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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 19, 2010Friday, March 19, 2010 @ 3:11PMHere 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.

Page rankings can fall without constant attention to SEO, consultant saysFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 2:00PMSearch engine optimization is a constant struggle, with retailers needing to make use of the latest tools to make sure pages do not fall out of rankings, says Georgianne Brown , co-founder and managing partner of Big Couch Media Group, a consulting firm.

Twitter Search Results to Show Popular Tweets On TopFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 11:52AMTwitter appears set to tweak search results to return the most popular tweets first — instead of the most recent — for any given search query. This according to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, who has just updated the developer Google Group announcing the yet-to-be-released product. Singletary says, “This is a beta project, but an important first step to surface the most popular ...

North Korea spurns UN push to stop executions and tortureFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 11:48AMThe North Korea ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva denounced its recommendations just as reports emerged that the North had executed the official responsible for a ruinous currency revaluation.

North Korea spurns UN push to stop executions and tortureFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 11:30AMNorth Korea is spurning United Nations demands to stop public executions, torture of prisoners, and other endemic violations of human rights in the aftermath of the reported execution of the senior official responsible for disastrous economic reforms.

Twitter Responsible For Very Little Visits To News and MediaFriday, March 19, 2010 @ 10:20AMThe latest post from Hitwise discusses where users travel after leaving Twitter. The post further breaks down the various news and media sites which receive the greatest traffic from Twitter.   Twitter.com accounted for 0.14% of upstream visits to News and Media sites last week. (Note that we are measuring website visits from Twitter.com only.) This compares to 3.64% from Facebook and 1.27% from ...

SEM: A Call to ActionTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 12:24AMA call to action in your ads and your site is critical. Getting your potential customers' attention is important, but getting them to direct that attention to doing what you want them to do is an absolute. ...

Wrong-way crash kills 4Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 12:04AMIn a waiting room at Wesley Medical Center's surgical intensive care unit, friends and family members waited Monday for news of Hana Choi.

5 Critical Design Elements Your Business Website NeedsMonday, March 15, 2010 @ 11:11PMThe prominent and prolific use of the internet by consumers is fast becoming the leading method of finding businesses. Thanks to smartphone devices like the iPhone and Blackberry, consumers have access to the internet, and your business website, wherever they go.