This is very very early and I don’t have evidence of this myself, since I don’t monitor rankings, but a single post at WebmasterWorld suggested there is a Bing update taking place. textex, someone I trust at the forum, who…

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Yesterday I reported Google is testing “sponsored map icons” in the US. They are basically enhanced point of interest icons using the company’s logo, instead of the basic POI (point of interest) icon Google uses on the map views. Here…

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I doubt you missed the big SEO community news from yesterday. Danny Sullivan announced in a Sphinn thread that Sphinn will be going the editorial route and be removing voting. Instead, editors will decide what should be on the front…

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Some users have recently been having difficultly removing verified users in Google Webmaster Tools. Google allows you to give multiple users access to view your Google Webmaster Tools reports and data. Sometimes you want to revoke access to some of…

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The obsessed (in a cool geeky way) webmasters at WebmasterWorld are discussing recent patterns they noticed with how Google’s spider, GoogleBot has been accessing their site recently. One said GoogleBot is crawling 50% less than it normally does. Others are…

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Sheara Goldenthal pinged me with a question yesterday about why the Google Keyword Tool shows different search volume data for the same keyword phrase, when she is logged in versus not logged into her AdWords account. It is a great…

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Those who have been in the field of SEO for years know it’s been a long journey of consistently making a case for and proving the value of search for business. As of late, SEO seems like it’s getting some serious mainstream attention, finally penetrating the psyche of corporations across industries, across the globe.
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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….

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So Yahoo web search, the organic results, are now powered by Bing, Microsoft search. The next to fall is the paid search side of things. Yahoo announced yesterday that the beginning of the end for Panama, Yahoo’s Search Marketing platform….

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Google showing maps and local listings in the pure organic web search results is nothing new. For example, the image below shows a search for [plumber 10010], NYC plumbers. Now, if you are not in that local listing and you…

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