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SearchDay February 1, 2011 Today's Top Stories The Google Spam-Jam Google must find an effective, scalable solution to fight spammy web results, rather than just plugging holes in its old PageRank model for organic results. Mike Grehan  |  Full story  |  Print version Radical LinkedIn B2B #PPC: Targeting Competitor's Employees A step-by-step LinkedIn PPC targeting tutorial to finger competitors' employees in a tight grid of job titles, geographic location, and places of employment. Marty Weintraub  |  Full story  |  Print version RSS Advertisement Adding Efficiency to Your Search Engine Marketing Campaigns: Tips and tactics on reporting, using Excel, and selecting an automated tool This guide discusses: - Seven best practices to improve reporting - Six tips and tricks for Excel - How and when to select an automated PPC tool Download Now More from SEW's Team of Experts 10 Things Enterprise SEO Management Tools Must Do Looking for an SEO tool to drive results for your biggest clients? This superior enterprise-level SEO management tool has 10 features you need. Ray "Catfish" Comstock  |  Full story  |  Print version Top 6 Skills of a Great Web Analyst Having trouble finding skilled analysts? Take a chance on an individual who may not be perfect for the role but can be mentored and who shows some of these key attributes. Garry Przyklenk  |  Full story  |  Print version Startup America: Google, Facebook Among Companies to Lead White House Entrepreneurship Initiative Less than a week after announcing a commitment to entrepreneurship during the State of the Union address, the Obama administration announced Startup America, a national campaign to help create jobs and industries of the future. Yesterday morning, President Obama stood with several economic advisors and a number of America's ... Thom Craverhttp://thom.cravers.us  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Google Gathering Egyptian Protest Videos At CitizenTube YouTube has been flooded with videos from the Egyptian protests and is now collecting them at CitizenTube - Google's news and politics channel, the YouTube blog reported. "We understand how closely the world is following these events, and want to help people access and share this information quickly and easily ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Google Creates Work Around For Blocked Egyptian Tweeters As protests continue and the Egyptian government blocks access to the internet, Google created a workaround over the weekend so people can access Twitter via phone calls and leave updates, the company's official blog announced. "Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Paper Industry Ablaze In Australia Over Google Ad Decisions A civil liberties group in Australia is criticizing Google's decision to pull ads by the Wilderness Society that brought attention to "a boycott against a paper manufacturer that uses wood sourced from Australian old growth forests," the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The company to be boycotted - Australian Paper - contacted ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Google Employee Goes Missing In Egypt Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa Wael Ghonim has gone missing in Egypt. Ghonim, a supporter of the Egyptian opposition, has been missing since Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Ghonim had been a vocal supporter of the protesters in Egypt, on his Twitter and Facebook ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Is Google Next Area Of Growth Germ Warfare? Google may be finding it hard to keep its exponential growth going, but is getting in to bacteria culture growth may be pushing in the wrong direction. Okay, okay it is only a joke - one Google uploaded themselves. Obously they are not looking for people to clone them. ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Google Luring College Recruits With Swag And Pizza Google is holding a recruiting drive at Carniege Mellon University and it seems just the idea of a chance to work at Google is no longer enough to fill a college hall with potential interns and aspiring employees. The Facebook info on the event reads "Want to know more about the ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Android Becomes Best-Selling Smartphone, Serious iPad Challenger Google's Android is now the top smartphone platform in the world. Meanwhile, Android has seriously cut into Apple's domination of the tablet computer market. For the fourth quarter of 2010, 32.9 million Android-based smartphones were sold worldwide, beating 31 million in sales ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Google Brings Instant Previews to iPhone, iPad Google's Instant Previews are beginning to show up in Safari for Apple devices including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, 9 to 5 Mac reports. Google has yet to make an official announcement. Google launched Instant Previews in November. The feature lets ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Will The Future Of Search Be Decided Tuesday? At Least It Will Give Us A 'BigThink' "Is the search industry locked in a race to the bottom or are conditions ripe for a breakthrough? This question will take center stage at a gathering in San Francisco on February 1, to be webcast on BigThink.com," the event's site noted. The main panel will have Matt Cutts, Google's Spam ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Homeland Security Wants Internet Kill Switch Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told Wired magazine that there was a need for "kill switch" legislation that "would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the private sector in the event of a true cyber emergency." ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 1, 2011 Advertisers Benefit More From Top Ad Spots on Google Than Bing [Study] People who use Google spend more time looking at the top three paid ads above the organic results than Bing users, according to the results of a new eye-tracking study from research firm User Centric. Participants in the study spent 22 percent ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Jan 31, 2011 Recent Forum Posts SEO Service Now will take new Turn Algorithm change launched http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-change-launched/ Matt Cutts New Post Join the discussion  |  Jan 31, 2011 Does the host count? Hello mates, Just curious to know whether the host counts in Google rankings? I want to buy a host from UK but I need to score high in Google.com Will the host make me score higher in Google.co.uk and lower in Google.com ? Join the discussion  |  Jan 30, 2011 recent PR update? Is there anything to this (http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/28662836792135680) as of yet? From what I can tell, no update has occurred. - But I would expect it at any time now, given the messenger. Join the discussion  |  Jan 29, 2011 Using same shopping cart (buying) pages on multiple sites - SEO damage? Would search engines look on websites less favourable if they had lots of unique content (no duplication of content), were structured differently, and hosted on different C Class servers, but all fed through to the same shopping cart pages when somebody bought item(s)? How significant, if any, of a negative ... Join the discussion  |  Jan 27, 2011 Search News Around The Web Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results - Search Engine Land Google Spent More on Lobbyists in 2010 Than Yahoo, Facebook & Apple Combined - Mashable Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project - Official Google Blog A refresh to the Documents List - Google Docs Blog Hate the new Google Docs? Here's how to get the old layout back. - The Next Web CEO Mocks Google For Trying To Poach His "Guys," Posts Recruiter's Email - Silicon Alley Insider Seeking Better Search Results, eBay Finds Experts at Bing and Facebook - All Things Digital Search Engine Optimization Is SEO Immoral? - SEOmoz Go Daddy Makes The Web Faster by enabling mod_pagespeed - Google Code Blog Is the time left before your domain registration expires an SEO factor? - YouTube Search Advertising AdSense Facts & Fictions Part VI: User-Generated Content - Inside AdSense Social Media Marketing Facebook Ads Get Half the Clicks of Network Banners - ClickZ Want This Facebook Offer? Better 'Like' Us First - ClickZ Top 5 Things Not to Do on Facebook - HubSpot Blog Digg Gets an Overhaul to Draw Users Back - Mashable Link Building Purchased Link Penalties: There's No Time to Waste - Bruce Clay Local & Mobile Search Driving results on mobile with AdMob - Google Mobile Ads Blogs San Francisco's North Beach Wins Yahoo Bus Stop Derby - Yodel Anecdotal International Search Baidu quarterly net profit nearly triples - AFP Google London's New Office Is a Happy Kiddie Funhouse - Co.Design 200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet - Ars Technica SES Conference & Expo SES pre-show speaker interviews: Simon Heseltine - State of Search Webcasts Upcoming Events White Papers Social Media Meets Search Marketing Tuesday, February 1, 2011 10:00am EST / 3:00pm GMT "A Social Media Moment" with Jeff Hayzlett and Mike Grehan TBD 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT SES Accelerator: Search & Social February 10, 2011 SES London 22-25 February 2011 SES New York March 21-25, 2011 SES Shanghai 24-25 May 2011 SES Toronto June 13-15, 2011 © Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC. 2011 All rights reserved. 120 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10271 Data protection ClickZ is contacting you at the following address - getsolat.asep@blogger.com If you prefer not to receive this email, please unsubscribe. 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