August 28, 2007

From the SEW Blog:

• Yahoo, Now with More Local Listings
  Directory Publisher R.H. Donnelley announced today that it will partner with Yahoo to give its advertisers more substantial presence on Yahoo Local.
• Keep an Eye on Image Search
  Image search is playing an increasingly important role in search engine optimization, and SEOs should develop strategies for optimizing a web site to receive this type of traffic.
• Yahoo Support for Dynamic URL Rewriting
  After years of helping people get rid of Session IDs on their URLs, this is a really great thing to see.
• What People Reveal
  The updates you share at college reunions would be different than your chats with daily running buddies. Likewise, your communications on social sites seem to vary too.
• SEW Experts: Tools of the Trade
  Mark Jackson recommends several useful tools for running an effective search engine optimization campaign.
• SEW Experts: Scaling Your Big Business Internationally
  Aaron Shear tells you what to expect when expanding your business internationally.

Headlines & News from Elsewhere:

• Cool New Yahoo! Search Marketing System Enhancements, Search Engine Land
• Pursuing the Web Strategy mission as a Forrester Analyst, Web Strategy by Jeremiah
• The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines, Search Engine Land
• Mahalo, Techmeme, and Facebook will not "kick Google's butt", Valleywag
• Search engine startups - IPO, M&A, or flameout?, Don Dodge
• Feeding Your Inner Geek - Top Tips to Getting To Conferences, Pubcon Blog
• Stop Digging Where There Are No SEO Potatoes, Closed Loop Marketing
• Spoking About The Perfect Hub Strategy, SEO Theory
• Does the Federal Government Hate Search Engines?, Marketing Pilgrim
• Eyetracking Shows Web Audience Ignores Ads, Marketing Pilgrim
• Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
• A Corrupt DMOZ Editor, Google Blogoscoped
• The Domaining Revolution: Lessons From The Domain Roundtable, Search Engine Guide
• SEO Overhauls with CSS: If You Rebuild It They Will Come, 15 Digital Marketing
• Yahoo! Local and R.H. Donnelley Expand Relationship, Bill Hartzer
• The Eight Most Important Lessons I've Learnt as an SEO Trainee, Apple Pie & Custard