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Archive for the 'SEO/SEM News' Category

iGoogle Tabs: How to Reorder
Monday, April 7th, 2008

There is one thing that iGoogle doesn’t currently allow you to do and that is move your tabs around to change the order of them. A quick Google search returns hundreds of pages where iGoogle users are asking how to do this. Until this feature is officially added, here’s a short tutorial on how you [...]

Compare Search: Compare results from different SE
Friday, March 28th, 2008

Even though there was once a huge possibility that two or more search engines will partner together to compete with google, it is still good to track and compare your progress in all of the existing search engines.
By comparing different Search Engine’s results you will:
– Get clear idea of how each [...]

Organic Listing: from SES NewYork
Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Loren Baker of SEJ writes live from SES New York on Organic Listing Forums moderated by Mike Grehan along with Greg Boser, Dave Naylor and Jill Whalen on the panel. Some important questions were raised and the answers has been summarized below:
How Relevant is Google PageRank?
- PageRank is not as important as it used [...]

Optimize Meta Description: for Humans!
Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I have heard a lot of people to talk about – “How to optimize Meta description for Search engines”, How to do this & that for “Search engines”…. But do we ever think of “human beings”? (e.g. People who are searching for you online).
I think its important to optimize your site for both “search engines” [...]

Jessica Bowman: Yahoo's SEO Manager Laid off
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

As you probably have heard, Yahoo has laid off over 1,000 employees to help it focus on its search and advertising businesses. This happened after yahoo posted higher fourth-quarter revenue than a year ago but a lower net profit.
And surprisingly, the lady with beauty and talent, Jessica Bowman, who had the dual role of Senior [...]

Gigablast Search:
Monday, March 24th, 2008

Gigablast, a privately owned and operated search engine of Matt Wells, recently released the findings of their search “taste test” where the majority of study participants, over 55%, found the Gigablast search results to be as good as, or better than, search results from Google.
- The study gave involved a comparison of Gigablast’s and [...]

Natural SEO: Reciprocal Linking & Interlinking
Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Ann Smarty of SEOsmarty.com recently started writing for SEJ. In one of her recent post she talked about reciprocal linking and its usefulness. So below I’m going to summarize her post with my own comments.
Q.1 – Is reciprocal linking useless? Can it harm my site?
Reciprocal links are natural and there is no way to avoid [...]

.info domains: Are they useful?
Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Many people often ask me this question – is .info domain any good? Well frankly domain names with the TLD .info are highly referenced with spam because of their low costs (only $.99 cents/yr); the .info domains are not completely worthless or always associated with spam (It was mentioned over 10 times at SES NY).
Although [...]

Google Quality Raters: Leaked Document from Google
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Internet Marketer Aaron Wall has recently blogged about a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which is a document used by Google Quality Raters to help them in classifying queries, measuring its relevancy, and rating the search results. In order to do so, the Quality Rater must understand how Google actually works and [...]

Google Search Share: Total search queries decreased by 5%
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

The recent search engine results from comScore has shown the same trend in terms of ranking. The most dominant search engine, Google is still #1 on the charts beating once again the other 4 major search engines. (Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask & AOL).
Google’s share of total search conducted in February went up from 58.2% [...]