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Google Minus 60 Penalty Revealed 2008-05-13 16:06:08 The Google
-60 penalty has been talked about in the SEO message boards and forums for some time. Google has not officially stepped forward to weigh in on this specific penalty. It has been up to SEO’s and Webmasters to come up with the name Google -60 Penalty
by observation.
The observation has been that web [...] Read more:Minus
Yahoo Integrates McAfee SiteAdviser into Searches 2008-05-08 12:00:13 Yahoo announced yesterday that it has partnered with security application specialist McAfee
to integrate SiteAdviser into searches. McAfee SiteAdviser will help Yahoo searchers to avoid malicious websites such as those engaging in adware, spyware, phishing, spam or other bad neighborhoods.
McAfee SiteAdviser will not block Yahoo users from going to such sites, only raise a red [...] Read more:Yahoo
Google Cutts Web Spam 2008-04-29 11:05:34 It’s always good to hear what Google
’s Matt Cutts
has to say about anything search related. It terms of the search engines, Cutts is “relevant.” So, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Matt Cutts was giving tips on cutting down on spam.
Now, who doesn’t want to do this? Spam infects all areas of the [...]
Google and Yahoo Rise as Economy Falters 2008-04-22 13:36:01 Though the economy is faltering due in large part to the subprime lending debacle, Internet advertising dollars continue to rise. In the past couple of weeks, both Google
and Yahoo
have reported better than expected earnings.
For instance, Google has announced that despite losing a little market share to Yahoo, that the world’s largest search company [...]
Geo Tagging Your Website or Blog 2008-04-17 13:33:46 There are some websites and blogs that are location specific such as for realtors, dentists, restaurants and many others who need to optimize their websites for the local marketplace. Local SEO has not come of age yet, but marketplace forces are headed in that direction.
For those who want to be on the leading edge of [...] Read more:Tagging
Yahoo Slurp 3.0 2008-04-15 12:15:05 It’s tax day, not April Fool’s Day, but Yahoo
Slurp 3.0 is rolling out anyway and this is no joke. Yahoo Slurp 3.0 is said to include some infrastructure updates and will now respect the directives outlined in a website’s robots.txt file without modification to this file.
Webmasters will start to see the Yahoo Slurp 3.0 [...]
Dofollow Movement Picking Up Steam 2008-04-10 14:32:48 In an effort to fight back against the Nofollow regime over the past couple of years in which a wide net was cast to thwart spammers, the Dofollow rebellion is now taking hold. Bloggers and others have decided that enough is enough and they do want to share the link love with there best blog [...] Read more:Picking
, Steam
Yahoo AMP Tuned for Advertising Performance 2008-04-08 10:58:37 The Yahoo
AMP (Advertising
Management Platform) is about to change the face of buying and selling ads online. Formerly known as Project Apex, Yahoo AMP will help advertisers, publishers and intermediaries communicate swiftly and effectively, eliminating phone calls and long wait times.
The buying and selling of large blocks of ad impressions has long been an [...] Read more:Performance
Google Speaks About C Block Auction 2008-04-05 10:18:05 The secret squirrels have finally left their holes and have been able to now publically speak about the C-block auction where Google
eventually lost out to Verizon. Because of the FCC’s anti-collusion rules that were in place while bidding and shortly thereafter, mum was the word among all participants.
Google met the minimum bid of $4.6 [...] Read more:Auction
Google News Myths and Facts 2008-04-03 12:15:50 Google News has been the subject of much speculation over the past months so company software engineer Andy Golding decided to clear the air on the official Google News Blog.
In a nutshell, some of the Google News myths include:
Having a photo in your article helps with the rankings
Sitemaps help rankings
Timing of publication is important
Adsense will [...] Read more:Google
, Myths
Google Friend Connect for OpenSocial Interaction 2008-05-15 11:16:04 Google not just about search anymore. It’s about social connections and finding community on the Web. The more Google can connect people to what they are looking for and whom they are looking for the Internet will grow in a positive direction.
This is why Google Friend Connect
has just been introduced on a limited basis. [...] Read more:Google
, Interaction
Google Health Needs to Address Privacy Issue 2008-05-20 16:35:10 Back in late February, we got a sneak peek at GoogleHealth
and of course, one of the top concerns with this new program is privacy issues.
Knowing this would be a hot button issue, Google addressed the privacy issue in the first bullet point, “Google Health will protect the privacy of your health information by [...] Read more:Needs
, Address
, Privacy
Has Social Networking Hit Its Peak? 2008-05-22 13:28:52 Only a several years ago, people Googled and went to message boards to hang out. And, then the next big thing on the Internet was blogging. So, in the past couple of years social networking has been hot, very hot. But, has social networking hit its peak?
Myspace, Facebook, Digg, Linkedin and the list goes on [...] Read more:Social
Google Backup for Grabs 2008-05-27 11:14:52 According to a News article from the Land Down Under, Google
Backup is coming soon to a computer near you. Now, with some remote online backup services such as Mozy or Carbonite, you’ll pay $4 or $5 per month to copy your data to some offsite servers and hard drives in case your PC is [...]
Microsoft Windows 7 Drops Mouse for Touch Screen 2008-05-29 12:28:46 Well, the Microsoft
Vista operating system hasn’t made much of a splash as predicted, more of a thud. But, the Seattle software developer is on to talking about its next gig, Windows
7. While Bill Gates and company is staying mostly mum about the new Windows 7 operating system they did share a few tidbits [...] Read more:Drops
, Mouse
, Microsoft Windows
Wal-Mart Takes on Craig’s List with Online Classified Ads 2008-06-04 08:53:58 As if Wal-Mart weren’t the low cost leader among brick and mortar shops, the nation’s largest retailer wants consumers using their Internet services as well. Since Wal-Mart is not the number one destination online as it is for many offline, the Walton family has decided to cut into the market share of Craig
’s List and [...] Read more:Classified
Google Says Speed Matters to User Behavior 2008-06-05 10:24:00 At the recent Google
I/O Conference in Northern California, the search giant said that speed matters. Not in so many words, mind you. But, what Vice President of Search Products Marissa Mayer did say was that users were asked whether they would like 10 or 30 results per page and they chose 30.
But, when the [...] Read more:Speed
, Behavior
, Google Says
Major Retailers Not Being Proactive in SEO 2008-06-10 10:31:22 There’s an article over at WebProNews by Jason Lee Miller that caught my attention today. He chronicles his Google search for the new Polaroid T730 Compact 7mp digital camera that has just been introduced to the marketplace.
When doing the search, the Polaroid website did not pop up on the front page of results for either [...] Read more:Major
, Proactive
, SEO
Social Networking More Effective Than Websites 2008-06-17 11:54:13 Social networking is more effective than websites in generating targeted traffic according to an article in CMS Wire. The article actually outlines a 130-page report by the Gilbane Group called “Collaboration and Social Media 2008- Taking Stock of Today’s Experiences and Tomorrow’s Opportunities.”
What caught my eye is that social networking came in at 59-percent effective [...] Read more:Social
, Websites
Digg Recommendation Engine Tries Hypermiling Users 2008-07-03 16:19:19 The DiggRecommendationEngine
has been unveiled in beta and increases the social aspect of social networking. The first feature people will notice about the Digg Recommendation Engine will be the list of users on the right who are Digging the same types of articles as you.
One of the intentions of the Digg Recommendation Engine [...]
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