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Search Engine Marketing News – August 10, 2009

Here are the latest headlines I’ve found in the Web marketing world. I hope you find them interesting…

Coming to a YouTube Near You: Local News

The NYT reports that “nearly 200 news outlets have signed up with YouTube to post news packages and split the revenue from the advertisements that appear with them.”

New Feature on Google’s Website Optimizer – Auto-Disable Bad Experiments – Search Engine Guide Blog

Google has added a new feature that potentially makes this tool even more special by allowing you to automatically disable your under-performing experiments.

First Domain Thief Prosecuted

The Angels had actually bought the domain in 2005 for $160,000. Goncalves stole the domain in 2006 and resold it in 2007 for $111,000. In late 2007, the Angels sued Goncalves and his unwitting buyer. The civil suit has been amended recently and is still ongoing.

Twitter Reaches 44.5 Million People Worldwide In June (comScore)

it did gain about 7 million new visitors in the month of June. Twitter’s website attracted a total of 44.5 million unique visitors worldwide in June, 2009, according to comScore.

Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » New and Delicious: Search, Tweet, and Discover the Freshest Bookmarks

New Delicious Search Tools
Fresh Bookmarks on Delicious.com
Email and Tweet Bookmarks

Some tweets now out of bounds at ESPN | Digital Media – CNET News

For ESPN, the social-networking revolution will not be televised–or tweeted, blogged, or Facebooked. Not for now, at least, and not without ESPN’s approval.

WSJ Embargoes Embargoes

the Wall Street Journal has a new anti-embargo policy for its editorial staff. Rather, like TechCrunch, they’ll accept exclusives, and honor embargoes when the story is big enough.

Teens Don’t Tweet; Twitter’s Growth Not Fueled By Youth | Nielsen Wire

In June 2009, only 16 percent of Twitter.com website users were under the age of 25. Bear in mind persons under 25 make up nearly one quarter of the active US Internet universe, which means that Twitter.com effectively under-indexes on the youth market by 36 percent.

People Watch Boatloads of Online Video

# The number of people using video sharing sites has gone from 33% in 2006 to 62% in 2009
# 89 percent of internet users ages 18-29 now say they watch content on video sharing sites, and 36 percent do so on a typical day

Digg Begins Rolling Out Beta Version of New Ad Platform – Search Marketing News Blog – Search Engine Watch (SEW)

The ads will appear along with submitted content, except they will clearly be marked as sponsored advertising. The more an ad is voted up, the lower cost-per-click (CPC) the ad will enjoy. The more the ad is buried, the higher CPC.

Financial Times Looks to MicroPayments