Search Engine Journal

Feedster Launches XML Feed Based Job Search Tool
Feedster the blog, RSS and XML feed search engine, has announced that jobs.feedster.com is operational and ready to deliver search results from its database of constantly updated RSS job feeds. From its current sources, Feedster adds over 5,000 job postings to its index daily. This number will increase […]

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Search Engines Accepting the Blog Comment Spam Nofollow Attribute
Yesterday we found out the nofollow attribute was coming to a search engine near you. Google, Yahoo, and MSN all announced this news yesterday at their respective blogs. I assume if Ask Jeeves had a blog, they would have been part of this announcement. Major blog development […]

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Google Things Come In Small Packages
If you’re one of those corporate behemoths with a colossal internal network, you may have been running the original Google Search Appliance for a while nowthe hardware device that makes it easy to search those public Web pages and the local intranet. Now there’s a solution for the rest of […]

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Search Engines Duke It Out For Top Spot
A recent study by Keynote Systems reports that Google isn’t as far ahead in the search engine race as everyone thought. The study surveyed 2,000 consumers on the performance of Lycos, Yahoo Search, Google and Ask Jeeves and found that though Google is still ahead of the game, […]

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Search Mentality + Network Buying = Confused Expectations
One of my favorite inventions of the 20th Century is the ATM: it’s simple, it’s instant, and it limits the problem of lines and pesky people to deal with. (I can be a bit anti-social so this suits me fine.) I like to think of buying search advertising […]

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Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings?
It’s been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my Inbox in droves. The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived, flooding ping notification sites with update announcements, even though your blog hasn’t been […]

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How Much is the Link Structure Around Your Site Worth?
Google, Yahoo, MSN, & Teoma have compiled a huge link graph of all the sites on the Web that are accessible by their spiders. I can barely fathom the depth of such a link map. I tried to build something that really does a job of […]

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Is Google Planning to Build A Global Fiber Optic Network?
Could be, as reported today on SEOchat and ZDnet they are on the hunt for ‘dark fiber’. Known in the industy as fiber optic cable that’s already been laid, but is not yet in use.
Apparently there is a large amount of dark fiber cable in […]

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When Is It Not Worth Going After a Keyword Phrase?
When conducting your keyword research, some of the criteria one looks at is WordTracker data (or overture keyword suggestion tool) to determine the number of people searching on a specific keyword term. Often when looking at a very specific keyword, such as Big Blue Pineapple Chair, […]

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What is Podcasting?
Podcasting is quickly becoming a buzz word among the techie crowd. So what is podcasting, anyway? Podcasting is online audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed. Many people liken podcasting to radio on demand. However, in reality, podcasting gives far more options in terms of content and programming than radio does. […]

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