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Google have AdWords advertisers who have been with them for 6 years, a Google Cookbook, apron and more schwag. I got pictures. read more »
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Seems like many advertisers were hit with a major spike in minimum bids due to the AdWords landing page quality score update. This seems to have happened last night. read more »
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Has the tide shifted? Is Yahoo creeping into position 3, while Microsoft's adCenter is climbing to position two in the search ad space? Some advertisers say yes. read more »
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I am in awe of the detail in the data Google Ad Planner gives us for free. I have posted some screen shots of it. It is crazy! Blows Google Trends away. read more »
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Danny says, "About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company's websites oddly had no data available -- Google's own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Micro read more »
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Are you kidding me? This must be a mistake. This is just way confusing in my opinion. read more »
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I recorded the whole thing, hope sound quality is okay. Also, exported the full Q&A session as text, tons of details. Enjoy! read more »
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Seriously, first comic sans and now variations of Times, Plain Serif, No Serif, Vanilla and Arial. At least I hear CTR is up. :) read more »
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Google has a new, all blue, favorite icon. My life is now complete! read more »
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We got logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, Cre8asite, the Search Engine Roundtable and others. All for our special moms! Happy Mothers Day! read more »
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Ready or not, the landing page load time is coming to the AdWords quality score in June. I have screen shots of the new report Google is displaying so you can be prepared. Good luck! read more »
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Lots of reports about a weekend Yahoo Search update. No official word from Yahoo yet, but it seems like we got a major Yahoo update going on. read more »
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I love videos! I have been messing around with them for a few months now and yesterday, I officially launched a video podcast. For now, I will likely just do weekly video recaps, 10 minutes or less, on the past week's search news/tips.

I have d read more »
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I was going to use Performics for all my SEO work, but I guess that idea is over with!

Just kidding...

Google is going to sell off Performics, part of DoubleClick. Smart move Google. Hope the Performics team is okay... read more »
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Wanted to start a thread wishing everyone a happy Valentines Day!

My post has a large collection of special logos from our industry, plus links to past logos from the previous years.

Happy Valentines Day! read more »
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25% of the AdSense publishers I polled took in over $5,000 in 2007 from AdSense. But 33% took in less than $50. Which one are you? :-) read more »
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We have a way to turn off Google personalized results. Why not a way to turn off Google Universal Results?

(1) Is this something you want?
(2) If so, how would you like to see it implemented? read more »
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Got extra frequent flyer miles to burn? Fly out to Israel in early February to be part of the first every SphinnCon event.

I will be privileged to host the event, so come join me!

Danny just posted details about SphinnCon and the Israel agend read more »
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Google moved the "cache" and "similar pages" links from the line with the URL to the line under the URL, pushing down more of the results and screen realestate for other listing.

I personally think this is a mistake and Google will revert it back read more »
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Jim Safka To Replace Jim Lanzone As CEO Of Ask.com

Jim Lanzone goes into venture stuff. But more shocking... He leaves Ask.com.

Jim, to me, is the soul of Ask.com. It is very very sad to see him leave Ask.

Thoughts on why, who, what? read more »
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Congrats to Rand on winning the most giving search blogger. Sharing the way you do is unprecedented in our industry. Thank you for all of us. read more »
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Yay, the Search Engine Roundtable won the Best Search Conference Coverage of 2007 by SEJ! read more »
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Yay! Sphinn won the best search engine community/forum of 2007 at Search Engine Journal! read more »
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Congrats to Dosh Dosh for winning the best SMO blog! Techipedia came in a close 2nd!!! read more »
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A collection of threads from our industry, including this Sphinn thread, wishing one SEM to an other SEM a happy holidays and Merry Christmas! read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008