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Search Engine Watch April 2, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Embroiled In Scientology Debate Google found itself accused of censorship last month, after it removed some pages from an anti-Scientology web site in response to a legal request made by the Church of Scientology... |
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google: Can The Marcia Brady Of Search Stay Sweet? Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained. |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Filtering Of French & German Web Sites Revealed Google does not include certain web sites in the French and German versions of its search engines, in particular neo-Nazi or white supremacy sites that have content that might be deemed illegal to publish in France and Germany. |
Search Engine Watch December 24, 2003 Craig Fifield |
Bungled Search Engine Optimization: Cleaning Up the Mess Many advertising agencies, design firms, and even web hosting companies offer search engine marketing services for their customers. However, some of the methods they use to obtain top positions are considered to be spam by the major search engines. How do you tell the difference? |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change. |
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Offers SEO Selection Guidelines At the end of last month, Google rolled out a new page offering advice to those seeking a search engine optimization firm. Since being unveiled, there's been both support and criticism of the tips and recommendations that Google has posted in various SEO forums. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Spam Database Left Open To Public Inktomi suffered an embarrassing lack of security last week, when it was discovered that a copy of its database of spam and porn sites was left open to the public... |
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Desperately Seeking Search Engine Marketing Standards It seems that every so often, someone makes a new push to suggest that the search engine marketing industry needs to establish standards of conduct. The idea usually dies away from a lack of support. However, a new effort is underway from several different parties that might have more luck... |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Case Studies Real life stories of how sites were impacted by the recent Google ranking changes, with an analysis of factors that may be in play. |
Search Engine Watch February 4, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Ending The Debate Over Cloaking This article examines why people have traditionally cloaked content from search engines and how the issue is largely now about different standards for paid inclusion content. |
Search Engine Watch February 16, 2005 Bill Hunt |
What, Exactly, is Search Engine Spam? There's a subtle boundary that separates acceptable search engine optimization practices from the shadier techniques used by spammers. How can you recognize the difference between white-hat and black-hat techniques? |
Search Engine Watch August 5, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
Search Engine Watch September 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... SES Dates For 2004 Set... Search Engine Size Wars IV & Google's Supplemental Index |
Search Engine Watch April 25, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site Google has added a disclaimer to the search results that come up in a response for a search on jew, to counter complaints about an anti-Jewish site that until recently ranked number one. |
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Reawakens The Paid Inclusion Debate Yahoo drew widespread criticism for new paid inclusion programs launched in March. What is Yahoo doing? How does it impact the advertiser and searcher? Are there changes Yahoo should be making? The first in a series of articles looking at paid inclusion. |
Search Engine Watch June 30, 2004 Grant Crowell |
Public Relations Via Search Engines Blending the traditional tools of public relations with innovative search marketing techniques opens a new avenue of promotion for savvy content providers and site owners. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Surplus Of Search Engine Marketing Reports Three different publications released recently cover the issues of selecting a search engine marketing firm, which search engine marketing strategies seem to work and a review of how the web sites of Fortune 100 companies rate in terms of search engine friendliness... |
Search Engine Watch January 31, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists, Part 2 Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
I-Search Search Satisfaction Survey This survey of I-Search readers reveals problems both web marketers and searchers encounter with search engines... |
Search Engine Watch November 24, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Rating Search Engine Disclosure Practices Which search engines are adequately disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion practices? Which ones are failing to do so? A new report offers some surprising insights. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Search Engine Strategies Coming To London, San Jose... Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving... Google Buys Applied Semantics... Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter... Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test... etc. |
Search Engine Watch August 3, 2005 Marcela De Vivo |
Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue. |
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Brian Livingston |
'Googlewashing' Makes Your Site Invisible A growing number of content-based businesses face a serious new threat to their publishing rights and search rankings. |
Search Engine Watch August 4, 2005 Marcela De Vivo |
Search Engine Penalties at Yahoo & MSN A look at search engine penalties applied by Yahoo and MSN, and how webmasters can avoid them, or at least get them removed once sites are in the penalty box. |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique. |
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2007 Andrew Goodman |
2007: A Search Odyssey? Keynote Conversation with Matt Cutts At SES London, Google's most famous engineer shared his thoughts on search spam, personalization, and the future of Google. |
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Coping With GDS, The Google Dance Syndrome On a roughly monthly basis, Google updates its index of web pages and introduces new tweaks and changes to how its ranking algorithm works. For some, the changeover period that's come to be known as the "Google Dance" may reveal what seems like dramatic changes in Google. |
Search Engine Watch January 30, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers. |
InternetNews January 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Leaders, Bloggers Band to Fight Comment Spam Industry group says it will support Google's 'no-follow' tag that tells search engine spiders to lay off links. |
Search Engine Watch March 29, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Loses Tabs In New Look, Gains Web Alerts & Personalized Search Results Google has rolled a new look that involves dropping its famed search tabs, along with debuting a web alerts service and a personalized search results option. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Peter H. Nalen |
Alternative Media: Targeting Audiences on the Web The most important web page to communicate with doctors and patients is the page of results that your potential customers see when they use search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, or MSN. |
Search Engine Watch May 30, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Disclosure Ratings In June 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission issued guidelines to US-based search engines about how they should disclose paid content to searchers. Periodically, Search Engine Watch assesses how well it believes search engines are meeting these guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch April 28, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
Worthless Shady Criminals: A Defense Of SEO SEO has developed a bad reputation, despite having a lot to offer. In this article, a look at why we've arrived at this sorry state of affairs and how everyone needs to reassess the need for search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Report Shows Confusion Over Paid Listings Expect to see the issue of how well, or poorly, search engine disclose paid content to come up this month. Reason? Consumer WebWatch will be issuing an "anthropological" report later this month showing confusion about disclosure of paid listings based on a study of 17 web surfers. |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Time For The Search Dividend? We may be seeing the beginning of a search dividend coming to searchers, now that several of the major search engines are maturing their new business models... |
Search Engine Watch September 30, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Tin Foil Hat? I Have Mine On When Google advises against URL rewriting in their Webmaster Central blog, is there an ulterior motive? |
Search Engine Watch November 23, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting How forthcoming are search engines in disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion policies? They're better than they were a couple of years ago, but there's still room for improvement, according to a prominent watchdog group. |
Entrepreneur August 2004 Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch March 31, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Highlights from the SEW Blog: March 24-28, 2008 Good Google bombs... Google webmaster tools... Google no longer a portal?... Search within a search... Yahoo and the future of search... Google video ads... Non-text contextual ads... Social media: one size does not fit all... etc. |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Sued Over PageRank Decrease Google finds itself now being sued by a site owner who saw a decrease in the PageRank score reported to those who use the Google Toolbar. |
Search Engine Watch October 3, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Search and the Law: Attorney Clarke Douglas Walton Clarke Douglas Walton, an attorney and former VP of an SEM firm, discusses trademark usage in PPC advertising, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and future legal issues on the horizon for search marketers. |
Searcher October 2001 Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2009 Mark Jackson |
There's No Shortcut to Good SEO...Or Is There? If search engines want all SEOs to operate in an ethical manner, they should show us that they're penalizing the Web sites that abuse their guidelines, and reward those who follow their guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch February 27, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Nice To See Google Back On Track! Will it last? - Anybody Experienced With URL Rewrite for IIS? - The -Noblog Option or Blog Tab: Can It Be Done? - SEMPO - Yahoo Recommends Keywords META and Image ALT Text - Yahoo Versus Google On Redirect Handling - Who Links to My Site? |
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search This year, web search will morph into consumer search, where major search companies offer a robust range of ways to search for information in specialized areas. |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Search Engine Watch October 18, 2005 Shari Thurow |
Meet the News Search Engines News aggregator services gather information from the Web and provide news to other Web sites, offering some great opportunities for search engine marketers. |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: The Google Hammer Google has shown that search is big business, and No. 2 Yahoo!, along with Microsoft and IAC/InterActiveCorp, want a bigger piece of that pie. |
Search Engine Watch September 16, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
China's Great Wall Against Google And AltaVista So can people in China get to Google or not? Yes, apparently so. However, there are still reports of trouble when conducting particular searches, which suggest that some selective blocking is happening. Meanwhile, the situation with AltaVista being blocked appears to continue. |