Search Engine Journal

Michael Douma from PHP Dev Center has come up with a list of PHP-friendly search engines that will allow you to easily integrate customizable search functions on your server while controlling the indexing process and search results.
If you want your visitors to have “voilá!” moments, consider incorporating an internal search engine into your web […]

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Search Engine Watch published an interesting case study today about a site that remapped all dynamic URLs via a tools such as mod-rewrite/.htaccess file (Apache Webserver) or Helicon ISAPI Rewrite (Windows IIS Webserver) to static URLs and 301 redirected (Not 302!) all dynamic URLs to the new static looking ones.
For example  “site.com/category.aspx?Cat=991″ , which is a .NET script […]

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Steve Rubel points to a new web site traffic and popularity metrics tool called AttentionMeter which triangualtes graphs from Alexa, Compete & Quancast all into one easy to use interface.

As the competition for best public third party site popularity & reach measurement system grows, AttentionMeter is a good way to keep tabs on all of […]

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Google seems to be testing a new tweak of their homepage which realigns their links to Google Services from the Search Box to the top left corner of the homepage.
Search services like Images, Video, News and Maps are listed, then Google integrates a link to Mail followed by a drop down of “More” which […]

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Michael Moritz has informed Google that he will not seek re-election to its board of directors at the 2007 stockholder meeting.
Moritz has been a director since May 1999 and communicated that his decision will allow him to focus more time on his responsibilities as a general partner of Sequoia Capital.

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Google Maps has announced that it is now supporting GeoRSS as a data driven geographic content integration method within Google Maps API projects.
From the Google Maps API Blog:
We’ve built support for the Simple, GML, and W3C Geo encodings of GeoRSS — all you have to do is enter the full URL of a GeoRSS file […]

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A screenshot of the Google Pay Per Action ‘Conversion Tracking Setup’ page have been uploaded to Flickr by a very generous Google advertiser.

In the capture, we see the setup page for the campaign which includes action tracking options for Sale, Purchase, Lead Generation or Other.
Statistics tracked are Bids, Total Conversions (interesting Google is […]

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Riding on newsweek statement that 2007 will be the year of Widgets, Yahoo! is relaunching its previously named Yahoo Widget Engine with a faster, lighter, and sleeker 4.0 version. Yahoo! Widgets is now ready for download with a barrage of new and exciting features such as:

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Yesterday I wrote a little about optimizing your Wordpress permalink URL’s for search engines and the plugin I used to do so here at Search Engine Journal.
Today I came across a very complete guide to Wordpress SEO which covers just about everything, from title optimization all the way to link building. Jim Westergren, an […]

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On Tuesday Google made the announcement that they are launching a Pay Per Performance ad model for AdSense Ads which comes with its own new form of Google ad placement, Google Text Link Ads : “You can create text, image, or text link ads for your pay-per-action campaign.”
Text links are hyperlinked brief text descriptions that […]

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