Weekly Search Buzz (25 Aug 08)

August 25th, 2008 | by Ankit |

Firstly, My appology for not able to post this on sunday, I know many subscribers who are just subscribed to this weekly feeds must be angry on me … :-)

This week was exiting and was really intresting, as this week we had some intresting findings and discussion.

Here are some of the hot topics on my blog:

Google Still Playing With AdSense Ad Fonts: Looks like the Google Test is not yet over and they are still playing with Google Adsense Ad Fonts.

Google Updating SERP’s: Looks like Google Dance is going on, As many webmasters ove DigitalPoint repoted that there websites are flying up and down sometimes from page 50 to page one and for sometime Page one to 100+.

Yahoo Buzz Now Open For All Publishers: Yahoo Buzz, is now open to all publishers. Yahoo announced that any Yahoo user can now “buzz up” any content from any publisher on the Web.

Wan’t To Exchange Links With Google ?: Someone created Link Exchange thread over Official Google Webmaster Help Forums asking for reciprocal links.

9 Simple Video Search Engine Optimization Techniques, By: Gregory Markel: According to Gregory Markel, Video Search Engine Optimization is extremely popular as web2.0 is growing fast, It’s helpful for branding and reputation management.

Google Testing New Adsense Style: Looks like the Adsense test is going on. However, I haven’t noticed any major effect on my CTR may be because of much Tech-Savy users on my blog !!

Global Search for the B2B SEM, SES San Jose 2008: For more then 10 Good reasons, I have some great interest in B2B industry. Here is the Live Coverage from SEM San Jose 2008 in the Session Global Search for the B2B SEM, This is orignally covered and Posted by Virginia Nussey at Bruceclay.

Rediff No.1 Local Indian Search Brand: According to the latest comScore release, Google search share in India is 81.4%, with over 1 billion searches conducted in June and Rediff.com Ranked as Top Local Indian Search Brand with over 18 Million Searches last month.

Internet Explorer 8 Is Now Available With Privacy Mode: Often called porn mode or secret mode, There are few names given to this. The latest version of the Apple Safari browser already has this mode and it works well on Apple OS.

Anchor Text, No-More Important For Organic Rankings ?: I think something was Going on about this since the starting of august, As after the Google Update for August webmasters continue reporting about major loss in there rankings … and everyone was confused about this situation.

Yahoo! Site Explorer Gets New Features: The new design boosts a new Site Summary page providing interesting statistics for sites that have been authenticated with Yahoo!! Site Explorer and have some more advanced features.

Google Integrating AdSense Click Tracking Data into Google Analytics: If you are using Google Adsense then a Good news for you. Google is soon going to Integrate Google Adsense Click Tracking Data into Google Analytics.

Toolbar PR Update For Aug 2008 ?: Its confirmed there was a minor update last week :-).

Here are some of the topics hot on other blogs in search industry this week:

Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2008: So what did you miss this week? All in all, the 4 days were packed with great informative sessions and seroundtable have the liveblogs for you:

Well thats all for this week. Will bring more next week :-) Till then enjoy !!

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