Search Trends - Search Engine Marketing

Current news and events in the world of search engines and search marketing. Includes links and commentary on current search engine events.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

SEO.com - Official Announcement

We made the Official announcement today about the acquisition of Web Targeted and the launch of SEO.com. We also decided on a logo for the new company and we've got a new website design in the works. Stay tuned for more new stuff from SEO.com in the coming days and weeks.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Hot Search Trends on Google

Google recently introduced a cool new trend watching tool they call Hot Trends. It ties in with Google Trends, but it shows a list of hot search keywords by date (only goes back to May 15 of this year) and then you can click on the word or phrase to see the trend page for that particular search term. Since Google controls the lion's share of Internet searches, it's nice that they like to share at least some of it with us search engine junkies. It's mostly news and blog search stuff, but very interesting to see what are the hot topics of the day.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

WSJ Article about SEO effects of moving site to a new domain

Whenever I read an article about SEO or search marketing iin a "mainstream" publication, I like to mention it. This article in the WSJ addresses the issue of changing to a new domain and the problems it can cause with search engine rankings. If you do a 301 redirect, you should be fine, or if there is a drop, it should resolve itself fairly quickly. The article goes on to talk about how some sites drop out of the search results even when you're not moving to a new domain. There's a humorous anecdote about some company who was supposedly threatened to be blacklisted if they didn't quit calling Google to ask about how they could get indexed. Of course, they weren't blacklisted and their site got listed within a couple weeks. They just needed to be a little patient.

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