Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'seroundtable'

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

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

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

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

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

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

I rarely post a thank you to our sponsors. I thought I take this opportunity thank our advertisers at the Search Engine Roundtable as well as introduce a new ad format that we will be testing for the remainder of...

Posted on November 12, 2007 11:24 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

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 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

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

We just launched a new design for the Search Engine Roundtable. All the changes are primarily design and very few functionality changes. I do hope the new design will speed up a few things including commenting on our stories and...

Posted on February 20, 2007 9:22 PM

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

The winner of the contest has been decided by Ben, Chris and I - we are all in agreement on the winner. But we won't be announcing the winner until Tuesday night, 11/28 at 5pm (EST) live on the Search...

Posted on November 27, 2006 1:28 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

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