Tue Jul 15, 2008

A new generation of search engines are starting to become publicly available and so it's time to start thinking about how they will affect SEO efforts. The new search engines I'm talking about are the semantic search engines, meaning they are search...

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Yahoo has announced the winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge. The judges, including our very own Danny Sullivan, reviewed "hundreds of submissions" and selected five winners. The winners include: StumbleUpon for building the SU Infobar...

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Link Building via Word-of-Mouth; Has Facebook Found the Key to Making Money via Search?; Yahoo Launches BOSS: Build your Own Search Service; and more. Read Original Post Here ...

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: What Can TV Learn from Search?; Olympics 2008: Which Search Advertisers Get the Gold?; 24 iPhone Applications That Accelerate Mobile Search; and more. Read Original Post Here ...

Tue Jul 15, 2008

by Jennifer Laycock This past weekend marked the first Saturday in nearly three months I didn't have something scheduled. To celebrate, we decided to take the kids to meet their grandparents for lunch and then to spend an afternoon playing in the...

Tue Jul 15, 2008

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced the launch of the Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider Program. The tool is an extension of the GoDaddy Webmaster Tools plugin, which enables hosting service providers to build tools directly into their...

Tue Jul 15, 2008

These days, you can’t go anywhere without hearing about multivariate testing so I thought I’d walk through a landing page test. Along the way, I’ll provide testing pointers and leave you with several testing considerations. I'll...

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Recent search engine intelligence gathered for our readers: Google’s Lively already home to sleaze Google offers an alternative to 3D world Second Life (Phil Bradley July 10 2008) Hakia to Accelerate Semantic Analysis of the Web Hakia is using...

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Microsoft has once again put in an offer to buy Yahoo's search assets -- and once again been rejected. The latest offer was a joint one made by Microsoft and Carl Icahn. Yahoo slammed what it described "take it or...

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Please optimize this page title It s so boring I m sure you wouldn t want to steal it. Seriously in this article I m going to explain what page titles are as opposed to post titles or article titles and how and why to optimize them. We might even come...

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Scour is a brand new meta social search engine that encourages voting and commentary on each of its query results drawn from Google, Yahoo! And Live Search. And they will pay you to use their site. You score points for searching, voting and commenting...

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Another day, another Google Trends abuse. As spotted at Google Blogoscoped Forums, Google Trends on July 13th was showing "?l?oo? no? ??n?" as the number one hot trend amongst blogs, news sites and so on. I personally see it, when I navigate back to...

Sun Jul 13, 2008

The never ending Microsoft courtship has led to another loud “No!” from the prospective bride Yahoo! Microsoft officially gave up its quest for Yahoo! weeks ago. Disgruntled Yahoo! stock owners, seeing their potential wind fall disappear, then...

Sat Jul 12, 2008

by Jennifer Laycock A round up of what Jennifer read and found interesting today on the web. From how Google ranks sites to writing effective blog posts to Twitter Zombie attacks, check out half a dozen posts Jen thought you need to...

Sat Jul 12, 2008

by Jackie Baker Before search engine optimization can be successful in driving conversions, not just rankings, you first need to ensure that your site is usable and compelling. Sure, a good optimization campaign may improve your search engine...