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: August 18, 2010
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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SES SFO: Search, PR & the Social Butterfly
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 10:45pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the Search, PR & the Social Butterfly from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Shanon Woodruff of RankSmart, Keri Morgret of MyNextCustomer & Ben Pfeiffer of RankSmart.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
Search, PR & the Social Butterfly
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SES SFO: It's All About the User: Search Insights for Your Site
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 10:45pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the It's All About the User: Search Insights for Your Site from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
It's All About the User: Search Insights for Your Site
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SES SFO: Crossing the Digital Divide: The Leap From Search to Display
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 8:45pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the Crossing the Digital Divide: The Leap From Search to Display from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Keri Morgret of MyNextCustomer.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
Crossing the Digital Divide: The Leap From Search to Display
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SES SFO: Bringing SEO In-House: The Pros and Cons
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 8:45pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the Bringing SEO In-House: The Pros and Cons from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Ben Pfeiffer of RankSmart.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
Bringing SEO In-House: The Pros and Cons
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SES SFO: News Search Optimization
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 8:45pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the News Search Optimization from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Shanon Woodruff of RankSmart.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
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SES SFO: Keynote - BJ Fogg Author, Persuasive Technology
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 7:15pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the Keynote - BJ Fogg Author, Persuasive Technology from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Keri Morgret of MyNextCustomer & Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
Keynote - BJ Fogg Author, Persuasive Technology
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Yahoo Site Explorer Migrating Into Bing Webmaster Tools & More
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 4:44pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Yahoo Search Optimization
As you know by now, Yahoo promised to complete the transition to being fully powered by Bing in the U.S. and Canada within a week of time. But what does that mean for the beloved Yahoo Site Explorer or BOSS or Search Monkey?
Site Explorer will stick around until all of the migration is complete. But when the Bing transition in the U.S. and Canada are complete, within a week or so, Yahoo hopes to announce when Bing will have the Site Explorer features in Bing Webmaster Tools.
When Bing released their new Bing Webmaster Center it was missing a critical feature, linkage data. Many speculated that Yahoo Site Explorer would replace it and that is kind of true. Bing Webmaster Center will get linkage tools via Site Explorers framework, some how. We should know exactly when that will happen in a week or so.
BOSS is sticking around too, but there will be some ways to monetize that so it makes sense for Yahoo to keep it around. I believe Bing will power some of Yahoo BOSS and Yahoo will power parts of it as well. But there are not many details exactly what will happen with BOSS going forward at this point.
SearchMonkey is kind of dead. The developer tools are going away but they markup techniques will remain on Yahoo Search. Bing may or may not use some of the markup techniques, but Yahoo will continue to use it to make the search results richer there.
You can learn a lot more about the specifics at the Yahoo Developer blog and on the Yahoo Search blog.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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Bing To Power Yahoo Within The Week
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 4:29pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Yahoo Search Engine
Yahoo announced that Bing will be powering Yahoo Search on the organic side later this week. Right now and for the past month, Yahoo has been testing Bing powered search results on Yahoo. Yahoo said, the full transition is happening later this week and they will let us know when it is complete.
You will also know the transition is complete when you see the "Powered by Bing" logo on the bottom of the Yahoo Search results.
This is only for the United States and Canada Yahoo Search results, the other results won't change over until 2012. This is also only for the organic side of things.
Also, you should know the organic results between Yahoo and Bing, the ranking order, will be exactly the same when this transition is complete. Yahoo may add some makeup to the results, but the ranking order will be exactly the same.
On the paid side, Yahoo is testing the account migration tool now and hopes to release it to everyone in the upcoming weeks.
I'll follow up this post on the webmaster side of the things. Specifically, Yahoo Site Explorer, BOSS and SearchMonkey.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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What If You Link To A Site Banned In Google?
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 4:22pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who is a bit nervous after finding out a site he links to is banned in Google. He said it is a popular site, the site was banned approximately 3-months ago and he is linking to it. He asked, should he be worried about his rankings being downgraded for linking to a banned site?
In his case, it has only been a few months and I doubt Google would penalize him for one link to a recently banned site, if that link was there prior. Before I get into my thoughts, take my poll, do you think linking to banned sites can hurt you?
Would Linking To A Banned Site Hurt You?Market Research
Overall, Google knows you have control over who you link to. If you don't, you can always enforce a nofollow attribute on links from third-parties on your web site. If you do not do that, it is your fault. If you link out to sites that are spam or banned, then maybe, if there are enough of them, Google would consider your site to be untrustworthy and you might see a degration in your rankings.
I don't think one link will make that much of a difference, but many - yea.
Do you agree?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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comScore July 2010 Search Ranking Share Report
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 4:13pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Industry News
comScore released their July 2010 search market share report, showing Yahoo climbing to 17% share, Google still around 65% and Bing at 11%. Here is the chart, using their new explicit search measuring technique.
The folks at WebmasterWorld, at least these days, are very pro Bing and anti-Google. So they are happy to see Google take a slight drop and Yahoo increase.
well I tell everyone to use Bing as SE if they dont want one looking over your shoulder all the time
In any event, Google still dominates.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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Do Keyword Rich Domain Names Have a Search Ranking Edge?
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 4:01pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Optimization
We have been writing about keywords in the domain name for ages now. In fact, Matt Cutts said keywords in URLs do help on some level. A poll we held a while back had 75% of SEOs feel Google loves keywords in the URL.
But in 2010, is Google still in love with keyword rich domains?
A WebmasterWorldthread has some people saying yes and others saying it depends. One said, "It seems to me, SEO-wise, generic keyword laden domains are still the way to go. That may change in the future, but it hasn't yet."
But is that true with competitive keywords? Tedster replied:
My guess would be that, as a percentage, it's not really as high as our impression says. If you've ever tried to rank a keyword-match domain in a competitive market, you know it takes more than just the domain.
There is a lot more than a keyword in a URL or a bunch of links that makes up Google's ranking algorithm. Of course, everything might help here and there and if you have a keyword rich domain name, people may use plain anchor text of your domain name to link to you. But keeping things constant, how valuable is the keyword in the domain as a stand alone factor? It is hard for you and I to say.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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SES SFO: Introduction to Remarketing
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 2:00am CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the Introduction to Remarketing from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Keri Morgret of MyNextCustomer & Ben Pfeiffer of RankSmart.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
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SES SFO: Developing Great Content
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 2:00am CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the Developing Great Content from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Shanon Woodruff of RankSmart.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
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SES SFO: Deep Dive Into Analytics
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 12:45am CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 San
Below is live coverage of the Deep Dive Into Analytics from the SES SFO conference.
This coverage is provided by Keri Morgret of MyNextCustomer.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.