SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• 
  Hitwise: Yahoo Properties Get More Traffic From Google Than Yahoo Search
  In a way it should come as no surprise that most of Yahoo’s own properties get more traffic from Google than from Yahoo Search, according to Hitwise. I would guess that’s also true for Microsoft (though I’ll wait for the blog post to confirm that)….
• 
  How To Do A Google Reinclusion Reconsideration Request
  Mariya Moeva and Bergy Berghausen of Google posted an excellent step by step instruction manual and video on when and how to submit a Google request for reinclusion in Google. In short, the steps are as follows: (1) Login to Webmaster Tools and check for any crawl errors, such as…
• 
  WTF! US Court Declares You Have No Privacy On YouTube
  You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterday’s move might be the ultimate incentive, as US politicians realize that what they’ve…
• 
  Small Business Success Stories: What We’ve Learned So Far
  A baker, a guitar teacher, a florist, and a real estate agent: Those are the four small business owners I’ve profiled in this space recently. Before I continue with more online marketing success stories, this seems like a smart time to step back and see what we’ve learned to…

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• WordPress Gears, en.blog.wordpress.com

Business Issues

• Ask.com closes acquisition of Dictionary.com, Reuters
• Google Closing Dallas, Denver Office, Google Blogoscoped
• Google employee details stolen in burglary, ZDNet.co.uk

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Google Street View in France, Google Operating System
• Google Talk for the iPhone, Official Google Mobile Blog
• Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. This Is A Sure Sign Of Their Success., TechCrunch
• Will Google Be Equally Dominant in Mobile?, Screenwerk
• China’s Baidu in mobile search tieup with Nokia, Forbes
• Google Street View Live in France, Google Blogoscoped

Link Building

• Experimental Proof. Google Can Index Links in Flash!, Search Engine War

Paid Search & Contextual

• Should Ad Networks Bother Fighting Click Fraud?, Stanford InfoBlog
• How Do You Define an MFA (Made for AdSense Site)?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Making sure your ads are high quality, Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog

Searching

• Google and Human Behavior, SEOish
• New Mahalo features: anyone can edit (even if not logged in) and anyone can create a new page (easily), FriendFeed
• The Google Ogle Defense: A Search for America’s Psyche, Washington Post

SEM Industry

• Meet The Team: US Ad Services Part 2 – adCenter Advertiser, adcentercommunity.com
• Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Collaborate for IAB U.K. Search Help, ClickZ
• SEM Going Legit – Literally, Search Engine Watch

SEO & SEM

• Cracking Google’s 1,000 Page Barrier, SEOmoz
• SEO’s Ruby Slippers, Search Marketing Gurus
• SEO Best Practices for URL Structure, Search Engine Journal
• 4 Tips to Making Your Proprietary CMS Search Friendly, Search Engine Guide
• Google Retraction: Blocking Regions Is Not Cloaking, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google UK Filled with Aussi Sites?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google’s Content Removal Tool Is Not HTTPS or WWW Specific, Search Engine Roundtable
• Is Your Home Page’s Google PageRank Less Than Your Inner Pages PageRank?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Stop Wasting Your ALT Attributes and Make them Work for You, Search Engine Guide

Social Media

• Twitter refugees find a new home (at least for this week): Identi.ca, VentureBeat

Video, Music & Image Search

• Traces of Google China’s Music Service, Google Blogoscoped

Web Analytics

• Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking Pt. 4: Tacking Lead Gen Forms, Analytics Talk

Other Items

• Podcast: Matt Cutts On Fighting Spam; Does Ask.com Still Love Search , Daily SearchCast
• You Can Order Google Branded Window Shades, Search Engine Roundtable

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• WTF! US Court Declares You Have No Privacy On YouTube
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• SEO Best Practices for URL Structure
• How to get the most from your Adwords GeoTargeting
• SEO Jessica Bowman featured in Marie Claire Magazine
• Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes
• Top Tools for Domain Name Brainstorming
• SEO: Pagination & Dupe Content Issues
• SEO Copywriting- Why it’s harder than some think
• TheNanny612 and the Three Avatars
• Tutorial: 5 Steps To Find Your Broad Match Key Phrases
• How To Find Dupe Content W/ Google
• The Long Road To The Debate Over "White Hat Cloaking"
• Adobe Makes Flash SEO Friendly
• Social Media in Web Content Strategies
• The Ultimate Hacker Prevention Guide
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• Google Says Blocking Countries Outside of the US is Against Policies

About The Author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.