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Top Jobs VP Database Marketing Live Nation Los Angeles, United States Client Services Associate B2B Information Provider New York, United States Publisher Confidential Leading Publisher New York, United States Social Media Mastermind & Brand Evangelist Thomson Reuters Chicago, United States Web Marketing Manager Clearwire Kirkland, United States Today's Top Story: Ranking Tweets: Google Says Reputation Analogous to Links Posted by Nathania Johnson  Jan 15, 2010 Over at MIT's Technology Review, they have the goods on how Google ranks tweets. Ok, like your regular old organic results, they didn't learn the secret sauce. But they did get some good info on how you can optimize your Twitter account so your Tweets have a better chance of ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Joshua Palau Four Search Predictions for 2010  SEW EXPERTS: OUTSOURCED Post-recession efficiency, behavioral targeting, Bing, and Google will all shape our industry this year. » Full story » Print version Justilien Gaspard Link Building Strategy: Employee Volunteer Program  SEW EXPERTS: PROMOTION & LINK BUILDING Starting an office volunteer program is a public relations strategy that can produce high-quality links, publicity, and improved employee morale. » Full story » Print version News from the Search Engine Watch Blog China Refuses to Budge on Internet Restrictions in Wake of Google Threat Posted by Nathania Johnson   Jan 15, 2010 After Google threatened to pull out of China, the world waited with baited breath to see what China would do. Deep down, I think many of us hoped that China would open the Internet to its citizens. That does not appear to be the case. The Foreign Ministry of China has ... » Continue reading Microsoft's Ballmer: We're Staying in China and Addressing IE Security Issues Posted by Nathania Johnson   Jan 15, 2010 After meeting with President Obama at the White House today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appeared on CNBC. When asked about China, Ballmer asserted that they will continue to offer Bing according to Chinese law. However, Ballmer did talk about issues that need to be addressed in China - such as the ... » Continue reading White House Supports Google's Pursuit for Uncensored Search in China Posted by Nathania Johnson   Jan 15, 2010 The White House has thrown its support behind Google in its quest to provide uncensored search in China. "We support Google's action in a decision to no longer censure searches that happen using the Google platform," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs in his daily briefing. This is not a ... » Continue reading Yahoo! to Update Sponsored Search with Network Distribution and AdWords Import Posted by Nathania Johnson   Jan 15, 2010 Next week, Yahoo! plans to release two updates to their Sponsored Search program. First up, the Network Distribution feature will allow advertisers to run ads on Yahoo! search pages, partner sites or both. Advertisers will also be allowed to set different bids for Yahoo! and partner sites. Secondly, Yahoo! is adding ... » Continue reading Google Optimizes Mobile Search Suggestions Based on Location Posted by Nathania Johnson   Jan 15, 2010 Typing on a mobile phone is a pain in the you know what no matter what device you're using, so query suggestion features on search engines come in handy. Now, Google is making its Search Suggestions on mobile devices even easier. The feature now serves up query suggestions based on your ... » Continue reading Yahoo! Hires Shashi Seth Away from AOL; Sue James Named to Board Posted by Nathania Johnson   Jan 15, 2010 After three months at AOL, Shashi Seth jumped ship to join Yahoo! He's been named Vice President of Yahoo! Search Products. Basically, Seth went from AOL, which is powered by Google to Yahoo!, which will soon be powered by Bing. Meanwhile, Sue James has been elected to Yahoo!'s Board of ... » Continue reading Google News keeps spreading as rapidly as kudzu Posted by Greg Jarboe   Jan 15, 2010 Image by SESConferenceSeries via FlickrGoogle News is like kudzu, which is known as "the vine that ate the South" because of its out-of-control growth in the Southeastern United States. Although I'm from New England, friends like Stacy Williams of Prominent Placement, which is headquartered in Atlanta, tell me that ... » Continue reading CNN's iReport Adds Search Function to Help Find Loved Ones on Haiti Page Posted by Nathania Johnson   Jan 15, 2010 On CNN's iReport, they've set up a page to help people look for and find loved ones in Haiti. Thankfully, they've added a search function to make the process much easier. It's kind of slow and you may get error pages - likely due to timing out. There are probably so ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions Time is Running Out on Best Yahoo's Feature  Jan 15, 2010 As Bing and Yahoo move closer to form Byng! it is very likely that Yahoo's backlink reporting will be taken offline. *Why Should You Care?* I think we all can agree that link popularity is important to a website ranking. The more quality links you can discover and gain ... » Join the discussion Local Search for multiple states - HELP  Jan 15, 2010 I'm working on a website for a national roofing company. They offer services in 10 states. I created 10 state specific pages and optimized them for each state. The problem I see is submitting each page under their local keywords to directories. It technically is a deep page submission but ... » Join the discussion Download google ads  Jan 10, 2010 My client wants to go thru all their google ads and keywords in order to delete some of them. Is there a way where can can download all the ads and keywords in some kind of format so they can look at them? Thanks » Join the discussion Surely this is spam?  Jan 7, 2010 I know lots of web designers do this but surely it is spam to have multiple domains where the only page text that changes is the town. This lot have covered almost the entire UK. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22superb+value+website+design+service%22&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq= Returns 160+ sites with domains: www.websitedesign.co.uk Why isn't google doing anything about this sort of thing? » Join the discussion White Papers

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