5 SEO Factors For MSN
MSN has a much smaller search market share than it is of Google. However, the traffic quality of MSN should not be underestimated. Many SEO experts argued that MSN in general has higher conversion rate than Google. So as long as you have already optimized your website for Google, it cannot hurt to SEO your [...]
Search Status Toolbar For Firefox Includes Compete Ranking
For those webmasters and SEO specialists who use Firefox browsers, Compete Ranking has been incorporated into the Search Status toolbar which is a really useful Firefox extension.
2007-05-15: ver 1.19 - Compete.com added! Compete ranking for the current domain now appears in a new bar alongside PageRank and Alexa Rank, with estimated visitors in the menu [...]
3 Check Points To Improve Search Engine Crawlability
Before a website can rank well in the search engine result pages, it has to be indexed by the search engine spiders. A search engine spider (robot) will visit one of your pages and look for links on the page. It will follow the links on the page to other pages. All the web pages [...]
SEO Link Building Strategies On Industry Relevancy
Search engines tend to give higher importance to inbound links pointing to your website from your own industry segment. Any backlinks pointing from sites of totally unrelated industries will have their link value considerably reduced.
For example, a flight reservation site is highly benefited from a backlink pointing from a related industry sites such as a [...]
PPC or SEO? An Online Marketing Decision
Search has become an essential component for any online business, as more and more potential customers have realized search is a great way to research, find and purchase the products or services they want.
As a decision maker of an online business, you will certainly want to utilize search as a tool. You will often need [...]
5 Reasons Why I Blog
I have been tagged by Chris of Search Anyway, so I’m going to list 5 reasons I blog about PPC and SEO.
Reason #1: Refreshing my memories on updates
As both PPC and SEO are ever-changing techniques, I need to always keep up-to-update with the latest changes. Just to name a few in the past year.
Google updated [...]
Google To Blend News Into Web Search Results
Search Engine Land announced that Google is to integrate news with web search results.
Shortly, news results will no longer be inserted into web pages using a OneBox format. Instead, they will be blended into the regular search results (we can’t yet show you how this looks, because the changes are still going live — more [...]
Microsoft Live Search Recognizing Adcenter
I remember several months ago I posted about doing a search on Live Search in which the the word “Adcenter” was recognized as a possible misspelled word to Adventer. It is great that Live Search’s algorithm has since stored its self-developed paid search marketing platform brand into its dictionary database.
Matt Cutts Revealing 2007 Google SEO Changes
Earlier this year on his SEO blog, Matt Cutts revealed some important changes on Google organic search in 2007.
Update Frequency
The internal databases of Google will be updated once every 1-2 days instead of once every 3-4 weeks. This means more variance will be in the Google rankings for webmasters.
Google has always been revealing PageRank updates [...]
Optimizing Your Sites With Yahoo! NOYDIR Tag
Webmasters who have their websites in the Yahoo! Directory often complained about their outdated titles and descriptions being displayed in Yahoo!’s search engine result pages (SERP). This has negatively affected the clickthrough rate and/or ranking of websites of many webmasters.
However, since February this year all worries were over due to the introduction of Yahoo!’s NOYDIR [...]
