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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Looking for August Information on: U.S. search engine rankings, online advertising spending predictions, Search % of total online ad spending, Top 10 industry search terms, the top 10 fast moving search terms, or the average search CPC data by categ read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: In House SEM
Bill Macaitis is the SVP of Online Marketing for Fox Interactive Media (FIM) which runs a network of entertainment sites which include MySpace, Fox Sports, IGN, Photobucket, AskMen, Rotten Tomatoes and American Idol, GameSpy, Scout and Flektor offer read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Video Search
A new survey from ClipBlast! asked 1000 online consumers if they had a preferred method for finding video content on the Web.Among the 530 respondents who had a definite opinion:

28% Discovery
27% Recommendations from friends
22 read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google Searching
If you don't want images included on your page to appear in Google, you can use the noimageindex value in the head portion of your HTML page, as shown below (note this value is not new – quite the opposite, it's been around for years – though it's o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 329 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.web-strategist.com)
Category: Other Social Media
On TweeterBoard - http://tweeterboard.com/ - From the Web Strategist Blog:

"I’ve been watching the various twitter ranking, measuring, mashups appear, and most have little utility (other than some of the search tools). I’m pleased to finally ru read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 364 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: News Sites
"Digg The Candidates is a new area on Digg that allows you to see what US presidential candidates are digging and doing on Digg. That's right, you can check out what Barack Obama (with about 3,200 Digg friends) and Ron Paul (with about 6,000 friends read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google Other
From the article:

"Anne Wojcicki wife of Sergey Brin who is in charge of is set to bring the company live this week. Here are the details via techcrunch: 23andMe will offer a genetic screening service for $999. In return you will be told your gen read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 371 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Category: Networking
"Yahoo Mail will also be extended to display other information about your friends as well. This can be a link to a profile page, and also what Yahoo calls “vitality” –- updated information much like the news feed on Facebook. There could also be sim read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 372 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketersstudio.com)
Category: Networking
David Berkowitz of 360i takes the New FaceBook Targeted Ads for a spin and asks the users who are targeted by his ad to reply on his blog.

Ad Copy:
Subject: 1984 Fan, how's this ad?
Body: you're being targeted as a fan of 1984. what do you thin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 398 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
When an Engineer showed me Microsoft Silverlight a few months ago, I had an "Ohh, cool" moment. So now that I see they are using that technology to allow people to create Mash-ups and Widgets, I'm even more excited.

From the Popfly site - http:/ read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 398 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google Searching
"Every major search engine has launched some form of blended search results. Images, news, video and local information is now being delivered in one easy-to-use and sometimes personalized interface. The "new and improved" search dynamic is aimed at read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Laura Lippay of Yahoo! and Cindy Turrietta of EMarketing Talk Show, are interviewed.

BTW: Shouldn't Laura be writing marriage vows instead of doing interviews? ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 19, 2007 - 7:29 am
Posted By: NatashaRobinson 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Danny shows us how to be Sexy Search Marketers read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2007 - 5:31 am
Posted By: NatashaRobinson 404 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kelseygroup.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Cause I'd like to ask them why Mr. SEO is Bullshit is relevant to Local Search. Do any of the pages for his "Web 3.0" site rank well for local results in Search Engines? That makes about as much sense to me as having a "Conversation with Ann Coult read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 404 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google Searching
While doing a search today, I noticed that Google link to "Search Within Results" in the footer nav.

Screenshot of the SERP:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1553968070&size=l

When you select this, you are taken to a page with the foll read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 429 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetfinancialnews.com)
Category: Social Media
"Crisis Communications 2.0 will have a plan, ready to go, that combines traditional and social activity that each place people at the center of the discussion - the rest are just the tools to execute. But nothing can go live without first listening read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 462 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Since the Women of SEO are having a lunch... so are the boys... unofficially :

"Speaking of lunch, last year Bill Slawski, Dave Zuls, Carsten & I had a nice lunch at The Taqueria, which was a block or two from the Conference Hall, and if anyone’s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 469 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Tired of bad Snippets? DaveN's shows us his method of Snippet Re-Writing using SEOMoz as an example. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 470 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.web-strategist.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
"This post is a focus on the very front end of the adoption curve, long before the masses come, there’s many different groups inside of the “early adopter” persona. There’s been many extensive studies on the adoption curve and the different personas read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 488 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://lauren.vortex.com)
Category: Google
A little Friday Fun from Lauren Weinstein's Blog:

"I am the very model of a modern major Googler,
We're going to organize the world's information to be sure.
The PageRank secrets that I know there's no way that I will expose,
Not even if they read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 489 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bl.asphemo.us)
Category: SEO
"When it comes to SEM, certainly the SEO part of it specifically, probably the most common pop culture reference made in association is that of George Lucas’s Star Wars saga.... White Hat = Jedi, Black Hat = Sith, & Traffic = The Force."

I absolu read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 489 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM Industry
Ok, as someone who has not updated their blog since December(?), I should not be complaining about the lack of regularly updated SEO podcasts; but I will anyway.

What the heck! Can a girl get her regular fix of SEO news again? I need my regular read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NatashaRobinson 490 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Dear God,

It's me Natasha. I just finished reading Sphinn for the last hour, and I'm Sphunn out on stories about Sphinn being Sphunn (now say that 5x fast). At least 30% (guesstimate) of the stories I saw here were about Sphinn; and I can't tak read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2007 - 4:35 pm
Posted By: NatashaRobinson 492 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.threadwatcher.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Why is Yahoo! Site Explorer now adding this parameter to searches: “fr2=seo-rd-se”?

UPDATE: Since ThreadWatcher.com seems to be down for good, I'll go ahead and recreate my findings here.
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