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Top Jobs Senior Search Analyst U.S. International Media Los Angeles, United States New York, United States Senior Digital Planner U.S. International Media Los Angeles, United States Webmaster - Marketing West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Lewisburg, United States Web Marketing Manager Harvard Business Publishing Watertown, United States Director, Audience Development TheStreet.com New York, United States Today's Top Story: Google Caffeine Sandbox Closed; Expect New Index Soon Posted by Nathania Johnson  Nov 10, 2009 In August, Google released a developer preview of their new index, dubbed Google Caffeine. Changes in the index appeared to be largely a "Your Mileage May Vary" situation, with some noticing hardly any changes to their rankings while others noticed bigger changes. Now, Google has closed the preview sandbox and is ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Carrie Hill Holiday Search Marketing? You'd Better Be!  SEW EXPERTS: LITTLE BIZ Tips for using PPC, retargeting, e-mail marketing, and viral marketing to help boost holiday sales. » Full story » Print version Mark Jackson SEO Site Review: Beadsbug.com  SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO Mark offers tips for improving Web sites using basic search engine optimization tactics, including title tags, resolving duplicate content, link building, and much more. » Full story » Print version $50 in Matched Clicks on LookSmart! LookSmart is one of the largest search advertising networks, processing over 1 billion queries daily. Our award winning AdCenter platform offers tracking and targeting features on par with the major search engines. You can be up and running with optimized campaigns in no time. Start today and get $50 in matched clicks! News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Google Includes Place Pages Ad Info on Placement Performance Reports Posted by Nathania Johnson   Nov 10, 2009 In September, Google launched Place Pages, which aggregate content to give a fuller listing for local content in Google Maps. Ads appear on those Place Pages and now AdWords users can see if their ads are appearing on them. The data is included on Placement Performance reports. You can't currently bid ... » Continue reading Google AdWords Adds Two New Alerts Posted by Nathania Johnson   Nov 10, 2009 Google AdWords has launched new alerts to help you manage your paid search campaigns. Under the Opportunities Tab, Google has added alerts for keyword and budget ideas. If you're using conversion tracking, you can now set up a custom alert to notify you of changes in conversion volume, conversion rate, ... » Continue reading Google To Murdoch: Use No Index Or Just Ask Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com   Nov 10, 2009 News Corp. Founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch claims Google is stealing their content - the "content kleptomaniacs" as he has termed them. As Greg Jarboe's article below details this could be a major problem for News Corp web sites. Watch the embedded video to hear Murdoch's position. The UK Telegraph quotes ... » Continue reading Murdoch to Google: Drop Dead Posted by Greg Jarboe   Nov 10, 2009 Okay, so News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch didn't really tell Google to drop dead. That's just an attention getting device like the classic headline in The Daily News back in the 1970s: "Ford to City: Drop Dead." What Murdoch did say in a Sky News interview today was ... » Continue reading Judge Gives Google and Authors Another Book Settlement Extension Posted by Nathania Johnson   Nov 10, 2009 Today, Google and the Association of American Publishers were supposed to have reached a new settlement, but instead asked for another extension. Judge Denny Chin, who has been presiding over the case, granted the request. In September, Judge Chin granted the publishers' request for a delay of the originally scheduled October ... » Continue reading Google Acquires Mobile Advertising Provider AdMob Posted by Nathania Johnson   Nov 10, 2009 AdMob has been a major player in the mobile advertising world, really taking off when Apple enabled apps on their iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Google is gobbling up their competition mobile ad competition by acquiring AdMob. "Mobile advertising has enormous potential as a marketing medium and while this industry ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions Why are search results from google so different from the others?  Nov 10, 2009 Why are google's search results so different from Bing, Yahoo etc? Yes i know they're all different algorithms (although I thought Yahoo now used Googles search results?). But surely they are all striving for the the same thing so their results shouldn't be too different. My business ranks number 1 or 2 ... » Join the discussion No longer in search results for company name  Nov 10, 2009 Can anyone suggest why my website is about page 10 in google search for my companyname; loads of obscure directories are listed first. Only searches for www.companyname.co.uk (yes companyname and domain are the same)find my listing. I have started adding companyname to every page title to try to resolve. Any thoughts on how ... » Join the discussion what's happened to local search?  Nov 10, 2009 Or more specifically why does google.co.uk local search work for plumber electrician but not for web designer wesite design etc? Always used to work Has google got something against our profession? » Join the discussion Images appearing AdWords  Nov 5, 2009 Have any of you seen these types of ads in AdWords? Is this something that is now available to everyone? http://www.box.net/shared/static/b23kg7hkq3.gif » Join the discussion White Papers

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