Weekly Search Buzz (20 July 08)

July 20th, 2008 | by Ankit |

Okay so here are the Search Buzz for this Week !! Here are the list of stories hot in my blog this week:

Google Trifecta:
For those who missed Google Trifecta: Webmaster Tools, Analytics, Website Optimizer. The archive for google trifecta is now available to download.

Winners for SearchMonkey Developer Challenge:
Yahoo!! has finally announced the winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge. Check the Winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge.

Google Expands Edit My Search Results Feature:
Ever heard of Google’s like and don’t like feature ? Something like DIGG .. a system where you can choose and customize your own SERP’s ? Check out Google Expands Edit My Search Results Feature ?.

Major Updates in Google SERP’s:
Many webmasters at DigitalPoint have reported Some major traffic loss in there websites. Many Webmasters reported that they lost getting traffic from there old keywords and getting traffic from some new keywords.

Google is verifying its local search results:
I got ranked #1 for Search Engine Optimization Delhi and wrote how to rank for local search at google. The time i made that posting there were 10 Results from Local now there is just one result thats me .. is it because they are removing the listings they are not able to contact ?

Here are the other topics hot in other blogs this week:

Google Shares its Ranking Technologies:
The official Google Blog had a post about the technologies that are behind the Google ranking, following up from a post about how Google ranks results.

Google AdWords Deep Targeting:
This week, the Google AdWords team announced that you can include keywords and placements in a single campaign type instead of creating separate campaigns. Doing this “combine[s] the benefits of contextual targeting with placement targeting,” according to Google.

Lawsuit for Google AdWords over Parked Domains:
While Google AdWords made strides this week, a lawyer is suing Google over a little more than $100 because he had AdSense on parked domains. Um, yeah.

So thats all for this week will update more next week ;) Happy weekend :-) I have to go outside to check if my car is fixed or not .. LOL .. hehe

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