Calling All Pay Per Clickers...

PPC Search Engine ABCSearch Partners with AdWatcher on Optimization

They released a press release yesterday, April 15th 2008. According to the press release they merged to help small to mid-size companies track their ppc campaigns more effectively. Essentially Adwatcher will assist in the monitoring and help boost traffic to the search engine to make the advetisers get more bang for their buck.

I will just let you all read the release yourself. You can read it in its entirety here:

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com

Yahoo!

Its tax day in the US, April 15th 2008, and if your noticing some changes in your Yahoo! Rankings its because they are doing a small update today to their search engine. If you are generating traffic from Yahoo!

Keep an your rankings!
WTGY!
(way to go yahoo!)

Carrie

Search Marketing Expo

Upcoming search marketing expo is being held in June 3-4 in Seattle, WA, at the Bell Harbor International Convention Center. Developer Day @ SMX Advanced will be held June 4.

See you there!

To register: Seach Marketing Expo

Why crime does not pay....

I was scrolling through my number of daily Google alerts and I came across this post, I thought I would share with you the importance of choosing the right SEO company. Although on the lighter side, they did get taken to courts and lost.

"Kevin Heisler writes at Search Engine Watch that an "SEO agency" called Internet Advancement has been sued by Washington State and required to pay over $100,000 in fees for scamming its clients. Among the restitution includes penalties against offering services to new members and requiring refunds to be handed to scammed clients."

Read the article for all of you search engine marketing companies that think it is wise to play with a web owners money.

Excerpt taken from:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016875.html

SEM Synergy

Bruce Clay and Friends get together and discuss the latest happenings in SEO and SEM.

"We've had an idea for a multidisciplinary show for a long time and are proud to be working with WebmasterRadio to produce SEM Synergy. Expect to hear from experts at the top of their field talking about the aspects of marketing they know best," Clay said. "This show will discuss things that will change the way Internet marketers do their job, the way they think about SEO. It's important to consider that there are many ingredients to a successful marketing project and on the show we talk about the interaction and intersection of them all."

Listen to http://www.webmasterradio.fm
For SEM Synergy Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. PST
The topics discussed will include SEO, PPC, analytics, design, branding and ethics.

I will be tuning in...hear you there!

Jill Whalen Talks About SEO Standards

As I was reading through my Google alerts (my first thing in the morning read), and I happened upon this article from one of my SEO gurus, honestly this woman is a genius, anyway I digress...I thought it might be an interesting read for some of my followers so I will post a bit of a tidbit here and link it up to the article.

We Don't Need SEO Standards

"Last month I attended the SMX West session in Santa Clara entitled Is it Time for Search Marketing Standards? It was an interesting session, but I wasn't really sure where I stood on the issue at the time. Now that I've had a few weeks to think about it, I've come to the conclusion that not only would it be impossible to come up with standards that most would be happy with, I strongly believe that we don't need them at all."

- Jill Whalen

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SEO NEWS ** PR UPDATE**

As many of you may or may not have noticed, it looks like we are in the beginnings of a new algo change. I have been jumping on the forums and keeping my eyes and ears open into any developments that may be taking place in this latest Google dance.

So far the biggest thing I have noticed, is PR for a number of sites has gone down, yet rankings seem to be holding steady, and even rising. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

CMH Web Services is breaking through to the second page on their targeted keyword "SEO Firm" although it seems we are losing our PR battle.

I will check in early next week and see where our results will lie!