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Date : 2009 08 13 Category : affiliate programs 
Affiliate Marketing by WSO
We added 5 animated Flash banners to the Elance affiliate program in size 120x90, 120x240, 125x125, 250x250 & and 468x60. Log in into your affiliate account to grab your Flash banners! Recruit Job posters and get $8 for a first time job posting by an employer with 1st milestone funded in escrow + 1% of all job payments made through Elance over first 6 months. Not yet an Affiliate? Check out more information about the Elance.com affiliate program right here. Sign up for the program here. read more »
Affiliate Marketing by WSOWe added 5 animated Flash banners to the Elance affiliate program in size 120x90, 120x240, 125x125, 250x250 & and 468x60. Log in into your affiliate account to grab your Flash banners! Recruit Job posters and get $8 for a first time job posting by an employer with 1st milestone funded in escrow + 1% of all job payments made through Elance over first 6 months. Not yet an Affiliate? Check out more information about the Elance.com affiliate program right here. Sign up for the program here. read more »
Date : 2009 08 10 Category : affiliate programs Affiliate Marketing by WSO
Back to School Deal: Offer: Back to School Sale - Extra 10% Off Already Discounted Prices and Free Shipping with $50 or more. Coupon Code: B2SCHOOL Active: August 10th, 2009 Expires: August 14th, 2009 Link: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=20342&m=11744&u=[YOURID] Note: In the above link please replace "[YOURID]" with your unique Shareasale tracking ID which can be found in any of your existing Shareasale links. This deal is active in the Shareasale Deals and Coupons datab read more »
Affiliate Marketing by WSOBack to School Deal: Offer: Back to School Sale - Extra 10% Off Already Discounted Prices and Free Shipping with $50 or more. Coupon Code: B2SCHOOL Active: August 10th, 2009 Expires: August 14th, 2009 Link: http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=20342&m=11744&u=[YOURID] Note: In the above link please replace "[YOURID]" with your unique Shareasale tracking ID which can be found in any of your existing Shareasale links. This deal is active in the Shareasale Deals and Coupons datab read more »
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Date : 2009 08 07 Category : search engine optimization 
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
The New York Times has an interview out with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz where she declares that Yahoo has “never been a search company.” Astounding, in that that this is not true. Part of me thinks, “Why bother arguing?” As my A Search Eulogy For Yahoo post from last week explains, whatever Yahoo was, if the [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingThe New York Times has an interview out with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz where she declares that Yahoo has “never been a search company.” Astounding, in that that this is not true. Part of me thinks, “Why bother arguing?” As my A Search Eulogy For Yahoo post from last week explains, whatever Yahoo was, if the [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 07 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Yahoo Sand Castle: SMX São Paulo: Yahoo Park: Yahoo Basketball: .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingIn this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Yahoo Sand Castle: SMX São Paulo: Yahoo Park: Yahoo Basketball: .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 07 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Michael Wyszomierski announced at the Google Webmaster Central blog that they are looking for the SEO and Webmaster community to create videos that they can share in the Google Webmaster YouTube channel. You have seen many of the videos from Matt Cutts in this channel, and now they want to allow the community to [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingMichael Wyszomierski announced at the Google Webmaster Central blog that they are looking for the SEO and Webmaster community to create videos that they can share in the Google Webmaster YouTube channel. You have seen many of the videos from Matt Cutts in this channel, and now they want to allow the community to [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 07 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Ah, what a summer! The initial concept of this In the Trenches column was to provide the day-to-day search engine marketer with tips, tricks, and news to make them better at their jobs. I have been wanting to do this Microsoft Excel series for over a year, so I thank again my editors [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingAh, what a summer! The initial concept of this In the Trenches column was to provide the day-to-day search engine marketer with tips, tricks, and news to make them better at their jobs. I have been wanting to do this Microsoft Excel series for over a year, so I thank again my editors [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 07 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Re-finding search behavior is common in web search, image search, and video search. What is it, and how can you make it easy for searchers to re-find your content? .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingRe-finding search behavior is common in web search, image search, and video search. What is it, and how can you make it easy for searchers to re-find your content? .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 06 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Mobile phones and their associated applications have changed the way we communicate and the way we live, presenting tremendous opportunities — and challenges — for marketers. In this webcast, mobile experts Greg Sterling and Cindy Krum explore how large-brand and multi-channel marketers can integrate mobile into an existing marketing campaign. Register now for this [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingMobile phones and their associated applications have changed the way we communicate and the way we live, presenting tremendous opportunities — and challenges — for marketers. In this webcast, mobile experts Greg Sterling and Cindy Krum explore how large-brand and multi-channel marketers can integrate mobile into an existing marketing campaign. Register now for this [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 06 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
James Carswell noticed that Google, on some browsers, has shifted the search ads on the right hand side of the search results page, closer to the free (organic) results. I personally was able to replicate this change, by comparing Firefox to Safari and posted a video illustrating the change. In the video below, you will [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingJames Carswell noticed that Google, on some browsers, has shifted the search ads on the right hand side of the search results page, closer to the free (organic) results. I personally was able to replicate this change, by comparing Firefox to Safari and posted a video illustrating the change. In the video below, you will [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 06 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Millward Brown released their top “BrandZ” report for 2009 (PDF) and Google has top the list, once again. The main difference this year is that Google’s “brand value” is up 16%, from $86 billion to $100 billion this year. Here is a chart of the top ten global brands by Millward Brown: Microsoft ranks number [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingMillward Brown released their top “BrandZ” report for 2009 (PDF) and Google has top the list, once again. The main difference this year is that Google’s “brand value” is up 16%, from $86 billion to $100 billion this year. Here is a chart of the top ten global brands by Millward Brown: Microsoft ranks number [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 06 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Links long ago became the currency of the Web, thanks in no small part to Google and its PageRank algorithm. Like anything of value, link authority is bought, sold, leased, bartered, brokered, swindled and stolen. The fact that links are valuable is widely accepted. But yet when pressed, can any SEO or link builder really [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingLinks long ago became the currency of the Web, thanks in no small part to Google and its PageRank algorithm. Like anything of value, link authority is bought, sold, leased, bartered, brokered, swindled and stolen. The fact that links are valuable is widely accepted. But yet when pressed, can any SEO or link builder really [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 08 06 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine has its own unique approach to video search which has engendered both praise and pans. Perhaps the most remarked upon feature is the mouse hover over a thumbnail of a video and Bing will play 30 seconds of the clip with sound. It has already been noted that this feature [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingMicrosoft’s new Bing search engine has its own unique approach to video search which has engendered both praise and pans. Perhaps the most remarked upon feature is the mouse hover over a thumbnail of a video and Bing will play 30 seconds of the clip with sound. It has already been noted that this feature [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
It seems like Google has changed the way they handle the “show more results from” feature, by removing the simple HTML link to a site command feature and by dynamically opening up several more results, within the same search results page. They are using an AJAX (JavaScript) driven plus sign box that adds an [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingIt seems like Google has changed the way they handle the “show more results from” feature, by removing the simple HTML link to a site command feature and by dynamically opening up several more results, within the same search results page. They are using an AJAX (JavaScript) driven plus sign box that adds an [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Next Tuesday, August 4 at 1 PM EDT, Search Marketing Now presents a webcast with Andrew Goodman on “PPC Campaign Automation: Bid Management, Alerts…the Works!” Not only will attendees benefit from Andrew’s PPC expertise—but three lucky attendees will win an Acquisio tee-shirt at the end of the webcast (and yes, you have to be [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingNext Tuesday, August 4 at 1 PM EDT, Search Marketing Now presents a webcast with Andrew Goodman on “PPC Campaign Automation: Bid Management, Alerts…the Works!” Not only will attendees benefit from Andrew’s PPC expertise—but three lucky attendees will win an Acquisio tee-shirt at the end of the webcast (and yes, you have to be [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Each year, Marketing Sherpa compiles an exhaustive look at the state of search marketing. Each year, these reports grow more comprehensive, reflecting the continuous change and evolution of our industry as it grows up. This year’s report is no exception. The Marketing Sherpa 2009-10 Search Marketing Benchmark Report is 213 pages, and is divided into five [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingEach year, Marketing Sherpa compiles an exhaustive look at the state of search marketing. Each year, these reports grow more comprehensive, reflecting the continuous change and evolution of our industry as it grows up. This year’s report is no exception. The Marketing Sherpa 2009-10 Search Marketing Benchmark Report is 213 pages, and is divided into five [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
As the dust begins to settle on the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, we’re finding that this week’s announcement raised as many questions as it answered. The companies told Danny and Greg that the agreement covers “web, image, and video search.” But what about the many search verticals that Yahoo and Microsoft are involved in? These are [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingAs the dust begins to settle on the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, we’re finding that this week’s announcement raised as many questions as it answered. The companies told Danny and Greg that the agreement covers “web, image, and video search.” But what about the many search verticals that Yahoo and Microsoft are involved in? These are [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
The “Kay Bailey Hutchinson for Governor Official Website” put up by “Texans for Kay Bailey Hutchison, Allan Shivers, Jr., Treasurer” over the weekend in support of Kay Bailey Hutchinson for Texas governor was briefly in Google but now appears to be completely missing. Huh. Odd since Bing seems to have indexed it just fine, although the [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingThe “Kay Bailey Hutchinson for Governor Official Website” put up by “Texans for Kay Bailey Hutchison, Allan Shivers, Jr., Treasurer” over the weekend in support of Kay Bailey Hutchinson for Texas governor was briefly in Google but now appears to be completely missing. Huh. Odd since Bing seems to have indexed it just fine, although the [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
The deal is done. Microsoft has swallowed Yahoo search whole and we can all be put out of our long, lingering misery. Yahoo has given up on search and thrown in the towel. But, outside this industry and our incestuous little gossip circle, what does it really mean for average folks? Does it make a [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingThe deal is done. Microsoft has swallowed Yahoo search whole and we can all be put out of our long, lingering misery. Yahoo has given up on search and thrown in the towel. But, outside this industry and our incestuous little gossip circle, what does it really mean for average folks? Does it make a [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Seeing Through Google’s Eyes: Yahoo Sneakers: Google Affiliate Network Summit Party: Google Neon Desk Sign: Ballmer & Bartz Sign Deal: Google Rocket [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingIn this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Seeing Through Google’s Eyes: Yahoo Sneakers: Google Affiliate Network Summit Party: Google Neon Desk Sign: Ballmer & Bartz Sign Deal: Google Rocket [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Google Operating System spotted two new Google search options including custom date ranges web search and advanced image searches directly on the left side navigation. When Google first launched search refinements in the “search options” section, they did not allow you to add a custom date range. Now you can, here is a picture: It also [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingGoogle Operating System spotted two new Google search options including custom date ranges web search and advanced image searches directly on the left side navigation. When Google first launched search refinements in the “search options” section, they did not allow you to add a custom date range. Now you can, here is a picture: It also [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 31 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Google announced they have removed the beta label from the new AdWords interface. Google has been testing the new interface since November 2008. They continuously expanded the test to more and more advertisers over time and are now confident enough that it works right. Google added that along with removing the beta label, they will be [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingGoogle announced they have removed the beta label from the new AdWords interface. Google has been testing the new interface since November 2008. They continuously expanded the test to more and more advertisers over time and are now confident enough that it works right. Google added that along with removing the beta label, they will be [...] .... read more »
Date : 2009 07 30 Category : search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Come to Search Marketing Expo – SMX East for content so compelling, you may be implementing what you’ve learned while still attending a session. And with 50 sessions and keynotes on the agenda, there’s plenty to choose from. See the complete agenda here. Topics include paid search advertising (PPC), search engine optimization (SEO), local & [...] .... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingCome to Search Marketing Expo – SMX East for content so compelling, you may be implementing what you’ve learned while still attending a session. And with 50 sessions and keynotes on the agenda, there’s plenty to choose from. See the complete agenda here. Topics include paid search advertising (PPC), search engine optimization (SEO), local & [...] .... read more »