Live Search Webmaster Center Discourages Automated Link Exchanges

For webmasters who are still in the practice of participating into automated link exchanges, you might learn a thing or two from the latest post of the Live Search Webmaster Center Blog discouraging such practice. … [Read more...]

For webmasters who are still in the practice of participating into automated link exchanges, you might learn a thing or two from the latest post of the Live Search Webmaster Center Blog discouraging such practice.

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Flickr Adds iPhone-Friendly Video Streaming Feature to its Mobile Site

Flickr has introduced several upgrades into mobile site highlighted by a video streaming feature that would let users view their uploaded video contents right onto their mobile phones. According to the Flickr blog, the growing popularity of mobile devices for sharing not only photos but videos as well has prompted them to introduced the new [...]

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Google Was Almost Charged with Web Monopoly?

For those who still remember the sudden decision of Google to back away from their paid search ad deal with Yahoo and still wondering the real reason behind it, we finally got our answer.  Prosecutor Sandy Litvack who was assigned to the case told the AM Law Daily that, the Department of Justice was three [...]

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Keyword Typo Suggestion Tools and Generators

Keyword typo suggestion tools and generators may find a much wider sphere of usage than they are traditionally supposed to: [most important] they can be used to help optimize website internal search functionality (which is especially vital for ecommerce sites where each misspelled keyword may end up in a failed conversion); they can be used [...]

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Changing Titles Daily to Increase Click-Through and Pageviews

There are a handful of publications I read daily outside of the search marketing spectrum, one such publication being BaltimoreSun.com, the website of Baltimore’s newspaper, the Baltimore Sun. I read the Sun for various reasons, onesuch being keeping up on the Baltimore Ravens and Orioles (I grew up in Maryland and now reside in Tampa). [...]

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Flickr Axing Business Use of Photos for SEO

One of the tools of the SEO trade has apparently been axed by Flickr. It seems like every SEO conference I have attended since Flickr went live included recommendations that Flickr photo submissions be treated much like HTML pages. The title of the photo, description, tags and any links in the description text work just [...]

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December 3, 2008 | 28 Comments | Read Story

What Can or Should Be Included in a Page Title

Page title is the most prominent element of the page. It influences major aspects of your website performance: it affects rankings (as search engines consider it when judging what the page is about); it affects clickthrough (as that’s what people mainly focus on when looking through search results). Now let’s look into elements that should [...]

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Ex-AOL CEO Wants to Buy Yahoo for $30 Billion

Jonathan Miller, the former AOL CEO, is making a powerplay to buy part of Yahoo or raise the money to acquire the entire company reports Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal. According to the (other) Journal, Miller is talking to private investors and gathering other forms of funding in an effort to obtain Yahoo [...]

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December 2, 2008 | 7 Comments | Read Story

Best of the Web & Aviva Holiday Directory Discounts!

Best of the Web and the Aviva Directory are both offering holiday discounts for publishers who wish to list their sites in these professionally edited web directories. Best of the Web (BOTW.org) sent out an email yesterday claiming that since December is the month of giving and also considering the current economic status, BOTW is [...]

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Keyword Research: How Can Words Be Related?

Like I said previously, SEO tools not only provide useful (additional) information but are also as a great source for inspiration. This time I am looking at a less well-known (despite the fact it has been around for quite a while) keyword research tool that opens up the whole wealth of ideas on how search [...]

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