Archive for February, 2007

Search Engine Saturation: The Other Side Of Your Plan

Yesterday we shared some tips with you on ways to develop back links to your website. In addition to back links, you want to focus on search engine saturation, which is the number of web page you have cataloged at the search engines.
“If each web page is cataloged and ranked separately then why does [...]

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Back Links One One Of Two Ingredients For A Successful Search Engine Ranking

Creating back links to your website is one of the best ways to gain a higher ranking in the search engines. Almost any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert will agree with this point. The SEO experts will also tell you that your placement in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) can make or break your [...]

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Yahoo! Leads The Market With Clean Pipes

(Source)Yahoo! Pipes is the latest offering from Yahoo!, finally bringing the premise of NewsMastering to the mass market, and actually putting it on steroids.
The general idea behind Yahoo! Pipes is to allow its users to “easily” connect various internet data sources, mix them together in various ways, add additional functionality to them and create a [...]

Friday, February 16th, 2007

The Search Engine War Has Begun

Yesterday, we highlighted the newest search technology on the Net. Today, we found these two paragraphs buried near the bottom of a local California news station’s website:

While Sterling sees Ask as the hungriest of the search engines, Google is still by far the biggest with a 45-percent share of all queries in the U.S.
Yahoo! and [...]

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Will Powerset Topple Google?

This new start up makes some bold claims:

Powerset’s plan from the beginning was to concentrate on revolutionizing the core of search just like Google did 8 years ago (WOW that really seams like a long time ago).
Yeah, Google made a big splash and there was a lot of buzz that pushed them to the [...]

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Did Google Really Fix Its Google Bomb Problem?

It’s an interesting concept. Bil Platt’s theory. He says in this article on SitePronews:
If you want to review what is shown above, all of the Google Bombs that are now gone had negative connotations to them. All of the Google Bombs that survived can be construed as having positive, or at least non-negative, connotations to [...]

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

What Makes A Good Blog Post?

What makes a good blog post? That’s a good question and it really depends on the type of blog that you have. But we offer these pointers for your commercial blog:

First, don’t trash the competition
Secondly, if you do talk about the competition, be objective. You don’t have to be glowing and you don’t have to [...]

Monday, February 12th, 2007

There’s No Doubt Who Should Marry MySpace

The $900 million deal between Google and MySpace may be delayed due to the social networking giant’s reported talks with eBay, in which MySpace members would be allowed to buy and sell from each other by posting items on their profiles. Also, eBay’s online-commerce technology and PayPal payment system would be available to them, according [...]

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Will Yahoo!’s Panama Knock King AdWords Off The PPC Mountain?

On Feb. 5, 2007, Yahoo! unveiled its new PPC model. Instead of ranking ads by bid amount, the popular search engine now ranks ads by bid amount and ad quality. But what does that mean?
According to Yahoo!’s Search Marketing Help, the search engine uses a link quality index determined by two things primarily:
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007

The Nofollow Command Is Useful If You Sell Links On Your Website

What if a site wants to buy links purely for visitor click traffic, to build buzz, or to support another site? In that situation, I would use the rel=”nofollow” attribute. The nofollow tag allows a site to add a link that abstains from being an editorial vote. Using nofollow is a safe way to buy [...]

Friday, February 9th, 2007