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The biggest search industry buzz for the past year has been mobile search. No doubt because the mobile market is growing at phenomenal rates there will be a huge opportunity for the search industry to cash in on it. As most assumed Google has entrenched itself quite quickly in the mobile search market and professionals Read more about Google Mobile Search[…]
Ok, so I know I am not the first one to discover the new way Google seems to be displaying site links but I did find it very interesting that they gave my site the new fangled site links even though I was the 2nd search result. Not only that but no other result on Read more about New Google Site Links – Discovered[…]
Recently Yahoo! launched a complete re-design of its mobile web search and it is really good with great functionality. Saying it is a web search page is not doing it any justice, I would say it is more of a complete information portal. Yahoo! has been able to seamlessly incorporate OneSearch, OnePlace, and OneConnect togther Read more about Yahoo! ‘One Search’ Mobile Launched[…]
This would come in handy if the Internet goes down for good.
Around a year and a half ago Google unleashed its’ wrath on general web directories. With bolts of lightning (not quite but just as painful to the directory owners) it struck down the page rank of some of the best know directories for buying links. Let’s see how they have faired 18 months later. http://www.ewebpages.org/ Read more about Directory Meltdown 18 months later[…]
March 31, 2009 – Ontario, Canada Top URL search, the well known bid web directory has reached a milestone this week – topping sales of one thousand dollars. This uniquely styled web directory was launched in 2007 at the height of the directory market. Although Google has penalized the home page by removing it’s visible Read more about Web Directory Hits 1k[…]
This myth has been around for as long as I have been involved with SEO, so about 8 years. I recently replied to a thread on DigitalPoint forums concerning this myth. The original poster mentioned that they recently bought a domain name and a hosting package and the hosting company was offering them a fantastic Read more about Popular SEO Myth – Submission to Search Engines[…]
A blog post over at www.marketingpilgrim.com caught my eye because it is something I have been pondering for a while now. It seems big business is having a really hard time ranking for imporant keywords (including their own names and brands). One quote in particular seemed to sum up the problem; “the pace of change Read more about Big Business Need Big Help with SEO[…]
well, really bad… Here is some content I found that was written exclusively for the search engines – it uses the keyword multiple times but sounds absolutely terrible. The photographs can be something useful in making us able to get the certain memories stay in our mind. Without using the photographs we might not be Read more about Really bad content is…[…]
The amount of misinformation floating around the web as it relates to search engine optimization is staggering. It seems that 9 out of every 10 posts I read contains blatantly wrong advice. I am begininning to think that some very sneaky SEO pro’s are spreading incorrect info on purpose. Here is a thread I came Read more about SEO Misinformation Creates Many Myths[…]