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Play a game and help Google with image search

May 19, 2009

Google has a beta application called Google Image Labeler which it describes as “a feature of Google Search that allows you to label images and help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.” Sounds kind of boring, but leave it to Google to turn image labeling into an online game.

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Search Marketing is Dead – Oh wait a minute

March 19, 2009

Search Marketing is Dead – Oh wait a minute Posted using ShareThis

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December Search Volume by Search Engine

January 19, 2009

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in December with 63.5 percent of the searches conducted, unchanged from November, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.5 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.3 percent), Ask Network (3.9 percent), and AOL LLC (3.8 percent).

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Next DFW SEM Meeting is Thursday, Jan. 15

January 12, 2009

DFW SEM’s January meeting will be Thursday, January 15 from 6:15pm to 8:30m at the Richardson Renaissance Hotel. Featured speaker will be Brett Tabke, founder of WebmasterWorld and PubCon.

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When it Comes to SEO, the Color of your Hat Matters

January 11, 2009

In movies set in the wild west, the good guys always wore white and the bad guys donned black. The same is true in the world of search engine optimization (SEO).

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November Search Volume by Search Engine

January 10, 2009

comScore (website) tracks the volume of searches in the United States each month. Following are their findings for November 2008, compared to October 2008. November 2008 U.S. Core Search Rankings Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in November with 63.5 percent of the searches conducted, up 0.4 percentage points from October, followed by [...]

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To Understand SEO, Get to Know Google First

January 10, 2009

If you want to understand SEO, you first need to gain an understanding of how search engines work. And with a tight grip on 60+% of the search market, that means Google! Here’s a simplistic look at how Google works, from the 50,000 foot level.

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The Anatomy of a Google Search Results Page

January 3, 2009

Natural listings, organic results, sponsored ads, SERPs — these are just a few of the terms used to describe elements of a Google results page. But do you know what each one means? If they’re Greek to you, then keep on reading. When you conduct a search query on Google, the results page presented — [...]

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New Year, New Blog

January 2, 2009

The new year is officially here and so is this new blog. I titled it Search Matters because not only is search going to be the primary focus of the site, but it also emphasizes the importance of search engines. Search Matters will approach the subject with the agency executive in mind, specifically those who are not yet knee-deep into the wonderful world of search.

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