In an earlier post, I solicited questions for Google about local search. My intention had been to present them at the What’s New in Local Search panel at SMX East this morning. But I didn’t get my act together to distribute them at the session. Google’s Eric Stein, who was on the panel, coordinated the [...]

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Posted by great scott! SEOmoz’s newest product, Linkscape, provides link data that Search Marketers have always wanted but never really had access to.  What we found though is that once you start collecting that data, there’s a lot more to it than one might think.  Building Linkscape forced us to create new, actionable metrics to [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.From Search Engine Land:SMX East ‘08 Day One Live CoverageBelow is live coverage from day one of the 2008 Search Marketing Expo East conference.Google Answers Your Local QuestionsIn an earlier post, I solicited questions for [...] [...]

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The past few weeks have been busy for the people over at StumbleUpon and its users alike. Just a few weeks ago, StumbleUpon lifted the 200 friend max from its user base and added a subscribe feature. On Wednesday my favorite social community announced that there were yet more changes to their discovery/recommendation [...] More: [...]

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Google and Yahoo said on Friday that they were delaying implementation of their controversial paid search ads deal to allow more time for the Justice Department to evaluate its potential impact on the marketplace. Google had previously said the deal would go into effect as scheduled despite absence of a final regulatory determination of the [...]

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