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Today's Columns: » Can Crowd Sourcing Deliver Effective International SEO?   » What Can We Learn from Billy Mays?   » Should You Still Use Nofollow?  About | Blog | Forums | Search Marketing Topics | Ratings & Stats | View Online SearchDay  July 15, 2009

Top Jobs Performance Media Analyst ContextWeb Inc New York, United States Regional Sales Director Renew Data Chicago, United States Washington, United States Boston, United States Emerging Media Manager Regence Seattle, United States Search Marketing Account Manager TopRank Online Marketing Minneapolis, United States Director of Digital Media KPHO-TV Phoenix, United States More Jobs White Papers More Research Today's Top Story: Andy Atkins-Krüger Can Crowd Sourcing Deliver Effective International SEO?  SEW EXPERTS: INTERNATIONAL SEM Does it make sense to outsource your translation, and therefore your search engine optimization efforts, to a bunch of well-meaning volunteers? Crowd sourcing may not be all it seems, especially when it comes to international SEO. » Full story » Print version Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Herndon Hasty What Can We Learn from Billy Mays?  SEW EXPERTS: BIG BIZ Billy Mays was the king of the As Seen on TV pitch. Mock him all you want, but there's a lot in Mays' legacy that can be used to mold an effective search campaign that builds your brand and drives action. » Full story » Print version Eric Enge Should You Still Use Nofollow?  SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO Recent changes in the processing of the nofollow attribute have caused consternation and concern among many publishers. How should you adapt your on-page SEO strategy? » Full story » Print version Want more customers? Advertise in Yahoo! Search results http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;175747347;23967711;u News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Google Voice Launches Mobile Apps for Android, Blackberry Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 15, 2009 This past March, Google rebranded the acquired GrandCentral as Google Voice with the promise of expanded service and features in the future. They're making good on that promise with the release of mobile apps for Android and Blackberry phones. The app incorporates contacts and enables phone calls and text messaging directly ... » Continue reading BingTweets Mashes Up Trending Tweets with Search Results (UPDATE) Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 15, 2009 UPDATE: BingTweets was showing old trending topics earlier, but as has been noted in the comments, that has been fixed and now is current. Ever noticed a trending topic on Twitter and then headed to a search engine to learn more? A new site from the Bing team makes that process ... » Continue reading Study Shows Old Media Beat Bloggers To News Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com  Jul 15, 2009 While Twitter may break the occasional sensational news story, traditional news sources do not need to feel too threatened by bloggers just yet, according to a Cornell University study, that shows "old media" beat blogs to news by an average of 2.5 hours. The death knoll of professional journalism and mainstream ... » Continue reading Could Twitter Impact On "Bruno" Box Office Numbers Create More Work For Social Media Companies? Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com  Jul 15, 2009 Seems the movie industry has seen the impact of the trust Twitter users have in others comments. As Time magazine suggests "Brüno could be the first movie defeated by the Twitter effect. " Bruno opened Friday with good numbers - $14.4 million - and was predicted to break $50 million, but ... » Continue reading Facebook Boasts 250 Million Members Worldwide Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 15, 2009 Facebook just keeps growing and growing and growing.... They've reached the milestone of 250 million members. That's a global number, but it's still very impressive - even more so considering it took just a year to double their numbers. I was thinking just yesterday about Google Connect versus Facebook Connect and ... » Continue reading Google Site Publishers Can Now Display AdSense Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 15, 2009 Google Sites is a free product that makes it easy to create websites. It's pretty basic, and it's designed primarily to be a group site or intranet, where you can share documents, calendars, etc. Now, Google is allowing AdSense to be displayed on these Sites. Publishers have the option to ... » Continue reading Google Friend Connect Adds Support for 47 More Languages Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 15, 2009 Google Friend Connect has announced support for 47 new languages. (It's already supported in English.) The new languages are......(drum roll please)..... Arabic Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Filipino Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Korean Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Malay Malayalam Marathi Norwegian Oriya Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Google Friend Connect launched last year and is a tool for web developers to add social networking to websites. It simply allows people to log into the network via their ... » Continue reading Branding, Online Reviews, and Word-of-Mouth Most Trusted Forms of Advertising, According to Nielsen Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 15, 2009 Nielsen is releasing data showing that recommendations from friends and family top the list of most trusted forms of advertising, with online reviews and branding topping the list as well. Here's how ad trust has changed over the past two years: But what is the reason for the change? "The explosion in ... » Continue reading Buy Relevant Links Today! Find links for your niche in the largest publisher network. Text Link Ads will work with you to find you relevant links. Buy traditional links or links within content and see the results! Join now and get $100 off your first order! Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions Anonymous TechCrunch Author Slams SEO  Jul 13, 2009 An anonymous "executive" on TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/the-time-has-come-to-regulate-search-engine-marketing-and-seo/) claims the time has come for the government to regulate SEM and SEO. He/she claims Google and the SEOs/SEMs have too much control. Of course the SEO world is up in arms, especially since the author baits SEOs but lacks the guts to use ... » Join the discussion PPC Management Tool?  Jul 9, 2009 Hello. Can anyone recommend a good offline tool that I can use to manage my PPC accounts in Google, Yahoo, and Bing? I love AdWords Editor, but I would love it even more if I could manage all three accounts from the same platform. It is just so tedious to ... » Join the discussion Anyone know whats going on here...?  Jul 9, 2009 I did a backlink check on a competitors site, and they seem to have loads, I mean maybe hundreds, of links from blogs, that all follow the same sort of pattern. They all seem to be articles, that end in a keyphrase and link of some kind that have nothing much ... » Join the discussion

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