IndustryHighlights from the SEW Blog: May 7, 2007

Highlights from the SEW Blog: May 7, 2007

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

We’ve collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

From the SEW blog:

Organic Search

  • Yahoo Lets Webmasters ID Non-Essential Page Elements
    Using a new “robots-nocontent” attribute, webmasters will soon be able to tell Yahoo’s spiders that certain elements or sections of a page are not the real “content” of the page.
  • Forbes Spreads Supplemental FUD
    The sensationalistic Forbes article “Condemned To Google Hell” tries to explain Google’s supplemental index, but ends up spreading more FUD.

Search Advertising

Linking Issues & Social Media

  • NoFollow, or MightFollow?
    Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal has asked Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com to explain just what nofollow really means to them.
  • Adam Lasnik on Paid Links
    Google’s spam fighter provided Eric Enge with some insight into Google’s thinking on paid links, what their objectives are, and how they view Nofollow.
  • YouTube to Pay Top Users
    Google’s YouTube will begin paying top users for the video content they submit under a new revenue sharing partner program that will let the creators share in AdSense revenue generated by their videos.
  • Eric Ward Podcast on Link Building
    Eric Enge and Eric Ward recently recorded a podcast on link building, focusing on personalization and Google’s new spam reporting moves.
  • ClickZ Specifics Event in May: Social Media
    A social media-focused ClickZ Specifics event taking place in New York this month may be of interest to search marketers.

Analytics & ROI

Vertical & Specialty Search

Mobile & Local Search

In-House & Outsourcing

SEM Industry Issues

Searching/Search Technologies

  • Ask Brings the Algorithm Mainstream
    Ask.com’s recent offline advertising campaign is shifting into high gear to build up buzz around Ask’s upcoming Edison algorithm.
  • Google Gets Personal with iGoogle
    Google’s new iGoogle Personalized Homepage service includes a variety of new features, and more insight into where Google is going with personalized search.

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Search Headlines

We report the top search marketing news daily at the Search Engine Watch Blog. You’ll find more news from around the Web below.

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