Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'searchengineroundtable'

In the past week, we covered Mother's Day logos, Yahoo redirecting users to localized versions of their home page and Yahoo showing the location of an ad to searchers. Google is testing a green user interface on the search results...

Posted on May 18, 2008 9:58 AM

Yesterday was Mother's Day and the search engines and search industry blogs/forums had special themes and logos up for the day. Here is a compilation of the logos I found: Google: Yahoo (Flash): Dogpile: Ask.com Cre8asite Forums Search Engine Roundtable...

Posted on May 12, 2008 7:17 AM

In this special Mother's Day video recap, I discussed that landing page load time is coming to the AdWords quality score algorithm. The AdWords display URL policy is now being enforced. We noticed Google changes in terms of the floating...

Posted on May 11, 2008 9:38 AM

I have created a 15 question reader survey that I hope you can all take. The purpose of the survey is to learn more about you and what you like best about the site. I basically want to learn your...

Posted on May 5, 2008 2:35 PM

In closing out April and moving into May, we had a fairly slow week of search forum news. We discussed how Google leaked AdWords ranking scores, a Google PageRank update and a Sitelink update. We also saw how GoogleBot is...

Posted on May 4, 2008 10:15 AM

In this week's recap, I discussed my sickness with the flu, announced the winners of the Twing schwag and how to win Yahoo schwag. Also, I discussed Earth Day and Passover. Yahoo, Google & Microsoft announced earnings. Microsoft offers paid...

Posted on April 25, 2008 12:30 PM

Today is Earth Day and the search industry is sporting special logos for the day. Here is a run down for the 2008 logos: Google: Yahoo (Flash version): AOL: Ask.com: Cre8asite Forums: Search Engine Roundtable (our theme, it actually glows):...

Posted on April 22, 2008 9:13 AM

In this week's edition of the video search buzz, I talked about the Yahoo, Google and Live Search tax day updates. I also talked about the new Yahoo slap and a new AdWords slap. Google's bot is now crawling forms...

Posted on April 18, 2008 12:20 PM

In this week's video recap, I discuss the major business turmoil Yahoo is going through with Microsoft, Google, AOL and News Corp. I also go through Flickr adding video, Yahoo acquiring IndexTools, Google's new AdWords policy, the guy who trademarked...

Posted on April 13, 2008 8:20 AM

Over the past several weeks, I have been experimenting with producing weekly video recaps. You can view those recaps in the Search Buzz Roundup category. The main issue was that many folks were not able to sit and watch the...

Posted on April 9, 2008 6:01 PM

A couple days ago, I announced on my personal blog that I expanded the keyword list that triggers the Google Co-Op subscribed links from showing up. If you don't remember, the Google Co-Op subscribed links are a way for a...

Posted on April 2, 2008 7:56 AM

Listen up, you have a chance to win a prize by watching this video. If you spot a "prop" during the video, comment below and star the video at YouTube. The following week, I will pull a name out of...

Posted on March 23, 2008 1:20 PM

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. In typical Search Engine Roundtable, here are a collection of logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, DogPile and various SEM communities celebrating St. Patrick's Day on the web. Let's start with Google: Yahoo has a Flash...

Posted on March 17, 2008 6:20 AM

Today is Pi Day, yes, March 14th, 3.14 and due to π being about equal to 3.14 (i.e. 3.1415926). Pi is a favored number by mathematicians and tech people - so I am a bit surprised there is no mention...

Posted on March 14, 2008 7:19 AM

It is not often we have a leap day so I knew Google would create a special logo for the day and they did. They actually went with what I thought they would go with, a frog. Simple but it...

Posted on February 29, 2008 8:07 AM

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day (more over here) and for the special day, we have a special theme live. Here is what it looks like: Google, DogPile and Ask.com also have themes up. Yahoo and Microsoft's Live seem...

Posted on January 21, 2008 6:46 AM

The holiday season is here, you can tell if you just browse the web and see all the sites sporting fun logos and themes. As you can tell, we have our holiday theme live now. Google has holiday logo number...

Posted on December 21, 2007 10:31 AM

Every day, Danny and I always make a note to each other about how busy the search marketing industry will be today from a news and forum posts perspective. We finally bit the bullet and designed a Facebook application that...

Posted on December 21, 2007 8:11 AM

Today, the Search Engine Roundtable is four years old. That is right, we have been writing about search engines, search engine optimization, ppc, spam, contextual and more for four whole years now! What makes us unique has remained true to...

Posted on December 2, 2007 12:00 AM

Gabs reported Google has done a Sitelinks update. He is indeed correct. The first Sitelinks update was in February 2007 and then we had a new recent one where Google expanded them to 8 sitelinks per result. Here is the...

Posted on November 29, 2007 2:56 PM

Can you believe it, this post is my 5,000th article here at the Search Engine Roundtable. I started writing here on December 2nd, 2003 - just under four years ago - and have kept up with it since. On average,...

Posted on November 28, 2007 11:35 AM

Today is Halloween and the search industry, from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile, us at the Search Engine Roundtable and others, have decided to dress up for the day. Here are some of the logos and designs the companies have released...

Posted on October 31, 2007 7:47 AM

Tonight is the holiday of Sukkot, so Tamar and I will be offline starting tonight through the weekend. We have scheduled several posts to go live during our time offline. But we will also have live coverage from Ben, Chris,...

Posted on September 26, 2007 2:03 PM

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day and some of the search players out there are posting special logos for the day. Of course, you can see our theme for this site is live now, here is a snap shot:...

Posted on September 19, 2007 8:22 AM

Starting tonight is Rosh Hashanah, that means Tamar and I won't be doing live coverage of the search news and topics found within the search forums. It does not mean that there won't be any news published here. Ben, Chris,...

Posted on September 12, 2007 3:00 PM

Seems like Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and Microsoft Live Search all are not sporting anything exciting or new for Labor Day. They have not done anything special in the past either, so it is not too surprising. Dogpile is sporting the...

Posted on September 3, 2007 8:55 AM

One of the Search Engine Roundtable's trademark features is our extensive, quick and comprehensive coverage of the major search marketing conferences available to the community. Most of our readers see the hard work we put in time and time again...

Posted on July 26, 2007 4:30 PM

Happy July 4th! Today there will be light posting, we do have several articles scheduled to go live today, but this one is the most fun. Here is a look at the various logos around the search world, Google, Yahoo,...

Posted on July 4, 2007 8:06 AM

Yesterday was Father's Day and some of the search engines sported new logos for the special day. Google had: Dogpile had: Yahoo had flash: And here at the Search Engine Roundtable: Ask.com did not have a logo for the day,...

Posted on June 18, 2007 8:04 AM

This past Sunday I launched a new element for locating content at the Search Engine Roundtable, I launched the Search Engine Roundtable Tag Cloud. Ever since we upgraded to the new version of Movable Type, which supported tags, I have...

Posted on May 17, 2007 7:31 AM

Yesterday was Mothers Day and the search engines had their respective logos up. Here is a look at the various engines logos for the special day. Ask.com made a splash with their heart on fire background image. Here is...

Posted on May 14, 2007 6:49 AM

A few days ago, Danny spotted Google Product Search Results in the regular Google SERPs. The problem with this is that Google has asked others not to do this in the past, but they apparently weren't practicing what they preached....

Posted on May 4, 2007 10:20 AM

Gabs, a moderator at Search Engine Roundtable Forums, discovered an interesting way of determining how to find supplemental results on .co.uk domains. According to his blog post, if you click on "Search for Pages from the UK," you will see...

Posted on May 1, 2007 11:51 AM

March 7th we reported Google Link Update Within Webmaster Central's Link Tool. But Vanessa Fox informed us the update was not fully complete, that we saw the link count update only and not the actual links update. Meaning, Google showed...

Posted on March 9, 2007 7:02 AM

I just wanted to give everyone an update that the site design for the blog is complete, as far as I know. We launched version three Tuesday night and then received some incredibly feedback. Based on that feedback we made...

Posted on February 26, 2007 7:36 AM

Like the years before, the search engines and some of the search forums have done stuff with their sites to celebrated Valentines Day. This year here is what we have to show. + Ask.com places a small but yet very...

Posted on February 14, 2007 7:14 AM

Chris Boggs, our Associate Editor here, and AussieWebmaster (Frank Watson), are given the task of blogging at Search Engine Watch. Elisabeth Osmeloski, Forums Editor, writes; I'm happy to announce that two of our long-time Search Engine Watch forum moderators, Chris...

Posted on December 3, 2006 4:01 PM

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...

Posted on December 1, 2006 8:06 AM

As I posted at Cartoon Barry, Chris's comment has been selected by Ben P., Chris B. and myself as the winning contest idea. Chris's idea was that; the person who can take as many pictures of different people holding a...

Posted on November 28, 2006 6:09 PM

It has been a while since we ran a contest, so I figured I run a new contest. You can win a new RustyBrick Messenger Laptop Bag filled with a bunch of Search Engine Roundtable YoYos. Here are pictures of...

Posted on November 19, 2006 12:27 PM

We have put up our own Halloween logo and it looks like this for this year. Which reminds me of Google and Yahoo's past logos for this day. Check Halloween 2004 and Halloween 2005, which also sports Jeeves. Let's also...

Posted on October 31, 2006 12:18 PM

Rob Kerry is an SEO Consultant, living and working in London, UK. He previously headed up the Natural Search department at one of the UK's largest Search Engine Marketing companies. In order to further his knowledge and expertise, Rob decided...

Posted on October 11, 2006 12:54 PM