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6Sep/100

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 6, 2010

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....

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 6, 2010

6Sep/100

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 4, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Forcing Some Searchers Into 20 Search Results For some searchers, Google seems to be forcing them into 20 or more search results on a page.

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 4, 2010

6Sep/100

Accepting Speaker Pitches for SphinnCon Israel

About 25 days ago I announced the next Israel SEO/SEM conference.

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Accepting Speaker Pitches for SphinnCon Israel

6Sep/100

Google Now Indexing SVG, SEOs Don’t Care

Last week, Google announced they are now indexing SVG, Scalable Vector Graphics. As a searcher, you can now find SVG documents in the Google index

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Google Now Indexing SVG, SEOs Don't Care

6Sep/100

Google Showing 20+ Results Despite Search Setting

Ever since the weekend, when I do a search at Google, Google is returning 20 or more (I am seeing 30 results) search results on the page. I checked my Google search setting preference and it was set to show...

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6Sep/100

Social Media Marketing – NOT for Everyone?

After 10 years of preaching the merits of search engine optimization to sceptical business owners, I’ve found there’s a new challenge in online marketing and it’s a funny one. Nearly all business owners I meet think they should use social media marketing to promote their businesses, but a good number have a real aversion to using social networking channels.

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Social Media Marketing – NOT for Everyone?

6Sep/100

Google Forcing Some Searchers Into 20 Search Results

For some searchers, Google seems to be forcing them into 20 or more search results on a page. By default, Google shows searchers 10 results on a page, but even if that searcher specified 10 on a page, some may be seeing twenty or more per page

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Google Forcing Some Searchers Into 20 Search Results

6Sep/100

Google AdWords "Try Also" Suggesting "Breasts"

Many by now have seen the "try also" section under some of the AdWords results on a Google search. Google started testing them in March and went forward with them months ago.

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Google AdWords "Try Also" Suggesting "Breasts"

6Sep/100

Google’s Top AdWords Advertisers: Leaked Document Reveals Advertising Dollars

adAge obtained an “internal Google document” that disclosed the first half of 2010 AdWords advertising spend of Google’s customers. As you can imagine, the numbers of pretty revealing. It showed that $574 million was spent, where 1,356 advertisers spent between $10,000 and $100,000.

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Google’s Top AdWords Advertisers: Leaked Document Reveals Advertising Dollars

6Sep/100

How to Piss off an Online Community – 4 Recent Examples

People are resistant to change.  We find solace in our daily routines.  And because social media sites have become a part of that routine (for better or worse) even small changes to those services can effect us.    So while not every change is bad, and most (if not all) will have their naysayers, some changes are just harder to swallow than others.  Here are 4 recent (and very public) examples of changes that caused the respective communities to lash out. Betray your users’