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Google Learning to Index Flash Content Yesterday the Google Webmaster Central Blog reported that Google is working to integrate Adobe's flash player technology in order to better index flash files into it's algorithms.
Google Up, MSN and Yahoo Down in May Google accounted for 68.29 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending May 31, 2008, Hitwise announced yesterday. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received...
Google Analytics Integrates with TV Ads Today Google Analytics announced an integration with Google TV Ads, a flexible, all-digital system for buying more accountable and measurable TV advertising. U.S. advertisers can...
Google Website Optimizer: Pump Up your Sales Today at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, Google announced the Website Workout contest to help businesses pump up their websites. Any U.S. business can enter to have a webpage optimized for free by Google's team of consultants to boost sales, sign-ups or leads. Interested businesses can enter...
Google Custom Search Engine Rocks More and more each day you probably see Google's custom search engine functionality appear on site's across the Internet. In fact, I have implemented the Google custom search engine...
Google Up in March, Everyone Else Down
ASK Up 18% Year over Year - Hitwise
New Google Analytics Graphing Options Late last week, Google Analytics introduced the ability to segment report data by week and by month. The new views allows for some additional trending allowing users to organize...
Google I/O Conference Google I/O is a developer gathering (San Francisco May 28-29) focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications using Google and open web technologies. Google engineers and web development leaders will lead you through two days full of in-depth breakout sessions on the latest technologies, hands-on Code Labs, and informal Q&A at Fireside Chats.
Google News and Gmail Updates
Yahoo Answers Down but Dominating Q&A The market share of U.S. visits to a custom category of Question and Answer websites has increased 118 percent for the week ending Mar. 15, 2008, compared to the same week in 2007...
SEMPO: State of the Market in 2007 SEMPO, today released the results of its annual State of the Market Survey and the results indicate that the search marketing industry has exceeded the project spending allocations that ...
ASK Up 18% From Feb 2007
Google Maps API - Demo Samples If you're a user of the Google Maps API and have often wondered how a certain piece of functionality was coded then look no further because Google Maps API team have added a demo...
Google Tops Microsoft in Canada comScore reports that Google surged past Microsoft last month to become Canada's most visited web property. This is the first time that Google has been #1 in Canada and everyone knows...
Yahoo Remains Top Property in January comScore: Yahoo! Sites continued to lead as the top property with more than 138 million visitors, followed by Google Sites with nearly 135 million visitors and Microsoft Sites with 119...
Google's CLO Discusses Yahoo and Microsoft Sunday morning, David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, posted a blog post on the Google Blog discussing the Microsoft...
The Lost Strategies, Images and Video Image optimization and video optimization are not secondary organic strategies anymore, they are essential in creating a well-rounded online presence. There are numerous resources you can turn to help perfect your strategy but I wanted to take a look at some techniques you may never thought of as well as some additional questions to ask yourself before applying any tactics.
Baidu vs. Google.cn (China) Enquiro Research has released a new eye research comparing the two search engines predominantly used by Chinese searchers " Baidu and Google.cn " Enquiro conducted...
The Weeks Must Reads in Search Marketing Only 10 days gone in 2008 and it feels like a years worth of great posts have been written. Below are this week's must reads in search marketing.
Learn Google APIs on YouTube Google has come up with an excellent way to teach developers Google's data APIs by offering courses over YouTube. Below are samples of the developer videos:
This Weeks Must Reads in Search Marketing 4 sleeps to go and its Christmas. I am sure there many people who are still scrambling to find gifts for their loved ones and I am pleased to say that I am...
Video Sitemap Intro - Google Webmaster Tools With Google introducing Video sitemaps recently it becomes important for marketers to understand the benefits and protocols when creating a video sitemap.
Future of Search: From Leading Experts On December 11, 2007 leading experts on search met to discuss the future. In fact they met to share their thoughts on the future of Search in the year 2010.
Google Appliance Comes Up Short CMS Watch has found that the actual technology inside Google's popular Search Appliance product has not kept pace with the company's marketing spin.
Must Reads in Search Marketing 18 more sleeps until Christmas and I haven't even started my Christmas shopping. How could I, there's just too much good content to go through.
Yahoo: Top Search Trends 2007 Today Yahoo announced it's top search trends for 2007. Below are a few of the hot searches that Yahoo reported:
This Weeks Must Reads in Search Marketing As this week comes to an end so does the month of November. Was it just me or did November just fly by and can you believe there are only 26 days until Christmas!
SEMPO Launches 2007 State of the Market Survey SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), announced yesterday it is launching its fourth annual industrywide survey to assess...
Google Receives 64% of Searches in October Hitwise today announced that Google accounted for 64.49 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending October 27, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN...
Application Search by Clever Hippo Clever Hippo Application Search is a search engine for applications and widgets across the web. A more robust version of our Facebook search app...
SAAS-Based Searches Declining CMS Watch has found that the software-as-a-services ("SaaS") model for enterprise search has faltered, as hosted players fail...
Search Engine Market Share for September Hitwise, today announced that Google accounted for 63.55 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending September 29, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search...
More Google Analytics Updates! Emetrics Washington DC, Google announced some more features to Google Analytics as well as a new update to Urchin 5 software.
Google Analytics Shortcut by Justin Cutroni According to Brett Crosby over at the Google Analytics Blog posted that Justin Cutroni, the Director of Analytics at EpikOne, Inc has jsut released a very thorough eBook...
Compete Search Analytics Now Live Compete Search Analytics is officially open to the public! Visit searchanalytics.compete.com to sign up or take a tour. Using just a credit card to activate the service...
Ultimate Local Search Optimization Resources Local Search is becoming essential in many businesses' online marketing strategy. With all major search players (Google, MSN, Yahoo, ASK, AOL) providing pristine real estate
Ultimate Video Optimization Resources Last week we gathered some useful link for Optimizing Images for Search Engines and this week we discovered some great resources for Optimizing Video for Search Engines.
Logic361: Analytics and Paid Search Best Practices Logic361 is an analytics firm that specializes in analyzing pay-per-click performance for internet retailers. They focus on helping internet retailers...
Optimizing Images for Search Engines If you want some basic tips on how to drive more traffic by leveraging images you may want to check out Pat Doyle's post titled: "Get More Traffic By Using Images." Pat's tips include:
Hitwise: Google Climbs - MSN Falls Hitwise, announced last week that Google accounted for 64.35 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending July 28, 2007.
Bringing SEO In House - Insight from the Experts In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we featured Chris "Silver" Smith and John W. Ellis. Today we are getting Rudy DeDominicis' thoughts on bringing SEO In-house.
Must Reads for This Week in Search Marketing It's difficult to stay on all the hottest stories so I have decided to recommend a few posts/articles that are definitely a must read:
Baidu vs. Google Gord Hotchkiss posted some of the findings from Enquiro's Chinese Eye Tracking Study in which they compared users' search experience between Google and Baidu (the post is at SearchEngineLand).
Fox on Duplicate Content Google's Vanessa Fox has posted an excellent entry on Duplicate Content at the Webmaster Central Blog. She touches on the most common issues in regards to Duplicate Content:
Future of Search Marketing? Have you ever noticed how your collection of photos, music and other documents keep growing everyday?
SEMPO Institute Launching Advanced Program SEMPO, (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), www.sempo.org/training, will very soon be launching its advanced level of distance learning classes for online marketing professionals.
Google vs. Yahoo vs. MSN When you look at the Big 3 Search Engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN, it is difficult to compare them only from a search engine perspective.
This Week's Must Reads in Search Marketing It's only Thursday yet there are so many good articles/posts around the internet worth reading.
Results of SEMPO Election The newly-elected SEMPO Board of Directors for 2007 is:
Sustain Traffic While Search Engines Update Whether it's data refreshes, index updates, supplemental result cleanup or major algorithm changes...
Latest Innovations by Yahoo! Usually Google is the search engine known for its innovative new products. Lately, I've noticed some interesting developments from Yahoo! which have started to peak my interest.
Interview - Bill Slawski, President SEO by the Sea Last week I had a great chat over the phone with SEO by the Sea President, Bill Slawski.
SEMPO President Dana Todd Interviewed Yesterday I had the opportunity to interview SEMPO President/Chairperson of the SEMPO Educational Committee, Dana Todd.
My Daily SEM Routine I like following a morning routine I have established. I am paid to write and keep on top of the latest news in the SEM world so no matter what I have on my plate for that day, I do the following:
Estimate Technorati Rank Today I was looking for a way how to determine a blog's Technorati Rank based on the number of blogs linking back to it when I stumbled across the following nifty app.
Google Could Be Testing a New SERP While surfing the web today, I noticed that Google had slightly modified its results page (something similar to what they have tested in the past).
SEM and Web Analytics Grow Closer Lately I've seen SEM and Web Analytics grow even closer together with WebTrends Inc. purchasing SEO firm ClickShift and WebSideStory partnering with SEMDirector.
2006 Search Marketing Fact Pack Ad Age has just released a very detailed Guide on Search Engine Marketing. I am definitely going to block of an hour or 2 so I can thoroughly go through all the trends and stats.
Omniture, Inc. to Release SearchCenter 2.3 Omniture, Inc. announced that the newest release of their search marketing software, SearchCenter 2.3, will be available on November 2, 2006.
Top 10 Rules for Success in B2B SEM Gord Hotchkiss recently wrote an excellent 2 part series detailing the top 10 Rules him and his team (including me) has discovered in order to be successful with Search Engine Marketing for B2B organizations.
Google Image Search I was checking out Google News this morning to see what the hottest Google Topics were and then accidentally switched over to Google Image Search to find that the top images for "Google"...
Enhance Your Site with Google Gadgets Google Gadgets can now be put directly on any personal website. This free service was released to the public just recently. There are currently hundreds of...
Berkeley using Google Video While MSN is using their video service for showing live concerts, Google has taken a different road for alternative uses for Google Video. Steve Brandt of Google Watch...
Google in Microsoft's Home Town? Look out Seattle, Google Transit has now added King County Metro Transit routes to it's free trip planning service. On Monday night, King County was one of five...
Determining a Topic's Buzz When trying to determine how much buzz a particular subject has generated a person could use a few different sources. Lately, I have been using a combination of 3:
Simple SEO for Blogger After my first month on being blogger I checked the number of pages I had indexed in Google by going site:manojjasra.blogspot.com and noticed that Google showed:
Big 3 Updating at Once? It looks like a search engine update is imminent according to forum posts at webmaster world. Also see MSN Changes at SEO Round Table. This potential update...
First Google Trends now Google Music Trends Cory Bates, a colleague of mine, just wrote about a pretty cool new Google service: Google Music Trends. In the article Cory shares his insight on this new service.
Google Survey - Feature Requests Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped has created a survey for visitors to fill out regarding what features they would most like to see from Google.
Omniture to Release SearchCenter v2.2 According to my monthly Omniture newsletter, Omniture will be releasing Version 2.2 of SearchCenter tomorrow. This is actually a fairly big release because they...
Overrated Metrics There has always been a certain buzz in the online marketing industry regarding metrics; namely, which metrics to measure and how to accurately track them?
Analytics Analysis for Search Marketers Attending Omniture's Web Analytics Summit has made me realize the extent of segmentation and analysis an analytics suite can provide for an organization.
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