Search Engine Roundtable

Thanksgiving Greetings 2009 From Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & Search Industry

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:10:27 PST

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, it is my favorite holiday. As you can imagine, the search news (as in all news) will be slow today, so here is a look at today's special logos, themes and designs from our industry. We have...

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 25, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:00:00 PST

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....

What Are Google's 200 Search Engine Ranking Factors?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:25:21 PST

A neat new WebmasterWorld thread is trying to do the impossible by putting down on paper, what exactly are the 200 or so search engine ranking factors used by Google. The thread creator put out a few dozen ranking factors,...

Snagging Google Maps Reviews From Your Competitors

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:15:55 PST

A Google Maps Help thread has an interesting report of one business having the reviews of another. If you look at the Thomas French, DC, Chiropractor reviews, they look great, but when you look at Dr Keith Overland, it seems...

Banned Google AdWords Accounts Will Likely Never Be Unsuspended

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:02:08 PST

As you know, Google has stepped up disabling and banning AdWords advertisers. The bans result in the advertiser not being able to set up new accounts and Google is stricter about who they ban. In fact, I am getting phone...

A Look at Google AdWords Newish Ads

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:56:05 PST

The Google blog is coming clean on the various ad formats they have, outside the standard text ads. Like I did over at Search Engine Land, I will post the various ad formats below. Google Video AdWords Ads: Google AdWords...

Google AdWords Opens Product Ads To All U.S. Advertisers

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:22 PST

The day has come where Google has opened the product ads product to all U.S. advertisers. I believe Google is running two types of product ads, although I am not 100% sure. I believe one is commission based product AdWords...

Google Drops "Search within results" Search Box?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:37:44 PST

Back in March 2008, Google began testing search boxes in the search results, it was later seen more often as Google began to like the tests they have seen from it. Now, it seems like it is gone for most...

85% Required to Pass Google AdWords Professional Exam

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:31:01 PST

A Google AdWords Help thread asks what do you need to score in order to pass the Google AdWords Professional exam? There are two exams: (1) Google Advertising Professionals Exam (2) Fundamentals and Search Exam The first one, the Google...

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 24, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:00:00 PST

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....

Google Bug Removes Web Designers in Local Pack

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:22:27 PST

Now, if you do a search for web design, web development, or most digital agency like queries, with or without a local qualifier (i.e. web design new york), Google won't show the local 7 pack. Mike Blumenthal covered this well,...

Buy a Banned Domain? Should You Ask Google for Forgiveness?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:11:11 PST

A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who allegedly purchased a domain name that was banned by Google. He basically asked, how does he get this domain to be clean and start over. In the past, I would have said, just...

SEO Gets a Google Birthday Cake

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:04:31 PST

An SEO from DigitalPoint Forums is celebrating a birth day. What is so special about his birthday? Well, his sister baked him a cake, but not just any kind of cake, a Google cake. He explained: Hey, it's my birthday...

News Corp May De-List Themselves From Google & Partner With Microsoft Bing

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:55:05 PST

Let me summarize some of the news around News Corp, Google and Microsoft Bing over the past couple weeks. Rupert Murdoch of News Corp is upset that Google indexes his news sites content without paying a fee for doing so....

Bing on Link Building

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:47:37 PST

The Bing Search blog wrote a blog post on link building for "smart webmasters." A WebmasterWorld thread is currently dissecting that blog post, piece by piece. Martinibuster, Roger Montti, took the time to pull out the key points of the...