Category Archives: Search News

Search Matters Weekly Pravda

Здравствулте! Камрады! Добро пожаловать к правде людей!
Search links for you to enable your fight against capitalist aggression and banishment to the search engine gulag (supplemental results).
За успеха нашево безнадёжнова дела!

Comrade Jane explains the downside of democratic link baiting. (SEO moz)
Titleist fails to make social media campaign fly. Power to the people. (SMO)
Yahoo Assist helps aid [...]

Google: Flash Fixes Can Be “Dangerous”

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 [...]

Search Matters Weekly Search Declaration

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 [...]

Monetizing YouTube Traffic

In a recent post on international video search, we looked at the new portals being launched by YouTube and MySpace, and how they could open new marketing channels to a global audience. But how exactly does a YouTube video translate into SEO results, and does that traffic have any commercial value?
Videos grab attention
The connection between [...]

Search Matters Weekly Search = $array[]

Dust off the O’Reilly PHP manual and get ready for a linkdump(). Just add your own while{} to this, loop, output, rinse and repeat.

[0] => Blogs are the new Rolodex, baby. Boost your career with your blog network you tech savvy internet writer, you. (Boston.com)
[1] => Ripped from the headlines: How Law & Order, [...]

The New Ask.com: Part 3

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 Nougat

Just like the nutty sweet paste in the middle of your afternoon candy bar, this week’s search links will pack a powerful burst of sugary energy to get you through the rest of the day. Unless you’re allergic to nuts; in which case, that tingling you may be feeling is probably anaphalixis. Two words. [...]

Search Matters Weekly Search Panoply

Break out your Mortimer Ichabod Marker you wordsmiths, you. It’s time for another edition of weekly search links. I’ve been getting some resistance from the upper echelons on the quality and tone of these weekly posts, that perhaps they are not moving in the direction originally intended. But I think we’re on to something here. [...]

The New Ask.com: Part 1

Behold the new and, in our opinion, improved Ask.com. Now more Web 2.0-er! With all the talk about GUS and it’s impact on search, this quiet little launch might have gone unnoticed, except for that fact that SEO’s notice everything. We’re methodical like that. We took a look at the new interface and the results [...]

Search Matters Weekly Search Crunk

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 [...]