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SEO News Highlights 2010/01/18-22

Here’s more blog updates about this week’s exciting SEO news across the web.

Google’s revelation about the “sophisticated and targeted attack” and it’s decision to move out of China last week was first announced on its blog. This week, Google revealed more security fact about the assault

A feature about a different look into internet marketing and web marketing analytics. It also talks about common assumptions of internet marketers which was said to be true but are completely wrong and what we can do to optimize the use of web marketing analytics to our advantage.

Given the economic recession last year, Google still ended 2009 with a bang posting a very strong Q4 having a $6.67 Billion in revenues beating financial analyst estimates.

A question was raised in HighRankings Forum thread about whether there is a downside when using a right-click-disabling javascript.

A list of 101 common mistakes and pitfalls that internet marketers should bear in mind to be able to succeed in bringing their products online using SEO.

Apple is now in talks with Microsoft to replace Google with Bing as the iPhone’s default search engine. Thus heightening the turf battle between Apple and Google.

A new tool that makes gathering, sorting and exporting link data easier has just been introduced. Open Site Explorer is built with speed and accessibility at the forefront and provides a tremendous amount of information about the links to any page or site.

In a thread at WebmasterWorld forum, an update from BillyS who usually tracks Yahoo says that Yahoo is indeed updating for real this time.

January 29, 2010 | Filed Under Search Engine News, Uncategorized | 1 Comment 

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This Week's SEO News Highlights

Here are some of this week’s interesting and exciting SEO news from across the web:

ADWordsPro, an official Google representative said that the average Click-Through Rate is about 2%. However, CTR statistic will only be meaningful if you receive about 1000 impressions. On the other hand, double digits CTR is usually acquired by advertisers who spend time familiarizing how AdWords work.

Late last year during the Google Search Evolution Event, Vic Gundontra, Google’s Engineering VP demonstrated how search suggestions vary by location on mobile devices.

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz with Will Critchlow of Distilled discuss some helpful tips and best practices in making and keeping one’s SEO clients happy.

Things businesses need to know before signing a contract to avoid ugly surprises in the end. A simple need analysis can help you know what your client’s want and what they need.

Google announced that they will stop censorship in China after after facing a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on company’s corporate infrastructure recently. The move was said to have decided by the company’s executives in the US.

Nielsen’s share market data, Hitwise released their share metrics for December 2009 and the results shows that Google got 72% share of all searched conducted in US- an increase of 1% from November 2009.

After the famous Nigerian scam messages, more and more annoying, fear mongering, and down right rude scam messages have surfaced. Ten of these scam messages are listed for you to be aware of and to avoid being duped at the same time.

Yelp will be offering more this 2010. Business must perceive Yelp as a community that will be beneficial for the business and that it is high time to start being part of it. Since 2010 will be the year of mobile/local marketing and apps, Yelp also has it’s own mobile applications for iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre and Droid.

January 15, 2010 | Filed Under Search Engine News | Leave a Comment 

SEO News from Last Week

We finally said “bye bye” to 2009 but before we get used to 2010, let us look back to last week of SEO news in 2009. Here are some of previous week’s posts from relevant SEO blogsites across the web.

* The Evolution of Man and Media

This infographic posted by Demand Media which lasts for a minute and six seconds. The video made brows rise and garnered several negative reactions which might be the reason why it was removed.

* 10 Tools to Kick Ass With in 2010

Sean Percival featured ten of his favorite web services and gadgets for 2010. These ten tools include Wordy, Evernote, iPhone, FreshBooks, Seesmic Desktop, oDesk, SocialToo, foursquare/Gowalla, Mint, and Paper.

* Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love

Another relevant list before 2010. As someone who is into SEO, it is indeed important to be armed with a great deal of updated SEO news. These ten sources, which include Hacker News, A VC, Chris Dixon’s Blog, Techmeme, Answers On Startups, Daring Fireball, Steve Blank, NYTimes Most Emailed, Venture Hacks, and Twittersphere will help you contribute more knowledge about SEO world.

* Tracking Back Links: How Do You Do It?

A topic from a thread in HighRankings Forum discusses how to track links for a link building contest which later moved to how to track link building in general. According to a number of opinions in the topic Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Expolorer and other related tools cannot accurately measure the acquired links overtime.

* Google Promises to Fix Google Webmaster Tools API Verification Process in January

Since October 2009, those using Webmaster Tools API to verify their sites with Google Webmaster Tools has encountered problems. However, the good news is, Google promised to fix this problem in January 2010.

* Google Toolbar PageRank Update (New Years 2010)

Google had a New Year PageRank Update for New Year 2010. This was very much similar to what happened on December 2008 where Google had a PageRank update right before the year 2009 starts. Before this official PageRank update, there was also a PR shuffle in mid- December.

* Are Your SEO Resolutions Actionable?

SEO Resolutions is as common as New Year’s Resolutions so as to the fact that people also commit the same mistakes with their own SEO and/or professional resolutions just what usually happens with their own New Year’s resolutions. It is important to set an actionable and reachable SEO goals.

January 11, 2010 | Filed Under Search Engine News | Leave a Comment 

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