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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 18, 2008

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.... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Yesterday, 6:00pm

Weekly Search Buzz Roundup - 07/18/08: Google Ranking Technology, Comic Sans Disappears & Google Fridge Meltdown

Today's my dad's birthday, so before I actually start off the roundup, I just wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! There, now that I got that out of the way, it's going to be 97 degrees today in New York.... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Yesterday, 1:00pm

Can a META Description Kill Your Rankings?

A WebmasterWorld member says that when he changed his meta description, his rankings plummeted on his site. In the past, US courts found META tags immaterial but Google has recommended it. Tedster points to previous WebmasterWorld coverage that shows that... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Yesterday, 10:40am

Google and Microsoft's Second Quarter Results Revealed

Techmeme has the big buzz about Google's second quarter earnings. Google claimed this was a strong quarter with 35% in profits ($3.92 per share), but their earnings still didn't meet analysts' expectations. Meanwhile, Microsoft's earnings also rose. The company's fiscal... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Yesterday, 10:16am

Google AdWords Allows Deeper Targeting With "Keywords + Placements"

Google announced an exciting feature for AdWords advertisers yesterday. Google explained the feature as, "instead of creating separate campaigns for keywords and placements, you can now include both in any campaign. All ad groups now have tabs for both keywords... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Yesterday, 9:22am

Did Ask.com Stop or Slow Crawling the Web?

A WebmasterWorld thread reports Ask.com's crawler has seemed to slow down to a halt. Some webmasters are reporting zero crawling activity from Ask.com, while others are reporting extremely limited crawling activity. WebmasterWorld moderator, jdMorgan, noticed the slow down to, he... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Yesterday, 9:14am

Are City/State Landing Pages Also Doorway Pages? Google Thinks So

A Google Groups thread has discussion on the topic of dynamically creating pages to target localized searches. For example, this particular webmaster wants to be able to target 28 different zip codes for his client's A/C business. He summarizes what... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Yesterday, 9:03am

Ant Colony Optimization

Take the time to properly code the internal links on your site. Read more...

Google Search Engine Optimization, Jul 17, 10:06pm

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 2008

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.... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 6:00pm

Google in Class Action Lawsuit Over AdSense for Parked Domains

InformationWeek reports that there's a class action suit against Google about having AdSense on parked domains when they aren't likely to yield conversions. In the specific case, a legal services provider had his ads running for about 6 weeks on... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 11:14am

What are the Technologies Behind the Google Ranking?

The official Google Blog had a post yesterday about the technologies that are behind the Google ranking, following up from a post about how Google ranks results. Amit Singhal is at it again and he talks about the importance of... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 10:42am

Search Engine Optimization: You Don't Know it All

I've personally found a number of people who consider that because SEO seems like "optimizing title tags, doing keyword research, and adding a little extra to a website," they can be search engine optimizers too. In the past few weeks,...

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Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 10:26am

Tracking Search Traffic Versus Content Traffic in Microsoft adCenter

Since the tide seems to be shifting and more and more advertisers are opting for Microsoft adCenter over Yahoo Search Marketing, I thought I share with you a recent adCenter related thread from WebmasterWorld. Let's say you wanted to track...

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Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 9:39am

Google Only Uses Exact Match Data for Quality Score Metrics

This may be an obvious fact for many Google AdWords professionals, but I am sure many people do not know this. According to a Google AdWords representative, Google only uses exact match data for quality score analysis data. AdWordsPro Sarah...

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Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 9:34am

More Yahoo Search Changes in July? Oh, Also Google

Let me take you back a few steps before getting into this update. On June 30th, Yahoo announced an update that did not update any of the search results around that date. Several days later, around July 7th, webmasters began... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 9:27am

Google Analytics Switch Data Processing Times or Reporting Errors?

Over the course of a month or two, many Google Analytics users began distrusting the reports provided in Google Analytics. We now have more reports, this time via Search Engine Roundtable Forums of Google Analytics not reporting accurate numbers. I... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 9:18am

Official YouTube Support Comes to Google Groups

The YouTube Blog announced that they have launched a YouTube support forum at Google Groups. The forum can be found at groups.google.com/group/youtube-help. As you know, we track forums for new discoveries, insights and hot topics. So we will be adding... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 17, 9:11am

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 16, 2008

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.... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 16, 6:00pm

The Google Keyword Tool is Useless for SEO, and Here's Why

Michael VanDeMar wrote an interesting post on his blog about the uselessness of the Google Keyword tool for SEO. He explains that while we reported that the tool is showing keyword numbers, it still isn't helpful. His rationale is that... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 16, 11:10am

Potential Threat: Your Yahoo Keyword Prices May Increase Due to Yahoo-Google Deal

CNet reports that the search advertising agreement between Google and Yahoo can seriously impact advertisers -- in a bad way. CNet's report states that "A Yahoo-Google deal could drive up Yahoo keyword prices by an average of 22 percent." The... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 16, 10:21am

Viacom Lays Off Demands for YouTube Viewing Records

Earlier this month, we reported that Viacom ordered Google to turn over YouTube records. Google will now have to give Viacom the records, but in a compromise, without data that will identify users, according to BBC News. Many people are... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 16, 10:21am

Google Continues to Yo-Yo the Search Results

Part two of the WebmasterWorld thread on the July 2008 Google update discussion is virtually all about how Google is yo-yoing the results. Meaning, one day a site can have top positions for a keyword phrase in Google, the next... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 16, 8:51am

YahooSarah Goes MIA - Blame Yahoo Publisher Network?

Yahoo has been having a rough time over the course of the past several months. But that doesn't mean the company stops working and competing, at least that is what you would think. YahooSarah, the official Yahoo representative at WebmasterWorld,... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 16, 8:45am

Tips For Outsourcing Link Building

There is a newish WebmasterWorld thread that is just getting started on the topic of tips on outsourcing link building to India, South America or other countries outside of your local region. Here are the initial tips this SEO learned... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 16, 8:40am

Duplicate Sitemaps Should Not Cause a Problem with Google

A Google Groups thread asks if having two Sitemaps for the same site will cause an issue with Google. In short, Google said no. Why does this site have two Sitemaps? Well, the only way for multiple Google Accounts to... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 16, 8:35am

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 15, 2008

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.... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 15, 6:00pm

Google Improves Flash Indexing Again

On the first day of this month, we reported that Google and Yahoo were to begin indexing Flash files. According to the pertinent Google Webmaster Central blog post, Google is able to crawl the contextual elements in these blog posts.... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 15, 10:47am

Google AdWords Pros Are Looking for Forum Members to Improve Group Experience

Do you frequent Google Groups for help on your Google AdWords account? AdWordsPro.Sarah says in a forum post that the AdWords team is looking for feedback to improve the forum user experience. If you want to offer your feedback, respond... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 15, 10:38am

Huge Drop in Google Traffic? Can't Find The Problem? Check Your Links

Recently I have been reading and hearing a lot of webmasters complain about a huge drop in their Google traffic. There are just too many threads to reference, so I thought I reference one valuable post by JohnMu of Google.... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 15, 9:01am

Yahoo Site Command Works Without Applying [site:]?

I am not sure if this is new but it seems if you search in Yahoo for www.domain.com, Yahoo will return results as if you submitted a site command to Yahoo. For example, a search on www.seroundtable.com returns about 18,800,... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 15, 8:54am

Google AdWords Sandbox Tool Fussy With Diacritics (/da͡iəˈkrɪtɪk/) or Cyrillics

Diacritics are those letters that have a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation. For example, Mexico is often spelled México, with the special é. So when you want to tailor your ads to a specific region and... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 15, 8:43am

Google Fridges Begin To Melt Down

Back in April of 2006, Google began sending out Google Fridges to some of their larger advertisers as a thank you. Well, I am now seeing reports via WebmasterWorld that those fridges are beginning to break. WebmasterWorld's Hubie said: I...

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Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 15, 8:34am

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 14, 2008

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.... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 14, 6:00pm

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft's Offer -- Again

After several months of indecision regarding the Microsoft-Yahoo merger, Techmeme shares multiple reports that Yahoo and Microsoft are no longer going to consider any sort of partnership (including one from the Yahoo press room.. The reasoning behind this is likely... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 14, 10:38am

Booting Your Competitors From Google's Local Results in Web Search

Ever since Google launched Universal Search, SEMs have been trying to leverage it to get their site into the first position within the vertical search engine that is ranking in the top slot. So for searches like new york hotel... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 14, 8:26am

Google Finally Removes Comic Sans Font From AdSense Ads

After Google began testing new AdSense fonts back in May of this year, including testing comic sans - Google has finally decided to drop it based on publisher complaints. AdSenseAdvisor at WebmasterWorld said: Based on publisher feedback, we have removed... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 14, 8:19am

Googler, Bergy - Berghausen, Leaves Google

I am sad to report that Mark Berghausen, aka Bergy, of Google Webmaster Central, has decided to leave Google to pursue his legal profession. Bergy, as he likes to go by, has responded to well over a 100 questions in... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 14, 8:06am

Bill Slawski, Cre8asite Forums Administrator Steps Down

Over the weekend, we learned that Bill Slawski, aka bragadocchio, has stepped down from his administrative duties at Cre8asite Forums. Bill has been with Cre8asite Forums, pretty much since the start, back in the Yahoo club days - as a... Read more...

Search Engine Roundtable, Jul 14, 8:00am