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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 17, 2010

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:00:00 PDT

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....

St. Patrick's Day Logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:46:12 PDT

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! We typically post a collection of the various logos from the search industry, including Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and others for the special day. To see the past years logo see our 2009, 2008, 2007,...

Why Did You Get into the SEO Field?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:35:01 PDT

A HighRankings Forums thread asks a fun question, why did you get into the SEO field? I decided to tweet the question via @rustybrick and I received some quick responses. The purpose of the tweet was to try to create...

SEOs Continue To Dissect Eric Enge's Interview of Google's Matt Cutts

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:26:02 PDT

As most SEOs know, Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts, of Google. Eric is probably one of the best technical interviewers I know, so whenever he posts an interview, I try to read them carefully. When he posted an interview of...

More Google Caffeine Speculation : Is It Almost Live?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:16:35 PDT

Let me start off by saying this is speculation, Google has not (I repeat, NOT) confirmed this. A WebmasterWorld thread has renewed reports that Caffeine, Google's new index, is going live really soon. Since yesterday, dozens of webmasters in the...

Google Opens 3rd Party Ad Networks To All AdSense Publishers

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:08:05 PDT

Last night, Google announced they are opening up the "Google-certified ad networks" to all AdSense publishers. The Google-certified ad networks are 3rd party advertising networks that are thrown into the bidding war with your AdSense powered ads. Google initially tested...

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 16, 2010

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:00:00 PDT

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....

SES NY 2010 Live Blogging Schedule

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:03:28 PDT

SES New York is a week from today and we will be providing live blogging coverage of the event - yet again. Every year I say I will retire from doing it, but then I continue to do it. Heh....

Why The SEO Industry Is Special

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:04:50 PDT

I have been part of the SEO industry for a pretty long time now. The thing is, I really don't offer SEO services, but yet, I still write about the industry, cover the news and go to the industry gatherings....

Google Providing SEO Support For Muti-Regional Web Sites

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:52:32 PDT

JohnMu from Google posted a blog post named Working with multi-regional websites. The post goes over many of the SEO implications behind making multiple web sites all targeting different regions around the world. John discusses URL structures, hosting, domains, using...

Google Hungary Shows Italy's Colors On Hungary's National Day

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:36:29 PDT

Reported via the Google Web Search Help forums, Google Hungry's web site yesterday was sporting a logo for Hungary's National Day, which was on March 15th. The Google Doodle reportedly had the wrong logo. Here is the Google Doodle as...

Warning: Google My Maps Bug Can Impact Your Maps

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:28:15 PDT

Google Maps Guide, Cecelia, created a Google Maps Help thread warning users not to edit their Google My Maps. The specific issue is with editing the Place Details in the My Maps. If you do edit it now, it may...

Facebook.com Beats Out Google.com In Web Visitors This Week

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:22:37 PDT

Hitwise reports that Facebook.com surpassed Google.com in visits to become the most visited website for the week ending in March 13, 2010. It is not the first time this has happened, on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day...

Ask Sponsored Listings Stops Sending Referrer Data

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:09:25 PDT

Ask Sponsored Listings recently launched a new platform which is managed by what they called Pureleads. Ask advertisers have been receiving emails about the change in the past week or so. One savvy advertiser, Jerry Nordstrom, posted a thread at...

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 2010

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:00:00 PDT

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....