Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'webmasterworld'

It has now been a year since adCenterEU, the official Microsoft adCenter representative at WebmasterWorld, has posted at the forum. His last post can be found at a thread named Microsoft To Serve Ads On WSJ Digital Network where he...

Posted on January 29, 2009 3:29 AM

Starting yesterday, a new AdSenseAdvisor has taken over at WebmasterWorld. The introductory thread is at Webmasterworld, which says this new advisor has been transitioning in. The old is being promoted, so congrats to you! Here is the post: Our previous...

Posted on November 13, 2008 9:22 AM

AdWordsAdvisor, the official Google AdWords representative at WebmasterWorld, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld announced that he/she will be taking a two month break from Google starting on October 1, 2008 and ending on December 1, 2008. AdWordsAdvisor has been an...

Posted on August 1, 2008 8:09 AM

Hasn't been a good weekend for forums. First we learn that DigitalPoint Forums had database issues and now I learn that the software used at WebmasterWorld was "compromised last week." Brett Tabke posted the details of the issue. He said,...

Posted on June 3, 2008 9:16 AM

WebmasterWorld founder, Brett Tabke announced a major software update at WebmasterWorld this week. The most noticeable change to me is the "Quick Reply" feature that many other forums already have. You should be able to see the Quick Reply box...

Posted on February 12, 2008 7:42 AM

There are three keynotes at the upcoming PubCon. They include Craig Newmark of Craigs List, Richard Rosenblatt of DemandMedia, and Matt Cutts of Google. Now, most of you are probably more interested in Mr. Cutts. If so, and you are...

Posted on November 8, 2007 7:39 AM

Yesterday I reported that it has been One Year Since GoogleGuy Has Posted in WebmasterWorld. I also pleaded with GoogleGuy to make a post and just say hello. He has done so. GoogleGuy has posted in a WebmasterWorld thread in...

Posted on August 31, 2007 8:21 AM

Today is the one year mark since the last time GoogleGuy has made a post at WebmasterWorld forums. GoogleGuy was the first Google search representative at WebmasterWorld to have such a huge impact on webmaster communication between Google and SEOs/Webmasters....

Posted on August 30, 2007 8:30 AM

I was browsing WebmasterWorld this morning and noticed these little video icons on the home page. They look like the image at the top right of this page. If you click on the page, such as this example, you see...

Posted on July 17, 2007 7:51 AM

The conference competitiveness has really started to heat up while at SMX. Rand reported of rumors of exclusivity contracts that speakers who wanted to speak at SES conference had to sign. In this contracts, SES supposedly did not allow speakers...

Posted on June 5, 2007 3:59 PM

The discussion that I highlighted yesterday about Google and Webmasters is still pretty heated at WebmasterWorld. The number of responses has doubled since I wrote my post here. Adam took the liberty to respond to some additional concerns from Google...

Posted on May 10, 2007 9:56 AM

What do you do if a forum moderator becomes hurtful to your forums rather than helpful? A WebmasterWorld thread asks this question based on negative actions performed by a moderator of his forum that resulted in loss of membership. Consequently,...

Posted on May 10, 2007 9:42 AM

Bill Gates is determined to keep the Microsoft legacy alive as long as he's working for him. A WebmasterWorld thread references an article by Mr. Gates where he has vowed to keep the online services -- including search -- alive:...

Posted on May 10, 2007 9:16 AM

There's an extremely interesting debate at WebmasterWorld about Google's relationship with webmasters. The original forum poster, The Shower Scene, brings up a lot of great points: Google's Guidelines do not define Ethical SEO: It's time webmasters corrected their lazy habit...

Posted on May 9, 2007 9:13 AM

How many times does an advertiser need to be reported before Google takes appropriate action about advertisers who are trying to cheat the Google AdWords system? In a WebmasterWorld discussion, an advertiser is fed up because he has discovered his...

Posted on May 8, 2007 9:55 AM

The big news this morning is that Microsoft is looking to acquire Yahoo for $50 billion. Over at Search Engine Land, Danny also covers the possible merger. Ironically, DigitalPoint members are hoping that this ends the the Google search monopoly:...

Posted on May 4, 2007 10:35 AM

On WebmasterWorld, a member mentions that he received an email to upgrade his AdSense account to be handled under a Google login. He did not know if the email was legitimate because there was no official word from the AdSense...

Posted on May 3, 2007 10:29 AM

A number of WebmasterWorld members reported that they have received monetization tips from the Google AdSense team on how to optimize their campaigns. Some of the tips they received were: Placing more than one ad unit on a page often...

Posted on May 3, 2007 9:58 AM

This morning, Yahoo will officially announce an acquisition of Right Media which rival's Google's acquisition of DoubleClick. Danny discussed the purchase on Search Engine Land, saying that they purchased these outside companies because their own internal ad networks weren't good...

Posted on April 30, 2007 9:15 AM

While I was on the Daily Search Cast with Danny Sullivan, we got an email from Brett Tabke, owner of WebmasterWorld, who notified us about speaker pitches. Then Danny informed me that Search Engine Strategies Chicago this year, is the...

Posted on April 25, 2007 12:54 PM

Does anyone find it irritating to visit a page that features ads that do not actually relate to the product being offered? According to a WebmasterWorld thread, this is actually a constant concern. The culprit? Well, for one, a lot...

Posted on April 25, 2007 10:30 AM

In a WebmasterWorld thread, a member mentions that he has recently bought a domain from an owner who previously was banned from Google AdSense for violating TOS. He says that he is unable to get a response from Google and...

Posted on April 25, 2007 9:38 AM

What do you think about Google bombs? Do they devalue the quality and relevancy of search, or is it a beautiful thing? A WebmasterWorld member finds Google bombing all part of the "beauty of search." He references the PC World...

Posted on April 24, 2007 9:12 AM

The case of American Blind & Wallpaper Factory vs. Google is continuing. According to a WebmasterWorld post, a judge refuses to drop the suit against Google. The post references a news article that says: American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, the...

Posted on April 23, 2007 10:15 AM

In an attempt to improve the consumer shopping experience, Yahoo! announced yesterday that it is looking to partner with eBay's PayPal and will add shopping cart links to sponsored results for merchants who accept PayPal Express Checkout. A WebmasterWorld thread...

Posted on April 18, 2007 10:15 AM

As many know, yesterday was a rather important day for Google Docs when they announced that they are pregnant with a baby. Well, not really, but the Google Docs and Spreadsheets family intends to branch out into the world of...

Posted on April 18, 2007 9:25 AM

The Yahoo! Search Blog has announced that Yahoo! Site Explorer is out of beta. Yahoo has also announced that Site Explorer has added functionality for users to submit sitemaps for their mobile device-friendly websites through the control panel. WebmasterWorld has...

Posted on April 16, 2007 12:20 PM

In one of Google's costliest acquisitions, on Friday, the Google blog announced (as did the Google AdSense Blog and the Google AdWords blog) that they were acquiring the DoubleClick online advertising firm for $3.1 billion. A WebmasterWorld thread discusses the...

Posted on April 16, 2007 9:28 AM

WebmasterWorld administrator engine introduced a new moderator to the Google News forum at WebmasterWorld. The new moderator is a long time WebmasterWorld member and very involved in many of the SEM forums. He is Robert Charlton and he is a...

Posted on March 8, 2007 7:46 AM

WebmasterWorld has launched a new forum named Social Media Tagging and Bookmarking Optimization. The new forum comes to life with the recent buzz on SMO - Social Media Optimization. What is SMO? Tagging Web based bookmarking Digg.com StumbleUpon del.icio.us Link...

Posted on February 22, 2007 8:16 AM

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...

Posted on December 13, 2006 11:17 AM

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...

Posted on December 6, 2006 5:00 PM

Since I am not at the conference this week in Chicago. I figured it might be fitting to take a page from Matt Cutts, and post a step by step how to guide on How To Successfully Scare the Living...

Posted on December 5, 2006 12:27 PM

I am back from the PubCon Vegas conference. It was the best PubCon ever, in my opinion, Brett totally did an awesome job, even without his wife not being able to come (we noticed). This conference is much more laid...

Posted on November 17, 2006 11:07 AM

With Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer, Greg Boser, Todd Friesen, Danny Sullivan and modded by Jake Baillie. This is a site review forum, so my not taking won't be so great... It is just funny how people trash on these sites....

Posted on November 16, 2006 5:29 PM

Vanessa Fox from Google to talk about bots... The basis is that major SEs bots behave well, they do not all use the same syntax, test your file to make sure you're blocking and allowing what you want and use...

Posted on November 16, 2006 3:12 PM

Roger B. Dooley is up first. there are youth oriented communities, the challenges include population changes from yea tot year, behavior issues and generation caps. But they spend a lot of time online, they are a desirable demographic and they...

Posted on November 16, 2006 2:23 PM

Brett Tabke welcomes everyone. He recaps things and talks about the schedule for today... He blamed Danny for breaking the news about the new sitemap protocol. He then talks about Danny resigning from SEW and how he asked Danny to...

Posted on November 16, 2006 12:54 PM

I was lucky enough to be invited to Yahoo!'s party last night at the Palms Hotel. Yahoo! rented out the Hugh Hefner's Sky Villa, which I hear goes for 40k per night. They had Chris Pierce performing live with his...

Posted on November 16, 2006 10:04 AM

Tom Hughes from Sentient Services was up first. Brand positioning research presentation. While we are delivery web site performance, we are also delivering brand performance. Why should I care about brand experience? The web site is the front line for...

Posted on November 15, 2006 7:35 PM

Amanda Watlington was up first. The typical causes of duplicate content include many. Tools to detect dup content include your ability to search, take content of 10 words and search on it, also see cyberspyder or webbug, domain ownership info...

Posted on November 15, 2006 5:51 PM

Ted Ulle gets up at the podium and welcomes every body. Adam Young is first up, WMW PHP mod forum. He explains that you can do anything with scripting. It is more important to know what you want done, versus...

Posted on November 15, 2006 2:03 PM

Last time he spoke here was New Orleans and it was before FM and his book. He showed an industry narrative, and calls this the third wave of tech and culture. Between 1970 and 1980 they had Digitize Back Office...

Posted on November 15, 2006 12:45 PM

Brett praises Opera.... Jon S Von Tetzchner is now up... They make browsers. They put the browser on anything out there. PC, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc. You can also run it on your mobile, nintendo, etc. all running the same...

Posted on November 14, 2006 7:32 PM

Todd Friesen is modding. Andrew Gerhart from Primedia was up first. They acquired an auto site with tons of strengths... The weaknesses of the site are that; entire site was built on a flat file CMS, code is a mess,...

Posted on November 14, 2006 6:54 PM

Jake Baillie is moderating this panel. Elisabeth Archambault was first up, her aka is buckworks. She is not anyone's super affiliate. She pays more in taxes then what she earned teaching in a community college. Content for affiliates... Optimizing an...

Posted on November 14, 2006 5:38 PM

Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR.com was up first. He shows a slide of news search, vertical search, local, blog and social search, as they are used more and more by agencies and marketers. MarketingSherpa tested the tactic known as SEO PR....

Posted on November 14, 2006 3:39 PM

A bit late to this panel, got caught talking outside in the lobby. Niall Kennedy is up on the stage, he is currently talking about wikipedia. He is now explaining web feeds as alternates. They are highly structured, discovery by...

Posted on November 14, 2006 2:20 PM

Guy Kawasaki from Garage Technology Ventures, worked at Apple in the past. He makes fun of PC's and then begins his keynote. He worked at Apple in the mid 90s and he was responsible for convincing companies to write software...

Posted on November 14, 2006 1:03 PM

I walk down from the conference hotel across the street to the conference center. As I am slowly lifted via the escalator up to the conference area, I see this line forming. The line must have been hundreds of people...

Posted on November 14, 2006 12:21 PM

Today, we will be covering the WebmasterWorld PubCon conference. I will try to get some hot forum threads up as well, time permitting. Check out our WebmasterWorld PubCon 2006 Coverage Schedule....

Posted on November 14, 2006 9:31 AM

I have just posted the detailed coverage schedule for the upcoming PubCon conference over here. This is the third PubCon we are covering at the Search Engine Roundtable, giving us well over 15 conference coverage reporting under our belt. You...

Posted on November 6, 2006 2:38 PM

PubCon Las Vegas 2006 - Roundtable Coverage Schedule All times tentative and subject to revision. Tuesday November 14 TracksSEO: Organic SearchSEM: Search MarketingThe Webmaster WorldThe Mosh Pit 08:45a 9:00a Conference Introduction by Brett Tabke (Covered By Barry Schwartz) 09:00a...

Posted on November 6, 2006 2:34 PM

GoogleGuy is well known in the WebmasterWorld forums. He has over 2,800 post since he joined in October 7, 2001. So he had around one and a half posts per day since his join date. This may have been the...

Posted on October 30, 2006 7:51 AM

I just visited WebmasterWorld and I see for the first time ever, a banner ad, animated nonetheless, at the top of the page. The banner is promoting their PubCon in Vegas, and rotates images of sponsor logos. At this point...

Posted on October 12, 2006 11:28 AM

Brett Tabke just announced at WebmasterWorld that Danny Sullivan will be keynoting at the next PubCon, in Vegas 2006. WebmasterWorld is proud to announce that Danny Sullivan will keynote WebmasterWorld's PubCon Las Vegas this November. Sullivan said he was looking...

Posted on September 12, 2006 10:53 AM

PR Web, well-known in out industry for serving up the press releases for SEO-PR.com and many other SEO firms, has been sold to Vocus. Brett Tabke posted a thread at WebmasterWorld stating, "one of the long time Press Release services...

Posted on August 10, 2006 11:01 PM