The popular keyword research tool from Trellian, called Keyword Discovery, changes their database to rely on their tool bar users only (like Alexa) instead of the tool bar usage in combination with search-logs of 200 and more search engines and other sources. Keyword Discovery, the premium keyword-research service by Trellian (similar to WordTracker) recently changed …
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea wrote an interesting post about the Google patent application for their new “Plus Box” feature in the search results. There are several valid concerns regarding what and how much content from another site should be shown by Google to still qualify as “fair use” and how much …
Techcrunch reported on Saturday about an interesting test conducted by Yahoo! Yahoo! linked to outside websites from their homepage, something that big portals like AOL, MSN at of course Yahoo! usually don’t do, with the exception of advertising. The homepage of the portals was traditionally only linking to content within their own website or to …
I received yesterday an email for Xing, the openBC (open Business Club). Xing.com is a business networking service like LinkedIn. I wrote during the last 6 months or so two pieces about the two services and compared the offers and features. The email I got from Xing was an invitation to become part of the …
Shawn Collins, co-Founder of Affiliate Summit was so kind to sponsor three exhibit hall passes ($299 value each) for the Affiliate Summit 2007 East – Affiliate Marketing Expo and Conference so I thought it would be a good idea to give them away to search marketers to get to know the affiliate marketing industry a …
Instead of writing a new post did Matt Cutts add a long update in Q&A form to his existing post from April about “How To Report Paid Links“, which received over 600 comments by readers of his blog. The update includes 16 questions in total. Here are the questions and a summary of the answers …
I came across a very interesting online tool while I did some research for the post about proper title capitalization. The tool is about the use of the English language in real life and called WordCount™. WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English …
Titles of blog posts and web pages are very important. Having important keywords in the title is the most important ranking factor for search engine optimization. It is also important to make the title appealing and interesting at the same time, because it is usually the first thing people notice when they see your post …
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 What to Make Out of It Some results should make the link being ignored completely and even reflect poorly on the webmaster (trust), some should get full voting …
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 “Jagger” and “BidDaddy” Aftermath What came with the Jagger update [i] was something called “TrustRank [i]” and the “Google Sandbox Effect[ii]”. The “Sandbox” was a hot topic and …
