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Was sifting through some old Search Engine Watch articles and noticed that the contact the author link goes to a form to contact Danny Sullivan via Search Engine Watch. Does this go to Danny or to the current SEW editing team? May be a tree falls in read more »
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Different ways that different search engine technologies understand text relevance... Google says, “... keep things relevant.” So where is the line? And even more interesting, how can a machine define it if even we, humans, fail to? read more »
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Creating networks of (interlinked) sites is a widespread tactic of PageRank and ranking manipulation. To own a lot of websites is perfectly OK but to own a lot of websites for the sake of “link juice” is not good (per Google at least). The line is n read more »
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Google has leaked the max cpc and other quality score indicators such as pScore and thresh for Adwords advertisers like as Honda and HP. read more »
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It's 2008 and companies like AdBuck.net are still promoting click fraud networks which pay the clicker $.01 per click (and to stay on advertiser site for 20 seconds). Horrible. read more »
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What started out as an interview has become a manifesto on in-house SEO and managing a link building team. Love this quote: "If you send your star players to SES (for the first time) and they come back saying that they didn’t learn anything new, the read more »
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This computer science grad student is mapping the way the human brain works and applying it to technology that will eventually power a search engine dedicated to visual images. Cool stuff. read more »
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Live coverage from SMX Social on leveraging MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn for search marketing. read more »
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Nothing on Paid Links and No Follow here, but Matt goes into detail on funneling PageRank via NoFollow and which internal links should use NoFollow. read more »
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Want to know what it's like to run the SEO & Paid Search for MySpace, IGN, AskMen and FoxSports.com? Jessica Bowman talks with Fox Interactive's Bill Macaitis on SEO for big sites, team building and the In-House SEM struggles. read more »
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Google says "I wouldn't really worry about spam sites hurting your ranking by linking to you, as we understand that you can't (for the most part) control who links to your sites." read more »
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google have hit the Forbes Top 10 Richest Americans List, with each of these search geniuses worth $18.5 Billion. read more »
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Google Ad Preview Tool shows non-personalized geotargeted results for sponsored and organic listings. read more »
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Microsoft's new adManager search marketing campaign management service is now selling Ask.com Sponsored Listings along with MSN adCenter to combine for an 18.2% share of the search engine market.

This is a boost for Ask.com which will benefit fro read more »
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