http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/375558362/018096.html Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=OUGw8L"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=OUGw8L" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=YwAj9K"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=YwAj9K" border="0"></img></a> <a href= http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/375238065/018095.html The Official Google Blog has acknowledged that it will begin rolling out Google Suggest, which will let you formulate queries with more ease, reduce spelling errors, and save keystrokes. An example screenshot is below: It's about time, but one wonders... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=FAFIjD"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=FAFIjD" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=kXQJ6K"><img src="http:// http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/376126359/018097.html Google announced that the quality score metrics are more real time based on a per-query level, now. Not that this has been implemented on everyone's campaigns yet, but it will happen soon enough. Since then, advertisers have been noticing anomalies... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=4a0Fek"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=4a0Fek" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=BnkLqK"><img src="http://fee http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/376521996/018107.html Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=urO6Oh"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=urO6Oh" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Af4k4K"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=Af4k4K" border="0"></img></a> <a href= http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/376146341/018099.html Google's ad serving tool, Google Ad Manager (google.com/admanager/), which launched as a beta in March is now open to all publishers. If you are a publisher using OpenAds, OpenX, phpAdsNew or a similar product, you may want to strongly consider... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=TXYJaC"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=TXYJaC" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=TLuZdK"><img src="http://feeds.f http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/376133462/018098.html We have been covering the issues with search ranking checkers since beginning of this month. At first, we thought it might be related to WebPosition Gold only, but it was not, it impacted most, if not all, scraper based rank... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=su69jQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=su69jQ" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=1ebHuK"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Sea http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/376252338/018106.html On the Microsoft adCenter blog, we're informed that there is a brand new "keyword research tool to help you more efficiently find keywords and plan campaigns in adCenter." The tool will provide suggested keywords, the ability to add keywords to... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=BYANuf"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=BYANuf" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=ithaEK"><img src="http://feeds.f http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/376200346/018103.html Several Google Groups threads have been created in the last two weeks from disgruntled members who are running into issues with Feedburner In particular, their subscriber numbers are plummeting, which often occurs when Feedburner stops recording a service (and which... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=0I995w"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=0I995w" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=94eiEK"><i http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/376146340/018100.html A WebmasterWorld thread reports that many publishers have started to notice that their Google AdSense ads are not showing up when someone accesses their pages via the Google cache. For example, a recent Google cache copy of my personal blog... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=vOroJm"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=vOroJm" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=C59dyK"><img src="http://feeds.feedb http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/376241524/018105.html A few months ago, we reported on Google Popular Picks -- topics that webmasters are interested in but may not have an "official" voice from the Google Webmaster Team (yet!). In a Google Groups thread, the Google team asks webmasters... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=YBk6xb"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=YBk6xb" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=bHlWfK"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.co http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/339518144/ On June 26th, 2008, I was looking at the domain name auction listings at SnapNames and saw a domain name that caught my eye. For some reason, I just “liked” the domain. So, I bid on it. Apparently I was the sole bidder, so I won the domain, fair and square, for $99. It was ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/357775793/ Paris Hilton fired back at John McCain in response to Presidential Candidate John McCain’s recent television ad. John McCain’s TV ad compared Senator Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Paris Hilton stayed atop the Lycos to(TM) Top Search Terms for the week ending August 2nd, 2008. Every week Lycos comes out with a ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/376237558/ Ask.com has re-launched their search engine for kids at www.AskKids.com. School is now back in session (at least it is for the kids here in Texas), so now is great time for kids to start using this new search engine. What’s important for me, as a parent of an 8 year old in third grade and ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/339230338/ comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. In June 2008, Google retained its lead in the U.S. search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly from 61.8 percent in May. ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/344691172/ Search Engine Roundtable recently pointed out that you can now search all of the US Government web sites courtesy of Google. Using Google’s new Uncle Sam search, you can now search the US Government websites. I can see how this would be very useful, especially if you wanted some unbiased government data. But wait! Last year ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/336180589/ Photo courtesy TechCrunch. Paul Levine, former GM of Yahoo! Local, has joined Zvents board of directors as Zvents continues to grow both its network and innovative local search platform. His experience with local listings will prove invaluable as the platform continues to support local business as is done offline; by way of event promotion. This news ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/370289062/ It seems as though everyone wants something done quickly, or nearly instantly. We want success quickly. We want to be successful online and we want to get links to our web sites quickly. We want traffic to our web sites quickly. There are many reasons why you would want to get an “influx” of links to ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/338178600/ According to Lycos, the rumors of an affair between Alex Rodriguez and Madonna caused a huge surge in the number of searches for their names last week. Other searches that surged last week were searches for Grey’s Anatomy’s Katherine Heigl, Nicole Kidman, Jesse Jackson and the iPhone. Lycos maintains The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/350819621/ Global digital marketing agency iCrossing has announced their findings of their Vertical Visibility Index: Automotive. They’re saying that Chrysler, General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Nissan are tops when it comes to online search visibility. The Vertical Visibility Index: Automotive is the first in their series of studies that analyzes the paid and organic/natural search media visibility. They ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/363971047/ SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, and Onward Search, a nationwide search engine marketing staffing company, has announced what they’re calling a “joint partnership” to promote programs that will increase the number of career opportunities in search engine marketing for job seekers seeking to enter the industry. Through this joint partnership, SEMPO and Onward Search ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/342960169/ Well, Nickycakes managed to get his hands on these a little early, so enjoy!   Sorry for the formatting, but its copy/pasted and the Cakes is far too lazy to format it properly.  This is why your ads keep getting rejected: Summary of Policy Changes 1. Personalized ads • You can only use profile attributes (age, gender, location) in ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/356401261/ Ok, so Nickycakes is, at heart, pretty lazy about some stuff.  The ad spots on this site havent changed in months and the people advertising haven’t even been billed for them in months, mostly because it’s a pain to keep track of whos buying what ads and when to bill them all for like $300 ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/342741022/ Looks like Affiliate Summit East Boston Tickets are about to sell out in the next couple days, so if you’re planning on going, now is the time to get your tix.  ASE is shaping up to be an awesome time.  A bout 75 people signed up with the free code Nickycakes posted last month and ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/368482606/ Ok, so it’s been about a week since Affiliate Summit East Boston 08 finished up, and Nickycakes this it’s high time for a post detailing what went down.  First a small disclaimer.  Some events and people have been left out at their request, many understandably so.  If you feel like you want to be removed ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/373749154/ Alright, so back in January, Cakes’ boy homeboy Yi sent him a free 20″ monitor which, at the time, was a huge improvement to the tiny 17″ single monitor setup he’d been using for years.  Here’s the state of Nickycakes’ home office back in Jan: You’ll notice a few key parts in this pic.  First, the ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/358015883/ Recently there has been a lot of competition between the Affiliate Networks trying to 1-up eachother by offering bigger, better, and more expensive rewards for affiliates bringing in top volume.  Big screen TV’s, motorcycles, laptops, vacations, ipods, gift cards, and pretty much anything you could think of.  There are, however, some awesome affiliate program rewards ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/355578176/ Ok, so ASE is less than 1 week out, and judging from the number of people signed up just through Nickycakes’ link alone, turnout should be awesome.  At affiliate summit west over the winter, things were a little crazy.  Had the Cakes not hooked up with some peeps early on, it would have probably been ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/363463640/ Well, it was certainly awesome meeting everyone at affiliate summit boston.  Nickycakes had an awesome time, met a ton of great people, caught up with people from the last summit, ate a lot of good food, and got a lot of new ideas. The Cakes would like to formally appologize to everyone he sent to Underbar ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/354436122/ UPDATE: ASE Boston starts during Restaurant Week in Boston, which means that all the expensive restaurants in the city have special reduced price menus, which is great, but also means you need to make reservations ASAP if you want to even get a seat. One thing that Nickycakes prides himself on is his experience with eating ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/371361569/ It’s been a while since Cakes posted the super-popular gaming campaign (read: Still Can’t Make Money With Facebook Ads?) which consistantly gets hits every day despite that campaign being gone for months.  So it seems like a good time to put another good one out there. Almost every day someone PM’s Nickycakes asking if facebook ads ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/235551069/ Details about the fantastic new up and coming Google analytics desktop version build in Adobe Air. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/278814419/ As we grow and take on more and more clients as well as consult with smaller clients, there has been one very alarming trend that we have noticed. The majority of business owners coming to us asking us to “fix” or “improve” their PPC campaigns all arrive with their accounts in the same state. Poorly ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/359505579/ The time has come again. Irish SEOs, online marketers, webmasters, all members of the Irish Webmaster forum and anyone with an interest in all things web related are all welcome to come along to the second official IWF meetup. The event will once again be hosted by the Harbour Master in the IFSC, Dublin on Saturday ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/231273766/ The 2008 Irish blog awards are to be held on the 1st of March at 7.30pm in the Alexander Hotel in Dublin. This is a non profit event and al proceeds will go to charity. RedFly will be sponsoring the best journalist category. We hope to see you there. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/281879560/ PPC advertising is not only great for generating sales and qualified traffic, it’s also the BEST possible keyword research tool available. While other keyword research tools offer a general “starter” set of keywords in most verticals, most only give general words and without demographic information. PPC data can be used for a whole lot more ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/304140342/ Today, Google announced that it would be holding a website optimizer competition where you can win a partnership with a website optimizer to improve your sites ROI. The “webSite workout” competition is open only to those in the US (What’s new?) as advertisers outside the great United States don’t really spend that much on advertising. ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/324736549/ For those of you who are not advertising on facebook already (and even if you are) and want to give it a try, now there is a completely free way to test the waters. As part of the Visa Business promotion, Visa are offering $100 USD in advertising credit to facebook users/advertisers. To get the free ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/327591987/ There’s a lot of buzz in the online PR world about social networking, whether that be traditional social networks like Myspace and Facebook or social networking through microblogging services such as Twitter. Should you jump into social networking to promote your business? And if so, with so many options available, how do you choose which social ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/331214355/ An interview with the man who literally wrote the book on Search Engine Optimisation. Dave Davis from RedFly asks Aaron Wall some burning SEO questions relative to the state of the 2008-2009 web. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/redfly/~3/336228251/ A detailed article on using placement performance reports from the google content network to source domains with ROI to invest in. The article goes into specifics on how to run a placement performance report within adwords to get conversion data on parked and for sale domains. http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google/google-adds-onebox-results-for-premiership-football/ I just spotted Google is showing onebox results for queries relating to English football clubs. A simple club search query brings back their next fixture. Screenshot below - Only seems to be Premiership clubs currently. Cool. Update - Google have now added last game results alongside the next fixture. As below - http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/2-days-later/ It’s been a couple of days since Googles keyword trademarking policy change and it’s interesting to see many advertisers have already been slapped out of the bidding. In a quality score world, its not as simple as bidding against any brand due to quality based minimum bids. Although you might be able to display against ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/google-keyword-trademark-policy-change-are-you-prepared/ Ok so the 5th of May lift on Google keyword trademarking date is nearly here. Are you prepared? Are your clients? Are you going all out aggressively to bid against competitors trademarks?. Are you going to start bidding against your own brand as protection?. Perhaps a mixture?. Or are you going to wait and see what your competitors do? Looks ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/why-im-not-a-fan-of-submitting-sitemaps/ This question seems to come up a lot still and while I believe sitemaps in general can be great for helping search engine spiders crawl your site and an effective way of spreading out linkjuice (with some nice anchor text) they can also bite you in the arse when not used intelligently. Certainly submitting sitemaps ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/hiding-links-in-flash/ Interesting experiment by the Neutralize Guava guys over on Search Engine War blog where they tested and proved that Google is now indexing links in flash. Next up for them to prove is whether text in a flash button acts as an anchor on those links… Pretty big achievement by the Google/Adobe engineers, flash still ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/search-engine-marketing/always-get-the-dot-com/ I always wanted the ppcblog.com domain, but unfortunately it was registered before I got the chance. At the time, the .net & .org were available aswell as the .co.uk and nobody had built a brand around the name ‘PPC blog‘ in the same way there were seo blogs seemingly everywhere. About 2 years ago when I developed ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/123-reg-hacked-awghfjuhrfgh/ Another example of a Wordpress blog being hacked and injected with hidden links to viagra, tramadol and the like. Their blog is on a subdomain of the main site - http://inside.123-reg.co.uk/ If the self acclaimed ‘UK’s largest web host’ can’t protect their own blog or even spot they have a big problem, what hope is there ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/the-hypocrisy-of-google-nofollow/ Ok, so I was just reading the official Google blog today about their new 3D virtual experience product called Lively when I noticed some big red lines. Anyone who uses the SEO for firefox extension knows that red means the ‘nofollow’ attribute is being used on a link. So what are Google applying the ‘nofollow’ attribute to ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/nme-first-for-spam/ It’s festival season and I have been browsing here and there getting all excited about seeing some great bands and having a few beverages in the sun rain. Anyway, NME is first for music news (apparently) but it also seems their forums have been totally nuked by spam. The main forum boards has a nice toolbar ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/google-still-not-treating-underscores-as-word-seperators/ There is still some debate whether the search engines place any weight on keywords used within page urls and that’s actually what I wanted to quickly test. So I set up a couple of pages from this blog and included unique words within the page url, one separated by hyphens (dashes) and the other by ...]