Daily Search Forum Recap: July 31, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 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 July, 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....
Chitika - the 5th Search Engine?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008I recently had an email chat with Alden DoRosario from Chitika about the recent rapid growth of their ad network. They have been aggressively signing up bloggers and other independent publishers, and are now getting over 2 billion monthly impressions, with their behaviorally targeted Premium ads getting hundreds of millions ...
Submit Your Google Sites Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools
Thursday, July 31st, 2008The Google team has just announced that your Google Sites web site -- that is, the sites.google.com properties -- can be submitted to Google Webmaster Central. This fixes a bug with verification that we reported on June 16. Google has...
Microsoft Live Search Gets an Interactive Redesign
Thursday, July 31st, 2008In case you didn't know, Microsoft Live Search has been redesigned: WebmasterWorld members are appreciative of the new change. It's different and unique. But wait ... there's more. If you hover your mouse around certain areas, you can see where...
How Do You Tell Your Client about the SEO Work You’re Doing?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008How does one who may sell SEO services in the future give away information without giving away too much information (and fearing that the client will run away with the proposed strategies and implement them himself/herself?) That's a difficult situation...
What are the Most Important Search Engine Optimization Practices?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008A Cre8asite Forums forum member asks the community about their biggest pieces of advice as it relates to search engine optimization. What are those tips? When you start doing SEO, write down every thing you do and monitor results closely....
Is the Search Industry that Cuil?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Earlier this week, the Cuil search engine (from past Googlers) was launched, ridiculed by the SEO community and just about everyone else. In a Search Engine Land post, Barry showed the "relevancy" of the images as related to notable figures...
What Is Considered a “View” in YouTube?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Ever wonder how exactly Google/YouTube counts a "view" in YouTube? Is it each time a video page in YouTube is opened? Is it each time a video is played? Does "Autoplaybacks" count? YouTube Anna, an official YouTube representative has confirmed...
Yahoo Publisher Network Payout Decrease an Error
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Earlier this week I reported that Yahoo publishers noticed a major pay decrease from within the Yahoo Publisher Network. I asked then, "Do you think Yahoo is skimming their publishers or do you think it is a temporary reporting glitch?"...
Google Beta Testing Showing Related Phrases Near Documents in Search Results
Thursday, July 31st, 2008While using Opera I noticed the following Google test which places related phrases near some documents in the search results When I entered our above link building page into the Google AdWords Keyword Tool they showed mostly phrases related to the broader category of SEO and did not list the niche ...