Guest Blogging at Search Engine Guide This Week

It has been light posting over here this week as I have been busy guest blogging over at Search Engine Guide, filling in for Jennifer Laycock as she is currently on maternity leave after giving birth to a beautiful baby boy – Emmitt Charles Laycock. While the Google acquisition of YouTube dominated the news this week, there were a variety of additional things going on as well. I have provided a bullet list of all the topics I covered over the past couple of weeks. Enjoy!

• “No More Free Press Releases,” says PRWeb – PRWeb ends free press release distribution. Good I say as it will weed out all the spammy releases that have surfaced over the years.

• Are Your Web Pages Haunted – That Is With Grammar Errors? – Ten common grammar errors that typically haunt web pages.

• Google Introduces Multiple Channels For AdSense Ad Units – You can now assign custom channels to a single AdSense unit.

• Let the Copyright Fights Begin! Google’s First Battle Over YouTube Copyright Issues – Time Warner is the first to pick a copyright fight with YouTube under Google’s newly acquired ownership.

• Search The Web on Your Cell Phone With Ask.com Mobile – Ask launches mobile search making many of their cool tools available on your cell phone.

• Who Is In Control of Your Online Reputation? – ClickZ article on managing your online reputation. What are consumers saying about you? What to do about it when it turns sour.

• New Study on the Convergence of Social Media and E-Commerce – A study that looks at the convergence of traditional e-commerce and social media.

• Zoho Virtual Office Launched at Office 2.0 Conference – Zoho combines all their online productivity products into one suite.

• Google Launches “Google Office”, Well Almost – Google combines Writely and spreadsheet products into one suite, dubbed “Docs & Spreadsheets.”

• How Will Google Monetize YouTube? – Excellent article by Jennifer Slegg (Jensense) on how Google might work to monetize newly acquired YouTube.

• Yahoo! To Join MSN and Google in Supporting NOODP Tag – Finally Yahoo follows suite behind MSN and Google giving webmasters more control over how their web pages appear in the organic search listings.

• Widgets Live! – The First Conference Focusing on Widget Economy – The first ever conference on the emerging widget economy.

• Yahoo!’s Digital Time Capsule – Yahoo is assembling a digital capsule and inviting people everywhere to submit items.

• Web Analytics Are Useless Without Action and Accountability – A look at holding the web development team accountable to act on web analytics findings.

• Google Agrees To Acquire YouTube for a Record 1.65 Billion Dollars – The big news of the week, Google buys YouTube for record price.

• Business.com Launches New Business Site – Work.com – Part Wikipedia, part blog and part directory – a new web site by Business.com.

• Google Music Deals To Benefit Web Publishers? – How web publishers might benefit from Google’s recent deals with Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group.

• Things NOT To Do When Marketing Yourself on Web Forums - A rant of sorts based on my own experience moderating and participating on forums.

• Should Age of Target Audience Determine Online Marketing Strategy? – Marketers looking for the best way to reach a specific target audience should consider generational differences in search and media consumption habits.

• ClickTracks CEO John Marshall Interviewed – A summary of a recent interview conducted with John Marshall, CEO of ClickTracks.

• Don’t Forget About Your Users When Designing – Yahoo Publisher Blog releases an article on the subject of “designing your web site with users in mind.”

• 18 Things To Consider When Building a Website – Todd Mailcoat (aka Stuntdbl) does it again with advice on things to plan for when building a web site.

• TeamSkaffe – A New Directory For Non Commercial Sites – Skaffe launches a new directory for non-commercial web sites.