Last week we went through the left brain’s parameters and limitations of paid search ads.

Posted by Lindsay When I was an in-house SEO I hired outside SEO consultants.

Earlier today several people noticed a “Promoted Tweet” in trending topics on Twitter.

comScore today released a report of the top U.S. online newspaper groups based on the comScore Media Metrix service.

Google’s Real Time Search is awesome.

Google Adwords is firing up a new tool, Analyze Competition , designed for advertisers to measure how their campaign performs compared to competition. So now instead of solely having their own metrics, advertisers can look at their campaign ROIs within the landscape of relevant/similar keyword categories. That easy.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: And Now, Google Itself Runs Oil Spill Ads We’ve covered earlier how both BP and legal firms are advertising on Google. Now Google itself is targeting oil spill related terms to drive people to *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Do you have a topic you’d like to see covered in a session at SMX East NYC on October 4-6, 2010? Something you’d like to see covered in depth, or a discussion of advanced strategies and tactics for getting the most out your search marketing campaigns? If so, we’d like to hear from you.

There are few topics in search engine marketing with such varying, vehement opinions as affiliates and PPC marketing. Allow affiliates to bid on brand terms? Allow them to buy search engine marketing at all