Here are the top search engine marketing news stories from the past week:

What a year! I would have to say that this past year we saw more exciting developments in our industry than in the last 3 years. From Google Caffeine to Groupon's rejection of Google, the Search Marketing landscape had some incredible stories this year. 

We are not the only ones sharing the top stories from the past year. Before scrolling down, see how the World Searched with Google in 2010:

Here are the top search engine marketing news stories from the past 2 weeks:

Marketers have been using sex as an advertising tactic from day one, but I beg to ask the question, did it ever really work? Did the sex sells tactic show a higher return on investment?

Let’s looks at a few ads from various time periods / mediums and ask ourselves, “Does this ad make me want to buy the product?”

Ad #1

I’m sure it gets your attention, but would it make you buy the computer?

Here are the top search engine marketing news stories from the past week:

Here are the top search engine marketing news stories from the past week:

Here are the top search engine marketing news stories from the past week:

Here are the top search engine marketing news stories from the past week:

Google has just launched a bombshell on the SEO community called “Place Search”. Google Place Search will now replace the local 7-pack results with a larger, and more detailed 7-pack of results that takes up ¾ of the page. (If you cannot see it, simply add &esrch=LocalMergeImpl::Experiment to your search URL; it is still an experiment but will be rolled out the next several days.)

Here are the top search engine marketing news stories from the past week: