Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'searchenginewatch'

Search Engine Watch Forums Goes Offline: Hack? Server Issue?

For the past few hours, Search Engine Watch Forums has been returning a server starter page from Red Hat Linux. It seems like many, if not all, the internal forums, such as the Google forum page are returning 404 not-found...

Rob Kerry Leaves Search Engine Watch's Forums For Search Engine Land's Sphinn

Rob Kerry, aka evilgreenmonkey has announced he will be leaving Search Engine Watch Forums, as their forums editor, for Sphinn. Rob will be the Sphinn editor. As Danny explains: Rob’s role will be to work with all the Sphinn moderators,...

Search Engine Watch's New Design

Yesterday, Search Engine Watch and the blog and forums, underwent a redesign and had features added. There is a Search Engine Watch Forums thread now discussing the changes. I thought I do a before and after comparison. The Home Page...

Search Engine Watch to Undergo Major Redesign

Rob Kerry (evilgreenmonkey), the new Search Engine Watch Forums editor, has posted a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums announcing that a new design and feature upgrade is coming to the property. He explained he visited the Incisive headquarters yesterday...

Search Engine Watch Turns Ten Years Old

Search Engine Watch, the site many SEOs and SEMs rely on, has turned ten years old this Saturday. That is huge! A ten-year-old resource on search engines! Danny Sullivan has been writing about search engines since April 17, 1996 (over...

Elisabeth Leaves Search Engine Watch For Vacation Rentals

Elisabeth Osmeloski, the Search Engine Watch Forums editor, has decided it was time for a change. She has announced she will be leaving Search Engine Watch, as the forums editor, and joining Zonder.com, a vacation rentals company. At Zonder, Elisabeth...

Google AdWords Negative Suggestion Tool: Useful? Visible?

In a Search Engine Watch forums post, AussieWebmaster asks if anyone is using the Google AdWords negative keyword tool and whether it is useful or not. As Barry wrote in an earlier post, Google is giving the negative keywords tab,...

Google AdWords Tutorial Sites and Books

As more and more people understand the importance of Google AdWords, more and more people want to get involved in maximizing their profits when advertising on Google. A Search Engine Watch Forums post asks where to find some of these...

Ethical Link Building Incentives

When you have good content but people aren't linking to you, what options do you have? What can you do safely without penalty? A Search Engine Watch Forums webmaster asks this very question: A few days ago a colleague suggested...

Search Engine Watch Forums Adds "Intrusive" Ads

Yesterday, Search Engine Watch Forums has changed the placement of the ads displayed on the site and forums. The ads used to be primarily on the left hand bar, in a box on the right side and a thin line...

Microsoft adCenter Using Matching Criteria Other than Keyword Searches to Display Ads

Members from Search Engine Watch Forums and WebmasterWorld received troubling information from Microsoft adCenter regarding yesterday's new Terms and Conditions. We're writing to notify you that your Microsoft adCenter Terms and Conditions are updated. The changes take effect on April...

Google AdWords Vouchers Cannot Be Resold

On a Search Engine Watch forums post, a member says that he has many Google AdWords vouchers and wants to resell them. The only problem is that they aren't for resale. AdWordsRep, Google's Customer Associate, writes in and tells the...

HackerSafe Claims Services Boosts Search Rank: More Debate on Paid Links

On the Search Engine Watch Forums, our author Chris Boggs found a very interesting article written by HackerSafe that "brags" about its link juice. In the article, HackerSafe claims that "the security certification does improve search engine optimization." The security...

Search Pulse 12: SES Recap, Versioning SEO, Contact Google, Yahoo, Google, Click Fraud, Duplicate Content, AdWords, Microsoft & More

The eleventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. We were able to discuss in detail about half of the topics I wanted. We discussed SES Chicago, Andy's click fraud rate, AdWords quality score tests, holiday updates by...

Search Pulse 11: Google Spam Tools, Danny & SEW, Chris Boggs & SEW, Ask AskCity, MSN Bot, Yahoo Topics & Much More

The eleventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. We were airing this live at SES Chicago, during the cocktail hour last night. We had hundreds of special guests all around us, some that got on the air...

Chris Boggs & AussieWebmaster to Blog at Search Engine Watch

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...

Danny Sullivan Says Goodbye To Search Engine Watch

Danny Sullivan just posted his last thread as a moderator at Search Engine Watch Forums. He named the post Best Wishes, Search Engine Watch! As you all probably know already, Danny is leaving Search Engine Watch after not being able...

Danny Sullivan & Crew Moves From SE Watch to SE Land

Probably most of you know that Danny has announced his plans for moving beyond Search Engine Watch. He is starting a new blog named Search Engine Land. Will it become a success? I would count on it. Proof? Well, how...

Sullivan Stays for Search Engine Strategies

Danny Sullivan (founder of SearchEngineWatch) has just announced that he will continue to work with Incisive Media on the Search Engine Strategies conferences.In August this year Danny Sullivan, who has always been independent contractor, announced his intention to step away...

Apax Buys Incisive Media Owner of Search Engine Strategies & Search Engine Watch

Brett Tabke posted a featured thread at WebmasterWorld named "Incisive Media Sold to Apax for $377m." In short; Apax Partners has bought Incisive Media, "backing a £199m management buyout of the publisher of business titles including Legal Week and Investment...

First Edition of Search Pulse Live: Sullivan Leaves SEW, AdSense Lawsuit, Yahoo Blog Search, Keywords in URLs, New URLs, Navigational Search, Google Apps & More

I am proud to inform you that the first edition of the Search Pulse is now archived and available for download and listening at WebmasterRadio.FM. You can listen also by clicking on the link to the MP3 file or opening...

Reaction from the Search Community on Danny Sullivan's Departure

This morning I wrote that Danny Sullivan To Leave Search Engine Watch :: Search Industry Shocked (someone dug the story), I promised to let the search community digest this information and then summarizing that buzz. Below you will find a...

Danny Sullivan To Leave Search Engine Watch :: Search Industry Shocked

Danny just posted about him leaving Search Engine Watch and SES by this December. The specific reasons was contractual and that Incisive and Danny couldn't come to terms on (what I believe to be) some sort of equity stake in...

Full Page Article on Danny Sullivan in USA Today

USA Today published an article last night named Got a search engine question? Ask Mr. Sullivan. Yea, you got that right, they wrote a whole article on the most respected, looked up to and most down to earth man...

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