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4 Search Engines That Use Different Approaches to Achieve Relevancy

August 10, 2009 By

Previously here on Search Engine Journal, I covered various Semantic Search Engines which have erupted on the scene as alternatives to Google and Microsoft / Yahoo. Here are 4 more search engines that use different approaches to make results highly relevant. 1. Evri Evri.com, to put it briefly, presents to you connections between content that goes beyond keyword search. The … [Read more...]

Previously here on Search Engine Journal, I covered various Semantic Search Engines which have erupted on the scene as alternatives to Google and Microsoft / Yahoo. Here are 4 more search engines that use different approaches to make results highly relevant. 1. Evri Evri.com, to put it briefly, presents to you connections between content that [...]

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Filed Under: Semantic Search

Best FireFox Addons to Analyze Page Load Time

August 10, 2009 By

Keeping track of your site page load time is essential because it effects both the user experience and the crawl rate. This post lists 3 most useful FireFox addons that will help you analyze web page load time as you browse: YSlow YSlow is the official Yahoo! addon that integrates with Firebug. YSlow analyzes web [...]

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Is There Such a Thing as a “Virtual” Backlink?

August 10, 2009 By

We know how much Google depends on external links for assigning some value to a site and a page. And because we all know that, backlink building has been much abused – so that it is no more that easy to define when people are linking for merit and when they are linking for some [...]

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Filed Under: Link Building

Learn SEO for Adobe PDF Docs

August 7, 2009 By

Using basic SEO techniques to optimize the indexing and presence of PDF and other document types is an essential part of the entire search marketing mix, especially for businesses which insist on having their online documents in PDF format, for restaurants which use PDF for menus or ebook & whitepaper publishers who utilize online PDF [...]

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Customer Service: The Man Behind the Conversational Curtain

August 7, 2009 By

Lisa Barone wrote a post this week lambasting companies that are too timid to get involved in social media, and rightfully so. The reality is that the conversation is going to happen with or without your engagement, and getting involved only allows you to address issues when they arise. ESPN this week banned sports reporters [...]

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Filed Under: Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

What 70+ Hours Of Backlink Checking And Research Shows…

August 7, 2009 By

What are your direct competitors doing in the way of getting more backlinks? My research in over 30 verticals sheds some light on the question. This is part 1 of 2. In this part, I’ll address three issues: Practical uses for this competitive intelligence, My methodology in conducting this research, Some fun data points for [...]

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Filed Under: Link Building

FireFox Addon: Better Search with SuggestMeYes Suggestions

August 7, 2009 By

SuggestMeYes is a new (still experimental) addon for FireFox that makes your searching experience better: It adds as-you-type search suggestions to any search box on any site you are going to search;

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Filed Under: News

Was Yesterday’s Twitter DDoS Attack Cyber Warfare

August 7, 2009 By

Twitter bites the dust again, along with FaceBook, LiveJournal and even YouTube… Yesterday, August 6, 2009, will be talked about on the web for a long time. Twitter succumbed to a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) and was down for several hours. Here’s what Twitter had to say about the day’s events. The [...]

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Filed Under: Social Networking, Twitter

Google Sponsored Ads Get Closer to Organic Results in SERPs

August 6, 2009 By

Have you noticed anything new with the way Google is displaying its paid search ads on its SERPs lately? According to the Periscopix blog, Google may be testing a new layout of its SERPs with the paid search which is used to be located at the far right end of the SERPs now closer to [...]

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Filed Under: News, PPC

Packaging Makes Perfect

August 6, 2009 By

Online publishers have a unique set of search marketing challenges compared to most B2B or ecommerce sites, and in an increasingly competitive landscape. One major challenge is that as new content is produced daily, optimization efforts required become much more complex and need to be executed by the content producers themselves. Other challenges include the [...]

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