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What’s Up with Google Dashboard?
Did anybody from Google just leaked out information about a new service called Google Dashboard? GOS blog was reporting about Google Dashboard and even pointed...
Outsourcing SEO – Yes or No?
If you’re following business trends with any level of interest at all, you’ll have noticed how many opportunities there are to outsource your business processes....
Gazopa Similar Image Search Enters Open Beta
Imagine conducting an image search whereby the search engine uses features from an image to retrieve similar images. If you thought to yourself “That’s already...
Social Media Affiliate Marketing Guide 101 – With Amazon
This guide is a summary of proper methods and guidelines for affiliate marketing on social media. This is also a follow up to the first...
Is It a Good Idea to Block Visitors by Country?
There may be several reasons why one would want to block users from all countries except the targeted one: with large amounts of traffic this...
SEO Dojo: A Community for SEO Enthusiasts
Today, David Harry (aka @theGypsy) has launched an SEO community that encourages sharing and education called the SEO Dojo. Although the community is not free,...
Google Logo Pays Tribute to the Barcode
Google continues experimenting with its logo by changing it to commemorate what it deems as significant events in history. Last week, Google logo paid homage...
Yahoo Patents Human Edited Search Results Ranking
So, what is Yahoo up to now with regards to its search results? Reports say that Yahoo has just received the U.S. patent for something...
Can Google Wave Change the Game?
By now around 100,000 beta testers are probably busy playing around with Google’s highly anticipated online communication and sharing venture Google Wave, which Google described...
Delicious Rolls Out New Search Features
Delicious is introducing a slew of new features aimed at making its social bookmarking service more useful. From search refinements to graphing technology to its...
Google Highlights Forum Posts in Search Results
Google has introduced a new feature to its search results pages that highlights relevant forum posts and discussions relating to search queries. According to the...
Stretching the Vertical : Outside the Box Linking
Almost everyone has heard of writer’s block, but what about linking block? Almost every linkbuilder has been there. After 6 months of acquiring links for...
Google Chrome Invades Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google’s Chromium Blog has just announced the Chrome Frame, an open-source plug-in that enables Internet Explorer to run HTML5 and other advanced web technologies. Chrome...
Yahoo! Search Gets a Massive Revamp
There you go, Yahoo has just announced a major revamp of its search portal, particulary the search results format. According to the Yahoo Search blog...
Google Launches the DoubleClick Ad Exchange
Finally after acquiring Double Click for a whooping $3.1 billion, Google will now try to regain what they’ve invested in the company. The Official Google...
BREAKING : Adobe Buys Omniture for $1.8 Billion
Adobe made a very bold move today, jumping head first into the web analytics and tracking market with its $1.8 Billion acquisition of Omniture, viewed...
Interview with Eric Rogge, Senior Director of Marketing at Exalead
Exalead is one of those “smaller” search engines that continue to pop up here and there no matter what is going on in the search...
Google Finally Gets to Own its Home Page Design
Google’s rival and would-be rivals eyeing to mimic Google’s success by copying its home page layout may soon get in trouble. This is because after...
Directory Submissions: Still a Tool for Gaining Traffic and SEO Help
Are you looking to increase the popularity of your relevant links or simply build traffic? A common opinion of directories today is that they are...
Using Reverse Dictionaries for Keyword Research
I have previously listed several online dictionaries that define any word you specify. That’s so-to-say the direct process: you give a word and its definition...
Best Way to Compare Google, Yahoo and Bing: Blind Search (Poll Included)
A while ago I wrote a post reviewing 3 tools to compare Google and Bing search results. Blind Search slipped in the comments (many thanks,...
Michael Jackson Birthday Celebrated by Google
Google has put out a special logo today to commemorate the late Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday. It’s a bit intriguing that Google has chosen to...
Inheriting a Website That’s Been on a SEO Honeymoon
To follow-up on my last SEO honeymoon post, I wanted to mention a few points that expand it a little and consider this scenario from...
How to Do Keyword Research with OneLook Wildcard Search
Keyword research is the long multi-step process that involves finding possible keyword phrases, synonyms and related terms, estimating the keyword difficulty and potential, and even...
Yahoo Video Search Gets In-Line Play Back
Yahoo’s Video Search just got a new feature that will keep you glued on the Yahoo Video SERPs for a longer time before leaving the...
Yahoo to Acquire Arab Site Maktoob
In a rather surprising move, Yahoo announced that it intends to acquire Arab site Maktoob. This is the first time that Yahoo is acquiring an...
Have You Optimized Your Crawl Equity?
Sites with hundreds of thousands of pages, or even millions, may not ever get all their pages indexed. This is because of a concept sometimes...
SEO Terminology: Boilerplate (How Google May be Treating Repeated Content)
SEOs have been discussing how Google may be giving different treatment to different page elements based on their location on the page. Identifying so-called “boilerplate”...
Google Tops User Satisfaction Index
Report of the recent American Consumer Satisfaction Index showed that there are more satisfied Google users now than there were last year. The report also...
Matt Cutts Joins the SES San Jose SEO Site Clinic
Google’s Matt Cutts has made a surprise appearance here today in the SEO Site Clinic at SES San Jose 2009 along with Web Guerilla’s Greg...