Thanks to Barry for noticing it.

Date: 2008-12-18

Yahoo Data Retention 3 months - And Google?
Its not often that Yahoo makes a move bold enough to put pressure on Google. Today it does just that, with news that it will reduce its data retention policy from 13 months to just 3.

Date: 2008-12-17

Sponsored Listings in Google Search Suggest
It-s started - Google's working overtime to ensure that their billions in advertising revenue continue irrespective of global economic conditions.

Date: 2008-12-16

More Negatives for Yahoo: Reduced Severance
Just a day after their massive layoffs began, Yahoos in the news again"and again, its not really the kind of story you want about your company.

Date: 2008-12-12

Google Continues to Expand
As both an SEO and a Google shareholder, I have a love hate relationship with the company. More recently I have been feeling love when buying up shares of their stock, especially seeing how they are still buying marketshare while competitors downsize.

Date: 2008-12-11

Yahoo Search Marketing Taking Your Money?
Al Scillitani is pretty annoyed with Yahoo Search Marketing"and with good reason. It appears as part of a new program, Yahoo has gone in to his Search Marketing account, messed around with his settings and added new campaigns"all without his permission!

Date: 2008-12-10

iPhone and G1 AdWords Options
The whole world is getting trapped in the web of iPhone and G1 mania! The advertisers are also not left behind as they are looking this gold mine as a very good opportunity to attract target audience.

Date: 2008-12-09

Google Blog Search: Full Text Indexing
What happened to Google Blog Search, that used to index via RSS feeds? But this method was for blogs that published partial feeds! That automatically means that Google Blog Search only indexed that partial portion.

Date: 2008-12-08

Google Yahoo! Deal: What Really Happened?
If you are still are wondering what led to the termination of the famous advertisement deal between Google and Yahoo!, then probably you should read further: Prosecutor Sandy Litvack who was assigned to the case told the AM Law Daily...

Date: 2008-12-05

Google Blogroll Issue To Be Fixed
Recently, a news was flashing all over the web world that Google blog search link command is now scanning blogroll links. For example, using a link: pagetrafficblog.com would not only return links from the content of the article, but also return links from the navigational elements.

Date: 2008-12-04

Live Image Search: Find Images With Other Images
Features like continuous scroll and index with millions of websites, makes a single image search query enough to get what you were looking for.

Date: 2008-12-03

Top Ask.com Questions
Wonder what we as a group think about, worry about, and are curious about? Ask.com names the top searches of the year. 2008 was a year of worries about gas prices and the economy.

Date: 2008-12-02

Google Releases a Competitive Research Tool
The Inside AdWords blog announced the beta launch of Google's Search-based Keyword Tool. To some degree the tool is a Compete.com knock off, but with a number of exceptions: This tool is free, Google has more search data than...

Date: 2008-12-01

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