Archive for the 'Search Engines' Category

Search Engines Yell For Scotland

There are many search engines out there, however one is dedicated to the UK and Scotland - yell.com - are you listed on it.
Yell.com is one of those search engines that is easy to list on yet provides a wide range of options for users. You can do a search, find the business you want; […]

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Search Engines, PageRank And SERP

Search engines and PageRank - here we go again. Another day another toolbar release of PageRanks. I read many articles where the webmaster is either jumping for joy or having a good gripe complaining that Google have got it all wrong - again.
Given the option of having a good page rank or appearing in the […]

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Search Engines Filling In Forms

At least, Google is. Yes, Google now has the capability to enter your site and when it comes across an HTML form, attempt to fill it in - what is not clear is what type of forms.
Andy Beal from Marketing Pilgrim points out in his article, Google is Cracking the “Invisible Web”:
This is exciting for […]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Scotland Web Sites and the Search Engines Spiders

Search engines regularly send out their spiders to crawl through your web pages checking to see what content you have and what sort of links you have. Yes, they even crawl through Scotland based web sites. Search engine spider - sounds rather nasty doesn’t it? The word spider is rather strange but has probably come […]

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Search Trends And Your Local Search Engine

Your local search engine can be your best friend when it comes to selecting keywords and optimising your web or blog site. Consider for a moment the different spelling combinations between Scottish and American keywords. A search for the word ‘color’ will bring back different results to the search for the word ‘colour’.
It is natural […]

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Comparing The Search Engine Ranking Factors

I read on a popular blog consultant’s website that he was on page 1 of three search engines for the phrase “blog consultant.” He asked his readers which one they’d have guess was the incongruent one if he hadn’t told them. It was a good question, but there are reasons to believe that it could […]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

How To Secure Your Web Pages

Do you have a problem keeping your secure pages secure? There’s a good explanation for it if you do.
Of course, you know how to tell the difference between a secure and a non-secure web page, right? Look in your web browser. If the URL you are looking at begins with http://, then it not secure. […]

Friday, January 18th, 2008

ClikitySplit Offers Twist On Local Search

Never mind that few of us can define Web 2.0. ClikitySplit founder Jim Clouse is calling his new local search website a “Web 3.0″ tool. Whatever that means, ClikitySplit does have some potential.
Clouse also describes his new creation as a (source) “visual, rich multimedia, dynamic, marketing and search engine.” Sounds cool, doesn’t it?
Actually, it is, […]

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Wikia Search Off To A Slow Start

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has been planning his newest project for a long time. He plans to take on Google through an open source search engine called Wikia. The problem is it isn’t getting rave reviews”

Wikia Not Ready Yet
Wikia Search A Complete Letdown
Wikia Search Launches In Alpha

The negative reviews are understandable. All Wikia is […]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Google Webmaster Central Team Is Growing

In November, the Google Webmaster Central Help Groups Team introduced its Dublin expansion office. It was fabulous news and it still is. Out of that office are working 12 bloggers blogging in 12 different languages. Well, it was 12. Now it’s 15.
The Dublin office of Google Webmaster Central is growing by adding three new languages […]

Monday, January 7th, 2008