No Yahoo Directory Links on New Yahoo Homepage? Yahoo is testing a new design for their homepage which is quite sleek, tabbed, and interactive – but does not include links to the Yahoo Directory, which is the foundation (or was the foundation) of Yahoo and its human edited differentiation from Google. The end of directory [...]

A Link is Worth a Thousand Dollars After the sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL for somewhere around $20 million, Tristan Lewis put together a bog valuation formula based upon the amount of backlinks to each Weblogs Inc. blog as tracked by Technorati. Tristan’s conclusion was that for a $20 million sale, one incoming link [...]

SEO & Tagging : Building Tag Hierarchies I’m a firm believer that the future of SEO includes expansion of web page quality and categorical definition beyond site content, directory listings, and co citation. Tagging puts the definition of a web site into the hands of the public, and when compared to the meta tags or [...]

Yahoo’s del.icio.us & Flickr Introduce Cross Platform Social Sharing Yahoo’s social bookmarking network, del.icio.us, released a new informational connection system this week dubbed “your network“. At your network one can track the latest saved bookmarks of friends, and share one’s bookmarks with those same friends (consider it bookmark swapping) when clicking on their username. Stephen [...]

Link Logically & Better Than Your Competition Before you go spending countless manpower and a huge budget on your linking campaign be sure to do a full competitive analysis of your competition’s backlinks and to what degree their link marketing is being carried out as. You can see who links to your competition by entering [...]

Technorati Latest Search Engine Banned in China China’s great firewall has apparently blocked Technorati blog search according to sources such as IT Views and Chinese Pod. Tom Raftery writes on IT Views: “Does this mean Technorati isn’t censoring search results into China like Google, MSN, Yahoo are? And if this is the case, will Technorati [...]

Sawafi Arab Language Search Engine to Launch Seekport is panning on launching the Arab language search engine “Sawafi” (“sandstorm”) later this year which will be specially designed to meet the challenges of the Arabic language. Sawafi will be the project of Dubai based Seekport Internet Technologies Arabia FZ-LLC,, a joint venture between Seekport and the [...]

Local Search Traffic Estimator Tool from TrueLocal TrueLocal has launched their Local Traffic Estimator, a tool that aggregates and shows users local traffic statistics on TrueLocal. In a similar fashion to those doing keyword research on Yahoo Search Marketing or Google, potential advertisers can now take their research down to the local level by typing [...]

DMOZ Listing Ruining Google Rank I’ve heard about search engines substituting web site titles and descriptions with information gathered from web directories – especially Yahoo Search using Yahoo Categories and Google relying a bit on DMOZ, but here’s a story about the DMOZ title leading to lower ranking, clicks and conversions. V7N’s John Scott says [...]