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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...
Microsoft, Yahoo Search Deal is Official
As expected, the Yahoo-Microsoft search and online advertising deal is now official. In simple terms, the deal is all about Microsoft powering Yahoo search while Yahoo...
SEO Q&A: How to Prevent Google from Crawling AND Indexing a Page?
One of our valued readers sent in a question asking why one of the site pages he blocked with Disallow Robots.txt directive is still returned...
Tools to Easier Access Google Translate
I’ve been previously reviewing some useful tools to help with international browsing – obviously, the best and the most powerful tool for that is Google...
Top 3 Google Gadgets to SEO Your iGoogle Home Page
There are surprisingly too few worthy gadgets that can be added to iGoogle home page, this post looks at 3 of them you may find...
Are You on an SEO Honeymoon?
I don’t know whether you ever get this thought when touring the web, but there are some sites that I think ‘I wish I could...
Yahoo to Launch Search Pad Feature
Yahoo is about to launch a new search-related product called Search Pad. This search feature which may be mistaken for Google’s now defunct Notebook service...
Interview with Microsoft Bing’s Rajesh Srivastava, Principle Group Manager, Bing
Bing was launched by Microsoft as a consolidated search engine brand and technology which the company hopes to compete side by side with Google. Bing’s...
Landing Pages On A SMB Budget
Creating new landing pages for testing is getting cheaper. And scalable. So there are fewer and fewer reasons for SMBs not to be testing their...
Yahoo Link Sends Record-Breaking Traffic to New York Times Site
And you thought the “Digg Effect” was bad. Behold the Yahoo link effect. A link featured at the top of Yahoo’s front page sent more...
Link Building Worksheets – Organize Your Campaign
I have said numerous times how much I love using Excel to get better organized. And using it for managing your link building campaigns is...
9 Strategies for Finding Incredible Content
Finding great content online from a social media and search marketer’s standpoint is a very vital aspect to building out social accounts, writing blog posts,...