Yahoo! has recently announced that they have decided to shut down one of their popular SEO tools Yahoo! Site Explorer. (more…)
Recent ‘seo’ News Stories
Yahoo! Site Explorer To Shut Down Soon
Wednesday, 13th July 2011Tags: seo, yahoo, Yahoo! Site Explorer
Posted in seo | 3 Comments »
Facebook Plugins Used The Most Often
Tuesday, 12th July 2011The enterprise SEO Platform BrightEdge has started a SocialShare Site Analysis which will provide monthly reports about the presence and penetration of social sharing tools across the 10,000 most popular websites in the world. (more…)
Tags: facebook, Google +1, plugins, twitter
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Schema.org Unites Three Search Giants
Monday, 6th June 2011The three major search engines, Google, Bing and Yahoo! have decided to come together for a common purpose. They have jointly introduced a collection of HTML tags called schemas, which will help webmasters to markup HTML pages in order to improve their website optimisation. (more…)
Tags: bing, google, schema, search engine marketing, seo, yahoo
Posted in seo | 1 Comment »
Google Panda Update Seriously Affects Popular U.K. Sites
Tuesday, 19th April 2011Google launched the Panda update recently in the U.S. in order to improve search result quality. Now they have rolled it out for all English searches Worldwide. This has had serious ramifications in the U.K. (more…)
Tags: google, search, seo
Posted in seo | 8 Comments »
Common Search Query Modifiers
Monday, 21st March 2011While people can search for almost everything through the search engines, a recently conducted study has found that certain terms are used very commonly with each query. (more…)
Tags: google, search, seo
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Google Launches Chrome Extension To Block Sites On SERPs
Tuesday, 15th February 2011Google announced the availability a new tool on the Chrome browser that lets users block low-quality websites from their search results pages. (more…)
Tags: chrome, google, seo, spam
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Tracking User Interaction With Search Results
Wednesday, 1st September 2010Results of a recent eye-tracking study conducted at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona sheds light on interesting user behavior on a universal search results page. (more…)
Tags: google, search, search engine marketing, seo
Posted in seo | 2 Comments »
3-Word Queries Send Most Traffic
Wednesday, 30th June 2010Online ad network, Chitika, conducted a study to find out the ideal number of words in a search query to drive the most traffic. (more…)
Tags: advertising, google, ppc, search, seo
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Bing For Business Launches In U.K.
Tuesday, 18th May 2010Bing is finally trying to catch up with Google Maps and the Google Local Business Centre by making it slightly easier for businesses in the U.K. to secure placement on Bing Maps. (more…)
Tags: bing, local-search, maps, microsoft
Posted in seo | 3 Comments »
(Funny) Automatic Captions On YouTube
Tuesday, 24th November 2009YouTube has just introduced the ability to provide automatic captions on all user videos. (more…)
Tags: accessibility, multilingual, video, video-search, youtube
Posted in multilingual, seo, Technology, video | No Comments »
Google Webmaster Central Promoting AdWords In France
Tuesday, 7th July 2009French website owners who don’t currently advertise on Google AdWords might notice a message waiting for them when logged into Google Webmaster Tools. (more…)
Tags: france, google, google adwords
Posted in google, multilingual, ppc, seo | 4 Comments »
SEO Technology Center For Flash
Friday, 20th March 2009Adobe must be realising, at long last, that they are losing a lot of money by making Flash technology so search engine unfriendly – a fact that probably deters a lot of webmasters from using Flash, resulting in lost revenues for the company. To make ammends they’ve created the SEO Technology Center on the Adobe Developer Connection section of their site. (more…)
Tags: adobe, flash, optimisation, seo
Posted in seo | 2 Comments »
Microsoft Closes adCenter Analytics
Friday, 13th March 2009Mel Carson, Microsoft adCenter’s Community Manager, announced yesterday that they will close the adCenter Analytics program at the beta stage itself. (more…)
Tags: adcenter, adcenter analytics, google-analytics, microsoft, microsoft-adcenter
Posted in marketing, ppc, search, SEM, seo, Technology | 1 Comment »
Rich Media Ads On Yahoo! Search Results
Friday, 27th February 2009Yahoo! Search Marketing has announced the addition of video ads, image ads and custom links within search ads on their search results pages. The service, called Rich Ads, is currently available to a few of their advertisers. (more…)
Tags: google, ppc, seo, serp, video-ads, yahoo search marketing
Posted in ppc, search, SEM, seo | 1 Comment »
US Search Engine Market Share Data – Jan 2009
Wednesday, 25th February 2009According to the latest qSearch analysis of the major U.S. search engines carried out by comScore, search continues to grow and little has changed in terms of market share of the top 5 search providers. (more…)
Tags: aol, ask.com, comscore, google, live search, market-share, search, yahoo
Posted in search, SEM, seo | 13 Comments »
Google Japan to Google, “We’re Sorry”
Monday, 16th February 2009Google was the object of ridicule among many SEO professionals last week, when the search giant penalised its own subsidiary for buying links. (more…)
Tags: blogs, google, google search, japan, link-building, yahoo
Posted in google, multilingual, search, seo | 1 Comment »
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