Search Engine Forum
“Image is Everything” with Visual Search
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008We’ve all heard the clichés about pictures and images through various commercials, songs, and stories. “Image is everything”, “Picture perfect”, “Every picture tells a story”, and “A picture is worth a thousand words” are some of the more common clichés we all know and love. In today’s fast-paced Internet world, the visual representation of [...]
Why I should implement redirects on my old domain to my new one?
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I’ve been approach by clients several times about what they should do with their old domain, now that they finally acquired the domain of their dreams. For example, I own “company-1.net” and after 5 years of branding and Google indexing, I finally got “company1.com”. Now what do I do with my old domain?
301 REDIRECT!
Tamar [...]
“Not So Fast MSN,” Says Yahoo!
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007I recently posted “How Good Will It Be?” about MSN doing some major updates to their Live Search functionality. This week Jason Lee at WebProNews wrote an article, Yahoo Makes The Assist, Web 2.0-ifies Results, discussing how Yahoo is now doing the same thing MSN is doing. Yahoo is now offering bring in a new [...]
Are Paid Links Evil? I’m Sick Of The Question
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Some of the biggest buzz out of SES San Jose revolves around the panel named “Are Paid Links Evil?” Our own Mike Murray is speaking at the conference and he reports several attendees let it be known they have a problem with Google’s stand on paid links. Matt Cutts was on the panel as [...]
Is Yahoo still doing their updates?
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007A few weeks ago, Yahoo mentioned that they would be doing another big update. Over the last couple of weeks I have seen my rankings bounced back and forth from 1st page to nonexistent.
Search Engine Round Table mentioned:
I think (hope) that this newest change reverts back to the original update. What I am seeing [...]
Sphinn - Do We Need Another Search Community?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007You might wonder why the heck Sphinn even materialized given the number of related communities. But I’m already a fan of Sphinn (pronounced “spin”). It’s a social site for search and interactive marketers.
It’s gaining in popularity because it’s part of Third Door Media (the new firm with Danny Sullivan). As a result, the quality of [...]
Increasing Referring Links: How Not To Request Inbound Links
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Once you realize how important inbound links or backlinks are to a successful website, you need to decide how to create more of them. Distilled to the simplest terms, put great content on your website and then let the world know about it. The voice from the corn in Field of Dreams said “Build it [...]
Much to Do About Design!
Friday, May 25th, 2007Key site design considerations get favorable treatment in a recent article by Jaimie Sirovich in Search Marketing Standard | Summer 2007 magazine, “Search Engine Friendly HTML with All the Trimmings.”
He made interesting points and offered tips on a design of new website – helpful as most webmasters seem to forget they build sites for their [...]
Should I Bother With Yahoo & MSN Search?
Monday, May 7th, 2007Do Yahoo! & MSN still matter for search? There’s a discussion going on in our forum that tackles this issue. They ask…
Can anyone provide any tips on getting rankings with Yahoo! and MSN?
Here’s a forum response to that question.
I have seen this time and time again. Starting a new SEO campaign; MSN and Yahoo will [...]
How Fast Do Search Engines Index Content?
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007Very good question. Search engines like Google rely on producing relevant results. Blog search engines like Google blog search or Technorati rely on producing the most recent results.
So if you did a test to see how fast which engines pick up a unique phrase or word, which one would win? Digital Inspiration has the answer [...]
