It is the end of the week again and Pandia presents some of the most important headlines of the last seven days. But first we will take a look at news search.
Netscape becomes Propeller
AOL’s experiment with turning Netscape.com into a social web portal is over. The new site is actually the pre-summer of 2006 site […]
Microsoft’s Live Search had a major update this week.
Live Search (also known as Windows Live Search and MSN Search) went through a metamorphosis this week, the main changes being the following:
The index has quadrupled in size
The numbers are not official, so we do not know how many documents are indexed by Live. Mary Jo […]
Webmasterradio.fm adds search engine for its podcast transcript database.
There is actually quite an active search engine marketing podcast scene out there, and it is totally dominated by one production company, namely Webmasterradio.fm.
Webmasterradio runs shows like the Daily Searchcast, SEO Rockstars and SEO 101.
Those of our readers who read our interview with Webmasterradio’s Daron Babin […]
It’s an unfortunate fact - no matter how good your search engine optimization company or in-house talent is, brand new websites have a more difficult time achieving search engine success for competitive phrases than their older counterparts, particularly on Google. However, the worst thing that a new site owner can possibly do is presume that […]
Last week I discussed the best tactics for achieving rankings in Yahoo, the web’s number 2 most popular search engine. Now it is time to pick on the third most used search property - MSN, which has 6.6% of the search market (src: Hitwise) and is currently found at www.live.com. MSN’s ranking algorithm has its […]
Over at the HighRankings forum this past week we’ve been having a bit of a discussion. Member “rolf” started it when he asked whether customers should expect web designers to know about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as a matter of course, or if designers should presume customers know and will ask about SEO if they’re […]
MarketingSherpa today released the fourth annual edition of its Search Marketing Benchmark Guide, http://www.sherpastore.com/Search-Marketing-Benchmark-2008.html
The guide reveals the latest findings of MarketingSherpa’s extensive survey in June and July 2007 of 2,475 marketers who conduct or supervise search marketing for their own companies.
Among the highlights found in the 273-page guide:
The search marketing industry is still expanding rapidly […]
While vertical search is still in its infancy, the integration of vertical results through Google Universal and Ask 3D are allowing sites to draw more and more visitors from specialty indexes. One of the vertical search indexed that is becoming more and more popular is imagine search. Unfortunately, many small businesses are overlooking traffic opportunities […]
So you just started a new job in the “Insert Category Here” industry and are instantly expected to get up to speed so you can begin helping your team with billable work. You’ve heard that blogs are a great resource to begin your education, however you discover that there are literally a million blogs you […]
Stoney has offered up a few articles here in the past week that aim to remind folks of the importance of community when it comes to building and establishing solid content. He took a lot of heat for the first one from the industry. Mostly, from folks who felt you couldn’t have community without content. […]