Search Engine Journal

Back in July, Matt Cutts made the announcement at the Wordpress Wordcamp that underscores are now treated as spaces in Google.
Blogs, webmaster communities, and SEO professionals rejoiced – but why does it seem Google DOES NOT treat underscores and hyphens the same.
Do a multiple word search with hyphens and underscores between the words and you’ll […]

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As expected Google once again dominated U.S. search engine rankings for October based on the recent ComScore report. The almighty Google search engine even managed to post an increase in total searches conducted during the month. Hence, automatically reducing the percentages share of the other search engines, particularly MSN, Yahoo and AOL.
There’s not much changes […]

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Earlier in the month Google began its unofficial crackdown on pages which openly sell links in an effort to capitalize on their Google PageRank. Google’s crackdown; lowering the PageRank of those pages.
Danny Sullivan eluded to this in October and we published the unofficial confirmation of this via Matt Cutts a couple of days after the […]

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Well, another Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Cowboys whooped the Jets, and like most Americans, I woke up this morning feeling like I’m carrying a bag of sand in my midsection, wondering how I ate so much turkey and trimmings, finishing them off with more turkey for desert and then some turkey again […]

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The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until something happens that will make most people happy.
Here are two posts related to this subject from this month where I actually left long comments already, before I decided to make […]

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We have all heard of, and commonly utilize, Yahoo Search Marketing, Google AdWords, Ask.com Sponsored Listings, and MSN adCenter and most search marketers are generally happy with their proven results. Although these powerful search marketing solutions are robust and drive millions of searches and clicks per day, there are many other paid search engines that […]

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Interesting thread on DigitalPoint this morning about the influx in traffic from images indexed in Google Images and other image search engines, and how they can attract a decent amount of traffic.
In some circumstances, a well optimized image file with a keyword rich filename, alt tag and title (if it is hyperlinked) can show […]

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Gary Price noticed a rather intriguing Google domain transfer yesterday which occured in a batch which included mostly the domains reflecting the names of Google products and misspellings : GTaxes.com
This may be a clue that Google will be offering a tax preparation service, or some kind of spinoff from Google Finance where users can take […]

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Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) basic link building for blogs begins with listing them in blog directories.
Personally, I love launching a new […]

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Paglo which just launched yesterday in beta claims itself as the Google of IT. A free and on-demand service for IT professionals, Paglo allows searching for businesses’ IT data and answers to computer , network and security questions. As an innovative search engine, Paglo combines multiple trend setting technologies that enable businesses to gather […]

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