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Top Jobs More Jobs White Papers More Research Today's Top Story: Eric Enge Before You Start Link Building  SEW EXPERTS: BY THE NUMBERS Link building is not something you should launch into without doing some planning. You need to think through the overall plan, because doing so will help you obtain significantly better results. » Full story » Print version Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Mark Jackson Is Twitter a Google Killer? Not Yet  SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO The easier a search engine is to manipulate, the less likely it is to deliver quality results. Right now, Twitter Search is just too easy to manipulate. » Full story » Print version Erik Qualman CEOs Should Drink the Social Media Kool-Aid  SEW EXPERTS: SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Inferior companies and products can no longer hide behind massive marketing budgets. The days of shouting and imposing your message on the masses is gone. » Full story » Print version News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Microsoft, hakia Launch Contextual Ad Networks Posted by Nathania Johnson  May 20, 2009 Two new contextual ad networks are available for online publishers and advertisers. First up, Microsoft has removed the "beta" label from its Content Ads network. Participating online publishers include WSJ.com, FOX Sports, and RunnersWorld.com. Meanwhile, semantic search engine hakia has also launched their contextual ad network, dubbed CONTEXA. ReadWriteWeb.com is their ... » Continue reading MapQuest Now Optimized for Android Posted by Nathania Johnson  May 20, 2009 One of the most popular online mapping tools is now optimized for Android, Google's mobile operating system. AOL-owned MapQuest has announced that it's now optimized for Android and users of the new 1.5 version will have access to draggable maps. ... » Continue reading Google Friend Connect Launches Recommendation Widget Posted by Nathania Johnson  May 20, 2009 One of the foundations of the social web is viral content, which is, at its core, based on recommendations. It's why sites like Digg are so popular. That's why it's no surprised to see Google Friend Connect launch a recommendation widget. Via the new widget, sites using Google Friend Connect to ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions Google Soon to be Squared  May 18, 2009 "Expected to be launched in Google Labs by the end of the month, Google Squared could quite possibly be one of Google's significant achievements. Searching via Google Squared means searching for pure information." http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090512-201139 *UPDATE:* The URL below has been an error page since this announcement but earlier today it began resolving ... » Join the discussion Yahoo Search Engine Ranking Positions  May 15, 2009 Hi There - I have a couple of sites that do really well on Google i.e. #'s 1 and 2 positions for their keyword phrases. Although, both of these sites don't do very well at all on Yahoo. Both of these sites have the Yahoo Business Directory links and I ... » Join the discussion How do I solve this problem?  May 12, 2009 For years many of our pages had first page rankings on Google. Over the last couple of months Google is now deciding to show our home page for most searches where we return even though those pages are less relevant. e.g. If you are searching for a divorce ... » Join the discussion

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