http://searchconcepts.com
On May 19, 2010, In SEO, by Search Concepts - Search and Internet News, Updates, and Trends
Just recently, search engines like Google and Yahoo partnered with Live Search to introduce a breakthrough improvement in the search engine playing field: the Canonical Link Element. The Canonical Link Element enables web developers and search engines alike to eliminate the confusion in searches caused by different links that basically point to the same web site. Over the past few years, search engines have been focused on making … Read the Rest
Just recently, search engines like Google and Yahoo partnered with Live Search to introduce a breakthrough improvement in the search engine playing field: the Canonical Link Element. The Canonical Link Element enables web developers and search engines alike to eliminate the confusion in searches caused by different links that basically point to the same web site. Over the past few years, search engines have been focused on making ... Read the Rest
http://www.searchconcepts.com
On May 9, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Happy Mother’s Day Moms! Today is Mother’s Day in the U.S. and we have logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com and others. For the past Mother’s Day logos see our 2009, <a href="2008 and 2007 and 2004 collections, yes, I am missing 2005 and 2006.
Here are this year’s logos:
Google also had this logo in other locations:
Yahoo (animated):
Yahoo (static):
Bing:
Ask.com:
Baidu:
Orkut:
Sogou:
Cre8asite:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Also, Google today on some international properties has a logo for J.M. Barrie’s 150th birthday:
Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
Happy Mother's Day Moms! Today is Mother's Day in the U.S. and we have logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com and others. For the past Mother's Day logos see our 2009, 2008 and 2007 and 2004 collections, yes, I am missing 2005 and 2006.
Here are this year's logos:
Google also had this logo in other locations:
Yahoo (animated):
Yahoo (static):
Bing:
Ask.com:
Baidu:
Orkut:
Sogou:
Cre8asite:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Also, Google today on some international properties has a logo for J.M. Barrie's 150th birthday:
Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On April 18, 2010, In Internet Marketing, SEO, by Pat McCarthy
John Battelle’s recent post as well as an email from a friend turned me to Tynt. John goes into a bunch of detail that I won’t repeat here, but essentially what Tynt does is tracks what people are copying and pasting from your site’s content while also adding an attribution link to your site [...]
John Battelle’s recent post as well as an email from a friend turned me to Tynt. John goes into a bunch of detail that I won’t repeat here, but essentially what Tynt does is tracks what people are copying and pasting from your site’s content while also adding an attribution link to your site when they do so.
This is a great idea. It’s a little bit shocking nobody has thought of this until now, but it’s a very useful tool for publishers in a few different ways:
- Generate more links and traffic to your site – Every time any of your content is pasted into email or a blog post Tynt’s code adds a link to the page the content was copied from. This will help drive users back to the original content, as well as potentially help search engine ranking if those attribution links make it onto web pages.
- See what type of content is being copied – Tynt provides analytics that shows you what content is being shared and how much traffic it is driving. This can be useful to learn what type of content you should create more of, and what types of people are sharing it so you can see if you’re getting engagement from key audiences.
- Generate revenue from searches – Tynt recognizes short pieces of copied text as likely searches, and intercepts the search going to one of the major engines and then plans to share the revenue from searches that result in ad clicks with the publishers. I’m not sure this is fully scaled yet, but it looks like a potential revenue stream for larger publishers that could be worthwhile.
That being said, I think Tynt would be more powerful built into a pre-existing analytics service. Having to go to another place to check out your “copy and paste” stats separate from the rest of your analytics is a pain. Additionally, having to place another code snippet on your page is not ideal either, it’d be much easier if this was part of an analytics package that already existed today. Maybe this makes Tynt an acquisition target down the road by either a larger analytic company or one of the search engines who wants to serve search results on Tynt copy and paste search queries. Interesting stuff.
http://www.conversionrater.com
On April 11, 2010, In SEO, by Nick Stamoulis
Yahoo and Bing have been hoping and praying that everything with their recent partnership would go through as smoothly as possible with no hang ups. Recently everything was approved for these two giants to be allowed to put their heads together and change things for the future of both businesses. With Bing really increasing in [...]
Yahoo and Bing have been hoping and praying that everything with their recent partnership would go through as smoothly as possible with no hang ups. Recently everything was approved for these two giants to be allowed to put their heads together and change things for the future of both businesses. With Bing really increasing in market share and Yahoo decreasing, it was an obvious marriage that had to happen. Don’t forget that Yahoo is still a very powerful website and one of the most trafficked websites in the world. How is this going to change things for SEO professionals who have been focusing on just Google for so many years?
The united pay per click advertising platforms of Bing and Yahoo will surely be a new force in the industry. As reported by the Associated Press they will be sharing ad revenues which is really going to change the way businesses market their websites outside the walls of Google. Bing is also working on a unique partnership with Facebook allowing almost everything in the social network to be completely searchable in the search engines. Pretty soon if you want to find something on a specific person you will be able to search in Bing and it will filter not just for their name but through their profile for items as well. It seems like many people are very excited to see this go through. According to a poll done by Search Engine Journal , 62% of voters think that this partnership is going to give Google a real run for its money. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Don’t be surprised if you see Bing making some serious moves that involve sacrificing revenues just for market share increase. I think these massive search giants want to do anything to just pull users away from Google and they are ready to use anything within their grips to make it happen. There has already been chatter in the industry how there will be a massive forward step to outperform Google’s algorithm in the newly combined search engine.
I think eventually we will see a shift as to how search engine marketing professionals approach their focus. Over time we will see an importance for businesses to be visible in Bing as well as Google. Everything that comes up must come down sooner or later and I don’t think Bing will take out Google but they might pull some of the focus off of it for quite a while if they play their cards right.
http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com
On March 24, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On March 9, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On February 14, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Today is Valentine’s Day but it is also the 2010 Winter Olympics. Google & Bing decided to stick with changing their Olympics logos, while Yahoo and Ask.com placed special Valentine’s Day logos up today. I am constantly updating our Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logos, which is now up to thirteen logos from various search engines and forums – so make sure to check them out.
Meanwhile, here are the 2010 Valentine’s Day logos – to see the previous years go to Valentine’s 2009, Valentines 2008, Valentines 2007, Valentines 2006 and Valentines 2005.
Update: Although Google shows an Olympics logo, as Michel points out in the comments below, if you hover your mouse over the logo an Alt tag (alternative text tag) pops up saying Valentine’s Day. Plus, the scatting marks shows a heart in the logo – nice touch Google:
Yahoo:
Ask.com:
DogPile:
YouTube:
Cre8asite Forums:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
Today is Valentine's Day but it is also the 2010 Winter Olympics. Google & Bing decided to stick with changing their Olympics logos, while Yahoo and Ask.com placed special Valentine's Day logos up today. I am constantly updating our Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logos, which is now up to thirteen logos from various search engines and forums - so make sure to check them out.
Meanwhile, here are the 2010 Valentine's Day logos - to see the previous years go to Valentine's 2009, Valentines 2008, Valentines 2007, Valentines 2006 and Valentines 2005.
Update: Although Google shows an Olympics logo, as Michel points out in the comments below, if you hover your mouse over the logo an Alt tag (alternative text tag) pops up saying Valentine's Day. Plus, the scatting marks shows a heart in the logo - nice touch Google:
Yahoo:
Ask.com:
DogPile:
YouTube:
Cre8asite Forums:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On January 27, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
http://www.seroundtable.com/