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Tue Sep 1, 2009

On May 12th, Google began supporting rich snippets in the search results. That meant Webmasters could mark up their HTML with richer data using microformats and RDFa and Google could then, if they deemed it to be appropriate, display the richer snippets...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

The Google News Blog announced search suggestions have been added to the Google News search box as you type. Google added search suggestions as the default to Google.com just a bit over a year ago today. Now, it is the default on Google News. Here is a...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

Search activity around the world jumped 41 percent between July 2008 and July 2009, and Google remains the most popular search engine with 67.5% global market share. Those are some of the stats that comScore shared today about the global search...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

As Google has grappled with newspapers firing rip-off accusations at them, one of the key responses has been from Google’s Marissa Mayer. A move to “living URLs” would drive them more traffic, she’s said, talking about it twice...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

Search engines like to see you add content to your Web site on a regular basis. Creating a blog is a great way to do this. Once you know you want to begin blogging, where should you start? ... Read Original Post Here ...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

Integration is key to online marketing success. A killer idea for e-mail can work wonders when mirrored in a search campaign. There's a lot of opportunity for you to leverage one idea for many different media and many forms of ROI. ... Read Original Post...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

You may have started out with a Blogger blog but now you feel as if you ve outgrown it. You want to give your readers more. You ve heard that WordPress offers lots of options and that it s easier to optimize it for the search engines so you ll have an...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

by Stoney deGeyter There are three primary things that factor into search engine ranking changes. 1) Your site changes, 2) a competitor's site changes, or 3) a search engine algorithm changes. I've already provided information on the first and third...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

Last month, Google was forced by a New York judge to hand over the personal details of a user of its Blogger service to someone who wished to sue the blogger in question for defamation. In a series of posts, fashion model Liskula Cohen was described by...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

Surchur has been around for more than a year, but its recent facelift aims to take real-time search toward a new idea: real-time discovery. It may sound like splitting hairs to some, but the point is valid: Real-time search isn’t of much value if...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

What should you do, as a polite and plucky link builder, if some are your inbound links just aren’t up to snuff? Do you risk alienating a well-meaning webmaster by pointing out that he’s linked to an old page that no longer exists? That...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

Register now for Search Marketing Expo – SMX East and you’ll save $150. You have until the end of the day Friday, September 11 to take advantage our early bird rate. 50+ conference sessions for all experience levels on SEO, PPC, social media, local...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

Ten days ago, we reported that Antonio Gulli left Ask.com after 4 years heading up their technology team in the European R&D center. Gulli announced his new plans are to continue in search, but switch ships and work for Microsoft Bing. Gulli said he...

Tue Sep 1, 2009

In five weeks, our SMX East search marketing conference arrives in New York City from Oct. 5-7. The show features four to five tracks of sessions spread across three days and covers all aspects of search marketing. Below is a personal tour from me on...

Mon Aug 31, 2009

The NY Times offers an extensive and flattering profile of the former Yahoo EVP Qi Lu who, in January, 2009 was named president of online services for Microsoft. Lu was deemed an unlikely appointment by some given his background not as a business and...