Surprisingly beating Yahoo to become the second biggest search engine in America isn’t one of them… Now is as good time as any to try Microsoft’s search engine -Bing. Bing has just surpassed Yahoo in search queries for the first time, this makes it the second biggest search engine in
Continue Reading →As the landscape of search continually and rapidly changes it is vital to look to the future and establish, when possible, where the next changes are coming from. Looking at the next 12 months and the immediate future of search shows us certain ranking factors appear to be increasing and
Continue Reading →Google has begun showing links to different verticals on its search results from video sites, location based results to search engines in its results. The links appear next to YouTube videos — but only on music-related searches. This comes as the big search engine made it clear on their recent
Continue Reading →Website: What is a ban and what is a penalty? We speak of a ban if the website has completely disappeared from the search engines (e.g. Google) index. It is the most aggressive action Google can take against a site. You only get a ban if you really ignored all
Continue Reading →A WebmasterWorld thread has some SEOs and Webmasters sharing their recent experience with switching to new domains and how Google and Bing handle that switch. The first case was shared by senior member, HuskyPup who said that after switching over and 301 redirecting the URLs from the .in TLD to
Continue Reading →A new search-engine called Blekko just launched. It’s the latest in a long line of companies to try to leapfrog Google by providing “better” search results. Specifically, in Blekko’s case, the company is using human input into algorithmic results to screen out content from content farms like Demand Media. For
Continue Reading →The latest Google Instant has the elements now of combining the Instant with Google Desktop aiming to develop a universal search capability for the internet search engine to improve its productivity wisely. Yes indeed, the Google Instant is the latest search enhancement on web now. This will surely help all
Continue Reading →As the major search engines compete to dominate the web, users are looking at ways to improve their search experience. Recently a blogger caught one of Google’s impressive new features being tested. Google is known to test some of its new features amongst a random subset of users. One such
Continue Reading →Google announced that you can now verify your site in Webmaster Tools with a Google Analytics JavaScript snippet. “Nobody likes to duplicate effort,” said Google software engineer Sean Harding. “Unfortunately, sometimes it’s a fact of life. If you want to use Google Analytics, you need to add a JavaScript tracking
Continue Reading →This week, Bing will start powering Yahoo Search as the companies continue to ramp up their search alliance, Microsoft said Tuesday. In the “upcoming days,” Microsoft Advertising’s Tina Kelleher wrote in a blog post, Yahoo’s organic Web search will start transitioning to Bing’s algorithms. This will happen first on English-language
Continue Reading →Now that you’ve done the work to get your site ranked in Google it’s time to take a look at where Google is sending your customers once they find you. Do they provide a link to your site? Is it accurate? Does it take them to the most effective page
Continue Reading →Bing has just launched a completely revamped version of their Webmaster Tools for our SEO and webmaster enjoyment and it looks OK, if not quite perfect. Bing’s Eric Gilmore spoke at SMX Advanced earlier this summer about having hit the reset button and started with a blank sheet of paper
Continue Reading →There are two large threads that started over the weekend at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums with discussion around the Yahoo Search results. The thing is, I have never seen such a large influx of buzz around Yahoo Search results, at least not for the past 3 years or so. People
Continue Reading →We’d like to highlight three best practices that address some of the most common problems found when crawling and indexing video content. These best practices include ensuring your video URLs are crawlable, stating what countries your videos may be played in, and that if your videos are removed, you clearly
Continue Reading →New features rolled out by Google, both the soft 404’s and the new feature under News have raised a number of concerns. Google announced they added “soft” or “crypto” 404s to their “crawl errors” report in Google Webmaster Tools. Soft 404s or crypto 404s are page not found pages that
Continue Reading →While most of the factors have decreased in relevance, the concept of domain trust is having a greater importance than ever. What do we mean by domain trust and how can you get search engines, especially Google to Trust your domain? The terms “domain trust” and “domain authority” are bandied
Continue Reading →Top 21 SEO DOs: Make changes that benefit users. Focus on the user and all else (including rankings) will follow. Create and maintain sensible and consistent navigation paths. Be continually aware that each and every page on your site is a potential customer entry point. Think laterally. Label each and
Continue Reading →Yes, just like the title clearly states: Google’s SEO report card, this new release from Google indicated that they focus on some key elements. They believe this report card can answer some of the questions frequently asked. Actually the report card is for their product teams toimprove on their product
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