Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Archive for May, 2008
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Weekly Search Buzz Roundup - 05/30/08: Memorial Day, Google Favicon Update & SMX Advanced Next Week
Friday, May 30th, 2008Happy Friday! It's almost June -- can you believe it? Next week, we're heading to SMX Advanced! This week, we celebrated Memorial Day and observed a lot of interesting search happenings. Memorial Day Monday marked Memorial Day in the states,...
Search Engine Optimization Should Not Be Forgotten when Building Links
Friday, May 30th, 2008Search Engine Journal's Loren Baker reminds us that if we're building links, the basic rules of SEO should not be overlooked or forgotten. Even if you have hundreds of thousands of links, SEO basics are critical to achieve better rankings....
More People are Looking at Google Ads, Says comScore
Friday, May 30th, 2008Reuters summarizes a recent comScore report that indicates that Google ad views are increasing. The article states: Web tracking firm comScore Inc's monthly report on "paid clicks" showed Google's U.S. growth at 19.6 percent in April from a year ago,...
Google Webmaster Tools Won’t Allow You To Delete Sitemaps
Friday, May 30th, 2008Google Webmaster Tools seems to have a new bug which does not allow you to delete or remove your sitemaps file from your profile. Several reports came from Google Groups starting on May 27th. All have reported that no matter...
Google AdSense Ads Disappearing
Friday, May 30th, 2008There are two WebmasterWorld threads and some Google Groups threads reporting that some AdSense ads sporadically are disappearing. Several publishers are reporting that a new ad they placed on a particular page received impressions and clicks on day one and...
Google’s New Blue Fav Icon :: Google Updated Their Favorite Browser Icon
Friday, May 30th, 2008Such minor things as changing a favorite icon is noticed immediately by people. Google, sometime over night, updated their favorite icon to a new icon. The favorite icon is the little icon that is displayed in the browser URL bar...
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 29, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Algorithms Alone Won’t Cut It: Human Powered Search is Coming
Thursday, May 29th, 2008At Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan discusses how search 4.0 will integrate human elements and that editorial decisions will help keep the freshness and relevancy of results. (In case you were wondering, search 1.0 from '96 used on-the-page criteria, search...
Google Audio Ad Quirks
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Those using Google Audio ads are reporting that there are some problems when resuming ads. If a campaign is paused, you apparently cannot resume it. If a campaign is stopped, you also cannot resume it. Another issue that was reported...