This is Part 1 in an 5-part series of posts on a recent SEMNE session that gave the audience access to a Google insider. Dan Crow, Program Manager of Crawl Systems, was the guest speaker to an audience of about 100, ranging from SEO novices to industry experts.
Google displayed a new degree of openness [...]
Category Archives: Organic Search
Google: Flash Fixes Can Be “Dangerousâ€
July 16, 2007 – 8:38 am
Search Matters Weekly Search Declaration
July 12, 2007 – 2:22 pm
We skipped the links last week because we were all celebrating the Fourth of July in a 100% real American hero, patriotic way. Even the two dudes on the organic team from Canada. We take that very seriously here. Like SEO. Nothing says red blooded American Apple pie like some good ole patriotic SEO. So [...]
International Video Search Arrives
June 29, 2007 – 4:09 pm
Now that online video has become mainstream in the U.S., video portals are venturing abroad. Does this represent a new opportunity for online marketers? Let’s take a quick look at the new developments:
YouTube
Google will be rolling out navigation, framework, and domain names for localized versions of its market-leading YouTube video portal. Right now, YouTube is [...]
The New Ask.com: Part 3
June 21, 2007 – 9:57 am
This is the third and final installment of our assessment of the new Ask.com. As the resident linguist here, I will discuss some of the natural language technologies that have been foregrounded in the new interface. And, as a member of the paid search team, I will discuss the impact of the new [...]
Search Matters Weekly Search Crunk
June 1, 2007 – 9:05 am
Time to get it crunk up on it and throw down the gangsta SEO links for this week. You can tell I’m 100% street because I said gangsta and crunk. I’m practically a legend in my cubicle. My t-shirt that says THUGLIFE has a rip in it. That’s all I’m saying.
Get your jazz hands ready [...]
What does ‘Meaning’ Mean to a Search Engine?
May 30, 2007 – 1:15 pm
Outside of the government and universities, no one hires more people with PhDs in linguistics than search engines. One major reason for this is that a search engine needs to deliver results that are not based on the string of characters you type into the search box, but instead based on what your string [...]
Top 5 Worst of Search For May
May 18, 2007 – 12:59 pm
This is the first in a monthly series of posts highlighting the humorous, ridiculous and absurd in the world of search engine listings. In an age of automated keyword research and campaign management, with rich internet technologies evolving faster than the people who use them, some weird, funny stuff is bound to happen. [...]
Search Matters Weekly Search Hotness
May 16, 2007 – 2:32 pm
Normally I just post search links here with the exaggeratedly plain title “Search Matters Weekly Search links”. Well, you know what? We need to add a pinch of SEO spice to this weekly mélange of tasty Search goodness, so I’m going to try out some cinnamony sweet new titles and, in the spirit of [...]
Búsqueda hispána: “El que llega primero al rio bebe agua limpia”
May 16, 2007 – 12:14 pm
Como Latina y parte del equipo de Calatyst, me ha llamado mucho la atención el hecho de que muy pocas industrias, hayan tomado ventaja del mercado Hispano que tan rápidamente va aumentando
En 2002 se hizo oficial la estadÃstica que posicionó, a la comunidad Hispana como la mayor minorÃa en los Estados Unidos, y creanme cuando [...]
Search Matters Weekly Search Links
April 4, 2007 – 2:31 pm
There are a lot of hot search topics going on this week from litigation, to PPA, to Google’s right hand not know what their left hand is doing. Try to keep up.
Google’s Website Optimizer is now out of beta in into …whatever Greek letter comes after beta. Is it cloaking? Is Google so big that [...]
