Anyone who knows the Google Web Spam team well, knows that they all have a huge distaste for link manipulation. In my opinion, it is more than just a distance for some of the web spam team members, specifically Matt...
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Usability expert Jakob Nielsen blogged about how difficult it is to perform a Google search: If you thought it's easy to get to Google, think again. In our current round of usability research, only 76% of users who expressed a...
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Day two rolled right along here at SES New York with great sessions well documented by an array of blog coverage. This includes our own Jolina Pettice who filed an SES inspired post on “Tips for Overcoming Client-Created Roadblocks” as well as session coverage of “Converting Visitors into Buyers” and the Orion panel on Universal [...]
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Over at WebmasterWorld, moderator werty asks about the quality of YSM traffic. Has it changed, improved, or worsened? Within the past few months, people have been seeing an increase of quality with Yahoo! Search Marketing. You can now exclude partners...
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
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A couple days ago, Google has officially shut off support for version 10 of the AdWords API. A WebmasterWorld thread has one advertiser who is very upset, claiming Google did not warn him. Our system stopped working today, just as...
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After gathering around the caffeine this morning for Day 3 of SES New York, attendees gathered to listen to a keynote from Gordon McLeod, President, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.Gordon led the audience through the evolution of SEO within the Wall Street Journal organization, noting that they didn’t necessarily do things right the first [...]
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