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Today's Top Story: Liana Evans How to Earn Respect in Social Media  SEW EXPERTS: SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Just because you and your company are a big deal in the offline world doesn't mean you'll win friends and influence in social networks. » Full story » Print version Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Ron Jones Internet Law 101, Part 2  SEW EXPERTS: SEM 101 Learn the basics about copyrighting your Web site content, Web agreements, privacy policy issues, and domain issues including cybersquatting, typosquatting, hijacking, and transfer fraud. » Full story » Print version Joshua Palau Integrating Search, Part 1  SEW EXPERTS: OUTSOURCED Some simple tips to help your agency and search teams start pursuing better integration. » Full story » Print version News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Carl Icahn Quits Yahoo! Board Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 26, 2009 He came, he kinda sorta conquered and now he's left. Investor Carl Icahn, who stirred up investors during the Microsoft acquisition attempt, quit Yahoo!'s Board of Directors on Friday. After Yahoo! failed to accept Microsoft's offer to fully acquire the Sunnyvale-based Internet company, Carl Icahn embarked on his own attempt to ... » Continue reading Botnets Drive Up Click Fraud Rate in Third Quarter 2009 Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 26, 2009 Click Forensics has released its click fraud report for the third quarter of 2009. Botnet activity caused the rate to rise and accounted for more click fraud activity. The click fraud rate rose to 14.1% in the third quarter, up from 12.7% in the second quarter, but down from 16% in ... » Continue reading AOL Names Nine Board Members for Post-Time Warner Separation Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 26, 2009 Once AOL is spinned off from Time Warner, it will require a Board of Directors. Today, nine members were named. They are: Richard L. Dalzell made a name for himself at Amazon, where he started held a variety of executive-level roles from 1997 until 2007. Prior to Amazon, Dalzell was ... » Continue reading Google Maps Gets a Subtle Makeover Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 26, 2009 Have you ever noticed "something different" about someone but you couldn't quite put your finger on it? Usually, it turns out that the person got a slight haircut or was wearing a new shade of eyeshadow or something. It was subtle, and your brain registered the change, but it wasn't ... » Continue reading Google AdWords Tests New My Client Center Dashboard Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 26, 2009 Google AdWords is testing a new interface for My Client Center. If you want to check it out, just click the link in the current My Client Center Dashboard. According to the Inside AdWords blog, the changes will include the following: In-line editing of account descriptions: In-line editing cuts the time it ... » Continue reading Deleted Tweets Finally Removed from Twitter Search Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 26, 2009 While Twitter allows people to delete Tweets, often times those zombie Tweets were still indexed in Twitter's search. Apparently, that's no longer a problem. MG Siegler over at TechCrunch has been doing some testing and finding that deleted Tweets aren't showing up in Twitter search. They're not even showing up in ... » Continue reading MapQuest Teams Up with HauntWorld for Haunted House Search Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 26, 2009 If you like to be terrified, then the days and weeks leading up to Halloween are for you. One of Halloween's favorite traditions is the Haunted House and if you need help finding ones in your area, MapQuest has come to the rescue. They've teamed up with HauntWorld to provide a ... » Continue reading Demise Of GeoCities Today: MySpace, Facebook Precusor Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com   Oct 26, 2009 As announced a couple of months ago, Geocities will cease to exist today. Interestingly Yahoo does not have an upgrade or new alternative for this now homeless online population. GeoCities was the biggest online community prior to the dotcom bubble burst. Yahoo purchased them for $3.57 billion at the height of ... » Continue reading Every Thing You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask: Iran Launches Qur'anic Search Engine Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com   Oct 26, 2009 An Iranian search engine dedicated to Islamic teachings and records online for Qur'anic websites was launched this week, Press TV announced. The results only come from 360 websites at the moment, Press TV reported, but other sites were planned to be added. ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions Multiple sites switching IP's?  Oct 26, 2009 At this comapny we have like 30 differente sites. many of them on same IP some of the lesser sites have a PR of 2 i was going to create micro sites and market the main products but since these centent sites have pr of 2, what if i switch them ... » Join the discussion Bing and Twitter and Facebook  Oct 23, 2009 Ok the announcement is out - now what are people seeing as far as results etc go and how do you think this can help you. I see some ORM benefits - but unless you have a link in the tweet how do you drive traffic using them? » Join the discussion Should I buy a link in a directory?  Oct 21, 2009 Hello everyone. Should I buy a link in a directory? The directory is very relevant to my business and is targeted to only those companies that operate within the same market that I do. Thanks for your feedback. » Join the discussion the Majestic SEO tool  Oct 20, 2009 Has anyone tried this tool? Would it be a good alternative (for link analysis) to yahoo's site explorer in case it dissappears (because of bing) or do they not have as much linkage data as yahoo's site explorer? thx » Join the discussion Top Jobs » Client Services Associate New York, United States » Product Marketing Leadfusion San Diego, United States » Sr. Brand Manager Capital One Richmond, United States » Interactive Producer Hollister, Inc. Boston, United States White Papers

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