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Top Jobs Group Marketing Manager All Star Directories Seattle, United States Senior Online Content Manager Babson College Babson Park, United States Manager, Online Content Babson College Babson Park, United States Performance Media Analyst ContextWeb Inc New York, United States Emerging Media Manager Regence Seattle, United States More Jobs White Papers More Research Today's Top Story: Joshua Palau A Modest Proposal: Technology in Search  SEW EXPERTS: OUTSOURCED Many times, clients have been wowed by technology, but later dissatisfied with the service and strategy they received. Those are the ones who realized they should have paid more attention to the people presenting instead of the technology. » Full story » Print version Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Chris Boggs Building Directory Links: A Valuable SEO Tactic?  SEW EXPERTS: SEM CROSSFIRE One of the longest-tenured tactics in link building is to build links within topical free and paid directories. Is that still a valuable SEO tactic? » Full story » Print version Sage Lewis Re-Thinking Link Building  SEW EXPERTS: PROMOTION & LINK BUILDING I've yet to meet anyone who loves to chase down links, and the time involved can become costly. Is passing the task off to interns or outsourcing this important task to India the answer? » 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 Revenues Increase 3% Year-Over-Year in Q2 2009; Paid Clicks Hold Steady Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 17, 2009 Google released second quarter earnings for 2009 today, and the news was relatively positive. Revenues increased by 3% year-over-year, coming in at $5.52 billion. Paid clicks were 2% lower than Q1, but 15% higher than the second quarter of 2008. Meanwhile, the average CPC (cost-per-click) increased 5% over Q1 2009 but ... » Continue reading Groundhog Day: Yahoo! and Microsoft Said to Be Nearing a Search Deal Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 17, 2009 Yahoo! and Microsoft are reportedly at it again. According to Kara Swisher's mole at Yahoo!, a team of Microsoft search execs (some of which used to be Purple People) have flown to Sunnyvale (sans Ballmer) to hash out the finer points of technology involved in the deal. Now, there's all sorts ... » Continue reading Google Reader's New Sharing Options (Plus a Shared Items Twitter Sharing Tip!) Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 17, 2009 Google Reader unleashed new sharing options this week, continuing the slow but steady trend of turning the newsreader into a social media platform. Let's say I'm reading the Search Engine Watch expert column feed. I now have the option to "Like" the post. Google Reader tracks the number of people ... » Continue reading SEW Awards Deadline Extended - Now July 21 Posted by Kevin Newcomb  Jul 17, 2009 My phone has been ringing off the hook today with last-minute submitters to the Search Engine Watch Awards asking for an extension to today's deadline. In an effort to get all these great submissions included in our awards, we've decided to extend our deadline through Tuesday, July 21. Besides that, it ... » Continue reading Twittergate: Hacked Docs Stir Up Questions of Ethics and Security Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jul 17, 2009 Recently a hacker obtained confidential documents containing information about Twitter's business plans as well as user accounts and passwords. The hacker sent the documents to two blogs: Silicon Valley's TechCrunch and Korben, a tech news site in France. TechCrunch has spent the better part of a week publishing a few of ... » Continue reading Buy Relevant Links Today! 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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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