Latest SEO Articles
Your source for all things search engine optimization (SEO), including breaking news, algorithm updates, guides, strategies, tactics, tips, trends, tools, and more!
Advertisement
What Yahoo Search Wants in its Index
Yahoo just updated their site guidelines. Here’s a look: Pages Yahoo! Wants Included in Its Index * Original and unique content of genuine value *...
23 Reasons Google Could Become a Penny Stock
Google is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business, advises Dr....
eBay Taking Search Engine Optimization Seriously, Looking for SEO Specialist
Seems like everyone is starting to take SEO seriously now, except Seth Godin! Like many other large ecommerce systems, sites, and others who may have...
Recently Awarded Search Engine Patents
A Selection of Recently Awarded Search-Related Patents & Recently Published Search-Related Patent Applications Search engine with natural language-based robust parsing for user query and relevance...
Minor security bug in GMail reported
A GMail user named Ahmed Motaz reported a possible security flaw in the Google’s upcoming emailing service GMail. The problem is related to the ‘CheckAvailability’...
Search Engine Advertising Boosts Yahoo Japan
Yahoo Japan Corp. today reported that first-quarter profit surged 83 percent on gains from advertising and online sales. SUGOI! Annual profit growth may slow to...
Why Yahoo! Messenger irritates me?
Of all the instant messengers out in the market, I prefer Yahoo! the most. The reason being simple, it works. But well, having used it...
Majority Uses 2 Word Phrases in Search Engines
OneStat.com today reported that most people use 2 word phrases in search engines. Of all the search phrases world wide, 30.09 percent of the people...
Search Engine Optimization Book Offered Free to Charities
Aaron Wall has made his recently revised best selling SEO Book available to charities free of charge. Hiring a quality search engine optimization firm can...
BlowSearch Adds MultiLanguage Search
BlowSearch, a leading provider of Internet search tools, will provide users with the ability to obtain search results in Spanish, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian,...
Yahoo Completes Global Yahoo Search Rollout
Yahoo today announced the worldwide availability of the Yahoo! Search Technology platform. The announcement comes as Yahoo! Kimo/Taiwan launches Yahoo! Search Technology replacing their former...
“Kerry Edwards” Auctioning off KerryEdwards.com
If only I was a Kerry, or an Edwards, or both… for the feelgood story of the week – Kerry Edwards, part time bail bondsman,...
Microsoft Buys Outlook Search Tool Lookout
Microsoft just acquired Lookout, a Outlook add on which gives users the ability to easily search email and Outlook related fiels, filling in a huge...
Search Engine Advertising Good for Branding Too!
Not only is search engine sponsored links and contextually targeted advertising benefical for high returns on investments, conversions, and sales figures – but today a...
Pay Per Click Keeps Growing
There may be a time coming soon where the only way to have your website found under highly competitive keyword phrases in the major search...
Crystal Semantics Launches Textonomy Reveal
Internet content and search company, Crystal Semantics, has come to the rescue of those frustrated by the failure of current search technology. The launch of...
Why Does Google Still Use Yahoo Groups for Its Press Contact List?
Earlier in the hour I received a news release email from Daniel Lemin of Google. Ironically, after Google has tested GMail, Orkut, and Google Groups...
Google Chooses Nasdaq For IPO
Google has announced plans to list its $2.7 billion IPO on Nasdaq, bipassing the New York Stock Exchange. According to Rueters report, Nasdaq and the...
Paid Inclusion Going the Way of the Dodo
Late last week, Ask Jeeves announced it was going to cease its paid submission program and allow webmasters to submit sites to its database for...
Search Engine Hacking Suspect Now a Microsoft Employee
A MSN Search employee has been arrested on allegations that he hacked and stole private search engine technology from the AltaVista search engine. The alleged...
15 Ways to Read an RSS Feed
No doubt you have seen those small orange ‘XML’ or ‘RSS’ buttons beginning to spread across some of your favourite web sites. Perhaps you have...
Republican National Committee Starts 30% Commission Affiliate Marketing Program
It’s not very often that I take political sides in a posting or journal entry, but when logging into Commission Junction this morning I noticed...
Googles.com Taking Action Against Google
Googles.com is taking action against Google and challenging the Google trademark status on various products. This is not the first time a company or estate...
Dulance Offers Search Engine Advertising Blocker
A company called Dulance has just unleashed a vicious hound of a piece of software on the search engine marketing world, ironically, in an attempt...
Google Update – IPO, SERPS, Open & Outsourcing, GMAIL
Over the past seven years, it is fairly safe to say that the use of search engines has revolutionized our methods of finding and valuing...
Find.com – New Business Search Engine
A new search engine focusing on business and industry was released earlier last week. Find.Com is a very interesting tool that seems to combine the...
Microsoft Search Scares Yahoo Investors
Shares of Yahoo have dropped in value on Wall Street today on fears that the new Microsoft MSN Search will draw in some of the...
Get Your RSS Feed Listed Within Hours at Yahoo in 5 Simple Steps
Let’s be honest. There’s three types of people in the world. * Yahoos * Googlers * People who are neither, or both. I’ve been lurking...
MSN Search Relaunches, Has a Google Look
MSN today launched a range of new and updated services for its MSN Search service, aimed at helping people get faster, cleaner and easier access...
.com Not Listed in Regional Yahoo? Don’t Despair!
If you’re a non-American business with a .com web address, and your regional Yahoo ranking is important to you, then my story might interest you....