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Top Jobs Campaign Manager Caridan Marketing Labs New York, United States Director of Sales Marin Software San Francisco, United States Senior Account Executive Marin Software San Francisco, United States Sr. Account Executive Internet Broadcasting New York, United States Online Marketing Manager Modern Postcard Carlsbad, United States Today's Top Story: Google Buzz Kills Auto-Follow on Privacy Concerns Posted by Nathania Johnson  Feb 16, 2010 As it turns out, people don't like their info being shared automatically. When Google Buzz launched last week, people weren't thrilled that their Picasa Web Albums and Google Reader items were suddenly being shared with their contacts. To be fair, Google only shared ... » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Herndon Hasty Getting Your Money's Worth: SEO and Your Digital Assets  ENTERPRISE SEM Tips for optimizing digital assets, such as images, videos, white papers, sales materials, and press releases, to gain more search value. » Full story » Print version John Greer Mastering Google Webmaster Central  SEM BASICS From site verification and crawl errors to newer tools and features, Google Webmaster Central is critical to the success of search engine optimization campaigns and keeping ahead of the competition. » Full story » Print version Are You Serving the Same Web Content to Everyone? Using Segmentation to Retain and Attract Different Audiences This webinar and guide covers: - A formula for Web site conversion - The four main psychographics to use to begin segmentation - How Digg appeals differently to segments to keep visitors coming back to their site Download Now News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Google Loses 1% Share in Nielsen January 2010 Rankings Posted by Nathania Johnson   Feb 16, 2010 The loss comes at the advantage to several smaller players. Google and lost an entire point in the search rankings last month, according to Nielsen Online. Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, and other smaller players gained. Most appeared to gain queries compared to December. ... » Continue reading WordStream Launches Affiliate Marketing Program Posted by Nathania Johnson   Feb 16, 2010 It's free to join and affiliates get paid for leads and sales. Keyword research tool provider WordStream is launching a new affiliate marketing program. It's free to join and rewards sales of the company's software products including the HYPERLINK suite of custom PPC ... » Continue reading ChaCha Launches Facebook App with Aardvark-Esque Feature Posted by Nathania Johnson   Feb 16, 2010 App harnesses crowd-sourcing, a departure from their text-based service. You may know ChaCha as a text messaging-based search service. ChaCha also answers questions on Twitter, so it is fitting that they've launched a Facebook app. Basically, you ask a question and then you can ... » Continue reading Microsoft Unveils Smartphones with Dedicated Bing Hardware Button Posted by Nathania Johnson   Feb 16, 2010 Phones are due out by the 2010 holiday season. It's called the Windows Phone 7 series and, despite the name, it's nothing like Windows. Sure, there's mobile versions of Office, Outlook and Internet Explorer. But if Windows was more like this phone, it ... » Continue reading Bing Maps Adds 1 Million Sq KM of New Imagery in Feb 2010 Release Posted by Nathania Johnson   Feb 16, 2010 Improved imagery for Haiti and Vancouver included. This month Bing is adding a ton of imagery to its Maps. Much of the new stuff helps users virtually explore the world - specifically Europe and Africa - with Australia, Canada and the U.S. thrown ... » Continue reading Who is the most infamous Black Hat SEO on the whole of the web? Posted by Jonathan Allenhttp://searchenginewatch.com/3636064/   Feb 16, 2010 It is the year 2010... So get yourself down to Search Engine Strategies for the, all new, Black Hat Vs White Hat Unconferenced & London SEO party. If you are coming to SES London this week and expect to have such a ... » Continue reading O Valentine, to be daring on Youtube or not to be? Posted by Jonathan Allenhttp://searchenginewatch.com/3636064/   Feb 16, 2010 Youtube have adapted their logo for valentine's day. With minimal design it's suddenly made their tagline really cute! See what i mean? Leave a comment if it inspires any daring acts of romance. » Continue reading Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions TLD Money Makers  Feb 15, 2010 I am looking for feedback and reports regarding the popularity and uses of International Top Level Domain names. Clearly .com is king .net has been a popular second with little regard to its originall intent. .org also popular and has been used by Non-profits a but still suffers from identity issues as there ... » Join the discussion Is this Ethical?  Feb 11, 2010 Hello, I primarily do web design, SEO and SEM for my own small business, and inadvertently ran across a company which asked me to work on their AdWords account because they found out about my knowledge in the aforementioned areas. I agreed to optimize their account a bit as a one ... » Join the discussion Problem with cache:  Feb 10, 2010 Hi I tried to do a link exchange with someone but he said my page was not cached so he would not be interested. When I checked the page the page was showing it was cached when I used: *cache:http://www.example.com/articles.aspx* However, if you remove the www. [cache:http://example.com/articles.aspx] the page looks like it has ... » Join the discussion Keyword Optimization Plan  Feb 4, 2010 Hello, I'll transpose the first two letters of my keywords on purpose, but you'll be able to determine the correct spelling of my url... I'm doing the SEO for my website www RDaftingESrvices com, and I have a question on how to optimize for my keywords. My domain name is the keyword ... » Join the discussion White Papers

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