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Thu Dec 27, 2007

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web. Read Original Post Here ...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

At the Kelsey Group's DDC Conference last week, speakers and attendees pondered the future of the Yellow Pages industry, and where it fits into local search. In case you're wondering, it's not even close to dead yet. Read Original Post Here ...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

Concerns about user privacy online have been expressed for years. Many companies have been known to share information about individuals sometimes in aggregate with third parties with or without the consent of the owners. Google and Facebook made...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

It s not too late to do a good job on your SEO for 2 7 and prepare yourself for a banner year for 2 8. Gary Beal also known as GaryTheScubaGuy to regular visitors to our SEO Chat forums has put together a list of 21 SEO tips. They re too detailed to...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

Gary Beal well known to SEO Chat forum members as GaryTheScubaGuy came up with 21 excellent tips for SEO for 2 7 to turn the remainder of this year and of course 2 8 into one of your best. He went into massive detail for all of his tips which is why...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

With small brick and mortar businesses starting to see the value in shifting some of their massive yellow page budgets over to online marketing, local search has become a hot topic. Unfortunately, many small businesses find themselves confused in terms of...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

Part seven in an ongoing series about a small business start-up trying to succeed on the web without relying on traffic from the major search engines. After a much needed break, I'm back with another installment of the Hide and Speak series. If you'd...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

The old cliché is wrong. All our lives we've heard, "It's not what you say, but how you say it." That may occasionally be true, but for the most part it's what you say AND how you say it. Case in point: Announce It!, a custom candy-bar-wrapper...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

The old cliché is wrong. All our lives we've heard, "It's not what you say, but how you say it." That may occasionally be true, but for the most part it's what you say AND how you say it. Case in point: Announce It!, a custom candy-bar-wrapper...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

Oops! A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me about an "incident" that happened with his kids and a well-known search engine. The "incident" was brought about by his kids innocently typing words into the search engine, they were young enough that he...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

Oops! A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me about an "incident" that happened with his kids and a well-known search engine. The "incident" was brought about by his kids innocently typing words into the search engine, they were young enough that he...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

My daughter recently turned 15 and now that school is out it means it's time for her to get a job. Unfortunately, despite my threats of cutting off her allowance, she has not taken job hunting seriously. Weeks ago I started talking with her about getting...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

My daughter recently turned 15 and now that school is out it means it's time for her to get a job. Unfortunately, despite my threats of cutting off her allowance, she has not taken job hunting seriously. Weeks ago I started talking with her about getting...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to Announce It!, an online candy-bar-wrapper manufacturer that was seeking professional help with their search engine copywriting. Facing an audience that consisted primarily of women who were purchasing favors...

Thu Dec 27, 2007

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to Announce It!, an online candy-bar-wrapper manufacturer that was seeking professional help with their search engine copywriting. Facing an audience that consisted primarily of women who were purchasing favors...