Search Engine Watch
And the Fight Continues: Subdomains verses Subfolders Part 2
Friday, July 25th, 2008What is the point of using subfolders when Google will no longer treat them as independent entities from the root domain? Vanessa Fox writes at Search Engine Land:
“Google is no longer treating subdomains (blog.widgets.com versus widgets.com) independently, instead attaching some association between them. The ranking algorithms have been tweaked so that pages from multiple subdomains [...]
Dagnabit! I Just Want One Daily Searches Number!
Thursday, October 11th, 2007I give. Who is hiding the elusive “searches per day” number? Years ago, everyone repeated a 500 million figure (global). Search Engine Watch has 213 million from March 2006 data (USA only). comScore teases me with some 9.8 billion number (USA again) for one month, August 2007 (based on home/work/university searches). And now comScore comes out [...]
“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 [...]
How Good Will It Be?
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007A recent Article at ZDNet News by Ina Fried, “Microsoft leaks its own search plans” pointed out that Microsoft plans on unveiling it changes to Live Search. The blog was leaked by program manager Akram Hussein:
In a blog posting on Thursday, Windows Live program manager Akram Hussein demonstrated how the revamped Live Search handles searches [...]
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 [...]
Marketing Pitfalls of Google’s Personalization Realm
Friday, June 1st, 2007Major changes with Google: Universal and being personalized all at the same time. Google Universal has incorporated blogs, videos and news in the organic search results. My colleague Matt has blogged about Universal search in more detail.
But what’s the buzz about personalization? How personal is Google getting? Are they looking for phone numbers, email address [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Will Try Anything!
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007In a recent article written by Terri Wells - Microsoft Still Needs Help Understanding Search- she points how MSN is falling behind in the Search Market. I think it is the approach Microsoft tries and facilitates drives searchers away. Additionally, some people just don’t like using Microsoft products. The nice thing about MSN? You’re able [...]
Shame Danny Sullivan is Leaving
Friday, September 1st, 2006It’s awful that Danny Sullivan is leaving Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies.
But look for him to emerge in a major way down the road. A seasoned industry pro like Danny will find the right place or places. True to his past, I’m confident he’ll be as insightful as the role or roles will [...]
