Early bird registration for Search Marketing Expo - SMX Social Media in Long Beach, CA ends March 15. Register today and you’ll pay only $1195 for all the sessions, keynotes, networking and parties. Space is limited so secure your spot now.
This West Coast version of SMX Social Media is an encore presentation of the standing-room […]

Tamar tipped me off to people seeing secondary search boxes in the Google search results. I see them myself now. For example a search on amazon returns this search box directly under the snippet but above the URL, here is a picture:

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

IAC Cuts 8% Of Ask.com & Kills Search EngineIAC’s Ask.com to Cut Staff, Outlines New Search Strategy from the Wall Street Journal reports IAC has cut 8% of Ask.com’s workforce, by letting go 40 people. […]

Search marketers know it’s important to optimize company websites in order to be found on search engines. But, customers’ trust can be grown through so many additional avenues. Today’s infographic demonstrates how various SEM tactics—in addition to just SEO—allow buyers to find out about products, not only on companies’ websites but also on other […]

IAC’s Ask.com to Cut Staff, Outlines New Search Strategy from the Wall Street Journal reports IAC has cut 8% of Ask.com’s workforce, by letting go 40 people. Not only that, the Wall Street Journal says IAC is changing the strategy of the search engine to “focus to better answering search queries posed as questions.”
Ask’s […]

Facebook announced Sheryl Sandberg as the new Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. Sandberg worked at Google for six years at Google as Vice President of Global Online Sales & Operations.
Sandberg will join Facebook on March 24, 2008 and is responsible for helping the company scale its operations and expand its presence globally. […]

One of the most overlooked but important keys to success on social news sites is commenting (expressing a personal opinion or belief).
One of the biggest draws for many social news sites is that you can interact with fellow members and the submitters through comments. Many users go to the major social news sites (such as […]

Finding the right search marketing partner requires legwork, research, and persistence. To make the process a bit easier, SEM agency owner Marty Weintraub has provided 48 practical questions to qualify prospective search marketing vendors. Read Original Post Here

Right off the top, the title of this article doesn’t mean I’m changing my position on social media as link driver. Yes, it’s possible, but for the overwhelming majority of web sites, a widespread and costly social linking strategy is a waste of time and money. Go ahead, call me a heretic, but inside […]

Pole Positioning Marketing has compiled yet another link building advice article. This one is very good, it asks 12 link building experts to provide a link building tip that you might not find elsewhere.
The advice comes in both short and long form from Patrick Altoft, Hamlet Batista, Jim Boykin, Rand Fishkin, Peter […]