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Delicious Rolls Out New Search Features
Delicious is introducing a slew of new features aimed at making its social bookmarking service more useful. From search refinements to graphing technology to its...
Google Highlights Forum Posts in Search Results
Google has introduced a new feature to its search results pages that highlights relevant forum posts and discussions relating to search queries. According to the...
Stretching the Vertical : Outside the Box Linking
Almost everyone has heard of writer’s block, but what about linking block? Almost every linkbuilder has been there. After 6 months of acquiring links for...
Google Chrome Invades Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google’s Chromium Blog has just announced the Chrome Frame, an open-source plug-in that enables Internet Explorer to run HTML5 and other advanced web technologies. Chrome...
Yahoo! Search Gets a Massive Revamp
There you go, Yahoo has just announced a major revamp of its search portal, particulary the search results format. According to the Yahoo Search blog...
Google Launches the DoubleClick Ad Exchange
Finally after acquiring Double Click for a whooping $3.1 billion, Google will now try to regain what they’ve invested in the company. The Official Google...
BREAKING : Adobe Buys Omniture for $1.8 Billion
Adobe made a very bold move today, jumping head first into the web analytics and tracking market with its $1.8 Billion acquisition of Omniture, viewed...
Interview with Eric Rogge, Senior Director of Marketing at Exalead
Exalead is one of those “smaller” search engines that continue to pop up here and there no matter what is going on in the search...
Google Finally Gets to Own its Home Page Design
Google’s rival and would-be rivals eyeing to mimic Google’s success by copying its home page layout may soon get in trouble. This is because after...
Directory Submissions: Still a Tool for Gaining Traffic and SEO Help
Are you looking to increase the popularity of your relevant links or simply build traffic? A common opinion of directories today is that they are...
Using Reverse Dictionaries for Keyword Research
I have previously listed several online dictionaries that define any word you specify. That’s so-to-say the direct process: you give a word and its definition...
Best Way to Compare Google, Yahoo and Bing: Blind Search (Poll Included)
A while ago I wrote a post reviewing 3 tools to compare Google and Bing search results. Blind Search slipped in the comments (many thanks,...
Michael Jackson Birthday Celebrated by Google
Google has put out a special logo today to commemorate the late Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday. It’s a bit intriguing that Google has chosen to...
Inheriting a Website That’s Been on a SEO Honeymoon
To follow-up on my last SEO honeymoon post, I wanted to mention a few points that expand it a little and consider this scenario from...
How to Do Keyword Research with OneLook Wildcard Search
Keyword research is the long multi-step process that involves finding possible keyword phrases, synonyms and related terms, estimating the keyword difficulty and potential, and even...
Yahoo Video Search Gets In-Line Play Back
Yahoo’s Video Search just got a new feature that will keep you glued on the Yahoo Video SERPs for a longer time before leaving the...
Yahoo to Acquire Arab Site Maktoob
In a rather surprising move, Yahoo announced that it intends to acquire Arab site Maktoob. This is the first time that Yahoo is acquiring an...
Have You Optimized Your Crawl Equity?
Sites with hundreds of thousands of pages, or even millions, may not ever get all their pages indexed. This is because of a concept sometimes...
SEO Terminology: Boilerplate (How Google May be Treating Repeated Content)
SEOs have been discussing how Google may be giving different treatment to different page elements based on their location on the page. Identifying so-called “boilerplate”...
Google Tops User Satisfaction Index
Report of the recent American Consumer Satisfaction Index showed that there are more satisfied Google users now than there were last year. The report also...
Matt Cutts Joins the SES San Jose SEO Site Clinic
Google’s Matt Cutts has made a surprise appearance here today in the SEO Site Clinic at SES San Jose 2009 along with Web Guerilla’s Greg...
Google Reader Rolls Out Some Good Features
Google is really so into “social” right now. Aside from introducing the social gadgets for iGoogle to everyone, it is also enhancing the sharing features...
Is There Such a Thing as a “Virtual” Backlink?
We know how much Google depends on external links for assigning some value to a site and a page. And because we all know that,...
Google Sponsored Ads Get Closer to Organic Results in SERPs
Have you noticed anything new with the way Google is displaying its paid search ads on its SERPs lately? According to the Periscopix blog, Google...
Packaging Makes Perfect
Online publishers have a unique set of search marketing challenges compared to most B2B or ecommerce sites, and in an increasingly competitive landscape. One major...
Sitemaps and Internal Links – the 10000 Page Test
Just because someone with a huge following claims this or that, isn’t good enough for me when it comes to knowing whether to implement some...
Think Twice Before Changing Your Site URL Structure
With the flood of SEO tips you come across here and there it is easy to become paranoid and screw your site up in an...
How Many PPC Ads Should You Test?
There are many essential ways to improve your AdWords account’s performance, but one of my favorites is ad testing. When I review people’s existing AdWords...
Create an Online Store in a Snap Using Google Docs and Checkout
Google has just rolled out the new Checkout Store Gadget currently running under Google Labs. This gadget lets users create their own online stores using...
Great Headlines, Poor Rankings – Why Clever Headlines Don’t Beat Optimized Title Tags for SEO
Headlines can be powerful. I think most marketers would agree that a strong headline can be both intriguing and enticing, and can help drive a...