How Social Media Affects Paid Search

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SearchDay April 12, 2011 Today's Top Stories How Social Media Affects Paid Search As AdWords and +1 evolves, Google will monetize not just what you do, but who you are. We've only seen the tip of the iceberg of how social media will impact paid search advertising. Alex Cohen  |  Full story  |  Print version Panda, Google's High Quality Sites Algorithm, Officially Adopts User Feedback As Search Signal So the rumors are true. Pandapocalypse is coming to a location near you. But if your site is not english language, you may still have nothing to fear. This time around, a global rollout may only prove to be a storm in a teacup as it will affect only 2% of ... Jonathan Allen  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 RSS Advertisement #1 Google Rankings - New Smart Solution! How get quickly TOP search engine rankings? It's so easy! Google loves one-way, valuable & relevant article links. Get them on thousands of high ranking blogs instantly! FREE TRIAL and $1 USD welcome bonus for you. What you want more? Skip your competitors today! YES, I want to improve my rankings & traffic right now! More from SEW's Team of Experts What Google Says vs. What Google Does Google keeps promising improvements but is failing to deliver -- especially when it comes to exact match domains, which are ranking better than ever. Gareth Owen  |  Full story  |  Print version PR Is Not A White Hat SEO Technique Doing public relations with a purely SEO objective could leave your organization open to reputation damage. A PR campaign with substance, content, story, and depth isn't necessarily legal or ethical. Nichola Stott  |  Full story  |  Print version How to Become a YouTube Partner Want to become a YouTube Partner? Here are some things a small channel can do to meet YouTube's requirements. Greg Jarboe  |  Full story  |  Print version Hitwise Reports Paywall Causes Decrease in Overall Visits to NYTimes.com According to data from Experian Hitwise, The New York Times paywall has caused a decrease in the overall visits to NYTimes.com of 5 to 15 percent. To understand the initial impact, Hitwise compared the total visits to NYTimes.com for a 12 day ... Greg Jarboe  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Google Places Eats Hotpot: What's it Mean for Local Search? Google has decided to drop the Hotpot name and merge it with Google Places, which is how Google should have set it up initially. The Foursquare-like recommendation engine touted 1 million monthly reviews and allowed users to connect with other profiles they trust to see those trusted user's personal reviews. ... Brent Rangenhttp://www.cloudbursttechnology  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Yuri Gagarin First Orbit Full Length Film Featured on YouTube First Orbit, a film made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, and celebrate the first International Day of Human Space Flight is being featured on YouTube today. However, don't expect a 10 minute short! The film is one hour and forty minutes long and recreates ... Jonathan Allen  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Yuri Gagarin Gets Google Doodle On 50th Anniversary Of Man In Space Whilst the space race may be over, 50 years ago the race to get a man in space was a hot topic and Russia's Yuri Gagarin first manned space mission was global front page news. Google honors the achievement with a worldwide Google Doodle April 12. ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Search News & Headlines Around the Web - April 11, 2011 Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category. Search Industry News Google Products Lacked Key Government Certification, DOJ Says - Bloomberg Google seen reporting sharp profit gain - MarketWatch IAC Asks For More Google, Please - TechCrunch Google ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Google Trivia: Boredom Breaker or Google Research Tool? Today Google announced the launch of Google Trivia, a new online game that allows you to search for answers, while posing the questions in such a way that there is no easily searchable answer. Players will have to be very creative in how they search for the answer. A little ... Sarah Carling  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Google Trends Topics Not so Hot Right Now Realtime results on Google Trends are more like a trip into the past today. Google's Hot Topics, found on Google Trends, and usually updated regularly, appear to have not changed since last week. When the hot topics feature graduated in 2009, Google's goal ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Searching is the 2nd Most Popular Activity On Tablet Devices Google's mobile ad business, AdMob, has conducted a survey of 1,431 users to find out how people use their tablet (devices). The survey found: Nearly half (43 percent) of those surveyed use their tablet more than their desktops Over 30 percent of users spent more time on their tablet than the time ... Brent Rangenhttp://www.cloudbursttechnology  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Google Buys PushLife for $25 Million Google has acquired Toronto startup PushLife for a reported $25 million, potentially another piece of the rumored Google Android Music service and iTunes competitor. PushLife's team will join Google's engineering team in Canada and build "better mobile applications for all users," with PushLife being discontinued, according to an announcement on ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Apr 12, 2011 Was Google's Marissa Mayer Snubbed in Local + More Reorg Notes Google CEO Larry Page made waves in his first week back at the helm last week, promoting seven executives to senior vice president to head their individual business units and making a couple noteworthy changes to Google's business operations. Previously we reported ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Apr 11, 2011 Advertisement Cutting inbox clutter with personalized, targeted emails Ten tips to elevate your email marketing The report reviews: - How to create personalized, relevant emails - How to boost email ROI with automation - Why 78% of marketers use targeting to drive email success Download Now Recent Forum Posts Posting same Content in different Sites I wrote on my own and am quite original? I posted in another directory and I did after the publication ezine section where it is awaiting approval. Do you think the ezine will be treated as an object twice? After approval is given, what will happen if I copy it ... Join the discussion  |  Apr 12, 2011 Google is Retiring Position Preference on ADWORDS - Response to Google. Google has announced (http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/04/adwords-position-preference-feature-is.html) it will be retiring AdWords position preference, which automatically sets bids to achieve a certain position on the page, in early May. Original Response posted at. http://searchengineland.com/google-shuts-down-position-preference-for-adwords-bidding-71708/ Ok Mr Hal Varian & Google, If as you say position preference is a non-factor. Then offer us a ... Join the discussion  |  Apr 11, 2011 Some statistics on Google AdSense advertisers We collect statistics on Google AdSense advertisers, in support of our anti-web-spam efforts. The data comes from our AdRater plug-in. Unlike most metrics, ours are about advertisers, not users. Our plug-in is English-only, so there's a strong English-language bias to our data. We just ran our report for the last ... Join the discussion  |  Apr 10, 2011 F-Secure's "Cloud-Based Real-Time Protection Network " detects content farms F-Secure claims to have a web spam detection system. See this press release. (http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/F-Secure-Research-Finds-Growing-Number-of-Spam-Like-Websites-and-Content-Farms-1424473.htm) (" Finding high-quality information through Internet search engines is becoming increasingly difficult as sites featuring repetitive and inferior content multiply. Data from F-Secure's Browsing Protection reputation engine confirms speculation that millions of low-quality sites are ... Join the discussion  |  Apr 7, 2011 Webcasts Upcoming Events White Papers Are Your Ads Compliant? Complying with the New DAA Regulations Doesn't Have to Be Complicated Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT SES Shanghai May 24-25, 2011 SES Toronto June 13-15, 2011 SES San Francisco August 15-19, 2011 SES Hong Kong September 20-21, 2011 SES Chicago November 14-18, 2011 © Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC. 2011 All rights reserved. 120 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10271 Data protection Search Engine Watch is contacting you at the following address - getsolat.asep@blogger.com If you prefer not to receive this email, please unsubscribe. Need to change your newsletter subscription preferences and personal information? Update your details. Mail filter If your ISP filters incoming email, please add the following email address to your list of approved senders: no_reply@searchenginewatch.com. This will ensure that you receive the email alerts and newsletters to which you have subscribed. View instructions on how to approve senders. 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