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Today's Top Story: Chris Boggs Google Sidewiki and SEO -- Relevant to Each Other?  SEW EXPERTS: SEM CROSSFIRE Brand managers, brace yourself: Individual Google Sidewiki comment "pages" can gain search engine rankings of their very own. » Full story » Print version Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Joshua Palau Google: The Accidental Monopoly  SEW EXPERTS: OUTSOURCED Whether it's the SideWiki or other new enhancements, Google's clout allows it to play around in a way that can negatively impact your brand. » Full story » Print version Sage Lewis Paid Links: Seller and Buyer Beware!  SEW EXPERTS: PROMOTION & LINK BUILDING Don't let your site drop out of search results. Here's how. » Full story » Print version Want more customers? Advertise in Yahoo! Search results. News from the Search Engine Watch Blog YouTube Now Serving More Than a Billion Views a Day Posted by Greg Jarboe   Oct 9, 2009 Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-founder of YouTube, today posted an item to the Official YouTube Blog with the criptic headline, "Y,000,000,000uTube." He said, "Three years ago today, Steve and I stood out in front of our offices and jokingly crowned ourselves the burger kings of media." He added, "Today, ... » Continue reading Google's Brin Defends Book Settlement in New York Times Op-Ed Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 9, 2009 Google co-founder Sergey Brin has taken to the editorial pages of the New York Times to pen a defense of his company's book settlement. Struck a year ago, the settlement recently went into renegotiations after much opposition from various groups complaining to the Department of Justice. Much of the opposition has ... » Continue reading Eye Tracking Without The Eyes - AttentionWizard.com Beta Posted by Tim Ash   Oct 9, 2009 Eye tracking studies can be a very valuable tool that can help identify significant problems with your website or landing page. Unfortunately eye tracking requires expensive and specialized hardware and software to be used, and live test subjects to observe and measure. In-page Web analytics can also provide detailed heatmaps of ... » Continue reading Bipartisan Group Calls for FCC Probe into Google Voice Restricted Calls Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 9, 2009 Recently, AT&T openly criticized Google for blocking calls on its Voice product. Long-distance carriers such as AT&T are prohibited by law from restricting calls to higher-cost areas. Google responded by saying that Voice is an internet-based application and therefore exempt from the law. Now, a group of Democrats and Republicans in ... » Continue reading MapQuest Embeddable Sharing Map; Launches Voice-Guided iPhone App Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 9, 2009 MapQuest has a couple of big announcements this week. First up, their new GeoRSS Embeddable Maps allow web publishers to add maps to their sites that feature locations they wish to share. Let's say you have a blog about coffee. Perhaps you create a map sharing your favorite local coffee ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions URL Branding for Verticals (SEO)  Oct 8, 2009 Hi, I would like to hear your comments on this post. I work for a huge dot com that is owned by a TV Channel (like discovery, food network, etc.) and we are determining a new structure for the entire site. What type of URL structure you will use having in ... » Join the discussion Ad Text Versioning - Always Delete the Losers?  Oct 8, 2009 I have been running some ad text versioning on an account that I manage and noticed some unusual activity. I ran 3 types of ad text versions with impressions rotated evenly: 1. advertising low quantity pricing 2. advertising high quantity pricing 3. no quantity/price mention at all There was a clear winner but ... » Join the discussion Better Google.com rankings vs google.ca  Oct 7, 2009 Rightt now i have optimized the sites (about 30 different sites) and we are starting to rank well on Google.ca or Google canada We are canadian company and are servers are in canada how do i start to rank better in google.com or google US » Join the discussion Top Jobs » Senior Product Marketing Manager - UCS ISV Partner Ecosystem Cisco N, U » Marketing Intern ConAgra Foods Naperville, United States » Marketing Manager JP Morgan Chase Columbus, United States » Product Manager Senior-UC Marketing Microsoft Redmond, United States White Papers

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