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

How to Make Your Content ‘Submit Worthy’ “Why won’t anyone submit my content to Digg? My competitor is always on Reddit but my stuff gets ignored!” Sound familiar? Well here’s how to put an end […]

by Stoney deGeyter
Sites that are designed to sell products and/or services must go the extra mile to enhance the visitor’s engagement with the website. Shopping cart abandonment (shoppers abandoning their carts before deciding to pay for the “items” they’ve added to their cart) can result in a significant loss in potential sales. But much of […]

by Todd Mintz
How should a company handle its search marketing needs?
It depends. Many factors need to be taken into account in order to make the correct choice. Companies frequently make a choice based upon incomplete / incorrect information and end up with unsatisfactory results.
I asked my fellow SEMpdx members to offer their analysis […]

In the glory days of advertising, consumers could be influenced by whatever words the advertisers fed them. Today, advertisers must learn the language of consumers, and shape their messages to meet their needs. Read Original Post Here

“Why won’t anyone submit my content to Digg? My competitor is always on Reddit but my stuff gets ignored!” Sound familiar? Well here’s how to put an end to your woes and ensure your content is submit worthy.
In order to be successful on social media news and bookmarking sites, you have to think […]

There’s “send to car” and “send to TomTom;” now there’s “send to Garmin” (GPS devices). As with TomTom devices Google Maps and routing can now be sent directly to Garmin personal navigation devices.
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There are plenty of business processes where the development of a set or list of “Best Practices” makes really good sense. But what about link building? Is/are there a core set of link building best practices that really work? Fourteen years of link building for 1,000+ clients indicate to me that the […]

Human-powered search engine ChaCha launched in late 2006 to somewhat mixed reviews. It sought to entice users to search with expert guides in real time via IM chat windows. It also offered algorithmic search but the human-guided search was the hook. The concept was great but the practical experience was often uneven.
In January ChaCha […]

Mike McDonald and the team from WebProNews did an awesome job covering our
SMX West show in Feburary with video interviews. They’ve been posting these
slowly over the past weeks, and they’re all up now
here. Below, I’ve also
assembled them into our own all-in-one page. Check them out!
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Happy April Fools Day! April Fools can be a fun but scary day for news reporters like myself. On one hand, we get to make up stories and fool people into thinking they are real. On the other hand, we have to determine which news stories are real and which are fake and […]