Sunday, January 20, 2008
The SEMMYS
The top SEO and SEM blog posts of 2007 voted on by the best in the industry. Certainly worth a look.
College SEO/SEM Courses
I found this comprehensive list of all current universities which are offers any courses on either Search Engine Optimization or Search Engine Marketing. I suppose this would be a great recruitment source for new SEMs.
Google Online Marketing Challenge
Google is offering a college competition targeting local SEM. The idea is to generate interest in SEM in the universities and with a focus on local business. The teams are to pick one small, local business that currently does not run Adwords and during the 3 week challenge period get the best ROI they can.
I've mentioned this competition before when it was announced but was surprised to see that 724 college teams from all over the world have signed up.
I've mentioned this competition before when it was announced but was surprised to see that 724 college teams from all over the world have signed up.
Google Only Crawls News Items Once
This is a really interesting piece of info. Google News only crawls news bits once and it was confirmed by Google.
More on the story and Search Engine Roundtable
More on the story and Search Engine Roundtable
Thursday, January 17, 2008
MSN Live Search Can't Handle 301 Redirects
Interesting and this has been conjecture for a long while, that MSN Live Search is having difficulties with 301 redirects to the point of not evern picking then yp. Search Engine Roundtable covers it here and ads this quote from someone who spoke to someone and Live Search:
Yeah, I spoke to various people even a particular person from Live
Search. They confirmed that at the moment, Live can't handle 301
redirects. I trust they are working on this issue, hope so at least.
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