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News from MSN/Live Search and the Fight Against Spam
2007-03-18 00:00:00 What is the purpose of spam? Well, when it is in your "inbox" it is usually a phishing agent trying to get information that can be sold (money), when it is in search results it is a bit more direct (money). Either way, your information is valuable and your wallet ... More About: News , Spam , Search , Fight , Live
Don?t Believe Me? Listen to Another Expert!
2007-03-17 00:00:00 Shari Thurow an applauded author and expert in the field of Human/Computer Interfaces recently wrote about SEO Niches and the Big Picture on ClickZ. There has been some that have complained about her remarks that eye tracking is overrated, however, if you look at the article as a whole, it is ... More About: Other , List , Listen , Another , Believe
Notes About Navigation and Website Structure
2007-03-16 00:00:00 Today I was thinking about Google Site Links and how this has not been copied in dramatic fashion like many of the updates and changes that they incorporate into search. What are SiteLinks? The links shown below some sites in our search results, called Sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. ... More About: Website , Note , Webs , Notes
Search Marketing Blogs
2007-03-16 00:00:00 I would like to thank Lee Odden and all of my readers for helping me to become one of the top 400 most valuable Search Market ing Blog s . Here is the updated OPML file and plain text list.
Microsoft Buys TellMe
2007-03-15 00:00:00 Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire Tellme Networks, Inc., a leading provider of voice services for everyday life, including nationwide directory assistance, enterprise customer service and voice-enabled mobile search. Microsoft and Tellme share a vision around the potential of speech as a way to enable access to information, locate ... More About: Microsoft , Soft , Micro
AdWords Editor 3.0 Ready for Mac
2007-03-14 00:00:00 Hi, I'm a Mac and I'm a PC. Funny thing about Macs, they don't always have the same functionality as PCs. But now, that has changed, at least for AdWord s Editor version 3.0. AdWords Editor 3.0 for Mac is now available and includes all the new features released a few weeks ago ... More About: Read , Adwords
Yahoo! Answers Gets Personal
2007-03-12 00:00:00 Yahoo! has announced that they are testing new functionality to add a level of social networking to their popular Answer s product: We just added a new capability to Answers , the Yahoo! Answers Network ? currently in beta, which enables you to build your own personal knowledge network. So what exactly is ... More About: Personal , Yahoo , Yahoo Answers
Beanstalk Provides Tools for Search Marketers
2007-03-11 00:00:00 Beanstalk is a Search Engine Market ing firm that offers SEO news articles and have recently added to marketers toolbox with some free SEO tools. Beanstalk's Tool s for Search Engine Marketers Ranking Tools Keyword Activity Tool This one help you to determine which keywords you should be targeting by providing the estimated searches per day ... More About: Beans
The Machine is Us/ing Us
2007-03-10 17:08:08 Digital Ethnography has completed their project and has released the final edit of The Mac hine is Us/ing Us. Here are a few thoughts from the author: On January 31st I released the 2nd draft of The Mach ine is Us/ing Us hoping to receive feedback from my colleagues. (The first draft was only ... More About: Chine
Tagged by Eric Lander
2007-03-09 05:06:01 First, I must apologize to Eric. He tagged me on January 31st, and I knew about it the following day, but I have not responded yet. 1. What have you learned so far from visitors to your blog? OK, I have learned (realized) that I don't know quite as much as I ... More About: Tagged , Land , Lander
Supplemental Results
2007-03-07 11:03:02 What are supplemental results? Supple mental results are the pages that do not show up in SERPs when a user searches for your topics that relate to the content that you publish. Pages that are in the supplemental index are placed there because they are trusted less. Since they are crawled less frequently ... More About: Mental , Men , Results , Menta
Alexa Ranking Not Valuable
2007-03-06 23:02:02 Alexa, if you are not familiar with it, is a service of Amazon.com, international seller of books and products online. One of the services that Alexa provides is "Alexa Site Information," which includes three main areas: Site Overview Traffic Detail Related Links There is one slight problem with the way that they gather this ... More About: Rank , Alex , Alexa , King , Ranking
USA Today Catches Up and Goes Social
2007-03-05 04:59:11 TechCrunch announced that USA Today has added new features to stay relevant online. Quick guide to new USATODAY.com features The new USATODAY.com makes it easier for you to get the latest news and contribute your voice to our coverage. Take a look at how you can browse and engage our website ... More About: Social , Cat , Soci , Catch
Why DMOZ Sucks and Wikipedia is Nothing More Than a Blog
2007-03-05 04:59:11 As I have researched over the years on search engines and the value of directories and "valuable resources" on the web, I have found two things that are self-evident. DMOZ is a wonderful idea, however, it is inherently flawed. Wikipedia is a collection of information that is biased and should carry considerably ... More About: Blog , Pedi , Nothing , More
Google Expected to Join The X Prize Foundation to Wipe Out Social Problems
2007-03-04 16:58:01 Google has reportedly been enlisted as a corporate sponsor for 10 new X Prize competition. What is an X Prize? You may remember, SpaceShipOne took the first Anasari X PRIZE for spaceflight. An X PRIZE is a multi-million dollar award given to the first team to achieve a specific goal, set by the ... More About: Google , Social , Foundation , Soci , Join
New Social Networking - Outside.in
2007-03-04 10:57:04 What is Outside.in? Outside.in is organizing user initiated content that combines elements of the web and physical location into unique social environment. the best way to discover the conversations that are going on in your neighborhood - whether that's where you live, where you work, or where you want to be. See ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Work , Network
Important Information About Understanding Indexing
2007-02-28 04:52:07 Recently, on both Yahoo! Search Blog and the Official Google Blog recently posted on indexing websites and how to use some of the tools that everyone has access to keep pages out of the search engine's indexes. Google Controlling how search engines access and index your website I'm often asked about how Google ... More About: Information , Info , Port , Inform , About
AdWords Editor 3.0
2007-02-27 16:51:02 Google has many corporate blogs that are devoted promote and inform people about their products and services. Today, on Inside AdWord s, they announced AdWords Edit or 3.0. Here are some of the highlighted options in the new version: Add or edit site-targeted campaigns Add or edit negative sites for keyword- and site-targeted campaigns Edit ... More About: Adwords , Editor
Link Reputation
2007-02-26 16:50:19 In a recent post on Link Week, Eric Ward spoke of link reputation and what it says about you, your site and the value you pass to those you link to. When building a link relationship it is not about quantity, rather quality. With this being said, posting a link to ... More About: Reputation
100% Organic - New Column from Search Engine Land
2007-02-26 16:50:19 Search Engine Land has developed yet another specialized weekly column for search marketers and I would like to share it with my readers, however, I would recommend that you subscribe to their feed besides. 100% Organic will appear every Thursday, featuring columns from Greg Boser, Todd Friesen, Shari Thurow, Stephan Spencer, ... More About: Search , Search Engine , Column
SEOPittfall on Vacation
2007-02-16 04:39:04 First, I would like to thank Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog for providing me a great interview that I think everyone should check out, but besides that, I have been feverishly preparing for a long awaited vacation with my wife. We are going skiing in New York with friends and I ... More About: Cat , Vacation , Pitt , Fall
Interview with Scott Rafer, CEO of MyBlogLog
2007-02-14 16:37:08 Thank you for taking your time to answer questions and for providing a unique and useful tool like MyBlog Log to all of us in the blogosphere. I have been a member since mid-November of last year and have found it very useful for finding relevant bloggers with the same interests ... More About: Inter , Interview , With , View
AdVolcano - New Ways to Monetize
2007-02-13 04:35:04 AdVolcano is an advertising portal that allows the publisher and the advertiser know right up front what they are getting. They offer a CPT or Cost Per Term, simply pay for your ad for a specified period of time. The publisher asks what they want and for how long, the ... More About: Cano , Monetize
Xerox Joins the Search Landscape with Powerset
2007-02-11 10:33:02 Powerset is being spoken about as a "Google Killer" with the help of PARC Natural Language Technology. This project is ready after three decades of research. Here is more information: Distinctly different from the current, non-linguistic search processing models in use, natural language search uses ordinary, familiar phrases and sentences, not ?computerese.? ... More About: Power , Landscape , Search , With , Join
Yahoo Plumbing with Pipes
2007-02-10 22:32:02 What is it? Yahoo Pipes allows users to mash up the information that they use or publish into something for everyone, or just themselves. Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant. So if you're interested in an interactive on-line ... More About: With , Plum , Yahoo!
Social Search and Building a Connection to the World?s Knowledge
2007-02-10 22:32:02 Are we facing a revolution of the Internet and how we, as users, access and publish information through the world wide web? Community Next is a discussion of the present and future of online communities. Today, is the conference at Stanford University with 30 experts set to speak on the topic. ... More About: Social , Building , World , Connection , Search
Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us
2007-02-09 04:30:04 What is the web? What is so great about web 2.0? Please watch this video on Web 2 .0. There are college student in Kansas that have published a wonderful video on YouTube about it. I would like you to share this perspective that this short film brings, it puts everything together. Well done Digital ... More About: Mac , Machine , Chine , Web 2.0
Behold the Power of Breast Milk?
2007-02-08 10:27:01 Pork, usually in political and legal debates it refers to things that are extra or unnecessary, however this time it is referring to "the other white meat!" I am not sure if you are aware, but a blogger and breastfeeding activist came under attack recently over a marketing t-shirt that slightly ... More About: Power , Milk , East , Breast , Behold
2000 Bloggers Fades
2007-02-07 22:26:10 2000 Blog ger s, a recent project by Tino, the self-proclaimed "Blogger Links Benefactor" has been addressed by Technorati in a recent post, stating: "these things are ultimately detrimental to the social fabric as they dilute our attention." And in that post a quote from another blogger on this exact topic: "There's a crazy ... More About: Bloggers , Ades , Fade
Google Gives Webmasters a Better View of Inbound Links
More articles from this author:2007-02-06 10:25:02 In a few posts today Google announced that they are giving webmasters more information to monitor your inbound links: We want to provide as much information as we can to help webmasters understand how their sites perform and how to improve their results. And we want to get input from the ... More About: Webmaster , Webmasters , Links , Link 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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