Seo News
Twitter Slaps SEOs With Nofollow On All Links
26th August 2009
A year ago, Twitter was known to only a handful of people who were all search and social media marketing enthusiasts. These search and social media professionals saw the potential in Twitter and promoted it on their blogs, in their emails and in a lot of their communications. Twitter has repaid the favour by treating all users as spammers and slapped rel=”nofollow” attributes onto all external links. More »
SMEs That Blog Get 55 Percent More Traffic
20th August 2009
A study conducted by Hubspot reveals that businesses that use blogs benefit substantially from doing so. More »
Digg Under Fire For Improper URL Direction
3rd August 2009
Earlier in the year, Digg introduced the Digg Bar and Digg Short URLs. These shortened URLs directed users to the Digg landing page, only if they were logged in to Digg. More »
Google Real Estate Search Improves
10th July 2009
Google has some good news for those on the lookout for a new home, office or other immovable property. More »
Google Suggest Includes Links And Ads
26th May 2009
Google Suggest has been recently updated to include link suggestions as well as sponsored links along with the list of suggestions. More »
Google Search Options Panel
20th May 2009
A few days ago, Google announced the launch of their new Search Options Panel. This new feature will enable users to have more control over their search results, as they will be able to sort out the results with reference to time and content. More »
What’s New With AccuraCast?
15th April 2009
A lot has been going on outside of our main website, and I thought I’d write a quick post to update our readers about some of these new developments. More »
Yahoo! Updates Image Search, Quality Better Than Google
9th April 2009
Yahoo! recently overhauled the Yahoo! Image Search Preview page, with the intention of making it more interesting and user friendly for their clients. The result is a more modern feature that looks like a “Web 2.0” image gallery. More »
SEO Technology Center For Flash
20th March 2009
Adobe 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 »
Konnichiwa Microsft Kumo
9th March 2009
Microsoft has started internal testing of the upgraded version of their search engine, Live Search. This new incarnation of Live Search has been codenamed Kumo. More »
Yahoo! Integrates Facebook Into SERPs
4th March 2009
Yahoo! does seem to be back in the headlines, and not just because of Microsoft’s continued flirtations. In order to attract more users to their search service, Yahoo! has recently started adding fancy Facebook links via SearchMonkey on the search results. More »
Rich Media Ads On Yahoo! Search Results
27th February 2009
Yahoo! 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 »
Google Blends Mobile Ads In Organic Results
8th January 2009
While Google has always been very particular about differentiating ads from organic search results by placing ads only at the side of the search results page or in clearly marked slots at the top of the page, the Google Operating System blog recently found Google Mobile Search displaying short text ads in the middle of the search results page. More »
Google Launches SearchWiki, Allows Users To Customise Results
24th November 2008
When customers use Google Search, they may often find that they do not agree with the rankings of the search result provided by Google. Now it will actually be possible to change the rankings, to add or delete a result or add a comment alongside a result as may seem appropriate to the user. More »
Search Has A Truly Long Tail
20th November 2008
Here is some good news for all Search Engine Marketers. A report released recently by Hitwise, has shown that there is still plenty of scope for all those who are in this field, as it seems that only the proverbial ‘Tip of the iceberg’ has been scraped as yet. It is thus not necessary for SEOs to follow ruthless or ‘dog-eat-dog’ marketing practices. More »
Now U Can Rank Live Search Results
27th October 2008
Microsoft is in the process of allowing its users to share their opinions about the search results provided by Live Search. More »
Microsoft Live Search Gets Semantic Query Processing
22nd September 2008
Microsoft has now integrated Powerset into the Live Search platform, since last month. The Redmond-based software giant is believed to have paid $100 million for Powerset’s semantic search capabilities in an attempt to improve their position in the search engine market after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo! earlier in the year. More »
What Is Google’s Insights For Search Good For?
13th August 2008
After the success of Google Trends, the search giant has now launched a new tool, called ‘Google Insights For Search‘. This tool is similar to Trends, but shows rising searches in relation to other terms, geographic location and time periods. More »
Live Webmaster Tools Updates But Still Lags Behind
12th August 2008
The Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center has been brought out of beta, last week, along with the release of a few new updates. Webmasters will now be able to better understand the crawling and indexing methods used by Live Search. More »
Google Search Customisations Made More Transparent
4th August 2008
In their continued efforts to improve the search experience for the users, Google recently added new features to their Web Search that will allow customers to realise how their search results are customised, thus making the process more transparent. More »
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