Internet Marketing
July 28, 2009
SEO News Bites
Remixed from photo by Rich115
I’m not sure if my attention span is short circuiting or if there’s a good reason I’m unable to concentrate on one topic at a time. I think it’s a busy news day. Am I alone here? Bueller?
Whatever the cause, today my focus seems to be shifting from one story to the next as … Read more
June 11, 2009
Don’t Let Shortcuts Create Bad Habits
Photo by Pink Sherbet Photographyvia Creative Commons
Google’s getting pats on the back for a new tool that lets webmasters tell the search engine when a site’s been moved to a new domain. According to Google’s Webmasters/Site owners Help documentation, if you use the change of address tool, the Google index will be updated to reflect your new domain for 180 … Read more
February 12, 2009
Ask the Search Engines
Danny Sullivan, our fearless leader, moderates this panel; he’s already in casual mode. Google’s rep Matt Cutts, Google Inc., is here. Other search engine reps Keith Hogan, Ask.com, Sasi Parthasarathy, Live Search, Microsoft, and Priyank Garg, Yahoo!, are ready to sit quietly while Matt gets a billion questions. Too harsh? I’m just trying to be accurate.
Wow, big … Read more
December 5, 2007
SEO and Big Search
Okay, so now that lunch is over (I almost had food. It was exciting!) we’re going to be hearing about how the search engines tackle SEO for their own sites. Moderator Joseph Morin jumps right in by introducing the panellists: Melanie Mitchell for AOL, Dave Roth for Yahoo! Inc, and Maile Ohye, for Google.
Melanie Mitchell is up first.
When … Read more
August 13, 2007
The Search Engines Privacy Challenge
CNET has declared Ask.com the engine most concerned about user privacy. Hmm, I don’t doubt that Ask is concerned about my privacy, but how can we declare them the "winner" when we haven’t even seen the privacy policies we’re judging them on? I mean, they haven’t even been released yet. It seems odd to me.
Backing up a bit, CNET recently … Read more
April 11, 2007
Meet the Search Ad Networks
Rebecca Lieb is moderating this afternoon’s Meet the Search Ad Networks session featuring Doug Stotland (Microsoft adCenter), Stewart Easterby (Yahoo), John Kannapell (AOL), James Speer (Ask.com) and Brian Schmidt (Google). Now that representatives from all the engines present and I have a tummy full of falafel (thanks for lunch, Tamar! [Thank you, Tamar! --Susan]), I say let’s go!
Up first is … Read more
September 26, 2006
AOL Joins Class-Action Club
AOL has been officially initiated into the class-action lawsuit club. Congrats, AOL!
TechCrunch broke the news that three AOL users have filed a class action lawsuit against AOL in California on Friday in response to last month’s privacy breach. According to the filing (PDF), the suit seeks no less than $1000 in damages per user effected and $4,000 per effected … Read more
September 5, 2006
Round-Up
Google Certified SEO?
Lee Odden pointed us to a WMW thread that shows Adam Lasnik is scheduled to hold an Optimizing Your Websites for Google Search seminar at Catholic University on Sept. 18th. Hmm, interesting.
The class breakdown is as follows:
Understanding search engines and search engine results (25 minutes)
Building crawlable, indexable, and well-ranked sites (45 minutes)
Tools, tricks and troubleshooting … Read more
August 21, 2006
The AOL Fallout Continues
Two weeks after AOL published private search log data from more than 600,000 users, the researcher responsible for the breach, as well as the researcher’s supervisor and Chief Technology Officer Maureen Govern have been fired.
AOL Digital Services President John McKinley, who Govern replaced last year, will take over as interim CTO until a permanent replacement is found.
Wow.
Though the … Read more
Weekend Round-Up
What have you yodel’d or yahoo’d?
Yahoo! has sparked up an interesting advertising campaign asking users to submit their own “Yahoo! has changed” video. Unlike Google, they’re encouraging users to use the Yahoo! brand name as a verb. While the still-cluttered Yahoo! homepage doesn’t impress me much, these videos are great and will hopefully become a great viral marketing tool for … Read more
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