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Search Engine Watch February 3, 2009 Mark Jackson	Using Search to Help you with Search Engine Optimization Link research can take time, but there are several ways you can use a search engine to find quality links. Today we'll look at queries you can make using your favorite search engine that can help you find places to acquire links to your Web site.
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2008 Mark Jackson	Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well.
Search Engine Watch September 16, 2008 Carrie Hill	Making the Most of Search Engine Copywriting Small business owners must be aware of what their ad copy promises, and how they deliver on those promises.
Search Engine Watch August 11, 2008 David Szetela	Dynamic Keyword Insertion: Friend or Foe? Dynamic Keyword Insertion can sometimes help improve ad campaign results. But you'd be surprised how often it's a bad move. Indiscriminate use of DKI can result in generic ad copy and diluted messages that fail to match the searcher's intent or need.
Entrepreneur June 2006 Catherine Seda	Keyword to the Wise Pay-per-click advertising can bring a stampede of shoppers to your site, but make sure your keyword performance is profitable.
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2009 Melissa Mackey	PPC Integration: Integrating PPC with SEO, Part 2 Marketing silos aren't inherently bad, as long as there is communication. Sharing research and results between PPC and SEO teams will help improve both channels.
Search Engine Watch December 9, 2008 Mark Jackson	Is it Too Late for Holiday Search Traffic? Holiday phrases like "Christmas" show up in Google's universal search results, so there still may be an opportunity to show up. For other competitive keyword phrases, you'd be better off targeting New Year's, or even Valentine's Day.
Search Engine Watch January 5, 2009 Ron Jones	Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 1 Increasing your quality score for paid search campaigns will help you save money on your bid and increase your rank position.
Search Engine Watch September 14, 2005 Chris Sherman	Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search Google has introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities.
Search Engine Watch September 25, 2006 Catherine Seda	Compare & Contrast: Search Ad Program Strategies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's pay-per-click (PPC) programs are similar, but each have unique features that require different campaign tactics to use effectively. How do you get the maximum advantage from each program?
Search Engine Watch December 23, 2008 Carrie Hill	The Small Business Guide to Choosing Keyword Phrases Here are some best practices for choosing good keywords to utilize when optimizing your small business Web site.
Search Engine Watch October 15, 2010 John Lee	It's True: Optimizing PPC Campaigns for Quality Score is Still Important Some simple tips for optimizing your campaigns to improve quality score.
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2011 Andrew Girdwood	14 Tips for Making the Most of Feeds Seven tips for using feeds from other sites to ensure you're among the first writing about a topic, and seven tips for using your own site's feeds to grow and keep your audience.
Search Engine Watch September 13, 2010 Kaila Strong	Search and Social: Are You Missing Out? Examining social media's impact on search, and how best to integrate a bit of social into your search engine marketing (or search into your social media marketing).
Search Engine Watch December 15, 2008 Ron Jones	Keyword Discovery 101, Part 2 Our keyword discovery quest continues, with a focus on analyzing and refining your initial keyword list. We'll also look at some of the keyword tools on the Internet, some of which might help you with this process.
Search Engine Watch January 11, 2011 Kristi Hines	Is Link Relevance as Effective as Anchor Text? Obtaining links from high authority pages will increase your site's authority. Here's how to find pages with strong relevance to the keywords for which you want to rank.
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2009 Mark Jackson	SEO Web Site Review: Water Filter Corner This Web site recently launched and has several elements that need to be corrected to lay a sound foundation for future SEO success.
Search Engine Watch August 17, 2004 Shari Thurow	Search Engines and Competitive Research Search engines can tell you a lot about your competition, if you know what to look for. A panel of experts offers tips on profiling your competition and their online marketing efforts.
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 August 26, 2008 Mark Jackson	SEO Success -- Guess What...Content Works! Fixing problems and implementing some search engine-friendly practices can have an immediate effect on a site's search engine rankings. But no search engine optimization technique works better than creating quality content.
Search Engine Watch September 28, 2010 Jeremy Bencken	5 Tips to Kick Start Your Link Building via Social Media Monitoring It's important to start your social media link building with a thorough review of existing social content. Here's how to find bloggers faster with highly-targeted, relevant searches.
Search Engine Watch August 31, 2005 Chris Sherman	RSS Search Engines A look at the specialized search tools that help you locate content in blogs, feeds and other sources of information.
Search Engine Watch September 16, 2010 Jason Tabeling	Diagnosing the Impact of Optimization on Your Quality Score These two Google tools can help you understand and track your quality score, as well as the effect of your paid search campaign optimizations.
Search Engine Watch September 8, 2008 David Szetela	Killer PPC Ads: The Final Word These simple guidelines will pave the way to pay-per-click nirvana: double-digit click-through-rates.
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 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.
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Search Engine Watch June 23, 2004 Dana Todd	Use Caution when Going Broad with Overture and Google Running a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign on Google and Overture can get complicated, especially now that both networks offer different types of keyword matching options when placing bids. Here's how to avoid trouble and maximize your campaign's effectiveness.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2007 Alex Porter	Alternative Media: Search-Engine Marketing: Click, Click ... Are You There? Pharma marketers turn to pay-per-click advertising to boost their product's reach.
Search Engine Watch November 6, 2008 David Szetela	The Account Quality Score: Money Pit for the Uninformed In Google AdWords, an ad's Quality Score calculation is based on how well the account's campaigns have performed over time.
Search Engine Watch March 23, 2011 Melissa Mackey	A 12-Step Program to Improve Your CTR Before a PPC ad can generate a conversion, it needs to generate a click. If you want to improve your CTR, these steps will help you.
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2008 David Szetela	Reading the Tea Leaves: Interpreting Keyword Reports Once enough data has accumulated, it's important to run reports and take action based on the data. But what do all those numbers mean, and how should we make adjustments to improve PPC campaign performance?
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 September 29, 2009 Carrie Hill	Small Business Guide to Tools that Help Your SEM There are plenty of tools that a small business can and should use to make their limited time most productive in online marketing. Some are free, some are paid, but all of them are worth the investment of time and money to learn to use.
Search Engine Watch March 2, 2010 Herndon Hasty	Your Locations are Your Biggest Digital Assets A physical address has huge online implications. While you're covering your assets, make sure to build up your presence for local-based searches.
Search Engine Watch November 7, 2003 Chris Sherman	Google's Deskbar A new Google Labs experiment called the Google Deskbar is a search application that lets PC users perform Google searches at any time from any application. Like the HotBot Deskbar, the Google Deskbar is a free software download that appears as a search box in the Windows taskbar.
InternetNews August 9, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Doing a Vertical Search Search engine marketers grapple with the proliferation of alternative search engines.
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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 October 27, 2008 David Szetela	Those Mysterious Quality Scores: Fundamentally Simple If you're aware of quality scores at all, you may have a vague notion that the search engines "grade" the "goodness" of your PPC campaigns
Search Engine Watch December 3, 2007 Kevin Newcomb	Microsoft Adds More Tools for Search Marketers Microsoft hopes to make up for smaller traffic levels on Live Search by offering more tools for advertisers in adCenter.
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2006 Shari Thurow	News Search Engine Optimization News search engines offer companies a great way to receive targeted traffic related to breaking topics through press releases and other public relations information.
Search Engine Watch September 8, 2010 Gary-Adam Shannon	Google Quietly Updates Keyword Tool Accuracy Google's latest Keyword Tool update improves the accuracy of exact match searches, and should make things easier for SEMs in the long term.
Search Engine Watch October 27, 2010 Alex Cohen	3 Holiday PPC Tips for Black Friday (And Beyond) Fine-tuning your text ad to answer the questions of shoppers is what will set you apart this holiday season. These tips will help you increase your relevance, improve click-through rate, and answer the most profitable holiday questions.
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2011 Kristi Hines	How to Use Blog Commenting to Get Valuable Backlinks and Traffic Blog commenting can help you build relationships and authority in your industry. This will ultimately lead to organic links and new traffic.