1. Google and paid content 15 hours ago   permalink

Google News Blog / Google News Blog

Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager As newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do both - the two aren't mutually exclusive. There are a few ways we work with publishers to make ...

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John Mueller / Google Webmaster Central Blog :   Changes in First Click Free

Fmpub.net / John Battelle :   What Are The Conversion Rates for Google's "First Click Free"?

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch :   Google News Makes A Concession To Whining Publishers: Only First Five Clicks Are Free

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Craig Buckler / SitePoint Why Pages Disallowed in robots.txt Still Appear in Google   —  Is Google indexing the pages you explicitly disallowed in robots.txt? Craig discusses why it happens and what you can do to prevent it. Related posts: Google’s Hidden Protocol You Have to Try This on Google. Improve SEO with Google’s New Canonical Element

Kathy Scott / ROI LAST CHANCE To Attend Google™ Analytics Seminar in Charlotte   —  Just 8 seats left for the downtown Charlotte Google Analytics Seminar for Success! This is it, your last chance to join fellow Google Analytics users in the Charlotte area to learn more about this great tool and ask your questions to qualified experts. Google Seminars for Success is officially sponsored by Google, you can trust that you are ... Readwriteweb / ReadWriteWeb Facebook, Google & Twitter Unite for World AIDS Day Around the Web   —  December 1 marks World AIDS Day , and every major social site around the Internet has come together to spread awareness about the disease, its transmission and available treatments. Thanks to efforts from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, AIDS is a more visible topic today than perhaps at any other point in the history of World AIDS ... Maile Ohye / Google Webmaster Central Blog Region Tags in Google Search Results   —  Webmaster Level: All Country-code top-level domains (or ccTLDs) can provide people with a quick and valuable clue about the location of a website—for example, ".fr" for France or ".co.jp" for Japan. However, for certain top level domains like .com, .info and .org, it's not as easy to figure out the location. That's why today we're adding region ... Www.webmarketingwatch.com How can I remove old content from Google’s index? Two Tips on Removing a Single Web Page and an entire Web-Site   —  How can I remove old content from Google’s index? Two Tips on Removing a Single Web Page and an entire Web-Site During a web-marketing campaign, clients often ask how to remove old content from Google’s index. In order to remove a single web-page or an entire web-site, you need to do the following: Mashable.com Google Caves to Murdoch, Adds New Options for Publishers   —  As newspapers and old media companies have seen their revenues shrink, they have essentially done one of two things: found ways to embrace the web or blamed Google for their problems. Fmpub.net / John Battelle :    What Are The Conversion Rates for Google's "First Click Free"? Peter A. Prestipino / Website Magazine Debunking Common SEO Myths   —  The process of SEO has changed, and quickly. Buying keyword-rich domains, writing a few articles and tweaking the titles will no longer net a top position on the search engine results pages (SERPs). What is important to understand about search engine optimization (SEO) is that there is no constant — no absolutes. But with a little education, Matt McGee / Search Engine Land Geo Data Added To Google Search Results   —  It was just a couple weeks ago that Google confirmed the addition of breadcrumb information in place of URLs for some search results. Today, Google has announced another change to the green URL line: In some cases, “region tags” — geographic information about the web site — will appear next to the URL. Google shares [...] .. Matt McGee / Search Engine Land Google Supersizes Images In Universal Search   —  In a brief blog post this afternoon, Google has introduced a new layout for displaying images in universal search results on Google.com. Rather than a single row of equal-sized images, some searches may produce a single, supersized image next to two rows of regularly-sized images. Here’s what the image results look like currently on a ... Pat / SEOish Google Wave Invites   —  The next 5 people to request a Google Wave invite will get one. Please email me or leave a comment. Related posts:Facebook Apps – Numbers and InvitesOpen Social and Search Monkey Developers NeededTrial Google Gadgets Ad Campaign Related posts: Facebook Apps – Numbers and Invites Open Social and Search Monkey Developers Needed Trial ...

2. Book on Search Interfaces 58 minutes ago   permalink

Gwen / Internet News

Search User Interfaces by Marti Hearst, Cambridge University Press 2009. Marti Hearst has been involved in the Flamingo Project and knows a lot about search behaviour and designing search interfaces. This book is available online for free. "This book...

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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land A Roundup Of 2009’s Best SEO Books   —  Time was when someone asked me to recommend a good book on search marketing, there were only a few available—Search Engine Visibility, by Shari Thurow, Winning Results with Google AdWords, by Andrew Goodman, Search Engine Marketing, Inc., by Mike Moran and Bill Hunt, and a few others. These books have mostly stood up to the [...] .... Gwen / Internet News :    Book on Search Interfaces

Fmpub.net / John Battelle Help Grok Pivot, A Novel Approach to Search Interface   —  Microsoft has been kind enough to give me a limited number of invitations for readers of Searchblog to grok Pivot, which I wrote about here last week. In that post I promised to grok Pivot, then report back more here. Alas, Pivot is currently Windows only, and - alas...

Chris / Search Marketing Expo News Know Your SEM? Enter the SMX Biggest Search Geek Contest   —  Keri Morgret won the first SMX Biggest Search Geek Contest sponsored by Marin Software. She out-SEMed more than 1700 other entrants. And this year? Keri’s confident: “I encourage other search marketers to sharpen their game, because I fully intend to defend my title.” Are you up to the challenge? Find out by entering the SMX [...] Incrediblehelp / Search Marketing Blog from Cincinnati Year In Reviews and Zeitgeists from the Search Engines   —  Well it is that time of the year again. No not Christmas. Not Hanukkah. No it is time for the search engines to tell us what was popular all year round, and in some cases more recently: Yahoo’s 2009 Year In Review: Top 10 Yahoo’s Top 10 page is flashy and cool, but low [...] Post from: Jaan Kanellis | Search Marketing Blog Year In ... Gord Hotchkiss / Out of My Gord Off to the Search Insider Summit!   —  I hate snow! I hate cold! I don't ski... So, why am I actually excited to be heading to Park City, Utah tomorrow? It's because of MediaPost's Search Insider Summit . I just wanted to take a moment to thank Ken and Ross Fadner for allowing me to be an integral part of the past several summits. Much as I enjoy the job Incisive and Third Door do ... Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable Daily Search Forum Recap:   —  Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Bill Hartzer / Bill Hartzer Top Search Engine Optimization Firms for December 2009   —  Every month, Top SEOs comes out with a list of what they think are the top search engine optimization firms, the top search engine optimization companies. As someone who has been in the search engine optimization industry since the mid 1990s, I can tell you that while I don’t totally agree with these “rankings”, it [...] Related ...

3. Zeitgeist 2009: the collective consciousness 19 hours ago   permalink

A Googler / The Official Google Blog

Curiosity — it's why we search the web. Whether searching for the latest news, a popular holiday gift, a website you've heard about, the latest singing sensation, or the trailer to a blockbuster film, you come to Google with something on your mind. And since 2001, we've been releasing our annual Zeitgeist — our view into the spirit of the ...

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Fmpub.net / John Battelle :   Can Someone Please Do Annual Search Lists on Jan 1?

Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal :   Google Releases its Zeitgeist 2009, MJ Tops again

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf :   Google’s Year-End Most Popular Searches and Other Lists Robin Wauters / TechCrunch :   Google Publishes Zeitgeist 2009 – Michael Jackson Crowned King Again

4. Web Analytics - Getting Help from External Resources or Not? 26 minutes ago   permalink

Www.webanalyticsworld.net

Web Analytics – doing it right is really hard stuff. So why not hire an external web analytics expert to do this for you? After the decision to use a web analytics tool, the next decision is even harder: Should I hire a web analytics consultant? And if, what should he do and for how long? The answer is yes – you probably should, but only for ...

5. British History Timeline 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.bbc.co.uk

Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline. Browse hundreds of key events and discover how the past has shaped the world we live in today.

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Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf :   BBC: Database: History: On this Day

6. Test Your Marketer’s Gut: Email frequency contest 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.marketingexperiments.com

Sending more than 1.2 billion emails per year is a significant marketing investment. And for one of our Research Partners, this effort raised several questions:

7. W+K posting 'Wiedenisms' on new Web site 26 minutes ago   permalink

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8. Sochi 2014 picks fancy-looking URL as logo 26 minutes ago   permalink

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9. New Twitter AR App Powered by Geotagging API 3 hours ago   permalink

Readwriteweb / ReadWriteWeb

Some six months ago, we had a small conniption over an augmented reality application for Twitter on the iPhone. With the release of Twitter's geotagging API, however, users were bound to see more and better AR apps for the popular microblogging service. Twitter 360 has just come up on our radar, and it looks like a dream from the outset. But ...

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Gwen / Internet News A Twitter Year   —  'Twitter' top word of 2009 by Don Reisinger, Webware (Nov 30) 2009 has been the year of Twitter. Any bets that it will be on the Time cover? "According to the Global Language Monitor, which examines language usage across the... Gwen / Internet News For Power Tweeters   —  TweetDeck links in retweets, Twitter lists, maps by Jessica Dolcourt, Webware (Nov 30) Tweetdeck is a desktop application for "power tweeters" whereby they can easily share tweets, manage Twitter lists, see geolocation information on a map, and pull in social...

10. Cramer reverses course — again 26 minutes ago   permalink

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12. Online Tools for Saving and Citing Research 51 minutes ago   permalink

Gwen / Internet News

Free Online Tools Simplify Research: Zotero and iCyte, ResourceShelf (Nov 30) Two programs that can be used to capture web pages and create citations automatically + Zotero - Firefox extension - capture citations, store pages, and much else + iCyte...

13. EBooks: An Interview with Michael Serbinis, President of Shortcovers 2 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Interview: The Toronto-based Shortcovers, owned by Indigo Books & Music, Inc., which launched in February and allows users to download e-books on to a variety of smartphones and mobile devices. Mark Medley sat down with Michael Serbinis, president of Shortcovers, to talk about Kindle, and the future of books. “This experience ...

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14. Were Going For World AIDS Day 3 hours ago   permalink

Www.searchbrains.com

URL: HIV/AIDS has cut a swath of destruction across the globeinfecting more than 60 million people, leaving 14 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa alone. But a global movement to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, along with scientific breakthroughs in ...

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15. Lists & Rankings: November, 2009: Most Downloaded eBooks and Audiobooks from OverDrive 2 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Announcement: While Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” topped the list again in both the adult fiction audiobook and eBook categories, Nora Roberts’ “Bed of Roses” and Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help” made their first appearances in the top ten on the same lists. New audiobooks by David ...

16. Craigslist Blocks Oodle 2 hours ago   permalink

Battellemedia.com

When I wrote about Oodle a while back, I wondered if the sources of its listings would ever get cranky (Oodle scrapes classified listings all over the web, then creates a vertical search engine). I never thought the first grump would be craigslist - but indeed, the company has asked Oodle to stop scraping its listings. It feels counter to the ...

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17. Study Shows That People Act Differently Online Really ?!?!?! 3 hours ago   permalink

Www.searchbrains.com

URL: OK, so this kind of information is not going to set anyone on their ear this morning, I get that. I also get that the online marketing community and the tech world in general is in hibernation coming off BlackCyberFridayMonday. So for a little ...

18. SearchBrains 3 hours ago   permalink

Www.searchbrains.com

Need to reach SEO Professionals? Then SearchBrains can help. With several advertising options you'll find the right campaign to suit your marketing needs.

19. Bessemer Snags a “Designer In Residence” From Mint.com 4 hours ago   permalink

Www.techcrunch.com

Venture capitalists like to hire well known entrepreneurs and executives as “entrepreneurs in residence.” These are short term jobs, a place for someone to park themselves for up to a year or so after they’ve sold their company or otherwise have moved on. They sit in on pitch meetings, advise partners and portfolio companies, ...

20. Xirrus Raises $20 Million More For Enterprise Wi-Fi 4 hours ago   permalink

Www.techcrunch.com

Xirrus, a provider of enterprise Wi-Fi, has recieved $20 million in a funding round led by InterWest Partners, bringing the total investment in the company to $80 million. Xirrus is also backed by August Capital, US Venture Partners, Canaan Partners and QuestMark Partners.