In tracking how people consume and share information Google can understand local topical networks, while reinforcing the views of the local topical editors. It sorta creates a bunch of micro-Digglike communities, but more free-flowing, with less focus on free votes. Time is the one thing we are all limited on, and if you are paying attention to something then there is a lot of value in trusting that attention.

Short term you can do well with major holes in a website, but what do you need to have a successful long-term website?

eBay and Amazon give marketers access to a wealth of juicy marketplace conversion data.

Each year for the past three years, mobile search has been predicted to break out. It hasn't yet, but there are signs that 2007 could be the year those predictions finally come true.

Found in the search marketing forums: Link Buying Taken To The Extreme; How Does a SE Access Dynamic Content? Does "Set I and Forget It" Work? and more.

A friend of mine found out about a product that was first seen by them from a spam comment someone left on my site. The product helped automate content generation and syndication, aiming to help new webmasters distribute slightly unique spam across the web. My friend gave that person his email address and they email spam him non-stop. Marketing offers are no better than the marketing method they use to find you.

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

It's important to remember that paid search not only influences other channels, but is influenced by other marketing channels as well.

While you may think you're getting your search-related points across to programmers, sysadmins, and others, that's not always the case.

Free tips on how to cheaply extend the reach of a site selling premium brand ads in a high profit sector.

Post offering tips on how to gain the traffic and links associated with controversy while minimizing the potential associated damage.

Yahoo! allows paid inclusion members to buy quick links in the search results and indexes sites more fully if they use Yahoo! for their site search.

Frank Schilling's blog is a great read.

None of us truly start from scratch.

Online Journalism Review and Gord Hotchkiss both recently discussed the effects of eye tracking on publishing.

I highly recommend watching the DVD titled The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.

I just deleted about 10,000 comment spams from a blog. What could one learn from going through all that spam?