Small Pages Ranking in MSN Live Search?

Barry Schwartz posts about a WebmasterWorld thread and the theory of smaller pages outranking larger ones in Live Search results. WebmasterWorld member crobb305 posts that by minimizing the content on a page, his site was pushed to the first position in MSN Live Search: I reduced text on my homepage down to just a paragraph or so, with links to my internal pages. The content reduced from 22k … [Read more...]

Barry Schwartz posts about a WebmasterWorld thread and the theory of smaller pages outranking larger ones in Live Search results. WebmasterWorld member crobb305 posts that by minimizing the content on a page, his site was pushed to the first position in MSN Live Search: I reduced text on my homepage down to just a paragraph [...]

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Ask.com : IAC’s Glue, Better Than Google

In a recent AP article, IAC’s Chairman of the Board Barry Diller was quoted as saying that not only is Ask.com the glue which keeps IAC together, but Ask.com’s search technology is also better than Google. Diller said the company would use its Ask.com search engine, which claims about 6 percent of the search market, [...]

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Google & Vodafone Working on Mobile Maps System

While Yahoo is working with major mobile & wireless carriers to provide advertising via the mobile Yahoo network and its partners, Google is working with Vodafone to develop a GPS oriented location based Google Maps for Vodafone users. The Guardian quotes: “Vodafone sees Google Maps as a new milestone in the relationship that both companies [...]

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Yahoo Mobile Advertising Signs Top Global Advertisers

Yahoo is using its International appeal to jumpstart its mobile advertising efforts by signing Hilton Embassy Suites, Nissan, Pepsi, Proctor & Gamble, Asia-Pacific and Singapore Airlines to be initial advertisers within Yahoo’s mobile advertising network. The brand building campaigns are set to beginingg in the US, Asia and Western Europe, and Yahoo has high hopes [...]

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Last week in China – An Open Letter to Google

Last week in China – An Open Letter to Google The last week has been quiet on the Chinese Internet front. Maybe it has something to do with nearing Chinese New Year is nearing. And speaking of that, what would a new year be without some good resolutions? Isaac Mao, a blog pioneer in China [...]

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Nofollow Leverages Mistrust Among People

The Nofollow attribute indicates if the source of the link “trusts” the destination of it. Trust is a very critical element in human relations and not one of the easiest. Too much mistrust can lead to paranoia and isolation. Too much trust can lead to abuse and being taken advantage of. We learn from childhood [...]

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Boost Your Yahoo Ads Quality Score

Barry Schwartz points to a WebmasterWorld thread where a Yahoo Search Marketing representative, YahooSarah, posts an explanation of Yahoo’s new Quality Index Score system. Basically, Yahoo Search Marketing now uses a mix of click price and quality score to determine placement of ads in Yahoo Search results. Here’s Sarah’s explanation of how to boost your [...]

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iCrossing Acquiring UK Based Spannerworks

iCrossing announced today that they will be acquiring Spannerworks, a UK based search engine marketing firm, for $18 million. Spannerworks is a 10 year old SEM company and is quite popular in the UK. I was talking with an SEO from the UK last month and they were telling me how the agency landscape was [...]

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MyBlogLog Hiring Community Manager & Engineers

MyBlogLog has been expanding rapidly in terms of use and popularity ever since Yahoo acquired it in January and is now looking for someone to fill quite an interesting position of MyBlogLog Community Manager. We’re hiring our first community manager to become a core member of team and a key public face of the service. [...]

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SEO turned from child’s play into scam. How did that happen?

You think that things will become a bit normal again after the flood of posts all over the internet after David Pasternack’s 3rd negative post about SEO, just to get ”stabbed” from yet another side.

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