We Are Three: Search Engine Roundtable's 3rd Birthday

Tomorrow, December 2nd is our birthday. We were born on December 2, 2003. It has been three years of blogging, almost 4,000 blog posts, about 5 blog posts per weekday. I thought it would be fun to look back at the years and highlight some important and meaningful topics we covered over the years. But first a little history...

The most important thing that happened this year was that I went Off To Get Married this year. This year we won the Best Blog on Search Marketing by MarketingSherpa again, a huge honor for us to win back to back years. I launched my personal blog by Introducing the Cartoon Barry Blog in July of this year. We even started our own weekly podcast named the Search Pulse. I set up a very successful Google Coop for Search Engine Roundtable, if you haven't signed up yet, please do. Chris Boggs became our Associate Editor to provide forum coverage back on February 14st of this year. We released Search Engine Roundtable Supporter Seals which are being displayed proudly throughout the search community by many people. In December of last year, Search Engine Roundtable Opens Forums, which was a big success, today we have over 1,300 members and 6,200+ posts. Later on this year we won the KB Cafe Blog Awards and Best Search Engine Community Blog of 2005 by Search Engine Journal, another huge kudo for us.

Our most important asset is our reader. Those of you who read on a weekly, daily or hourly basis is what keeps us going here. Our numbers continue to grow and we love to see that. We also enjoy all the comments we get via blog comments, email and our forum. Thanks so much for being such a vital part of our success and continued growth.

Here is our special logo for the day:

Highlighted Articles From December 2005 - November 2006 (No Specific Order):

• The Big Dogs Debate the Sandbox Theory, November 2005
• Google Fights Paid Links & Yahoo Defends Paid Links, November 2005
• Jeeves Retirement Post Live, February 2006
• AdWords Quality Score Includes Landing Page, November 2005
• Google Adwords Adsbot To Start Crawling Your Landing Pages, May 2005
• WebmasterWorld Back in Search Engine Index, November 2005
• Google Testing Refinement or Clustering Filter Links, January 2006
• Wikipedia Results at Top of Google SERPs?, November 2005
• DomainPark - AdSense for Domains Sparks Huge Forum Debate, January 2006
• Yahoo! Switching Paid Ranking Model To Add Relevancy Factor: Project Panama, April 2006
• Upgrading Yahoo! Search Marketing to Panama, October 2006
• Danny Sullivan Hits Historic 10 Year Mark, April 2006
• Reaction from the Search Community on Danny Sullivan's Departure, August 2006
• Danny Sullivan Says Goodbye To Search Engine Watch, November 2006
• Google to Manage Radio Ads: Google AdVoice?, January 2006
• Google to Test Auctioning Ads in Print Publications, February 2006
• First Feedback on Google AdWords Video Ads, July 2006
• Google Finance Live, March 2006
• Ratings & Reviews with Google Payments, April 2006
• Welcome Google Checkout; Google Payments, June 2006
• Google Calendar for Real?, March 2006
• Long Rumored Google Calendar Makes An Entrance, April 2006
• KinderStart Sues Google Over Being Dropped From Index, March 2006
• MSN Senior Exec Speaks Boldly, March 2006
• BMW German Back in the Index: But Still Cloaking, February 2006
• Publishers and Arbitrage: Sucking the Life Out of Search Results?, April 2006
• Windows Live Search Beta, March 2006
• Google Officially Confirms Traffic Power Ban, February 2006
• Big Daddy Data Center Feedback Request Threads, January 2006
• Big Daddy Roll Out Complete, March 2006
• Drop 30 Points in Google? Meet The "Minus Thirty" Penalty?, October 2006
• Yahoo! Refunds Click Fraud Without Customer Requesting Refund, March 2006
• Ask.com's CEO, Steve Berkowitz Heads Over to Microsoft, MSN Search, April 2006
• Jim Lanzone the New CEO of Ask.com, April 2006
• Click to Call Ajax Implementation by Google AdWords, February 2006
• Google Launches Click to Call in UK, September 2006
• Google to Return $90 Million to US AdWords Customers with Fraudulent Clicks, March 2006
• Yahoo! Settles Click Fraud Suit, June 2006
• Google Trends: Free Keyword Popularity & Trend Tool, May 2005
• Latest Thoughts on the "Google Pontiac" Campaign, March 2006
• Traffic Power Misses Appeal Wait Period; Traffic Power Versus SEO Book Case Dismissed, April 2006
• Google AdWords Adds Demographic Targeting, March 2006
• Google Click to Call Rumors Spread to Search Forums, June 2006
• Google Shows Advertisers Their "Invalid Clicks" in AdWords Reports, July 2006
• Google AdWords Advertisers Up In Arms Again Over New Algorithm, November 2006
• Microsoft Begins Testing Content Ads Beta, October 2006
• Are You Down With ODP Descriptions?, July 2006
• Ask.com Launches Blog & Feed Search, June 2006
• Sub Sub Domain Google Issues Explained Differently, June 2006
• New York Times Changes Web Only Headlines To Be Search Engine Friendly, April 2006
• NY Times is Cloaking But Not Spamming; Danny Sullivan Says, June 2006
• Microsoft Banning Sites from Live.com For Link Exchanges, November 2006
• Yahoo! Temporarily Removes Blog Search for Retooling, August 2006
• Confirmed: Search Community Talks on Google YouTube Rumors, October 2006
• Getting Listed in the Google Coop Directory, May 2005
• Photo of Google AdSense Gift Digital Picture Frame, November 2006
• AOL Makes Statement By Letting Go CTO & Two Employees, August 2006
• Apax Buys Incisive Media Owner of Search Engine Strategies & Search Engine Watch, September 2006
• Commission Junction to Only Allow JavaScript Links, May 2005

We are three years old! Thank you all!

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