Microsoft Eyes Greenfield Online and its Ciao site
If there’s any indication that all seems to be well in the Microsoft camp after the failed Yahoo acquisition deal, it’s when the company continues...
Google & Yahoo Ad Deal Set for October Launch
Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed yesterday that despite pressure from the US Justice Department, the Google Yahoo advertising partnership will proceed with its scheduled launch...
Div ID=”Header” Different SEO Tactics
It is quite natural a header div is one of the most important on-page elements and thus it is in constant focus of SEOs’ attention:...
MySpace Serving More Display Ads Than Yahoo : Should Yahoo Care?
According to ComScore, MySpace (or Fox Interactive Media) has surpassed Yahoo in terms of displaying advertisements, serving 56.8 billion ads 15.2% of the display ads...
5 Tools to Visualize Page Outlinking Tactics
I love playing with visualizing tools because they allow to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time I...
Is Google Moving Towards Becoming a Social Search Engine
If the series of tests that Google engineers are doing on their search portal is any indication of what may soon become of the Google...
Google Ad Manager Now Available to all Adsense Publishers
For several months now, some selected Adsense publishers have been beta testing Google’s hosted ad serving manager which as we said before is a good...
Get Alerted Once Any Page Is Changed
Being automatically updates once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities: Make sure your own page is save from hackers’...
Google Search Suggest Now Out of Beta
Google is officially rolling its Search Suggest feature which has been in Google labs for quite some time now. Google Search Suggest works similarly with...
How to Get Google to Index Your Site Deeper
Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your...
Link Building Basics : Presentation on Building Links
I really do not do many speaking engagements on SEO and search marketing, but plan to in the immediate future (the next speaking and moderator...
Yahoo Link: Operator Issues and Possible Remedies
Yahoo link: operator (and URL analysis in Yahoo! SiteExplorer) is the best method currently at our disposal to conduct backlink analysis and to evaluate either...
Google Adwords Quality Score Gets a Revamp
Google is introducing some improvements on the way it gives Ad units a corresponding Quality Score. This improvements are follow-ups to the most recent changes...
Google Gains Search Share in July on Yahoo’s Expense
As expected Google once again is dominating the July search share data from comScore. Google got 61.9% of the total core search rankings for July...
Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a New Interface
Among the webmaster tools available for us to tweak our sites settings for SEO purposes, Yahoo’s Site Explorer is the most underated. It is not...
Getting Vertical Search Right – SES San Jose
Vertical search seems to have been put on the back burner for many search marketers. With new buzz words like “Social Media” and “Local/Mobile Targeting”,...
SEO Through Blogs and Feeds SES San Jose
I am here at the first session of the day, yes i am up on time after the Google Dance! We have Rebecca Lieb, Contributing...
Google Tops Nielsen’s July Search Share Rankings
There’s a couple of interesting things to note in the July search share ranking released by Nielsen-Online. But first, yes as expected Google once again...
3 Domain Typo Generators
Last week Rand posted a brilliant linkbuilding tip that involved taking SEO advantage of mistyped/ misspelled domains. Putting aside black / white hat discussion, I...
How to Analyze a Page HTML Semantic Structure
H1 – H6 elements “briefly describe the topic of the section they introduce“. They form a page HTML semantic structure that can “be used by...
Google Webmaster Central Makes 404 More Useful
Google Webmaster Central has added a new feature that aims to make website visitors’ encounter with the perennial problem and most dreaded 404 “Not found”...
Google Tops Customer Satisfaction on Search and Portal Category
Latest report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index published by the University of Michigan shows Google topping the list of search and portal companies customer...
Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options: SES San Jose
We are sitting in on the Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options panel. Andrew Goodman is moderating the panel this afternoon. First Up Sage...
Pay Per Conversion SES San Jose
I am here at the Pay Per Conversion panel at Search Engine Strategies. Bret Crosby at Google is discussing the conversion process and the many...
5 FireFox Extensions to Enhance Link Analysis in Yahoo
I continue collecting information for my upcoming mega-post on FireFox SEO extensions. Today I am listing add-ons that help to perform link analysis in Yahoo...
Search Industry Update Panel at SES San Jose
One of the first panels here at SES San Jose is the Search Industry Update. This panel tends to dive into the over all health...
Long Tail of Shopping Search : SES San Jose
The long tail session is hitting all of the blended areas of serach, which is in itself Long Tail. Aaron Shear is speaking now about...
How Do You Measure Your SEO Campaign Success?
In my overviews of multiple seo tools, I repeatedly looked into tools that check or track keyword rankings. Hamlet Batista recently wrote a brilliant post...
Universal and Blended Search Panel at SES San Jose
Hey everyone, I am here at Search Engine Strategies San Jose, sitting here in the universal and blended search panel. Mr Tawadros talks about how...
Long Tail Local Search : SES San Jose
Long tail search goes far beyond normal organic SEO and deep into local search. Mary Bowling is speaking at SES San Jose about the long...