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News and Tips From The Search Marketing World
Yahoo! Update
Yahoo! has updated their search results? Where are you today?
The New Technorati
After six months of work, the new Technorati is here! They have improved the speed and provided a new look for many pages. There are some usability improvements as well. Technorati is a web site that allows you to search only blogs. Have a blog? Go there and claim it!
Want Better Search Results…..Blog!
Here is a great article about why you should blog….simple. It puts fresh content on your site related to your business. The downside? You must keep it up to date. Read on….
Microsoft to Aquire aQuantive, Inc.
Microsoft pays twice what aQuantive is worth making it the biggest buyout by Microsoft. Obviously anxious to enter the advertising platform arena, eh?
Google Local Results Found in Search Results
Google is inserting local search results into appropriate regular search results. A big thank you to Google. The local search shows in different locations on the screen depending upon the competition for a particular search (or so it seems).
Google Launches Ad Creation Marketplace
Google launches an audio and video creation service for those who haven’t done it before. A demo is available from within AdWords. See the link below for screen shots on Google’s site.
Google Analytics Gets a Face Lift
You still have to love numbers and percentages, but Google’s Analytics has a new and improved presentation. Perfect for all those people who like impressive reports to send to the board room. Hopefully helpful for all those who really want to understand the numbers.
Remember, 98.67% of all statistics are made up. <grin>
Are Directories Worth Linking To?
It’s nice to see a good forum topic with intelligent answers. Yes, we do agree that many directories are junk. The best directories to be listed in are niche or human edited with high quality links. Avoid directories that link to junk sites and software/sites that auto-submit to junk directories.
Yahoo! Introduces Robots-Nocontent
If you have content on your page that doesn’t need to be indexed by search engines, you can now exclude it from Yahoo!s indexing. This tag tells a spider not to consider text between the tags as part of a search. This could be good for legal disclaimer text, ads or instructional text. This is receiving mixed reviews from SEO professionals and only time will tell if it’s a good tag to implement. The biggest concern seems to be forgetting to close the tag basically telling Yahoo! that nothing on the page should be indexed.
Yahoo! Search Blog: Introducing Robots-Nocontent for Page Sections
Google Helps Government Index Public Records
Trying to research Virginia’s Colonial Period documents? Looking for a job in California? Google is helping these states along with a few others make their public documents more accessible through standard search. These documents have been invisible to the web for various reasons even though they are “out there” for people to read. The greatest tool Google is using??? Google Sitemap of course.
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