http://forums.seo.com/ Any news relating to the search engine marketing industry can be posted here. Posts can include links to blogs and press releases that relate to the specific news. en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:02:12 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.seo.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.seo.com/ http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7907-From-Matt-Cutts-s-Blog-Thoughts-on-Google-Instant&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:12:39 GMT By Matt Cutts

The blogosphere is absorbing today’s announcement of Google Instant. I wanted to give some context and some thoughts.Google’s web search (and web search infrastructure) team tries to do several things well:- We want the most comprehensive index of the web. We explore ways to crawl the web deeper, faster, and better, from increasing our index [...]

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7907-From-Matt-Cutts-s-Blog-Thoughts-on-Google-Instant http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7906-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-Hand-Write-Your-Searches-in-Yahoo!-Taiwan-and-Hong-Kong&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:40:39 GMT Yahoo! Search continues to roll out innovative features to make entering queries easier, and we’ve just added a new feature for the Yahoo! Taiwan... Yahoo! Search continues to roll out innovative features to make entering queries easier, and we’ve just added a new feature for the Yahoo! Taiwan (Yahoo! Kimo) and Yahoo! Hong Kong search box. You can now hand-write queries on the writing panel next to the search button in either traditional Chinese or English.Typing search queries in [...]

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7906-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-Hand-Write-Your-Searches-in-Yahoo!-Taiwan-and-Hong-Kong http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7905-Google-Instant-—-Instantly-Changing-the-Way-We-Search&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:38:13 GMT By Ash Buckles Google announced a new feature this morning named Google Instant that focuses on returning search results faster than ever. The... By Ash Buckles

Google announced a new feature this morning named Google Instant that focuses on returning search results faster than ever. The already fast search engine just got faster by returning results as you type. According to the product page it intends to bring: Faster Searches: By predicting your search and showing results before you finish typing, Google Instant can ... Read more

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How this will affect search trends and future conversions is definitely interesting.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/...d-of-type.html ]]> Industry News manray http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7904-Google-Instant http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7903-Split-Testing-–-Knowing-is-Half-the-Battle-Part-3&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:40:37 GMT By Josh Summerhays This is part three in a series of four posts on understanding the realities and challenges of split testing to improve your... By Josh Summerhays

This is part three in a series of four posts on understanding the realities and challenges of split testing to improve your website’s conversion rate. If you missed earlier parts in the series, you can read them here: Part 1: Traffic considerations Part 2: Choosing meaningful tests Once you have enough traffic to the page you’d like ... Read more

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7903-Split-Testing-–-Knowing-is-Half-the-Battle-Part-3 http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7884-Internet-Marketing-Affiliate-Program-Enables-Anyone-to-Offer-SEO.com-Services&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:56:40 GMT By Dan Bischoff SEO.com starts Internet marketing affiliate program to allow others to offer SEO.com services and make money by referring clients.... By Dan Bischoff

SEO.com starts Internet marketing affiliate program to allow others to offer SEO.com services and make money by referring clients. SALT LAKE CITY – On the heels of forming a partnership with Boostability.com and launching SEO services for small and medium-sized businesses, SEO.com now offers an affiliate program.“There are a lot of small companies, entrepreneurs, bloggers and ... Read more

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7884-Internet-Marketing-Affiliate-Program-Enables-Anyone-to-Offer-SEO.com-Services http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7883-SEO.com-Welcomes-Affiliates&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:16:25 GMT By Lori Gilson SEO.com is excited to announce the launch of our Affiliate Program. If you have a website that gets a lot of traffic, or you have... By Lori Gilson

SEO.com is excited to announce the launch of our Affiliate Program. If you have a website that gets a lot of traffic, or you have clients that would benefit from search marketing, you should join. Affiliates have access to links, ads, email templates and real-time reporting. You can log into your account 24 hours/day to check traffic, ... Read more

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7883-SEO.com-Welcomes-Affiliates http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7869-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-Get-Behind-the-Lens-at-the-MTV-VMAs-with-Yahoo!-Search&goto=newpost Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:16:14 GMT We’re counting down to find out who will take home a Moon Man at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, 2010. This year, Yahoo! is partnering... We’re counting down to find out who will take home a Moon Man at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, 2010. This year, Yahoo! is partnering with MTV to launch “Behind the Lens,” a video hub where you can see this year’s nominated videos with pop-up Flash overlays that help you discover [...]

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7869-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-Get-Behind-the-Lens-at-the-MTV-VMAs-with-Yahoo!-Search http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7864-From-Matt-Cutts-s-Blog-30-day-challenge-update-meditation!&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:51:20 GMT By Matt Cutts

It’s time for an update on my 30 day challenges. Here’s what I’ve done the last few months: June: I didn’t respond to email after 10 p.m. and I read the New Testament of the Bible. Both were interesting in different ways. It turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me to [...]

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7864-From-Matt-Cutts-s-Blog-30-day-challenge-update-meditation! http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7863-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-Yahoo!-Search-Serves-Suggestions-Closer-to-You&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:04:47 GMT We’re making Search more intuitive by taking user context and applying it to the search experience. Today we are introducing an enhanced Yahoo!... We’re making Search more intuitive by taking user context and applying it to the search experience. Today we are introducing an enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist, providing suggestions geographically closer to you as you type your query.* Sitting here in our Yahoo! headquarters at Sunnyvale, if I type “santa” from Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, *I get [...]

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7863-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-Yahoo!-Search-Serves-Suggestions-Closer-to-You http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7862-If-Internet-Marketing-Was-a-Football-Team-Position-by-Position-Breakdown&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:04:47 GMT By Dan Bischoff .blog-single h3 {font-size:18px;} College Football is back tonight with Utah vs. Pittsburgh. Other local games this weekend... By Dan Bischoff

.blog-single h3 {font-size:18px;} College Football is back tonight with Utah vs. Pittsburgh. Other local games this weekend include BYU vs. Washington and Utah State vs. Oklahoma. Everything is right in the world again. In honor of college football’s return, here are the position-by-position starters if Internet marketing strategies made up a football team: Head Coach – Analytics ... Read more

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7862-If-Internet-Marketing-Was-a-Football-Team-Position-by-Position-Breakdown http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7859-SEO-for-eCommerce-Part-Two-Poor-Site-Structure&goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:52:55 GMT By Dustin Williams You have been waiting for it all summer and now it is finally here! My follow up post to SEO for eCommerce Part One: Content... By Dustin Williams

You have been waiting for it all summer and now it is finally here! My follow up post to SEO for eCommerce Part One: Content Woes. Before I go into details on the next biggest problem with eCommerce sites and search indexing, I will take a few minutes to reply to some of the questions that ... Read more

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7859-SEO-for-eCommerce-Part-Two-Poor-Site-Structure http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7857-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-Live-Now-Yahoo!-US-Open-Shortcut&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:15:54 GMT The US Open is heating up on Yahoo! Search. This week we are launching the US Open Shortcut to help you find the information you want when you search... The US Open is heating up on Yahoo! Search. This week we are launching the US Open Shortcut to help you find the information you want when you search for the championships. Whether you’re a dedicated fan or just want to check out Maria Sharapova’s outfit, simply search for ‘US Open’ or your favorite player. You [...]

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7857-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-Live-Now-Yahoo!-US-Open-Shortcut http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7856-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-August-Search-Trends-Kermit-McNuggets-and-Back-to-School&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:40:14 GMT It’s summertime and the livin’ is easy, but at Yahoo! Search we’ve been busy fielding queries about everything from Kermit the Frog to Zsa Zsa Gabor.Early in the month US users showed interest in Ramadan, the month of fasting which began on the evening of the 10th. Searchers looked for the meaning of Ramadan, activities [...]

More... ]]> Industry News Lori http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7856-From-Yahoo!-Search-Blog-August-Search-Trends-Kermit-McNuggets-and-Back-to-School http://forums.seo.com/showthread.php?7850-5-Ways-Clients-Trip-Up-Their-Own-SEO&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:10:20 GMT By Rick Hardman One the largest hurdles in getting a website to rank well and make money for a client, can be the client themselves. It is hard... By Rick Hardman

One the largest hurdles in getting a website to rank well and make money for a client, can be the client themselves. It is hard to watch a well-meaning client get in their own way and not know it. For that reason I am writing this post to help them understand what they can do ... Read more

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