Posted on 26 September, 2009
Google now displays anchor links under results at the bottom of search, Google shows you a few lines of text to give you an idea of what the page is about —”search snippet.” . The idea is to send you more quickly and directly to exactly the information you were looking for in your query [...]
Posted on 14 September, 2009
Here are some definitions of what Yahoo!, MSN Search and Google consider to be unacceptable SEO (aka spam). This list is not exhaustive. Some of these are discussed in more detail elsewhere. • Keyword, Anchor Text and Domain Name Stuffing • Using hidden text or links. These could be hidden in ALT tags of images [...]
Posted on 12 September, 2009
Facebook Lite, is the all new lighter version of the Facebook is balanced to work well even on mobile devices as it loads the most basic features quickly and easily. As per the company website, “Facebook Lite is a faster, simpler way to keep in touch with your friends. If you like it, you may [...]
Posted on 11 September, 2009
Prior to July, no one cared about optimizing their sites to appear high in Yahoo! or MSN organic search results. They were stuck in obscurity with Ask and AOL. Thanks to the Yahoo-Bing, deal, however, Seth Besmertnik, CEO and Co-Founder of SEO firm Conductor, says clients are gearing up to approach SEO with Bing in [...]
Posted on 29 August, 2009
Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, have donated $500 k to a Copyright reform advocacy group – Creative Commons. According to the blog post of Creative Commons, “This gift–made in addition to the financial support that Google offers CC annually–will be used to support Creative Commons generally, with a focus on developing [...]
Posted on 28 August, 2009
Between Google’s generosity on one end and Wolfram Alpha’s terseness on the other, a growing spectrum of search engine approaches is emerging, with the aim of making it easier for users to find what they want on the web. Microsoft offered its updated search engine, named Bing. In Bing, Microsoft seems to have gotten over [...]
Posted on 27 August, 2009
Mail, Search and Messenger, Yahoo Updated all Services. Yahoo has added slide of new features and updates to its three internal offerings – Mail, Search and Messenger. This week the company announced changes to their email, messenger and mobile programs. But, perhaps the biggest move? An improved search results page which will give ‘personally relevant [...]
Posted on 24 August, 2009
Top 10 Ways to Improve Search Engine Rankings. 1. If you are using a shared host, ask your host for a dedicated IP address for your site. This means that no one on the net shares this IP with your site. It is yours and yours alone. Many shared servers have tons of related sites [...]
Posted on 24 August, 2009
What is Google? Yahoo? Bing?. From a user standpoint a search engine is a web page that allows keywords or phrases to be entered and returns results based on the relevance of the documents it holds in its index. Relevance is determined by a set of automated routines referred to as algorithms. Search engines index [...]
Posted on 23 August, 2009
All About Search Engine Optimization. The expression “Search Engine Optimization” is something of a misnomer as it is not the Search Engine that is being optimized. The phase describes process of designing or modifying a web site in order to achieve high rankings in search engines results pages (SERPS). Search engine companies would say that [...]