July 13, 2007

From the SEW Blog:

• Yahoo Closes Right Media Deal
  Yahoo has closed the $650 million acquisition of Right Media that was announced in April.
• Visual Sciences Retains Goldman, Sachs & Co
  In response to a number of unsolicited queries about acquiring them, the company has retained Goldman, Sachs & Co to manage those queries, and evaluate their next steps.
• SEW Experts: Call for Production Value Standards in Search Marketing Videos
  Grant Crowell conducts a survey of the top-20 videos on YouTube and comes to the conclusion that our industry needs the same professional standards for search marketing videos as we hold for our Web sites.

Headlines & News from Elsewhere:

• Downgraded by Google for Search Spam, Squidoo Cleans House, ClickZ
• Share of Voice in Search, ClickZ
• Getting Into Google, Search Engine Guide
• Google AdSense For Mobile Begins Limited Beta, Search Engine Land
• Using SEO for Better Paid Search Results, and Vice Versa, Search Engine Journal
• Squidoo Slap: Principles to Consider, Traffick
• Random Surfer Theory, Smart Keywords
• Superpages Added to IM-Based Local Search Service, The Kelsey Group
• Comparing the ROI of Online vs Offline Investments, SEO Book
• Can Google Be Beat? They Already Have Been in South Korea, Read/Write Web
• Pig Asking Pig How to Eat? Yahoo…., SEM ClubHouse
• Should SMBs Be Worried About Google's Universal Search?, SearchRank
• Ostriches beware, being an expert in search is no longer enough, Think About Search
• Version 2 of the Mobile Search application released, LiveSide
• Incisive Media Launches Mortgage Industry Search Engine, Bill Hartzer
• SEM & Analytics - The Love vs. Hate Relationship Continues, SEM Geek
• Rumor report: Microsoft looking to buy Facebook, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
• Online Reputation Management: What You Need to Know, SEO-space
• Facebook - Who’s doing your SEO?, Distilled
• Page View - a dying metric?, The Online Marketing Guy
• The power of Adsense unveiled : ultimate Adsense beginner guide, Performancing
• Search Engine Marketing Strategy Guide (SMM SEM SEO) - Part 1, Social Media Systems
• Coming Soon: The Exposure to Conversion Report, DART Search Blog
• Social Networking ROI: Measuring the Impact of C2C, ClickZ
• Organic Search and the Password Paradox, ClickZ