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Today's Top Story: Tim Ash Tips for Organizing Your Landing Page  SEW EXPERTS: BY THE NUMBERS Address these questions to ensure that visitors can access information on your landing page. » Full story » Print version Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Michael Bonfils Baidu -- The SEO Perspective  SEW EXPERTS: INTERNATIONAL SEM If China is, or will be, a big piece of your international search marketing plans, start your SEO efforts on Baidu now. » Full story » Print version Mark Jackson Addressing the 'O' in Search Engine Optimization  SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO Tips for improving optimization efforts. » Full story » Print version News from the Search Engine Watch Blog YouTube Promoted Videos Available to Buy in AdWords, Expand to 7 More Countries Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 14, 2009 Advertisers with video content now have the option of buying Promoted Videos on YouTube with their AdWords account. Need incentive to buy? YouTube says clicks on Promoted Videos have increased 500% since January. Additionally, YouTube is expanding the reach of Promoted Videos. Originally available only in the United States, Promoted Videos ... » Continue reading Are Search Engine Optimizers Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists? Posted by Greg Jarboe   Oct 14, 2009 First of all, a shout out to Joanna Hogan‏ (surfwrite), who asked for my thoughts on the post by Derek Powazek entitled, entitled, "Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists." It must have been a no good, very bad Columbus Day for Powazek. He decided to call search engine optimizers, "goat sacrificers and ... » Continue reading Fraud Fugitive Caught Through Facebook Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com   Oct 14, 2009 If you want to live a life of crime, you may not want to add former Justice Department officials to your friends list. This did not occur to Maxi Sopo who has been arrested for alleged bank fraud after posting his whereabouts on Facebook. Sopo was posting how he was living ... » Continue reading CarMax Sees Rise in Sports Car Searches Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 14, 2009 CarMax, the largest retailer of used cars in the U.S., says that searches for sports cars rose 6% in September, compared to August. The top 5 sports cars search on CarMax.com were: 1. Ford Mustang 2. Chevrolet Corvette 3. Nissan 350Z 4. Chevrolet Camaro 5. BMW M3 "Sports cars remain an American classic," said Craig Beiner, ... » Continue reading Give Them a Chapter Online, They're More Likely to Buy the Whole Book Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 14, 2009 At this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, new data presented by LibreDigital shows that readers who get access to a sample chapter of a book online are more likely to buy the whole thing. LibreDigital has powered 500 million page views of sample chapters for retailers, authors and social networking sites. ... » Continue reading LinkedIn Reaches 50 Million Users Worldwide Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 14, 2009 This morning, LinkedIn reached the milestone of 50 million members. CEO Jeff Weiner says that about 50% of the users are from the U.S. and the other half from the rest of the world. Weiner also noted an interesting fact about LinkedIn's growth. When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 ... » Continue reading A Busy Week Already For Twitter - Fighting the Good Fight Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com   Oct 14, 2009 Ok, Twitter has been busy the first two days of this week - two actions by the company itself and one serious use of Twitter that stopped a news story from being buried. It is interesting that the platform has such impact when people use it as an aid to ... » Continue reading Social Media Counter: Not Actual But Gives You Thought Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com   Oct 14, 2009 Dary P. Hayes, Director of LAMP (Laboratory for Advanced Media Production), has created an interesting social media counter to give people a simulated idea of the speed with which social media is growing. He also includes monetary indicators and Google search numbers to give perspective. The numbers have been taken ... » Continue reading Not So Fast: Efficient Frontier's Search Ad Data Paints a Different Picture than SearchIgnite's Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 14, 2009 Yesterday, we reported on Search Ignite's Q3 2009 search ad spend data. The report offered much optimism for the future since they saw a 10% increase over the second quarter of 2009, with the year-over-year data staying pretty flat. However, Efficient Frontier has released their data, and while there is still ... » Continue reading Twitter Fights Spam with New Reporting Feature Posted by Nathania Johnson   Oct 14, 2009 Twitter is making it easier to fight profiles which users feel are spam. When you're on the profile that seems very spammy, just look for the "Report as Spam" option, which is now under the "Block" option on the right-hand sidebar. Previously, Tweeple could report spam by contacting the @spam ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions Need Traffic Solution  Oct 13, 2009 Hello Dear Members, I am facing some big problems in my traffic. Since Last 3 months i am having bit trouble. My 90% Traffic is coming from the region which i am not targeting. I have checked my keywords ranking and found out there is slight change in some of my Keywords ... » Join the discussion Google Holding Back Newer Sites  Oct 12, 2009 Hi I am working on a client's site in a very competitive market 'Mortgages', we have optimized it and have a good monthly link building plan going on, however we always seem to be around page 20 for the our most competitive term. It is my theory that Google holds ... » Join the discussion google denying url removal request  Oct 10, 2009 Can someone advise how I can get some obsolete urls removed form google index. The pages have been deleted and my server returns a 404 error for these pages. I have also disallowed the urls in robots.txt. But my url removal requests keep getting denied with google's usual lack of information as ... » Join the discussion Top Jobs » Director of Social Media and SEO Link Building Strategy Direct Brands, Inc. 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