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Top Jobs Email Marketer Dreams retail Northbrook, United States Web Analytics Consultant Humana Louisville, United States INTERACTIVE MEDIA BUYER /E-MAIL SPECIALIST AIG San Diego, United States Online Marketing Manager for ReStockIt.com- SFBJ Business of the Year ReStockIt.com Hollywood, United States Marketing Intern Variety Los Angeles, United States Today's Top Story: Eric Enge Measuring SEO Results  SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO Non-branded search traffic, visitor engagement, and conversions are three critical metrics you should use to measure your success in search engine optimization efforts. » Full story » Print version Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Herndon Hasty Last-Minute Gifts for Online Marketers  SEW EXPERTS: BIG BIZ Make your marketing priority wish list for SEO Santa, and check it twice. These three "gifts" could make all search marketers happy this holiday season. » Full story » Print version Ron Jones Usability and SEM 101, Part 2  SEW EXPERTS: SEM 101 More tips on Web usability, SEO, behavioral design, and how Web accessibility factors in. » Full story » Print version Real-Time Web Results & Alerts Webtrends Analytics 9 More >> News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Google and Facebook Launch URL Shortening Services While Bit.ly Adds a Pro Offering Posted by Nathania Johnson   Dec 15, 2009 Google launched a new URL shortening service, but it has limitations. It can only be used via the Google Toolbar and Feedburner, at least for now. (More on the Toolbar and Feedburner updates in a later post.) The Google URL Shortener uses goo.gl as a root domain. Meanwhile, Facebook is testing ... » Continue reading Google Makes Social Sharing Easier on Toolbar, Feedburner Posted by Nathania Johnson   Dec 15, 2009 Google has updated its toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox with a sharing feature, which enables user to share any page to a variety of social networks. Additionally, My Location is now out of Toolbar Labs and official on the Google Toolbar. Meanwhile, if you have the RSS feed on your ... » Continue reading Newsknife Announces Ranking of Top News Sites of 2009 Posted by Greg Jarboe   Dec 15, 2009 Image by Getty Images via DaylifeThis this handed to me, Newsknife has just published a ranking of the Top News Sites of 2009. The big story is that Newsknife's combined figures for sites owned by Rupert Murdoch put them in second place at a time when Murdoch has declared his unhappiness ... » Continue reading Google Analytics Adds Three Features to API Posted by Nathania Johnson   Dec 15, 2009 The Google Analytics API was launched last April and then updated with a few more features in September. Now, developers are getting access to additional advanced features. Here's what's included in the API update: Support for Advanced Segments - Originally unveiled over a year ago, developers are getting two ways to ... » Continue reading How to do keyword research with Christine Churchill at SES Chicago 2009 Posted by Greg Jarboe   Dec 15, 2009 Image by Bruce Clay, Inc via FlickrThere were seven solo presentations at SES Chicago 2009, which reflects a change in format for some of the topics covered at the conference and the consistently high rantings that some speakers have received over the years. One of those solo presentations, which was given ... » Continue reading $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! Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions drop menus & internal links  Dec 13, 2009 How are drop menu links valued? Greater or less than regular text links? » Join the discussion Pls help me with Adwords SEO  Dec 12, 2009 Hello Friends, I need some quick help regarding Google Adwords/PPC. There was a feature "Click to Call" where you had to enter your phone before visiting website. Pls let me know if this feature is available on Google Adwords. I was checking for this feature but could not found it inside Adwords Account. ... » Join the discussion Technical question: know any sites with restrictive "robots.txt" files?  Dec 11, 2009 For testing purposes, I'd like the URLs of some sites that disallow crawling of their home page by almost anything, by using very restrictive "robots.txt" files. Unindexed pages, of course, are something you can't search for. (I'm working on the SiteTruth web crawler, and need some real-world test cases. It ... » Join the discussion Real Time Search results impact on SEO?  Dec 11, 2009 Hi Guys, What do you think about this? Do you suggest any change in SEO process to keep your site ranking stable with real time search results. According to me it will mess all? Waiting for your replies, Cheers, » Join the discussion White Papers

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