Social Media Around the World: Current Trends and Future Growth

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SearchDay February 16, 2011 Today's Top Stories Social Media Around the World: Current Trends and Future Growth A look around the globe reveals a diverse social media marketplace and plenty of opportunities for marketers. Michael Bonfils  |  Full story  |  Print version SEO and PPC: A Love-Hate Relationship Three big trends are changing how we attribute value in SEO. We are increasingly turning to tactics that were previously considered to be the realm of paid search professionals to meet client expectations. Gareth Owen  |  Full story  |  Print version RSS More from SEW's Team of Experts SEO Training for Large Organizations -- Executives Matter Leadership must understand the who, why, and how of search engine optimization measurement. Start building relationships and turning executives into high-powered SEO champions and evangelists. Chris Boggs  |  Full story  |  Print version PPC vs. SEO: Paid Search as Your Organic Competitor The balance between paid and organic results in the SERPs in shifting. Paid listings may increasingly get more clicks at the expense of organic listings. Alex Cohen  |  Full story  |  Print version Blekko & Stack Overflow Team Up; Is The Future Celebrity Endorsed Search Indexes? Search engine upstart, Blekko, continuing it's quest to form an alliance against spam has partnered with Stack Overflow, "a programming Q&A site built by programmers for programmers". This follows a blog post at the start of 2011 from StackOverflow's CTO, Jeff Attwood which cited Trouble in the House of Google ... Jonathan Allen  |  Full story  |  Feb 16, 2011 2 Books Promising Inside View of Google Due Out This Year Two books scheduled for release in the coming months are promising to give us a glimpse inside Google -- one from the perspective of a journalist and the other from a former employee. The first, "In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives," is by Wired writer ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Feb 16, 2011 Glenn Beck Attacks Google As Government Shills "Is anyone willing to do their own homework? Cause the media is not going to," Fox News Commentator Glenn Beck asked Monday - and as a member of the media - he quickly showed he had not done his, claiming Google was "deeply in bed with the Federal government." ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 16, 2011 Ernest Shackleton, Antartic Explorer Honored With Google Doodle In UK Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was born on 15 February 1874 and died on 5 January 1922. He was famous for his exploration of the Antartic and at one time had gone the furthest into the South Pole region. The Google Doodle today honors those efforts which ultimately took his life. ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 16, 2011 Google Outsourcing Spam Checking To You, Could Be Abused Google announced today that they have added a new extension to their Chrome browser that allows you to block sites from their search results. And "the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Feb 15, 2011 Valentine's Day 2011: Search Engines Feelin' the Love Google's Robert Indiana Doodle wasn't the only special logo or Valentine's Day treat put out by the search engines. Bing, Yahoo, Ask, DuckDuckGo, and even Wolfram|Alpha are also feeling the love in their own ways today. In addition to their special doodle, Google ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Feb 15, 2011 Recent Forum Posts broad match Hello do you know if Bing broad match is as broad as adwords broad match? Join the discussion  |  Feb 16, 2011 doing SEO from distant locations.. Is this (easily) doable for an SEO: Earning the income of an industrialized/high cost of living country, but living in a low cost of living country (Thailand, certain places in south america,...)? or is accountability too big for most clients/companies/agencies? (actually, I'm mostly wondering if this is doable for half the year, as ... Join the discussion  |  Feb 15, 2011 specializing in SEO research? People always ask me to do research for them (it's probably my #1 strength)...it has made me wonder, if there's a need for "SEO research". Stuff such as - competitive research (what are others companies/websites in the market place doing) - researching algorithm changes/where the web is going - etc... Is anyone out there ... Join the discussion  |  Feb 15, 2011 Keyword software for New Zealand? Hi, I normally use the keyword tool from Google, which is OK. But I wanted to get better one which show more info (competitor adwords, their keywords etc). I found what I think is a popular tool called Keyword Elite 2 (is it any good by the way?) but unfortunately, I've ... Join the discussion  |  Feb 15, 2011 Search News Around The Web Texas AG demands details on Google search business - MarketWatch Live from Eric Schmidt's Keynote at Mobile World Congress - ReadWriteWeb Search trends: a clue to 2011 Oscar winners? - Official Google Blog Making sense of science: introducing the Google Science Communication Fellows - Official Google Blog Introducing SearchReviews, the One-Stop Site That Connects Users to More Than 36 Million Consumer Reviews - PR Newswire Search Engine Optimization A Tweet's Effect On Rankings - An Unexpected Case Study - SEOmoz How To Tell If Your SEO Will Get You Banned - Outspoken Media When would someone use "noindex, follow" in a robots meta tag? - YouTube Social Media Marketing Facebook 'Sponsored Stories' Ads Take Hold [Gallery] - ClickZ Yahoo Decides to Friend Facebook - The Wall Street Journal Facebook Grabs Microsoft Global Ad Head Carolyn Everson - All Things Digital Can I help you? On Twitter, the answer is no. - Fortune Twitter Is Having A Bad Day: Bizarre "Blank Page" Is The New "Fail Whale" - TechCrunch How to Overcome 4 Social Media Headaches - TopRank Online Marketing Blog Link Building Don't Break The Cardinal Rule Of LinkBait - The Link Spiel Keyword Categories and the Links that Love Them - Search News Central Local & Mobile Search Google Place/Tags Support Calls Me Back - Understanding Google Maps & Local Search At Yahoo, contextual content key for mobile devices - CNET SMB Search Marketing Small Business: Your Questions Answered - Keywords, Bids and Costs Per Click - adCenter Blog International Search Digital China: 6 Key Sites - ClickZ Video Marketing Five Inconvenient Truths of 'Viral Video' - ClickZ.asia Webcasts Upcoming Events White Papers Increase ROI and Reassure Your Customers with Integrated Mobile, Web, and App Privacy Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST BREAKING NEWS: WashingtonPost.com Boosts Online Subscriptions by Integrating Digital Media February 24, 2011 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST "A Social Media Moment" with Jeff Hayzlett and Mike Grehan TBD 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT 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 SES San Francisco August 15-19, 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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