Found in the search marketing forums: Search Engine Impact of Removed Pages; Physical Server Location; Old Domains; and more.

Most pages which have their search engine rankings drop are usually filtered, not penalized. This post mentions a few examples of different types of filters.

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

A new Digital Outlook Report from Avenue A | Razorfish found that search continues to play a key role in the success of online ads, though its prominence is beginning to slip.

More providers are wising up to the tactic of offering small businesses a free and easy way to get online, in hopes that they will transition into paid advertisers.

Gary Price, Ask.com's director of online information resources, talks about his role in reaching out to the research and librarian communities.

The buzz about content remixing for syndication is equally misguided and shortsighted.

Tips on how to dis-associate a site from bad sectors of the web.

Rae recently posted a 5 person interview about link building that is well worth a read.

Should I consider selling search engine marketing services on a performance basis?

Running PPC ads is one of the fastest and easiest ways to do niche keyword research.

We are giving away a free pass to the the fast approaching San Fransisco Elite Retreat conference.

Joost de Valk emailed me about a Firefox Greasemonkey extension webmasters can use with Google's Webmaster Tools to see the PageRank and anchor text of inbound links. The tool is fast, and does a good job of showing you how well you have been mixing your inbound anchor text.

Many of the most powerful web based business models are auctions.

I recently purchased a website at mydomain.somecompany.com as a store to sell somecompany.com's products and was wondering if the site had any value, and how I could do SEO on the site if I couldn't change the content?

Affiliate software makes it easy to gather market research data, lower your risk profile, and have an easy to use centralized advertisement tracking system.

Think of words associated with large untargeted traffic streams as being the new poison words, especially if you use contextual advertising.