- Google Acquires AdMob for $750 Million:
Just another day at the office on Monday for Omar Hamoui and the AdMob team who got acquired by Google for $750 million.
- Possible Implications of Google's New Music Search:
Google will soon launch a new music search allowing searchers to preview songs directly from the SERPs.
- Bing Launches Video Portal with Help from MSN:
YouTube may still be the 800 lb gorilla, but Bing now provides over 900 TV shows and access to high-quality videos from within a sleek new UI.
- Bing Unveils Wolfram|Alpha Powered Search:
Whether you want to look up nutrition facts or find out your body mass index (perhaps before the holidays), Bing's Wolfram|Alpha powered results give you the information you want... or don't want, as the case may be.
- Amazon Design Analysis:
Just copy Amazon for e-commerce, right? Well, there are certainly reasons Amazon brought in 19 billion in revenue in 2008, but before you borrow too heavily, Jared Spool's SlideShare presentation analyzing Amazon design elements is worth a look.
- 50 Beautiful & Creative Blog Designs:
Smashing Magazine shares a list of great blog designs that is great idea fodder for bloggers.
- Deep Links Are Disproportionately Valuable:
Eric Enge serves up some food for thought... do deep links pass a disproportionately high amount of link juice?
- Win Big by Doing Just a Few Things Well:
As shown by Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others, simplicity can be an effective path to executing and marketing successful products. It's difficult to do, but as 37 Signals highlights, often times less is more.
- Bill Slawski - How the Engines Might Be Using Query & Click Logs:
SEO by the Sea looks at Google's recent patent and shares several ways the engines might be using query and click logs to influence rankings.
- AdWords Announces Sitelinks:
Similar to sitelinks in the organic listings, AdWords now offers richer paid ads with sitelinks.
- Heatmaps for Display Ads & Product Pages:
Hot or not? ... it's a simple enough question, but few marketers use heatmaps to inform display ads or product pages. As Jonathan Mendez and Linda Bustos each point out, heatmaps are a great way to do like Snoop Dogg and "drop, drop it like it's hot."
- Smart E-mail Marketing Tips:
Shay Howe's blog post full of e-mail tips is a useful hit list for marketing managers in charge of designing and delivering effective e-mails.
- New Google Flu Shot Locator:
Google moves the local search needle through continued improvements to their flu shot locator, which will soon be added to Flu.gov.
- AdSense - Rolls Out New Features:
From an improved UI to enhanced dashboards, AdSense advertisers now have access to more robust channel and ad unit reporting.
- Why You Should Use the NoArchive Meta Tag:
Dave Naylor's stance on Google's cache can be argued, but he provides an interesting point of view, as well as several valid points.
- Marissa Mayer Named Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year:
Google's 34-year-old VP joins Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, Serena Williams and Rihanna among Glamour Magazine's women of the year. And yes, the Mozzers currently in Vegas are projecting that our very own Sarah Bird will top Glamour's list in 2010.
- Monetizing Mobile Content:
A timely subject on the heels of Google's AdMob acquisition, eMarketer's study sheds light on the growth of U.S. mobile users and ways content owners could monetize mobile users.
- Using Position Distribution to Manage Branded Keywords in Paid Search:
Siddharth Shah's Search Engine Land post provides several reasons you might want to use position distribution as a key factor when managing branded paid search ads.
- You Don't Need Tons of Traffic to Optimize Your Site:
Brendan Regan, of the now Bryan Eisenberg-less Futurenow Blog, dispels the myth of needing minimum traffic volume to make website optimizations.
Top YOUmoz entries:
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* Web Analytics & Segmentation for Better Conversion Optimization by philou2803
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Dear Generation X: Social Media from the Eyes of Your Successors by trycm
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Google Analytics Alternatives - Measuring Beyond Last Click Wins by John Santangelo
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Case Study: How Building a Site for Users Improved Our Rankings by csaliba
* Indicates blog post was promoted to the SEOmoz Blog
Thanks Sam, another great edition of the week in search.
Saved me a lot of time on finding these articles and I can often find some inspirations from them.
Yes, but Kenneth's observation (see above) is a quite interesting development to keep an eye on. Can get more interesting by the week this way! Let's keep it up!
I'm kind of surprised you're not getting more love here Sam. These roundups have to be a lot of work.
Maybe if you were a little more pithy while maintaining your professional detail oriented demeanor...
Thumbs up anyway
Great list. I hope i'm up there one day :D
Hey Sam,
Love the nod to Veterans Day!
I'm surprised you didn't have anything about Jason Calacanis's explanation of how NewsCorp's proposal to robots.txt Google was a great idea.
https://calacanis.com/2009/11/09/how-to-kill-google-or-take-10-points-of-search-search-share-in-six-months/
I'm actually planning to write something about this in the next few days - seems like a very interesting topic for publishers and technologists.
yea i checked out that link when you tweeted about it i just dont believe that bing could afford to "buy" that search traffic for long and like many comments on the article said just because bing has exclusive content doesn't mean ill switch to bing although the wolfram alpha is way cool at math it will get me to go to bing for a couple math questions but still not for search
Looking forward to that post Rand! :-)
I'm excited to hear thoughts on this. I wonder if anyone other than jason and Rupert think this would really work?
You always forget about me Sam! Don't forget to read my post What Makes a Link Worthy Post - Part 2 if you missed it last week.
So what you're saying is that I didn't a link to your blog post about what makes a link worthy blog post? ... the irony is so rich.
In all seriousness, my apologies. It was a great post. Perhaps if you stop writing YOUmoz posts that get promoted on the main blog I will be less forgetful. :-)
Thanks for the heads up and for the continued great posts, Casey.
I'll forgive you this time only because I know you work hard and are a busy guy. But next time, be prepared to feel the pain! =)
No love for this article?
https://www.viperchill.com/important-blogging-analysis/
Guess I have to work harder ;)
Nice round-up.
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get some
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What are you talking about?
The column is 565px; wider than sites like Copyblogger.
Let me spell it out:
I thought that blogs layout sucked.I dont care what other blogs pixels are. I didnt bother to read your content.
Its user feedback, what you do with it is up to you.
well, started out as some light hearted advice from me, but seemed to get petty pretty quickly if the thumbs are anything to go by.
shoulda just shut up I guess
Personally I think your site has too many distracting image in it, making it hard to read your content. I think it has something to do with too many picture in the content and blinking image in the logo section makes it like Michael Jackson pants... But I read the content and Its good stuff...
I prefer your personal development blog though..
Honestly I do really like this weekly post from you Sam, as it's a sort a Best of. Very needed especially in times when one cannot surf from blog to blog.
Anyway, this week I miss the "worst" posts ;)
Thanks again Sam
First of all, thank you for a useful post and analysis. There is always something interesting happening on this blog, and everyone can take something useful away for themselves.
Bing seems to be the only viable competition Google has today... I hope it moves higher than 10% of the SE market. I also hope that Google doesn't buy Bing one day and complete the move towards total monopoly. Then again, Bing might be there intentionally, just to play it's role in the same circus for the little guys (like us) which make up the masses.
Beck @ https://profitseo.com
Haha, so many people promoting their own stuff!
Well, you're right on that Kenneth, but the 'This week in Search' items actually are becoming a nice place to drop some interesting links in the comments to read on external sources as well. Let's see what will come from this (a dedicated must-read section maybe?) in a year or so! ;-)