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Happy Independence Day & Search Logos
Date : 2008 07 04 Category : search engine optimization
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingHappy July 4th everyone! I wanted to share with you some of the logos from across the industry and let everyone know that we won't be posting much here today. So see you all Monday and enjoy the day! Here a collection of logos from the search industry for July 4th: Click to continue reading... read more »
Google Uses 613 Words About Adding 1 -- Privacy -- To Its Home Page
Date : 2008 07 04 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingGoogle's finally added a privacy link to its home page, explaining in 613 words why the company apparently can't have more than 28 words on its home page. So important is this number that adding the privacy link was an issue that had to go up two Google's cofounders. Please. On the same day that the privacy of Google's YouTube users was seriously threatened, what Google needed more were 613 words from one or both of the founders saying the company would ta read more »
Google: Expects Viacom Will Take YouTube Data Without User Info
Date : 2008 07 03 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingSince writing my WTF! US Court Declares You Have No Privacy On YouTube article, more information has come out suggesting that Google will be able to turnover information to Viacom about what's watched on YouTube without having to say who exactly who was watching it. Nor, does it seem, that Viacom itself wants that level of detail. So perhaps a bullet will be dodged on the privacy front. More below, including some direct answer from Google. Click to continue reading read more »
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 2008
Date : 2008 07 03 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingBelow is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Hitwise: Yahoo Properties Get More Traffic From Google Than Yahoo SearchIn a way it should come as no surprise that most of Yahoo's own properties get more traffic from Google than from Yahoo Search, according to Hitwise. I would guess that's also true for Microsoft (though I'll wait for the blog post to confirm that).... How To Do A Google R read more »
Response to Recent Security Threats
Date : 2008 07 03 Category : register domain
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Earning revenue from YouTube videos just got easier
Date : 2008 07 03 Category : Adsense
Inside AdSenseWe'd like to let you know about two recent improvements to video units that make them more easy and appealing to place on your sites. First, we've partnered with some new content providers that we'd like to highlight. These partners have signed on to let AdSense publishers embed their videos and share in the ad revenue.Broadbandtv: "Broadbandtv is partnering with YouTube to bring the very best video program lineup to a growing and engaged online audience. Broadbandtv shows include hits from Fa read more »
Hitwise: Yahoo Properties Get More Traffic From Google Than Yahoo Search
Date : 2008 07 03 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingIn a way it should come as no surprise that most of Yahoo's own properties get more traffic from Google than from Yahoo Search, according to Hitwise. I would guess that's also true for Microsoft (though I'll wait for the blog post to confirm that). Click to continue reading... read more »
How To Do A Google Reinclusion Reconsideration Request
Date : 2008 07 03 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingMariya Moeva and Bergy Berghausen of Google posted an excellent step by step instruction manual and video on when and how to submit a Google request for reinclusion in Google. In short, the steps are as follows: (1) Login to Webmaster Tools and check for any crawl errors, such as "URL unreachable" or "URLs restricted by robots.txt" errors. If you find those errors, dig deeper and see if you can open up those access errors. If those are not your issues, proceed to step two. (2) Check in We read more »
WTF! US Court Declares You Have No Privacy On YouTube
Date : 2008 07 03 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingYou have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterday's move might be the ultimate incentive, as US politicians realize that what they've watched on YouTube may now be open season. I can appreciate Viacom's concern over copyright infringement on YouTube. But yesterday's ruling ( read more »
Small Business Success Stories: What We've Learned So Far
Date : 2008 07 03 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingA baker, a guitar teacher, a florist, and a real estate agent: Those are the four small business owners I've profiled in this space recently. Before I continue with more online marketing success stories, this seems like a smart time to step back and see what we've learned to date. Listening to the experiences of others can be a great learning tool, especially when those small business owners have gone down paths you've been hesitant to try, or maybe didn't even know existed. The four small b read more »
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 2008
Date : 2008 07 02 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingBelow is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Brings Voice Search To Maps On Blackberry Mobile PhonesToday Google announced a download that enables voice search for Google Maps on Blackberry devices. This is very much like the existing Windows Live Search for Mobile service with voice or Tellme for Blackberry devices (also Microsoft). Yahoo also recently integrated Vlingo's speech t read more »
Google Brings Voice Search To Maps On Blackberry Mobile Phones
Date : 2008 07 02 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingToday Google announced a download that enables voice search for Google Maps on Blackberry devices. This is very much like the existing Windows Live Search for Mobile service with voice or Tellme for Blackberry devices (also Microsoft). Yahoo also recently integrated Vlingo's speech technology into oneSearch. Click to continue reading... read more »