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Don’t Neglect Your Filters and Sorting Options

Published on 2013-03-29 11:11:17

On the Ecommerce Outtakes blog, we talk a lot about what not to do online. In fact, our main focus is to point out where websites go wrong—with the intent, of course, to help improve the e-commerce experience across the web. One trend we’ve been

7 Optimization Tips for Adwords Advertisers

Published on 2013-03-04 01:40:38

Adwords by Google is a proven way to generate traffic, leads, and sales. It is a tool that some marketers are using on a regular basis to drive business goals. While there are a few using this tool to great effect, several more are striking out and i

SEO Benefits of Responsive Web Designs

Published on 2013-02-11 09:24:18

January 2013 – Last spring Google posted about Responsive Web Design on their official webmaster central blog and though the flavor of their article was fairly mild, they made it very clear that their “commitment to accessibility” i

Adding Google Authorship to a WordPress Blog with Multiple Authors

Published on 2013-01-25 14:27:58

I’m sure by now everyone has seen that Google allows you to set up authorship credit for the content that you create.  Credit is given by a picture of the author along with a link to the author’s Google Plus page as well as a link that a

SEO on the Go: Mobile Apps for Internet Search Engine Specialist

Published on 2013-01-23 11:22:33

Mobile technology is changing business faster than the Internet did at the time of its birth.  The web opened opportunities for all businesses and even created a few new ones, but with the speed in which consumers are adopting mobile technology the

Prediction for 2013: “Waves” Will Be the New Ranking Factor

Published on 2013-01-04 15:49:56

Aaron Wall of SEOBook recently predicted that, in 2013, SEOs who “remain overly-public will continue to invent language to serve their own commercial purposes while chastising those who do not fall in line.” I appear to be living up to (the first

Facebook Advertising FAIL: they do not want my money apparently

Published on 2012-12-10 07:30:49

Another Facebook advertising glitch yesterday, December 7, 2012. A poorly built system now completely not able to launch an ad.  Not sure who else has experienced the new approval method on Facebook for ad copy, but it will blow your mind how moroni

Conversion Optimization – 9 Fundamental Steps to Success: Part 3

Published on 2012-11-16 11:40:55

Part II in this series covered the importance of the roles of testing and modification in the development of successful conversion optimization. Now we will attempt to make sense of what we convert. Step 7: Measure I remember a very energetic web guy

Conversion Optimization – 9 Fundamental Steps to Success: Part 2

Published on 2012-11-14 11:35:10

In Part I of this series, we examined what to measure, The Funnel, and landing pages. In Part II we will put this preparation into action. Step 4: Test After all the effort people put into setting up programs and campaigns, nothing amazes us more tha

Conversion Optimization – 9 Fundamental Steps to Success: Part I

Published on 2012-11-08 18:21:50

Step 1: Determine the scope of what should be measured Think of it like this: You’re trying to track a long-distance runner during a race, but you stop clocking him before he finishes. So…what was his final time and finish position? Before you hi

Tips for Using Pinterest for Ecommerce

Published on 2012-10-24 09:07:37

Nowadays, many people are using Pinterest to as a tool for promoting their ecommerce businesses. What makes Pinterest ideal for ecommerce is that it is a social media platform which is primarily visual. Since many people use photos to market their products, Pinterest offers a place where they can pin, link and share their photos. [...]

Blogging For Your Business

Published on 2012-09-27 19:26:05

Blogging has become second nature to many people, and they are reaping the rewards. Business owners in any industry should learn how they could benefit from blogging.  I have been blogging for the past 5+ years.  You can check out all my ramblings about PPC here. How businesses can benefit from blogging is by reaching [...]

What if Google didn’t Exist?

Published on 2012-09-19 11:37:47

If you work in the field of SEO, you probably understand that Google controls everything. We constantly bend to its will and try to outthink it at every turn. Just as space travel is unpredictable because we haven’t yet experienced much of it, SEO is also a largely new frontier and we seldom know what [...]

Improving Page Load Time with Asset Optimization

Published on 2012-09-11 14:40:45

Page loading time is crucial to keeping visitors on your site and maximizing conversions. Studies have been done that show the maximum time people are willing to wait for a page to load is less than 5 seconds. Make them wait more than that, and it’s game over. They’ll hit their back button, never to [...]

SEO Tanking? Try Taking a NAP

Published on 2012-09-01 18:35:24

If your SEO rankings are plummeting, one of the most effective local internet marketing techniques to help bring it back around is to take a NAP: N ame

Google’s New Ad Format-Algorithm Update Maybe?

Published on 2012-08-28 06:40:20

I wonder what algorithm update Google used to determine the users intent for this search result? Oh wait, they have not searched yet, I wonder if this provides a great user experience? Share with social media

3 Ways to Kill Your Online Credibility, and 3 Ways to Keep It

Published on 2012-07-31 12:05:21

It’s easy to publish a blog post, a tweet or a status update. Sometimes too easy. As a business owner (and bloggers are business owners, too) you have a responsibility to publish facts. Readers don’t come for fiction, or to be taken on a breezy diversion of gossip and rumors. They come to your blog [...]

When Coders and SEO Collide

Published on 2012-07-26 21:21:00

It’s pretty much common knowledge:  Web developers hate SEO experts.  In all fairness, however, the feeling is mutual.  But there are some good reasons for this culture clash. “Same Thing” Sickness One thing that SEO’s hate about web developers has to do with the way they execute or fail to carry out a very specific [...]

Target: Way off Target in E-commerce

Published on 2012-07-16 18:12:40

Shopping around the web these days has become a frustrating affair. Not only is Google serving up obscure blogs on the first page, some of the largest players like Target seem to have forgotten that an excellent shopping experience is what turned them into a household name. For example, try shopping for bath towels on [...]

Would Ansel Adams Post on Facebook? Photography Copyright, TOS and Social Media

Published on 2012-07-05 23:07:28

As the Internet focuses on Social Media, photographs become increasingly important. Facebook, Twitter and Google+ posts share better with great photographs. Unlike video or text, photographs are immediate, beautiful and engaging. Unfortunately there are ownership issues surrounding photographs on social media that every photographer, marketing manager or business should be aware of. The issues related [...]

Maximize Conversions With Autonomous A/B Testing

Published on 2012-06-13 10:06:34

Like any other art form, web design is completely subjective. A web site might look like a thing of beauty to one person, and a complete mess to another person. There is, after all, no accounting for taste, and everyone’s tastes are different. However, there’s more to a web site’s design than merely its appearance. [...]

Facebook Launches New Promote for Posts and Guide to Promoting your Business

Published on 2012-05-31 12:53:33

As I began to post a recent article from a blog on one of our SEO Moves Facebook pages, a little message popped up informing me of a new way to promote my business online.   After clicking to “Learn More” I have found that Facebook has just released a new option to “Promote your [...]

Rumor Busted: Google Chrome Becomes the Worlds Most Used Web Browser

Published on 2012-05-24 08:45:40

News reports like this one from globalpost and businessinsider have been popping up over the last couple days reporting that Google Chrome has become the worlds most used web browser as reported by StatCounter.  Immediately when I heard this I thought that there was no way this could be true so I went to check [...]

Facebook Launches New iOS Pages Manager Application

Published on 2012-05-22 12:21:11

Last night while browsing Facebook’s iPhone app,  a little message popped in at the top of my News Feed informing me of a new Facebook iPhone app devoted to managing the pages you are an admin on all from one place. While the number of smartphone users continue to grow daily and as social media [...]

HTML5 Microdata, Schema.org and Rich Snippets – Explained and a Free Tool

Published on 2012-05-21 11:28:34

Rich snippets are all the rage these days. Ever since Google started enhancing their search results with these extra tidbits of information, everyone is rushing to update their web sites with the metadata to enable them. So what is the benefit of having a “rich” search result for your site? Good question. Other than giving [...]

Rand Fishkin’s True Feelings on XML Video Sitemaps

Published on 2012-05-16 09:23:31

dynoTable – A JQuery Plugin by Bob Tantlinger

Published on 2012-05-15 18:55:50

dynoTable: A JQuery plugin for creating editable tables A while back I was working on a project that required the GUI to allow the user to dynamically add, remove and rearrange various form fields contained in table rows. The tricky part was that the UI needed to have this functionality for several different types of [...]

Track Any Client Side Event With Google Analytics

Published on 2012-05-15 08:00:03

Track any client side event with google analytics By: Bob Tantlinger I’ve recently been doing some work integrating social media events, such as facebook likes, with google anayltics and was pleased to find that Google gives you a deep level of control over what you can track. It occurred to me that since a social [...]

Tracking Pins With The Pinterest Button

Published on 2012-05-14 01:38:23

Tracking Pins With the Pinterest Button Recently I was tasked with logging social media interaction on a site utilizing the “buttons” (what do you call those anyway) of Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. We wanted to be able to record not only when a social media button was clicked, but when an actual share, [...]

SEO by the Sea and Me

Published on 2012-05-08 21:57:22

I wanted to publicly thank Bill Slawski from SEO by the Sea I recently hooked up with Bill in a Google Hang out which was hosted by and old mate of mine Dejan from DejanSEO. After listening to him talk about various SEO related topics, I knew I wanted to hear more. I fired off [...]

Negative SEO – A post from 2008

Published on 2012-05-03 17:19:53

All this discussion about “Negaitve SEO” reminded me about a blog post that I wrote in 2008 on the same topic: “Jun 28, 2008 Negative Search Engine Optimization (SEO) the future of SEO I have been reading and studying the term negative search engine optimization (SEO). I find it quite funny how people at Google [...]

Google Correcting Exact Match Domains Strength in SERPS

Published on 2012-04-24 23:19:39

Just heading to bed and noticed that out of the blue, many exact match domains have slipped in search. I noticed a number of exact match domains names have slipped somewhere from 5-40 positions in search. It was really long over due that Google fixed this issue. Exact match had gotten so far out of [...]

How to Get TWO Rows of Review Stars in Search Results

Published on 2012-04-13 16:10:06

If it’s your first time hearing about rich snippets you may want to read up at microformats.org first. In general though, rich snippets allow webmasters to influence the display of their website’s listings in search engines. Like this: Rich snippets have been around since 2009, but up until recently only a few websites could actually [...]

New Google Plus 1 Button or G+ 1 icon

Published on 2012-03-15 07:54:05

Good morning Google Plus one users, we have decided that it was best for us to change the colors on your website. We know everyone likes washed out red, so this is the new color we added to your website: The good news is it still functions the same, although I personally do not like [...]

Update-Google PageRank Server Change

Published on 2011-10-11 09:30:11

Stay calm it’s still working … This from Phil Leahy I normally check every site that I visit to see their Google page rank and alexa page rank. I noticed from Thursday 6th of October it was not showing up on my Alexa toolbar or SeoQuake toolbar. I did some research via twitter to see [...]

Bye Bye Google Page Rank?

Published on 2011-10-06 09:51:30

I noticed last night that Google’s visible page rank had disappeared for several tools I use. I looked around a little bit but could not find any tool that was working. I think the SEO community has been looking towards this for quite some time, as people have put far too much emphasis on Google’s [...]

Internet Technology Summit 2011

Published on 2011-08-31 13:03:30

I’m at an interesting 1 day conference today, ITS2011.  The focus is on the future of internet technology. This is not the type of conference we typically attend, we are usually at the marketing focused events. Of course, you can’t have an internet technology event without talking about marketing, so of course I’m picking up [...]

Facebook Changes Default Security Settings to NON Secure

Published on 2011-08-26 10:07:49

Facebook has done us a favor today and changed the security settings in all of our accounts. Take a look at the Facebook URL (web browser URL window)  you will see http://www.facebook.com (non-secure webpage) instead of https://www.facebook.com (secure webpage) you are no longer on an encrypted secure page. I am not exactly sure why Facebook [...]

Google SERP’s New Brand Site Links Format

Published on 2011-08-16 11:48:43

Pretty Nice Bonus to Brands within natural search results today, the sitelinks are now going VERY wide across many valuable pages within your domain. Check this out: � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � I think this is a GREAT move by Google, as in most [...]

Google Knows What You Did Last Summer

Published on 2011-08-04 22:10:56

OK just got back from a world tour of Australia where we spoke at an internet conference. Our visit to Australia included visits with everyone one of our Australian Clients, we only had to go to Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne (kidding we were all over the country). We also included a holiday [...]

Google Page Rank Updates Fast and Furious Another PR Update August 4th 2011

Published on 2011-08-04 13:30:53

Amazing Google went nearly 5 months without updating it’s visual page rank. Then they did a release on June 27th 2011, then updated that update around July 20th 2011 to take corrective actions as they apparently messed up and provided twitter with a PR0 and this caused all worldwide page rank to be off. Now [...]

Google Page Rank Update June 27th 2011

Published on 2011-06-27 09:39:12

Good Morning Everyone, just a little note to let everyone know that Google Updated its Google Toolbar Page rank this morning. I hope everyone has increased their domain authority. You can check your page rank using our Page Rank Tool. � � S

Google’s Getting More Social with +1 (plus 1)

Published on 2011-06-06 11:35:39

� � � � � � � � � � � � � Google’s +1 (pronounced: plus one) button has the potential to add another billion to the coffers of Google. Google is notorious for failures but when they h

SEO Moves at Australian Internet Conference

Published on 2011-06-02 14:57:11

We’re heading down under! Our Asia Pacific Director and long time colleague, Phil Leahy, hosts a dynamic Australian internet conference for small to midsize online sellers every year, now in its 5th year.  We’re finally going to make it out ther

Google News “Quotes Displayed” in News Search Results

Published on 2011-06-01 21:38:39

I recently found a neat feature in the Google news search results. They display in the header of the news section quotes by specific people or companies. This is very cool for tracking what politician said what and when. Kudos to Google for helping u

Google Displaying Buying Guides in Shopping Search Results

Published on 2011-05-24 15:08:23

Interesting discovery today, found buying guides listed in the Google shopping search results today. Going to spend some time figuring out how and why this website is getting displayed here It is certainly not based upon the quality information being

Google Coupons Google Offers Appearing in Search Results

Published on 2011-05-20 15:19:33

I mentioned in my earlier post about the view now button, this directly links you to the Google Coupon. So Google can charge you for the coupon and then make you pay for it to appear in search. � Share with social media

Google View Offer Button in Adword PPC

Published on 2011-05-20 14:12:53

Google is at it again, Google is getting close to having the entire 1st page above the fold of search results becoming paid. Has anyone explained to Google that it is their natural search results that is the reason they dominate search? At the rate t

Google Webmaster Tools Instant Preview

Published on 2011-05-19 10:21:54

Just noticed something new in Google webmaster tools called “Google instant preview” it appears to be something they have tied to the fetch as Googlebot. It appears to be somewhat flawed, and does not crawl or display flash (makes our web

Google Android and Google Chrome OS is Linux

Published on 2011-05-18 12:27:37

It has been brought to my attention that most people in the world do not realize that Google Chrome and Google Android operating systems are not Google Operating systems. They are both simply based upon Linux. I was surprised today speaking a fairly

Google’s Unfriendly Mobile Search Results

Published on 2011-05-18 12:19:43

My rant of the day is that I’m struggling to understand why Google is not either penalizing website sites that do not provide a mobile version of their website, or rewarding websites that do? This weekend I found myself annoyed yet again with Googl

Google Shopping Expands to Australia, Italy and more

Published on 2011-05-05 14:48:54

Google announced the launch of Google Shopping in four new countries this week: Australia, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. Google Shopping is a comparison shopping engine delivering product results already in US and many other countries.  Google

Google Microformats and Customer Reviews

Published on 2011-04-28 20:20:31

If there is a key to getting good reviews from customers and clients it is the commitment to providing excellent service and quality products. Put this in place and you build a solid foundation that will take care of reviews and testimonials. But, in

Google testing new URL location change in Australia search results

Published on 2011-04-23 10:36:58

Interesting discovery today, a search on www.google.com.au showed some different looking serps. I noticed Google has moved the location of the URL to the upper left hand side just below the title tag of the website before the description tag. It used

Baidu Wants to Expand, Worried About Tencent

Published on 2011-03-11 06:12:56

Baidu, a “local Chinese Google”, who leads the search engine market with over 75% share (Google only has 19 percent), is also one of the biggest and popular websites in the world. Alexa currently ranks it as the 6th popular in the world, just abo

Recent Tweet Links Are Now Part of SERP’s

Published on 2011-03-10 03:18:45

In addition to bringing you the most relevant results, search engines are many times fighting over presenting the most up-to-date pages to the searcher. That’s why Google has those time-related filters in the left, just below the “type” filters

Want to Know More? Ask TrueKnowledge.com

Published on 2011-03-09 03:20:23

One of the challenges in the recent Man vs Machine Jeopardy game, which was easily won by the computer, Watson, was coping with contextual questions. I was not only about facts, but understanding what the question is about. Another fact is that peopl

Bing&KAYAK vs Google&ITA

Published on 2011-03-08 03:48:11

While several companies established a Fairsearch.org group in order to try and prevent the Google-ITA deal, claiming that it is a yet another step of monopoly (by Google that is) of the airline ticket market, Bing has decided not to complain, but to

Twitter Looks For More Advertising

Published on 2011-03-04 03:43:10

Growing rapidly, with about 200 million registered users and estimated to surpass the 15 million adult users in the US in 2011, Twitter has proved as a very successful venture in the past 3 years. Based on acquisition offers, the company value has in

What is a Content Farm?

Published on 2011-03-03 04:27:26

With the recent Goolge’s algorithm update (which was quickly called “Farmer’s Update”, as it seriously affects the so-called “content farms”) and Blekko’s removal of twenty famous websites from its results, it seems that fighting spam i

Still a Runaway Leader, Google Drops Below 90% Globally

Published on 2011-03-02 04:30:10

According to latest StatCounter data, Goolge has dropped below 90% of search engine market share – for the first time since July 2009. The presented figure of 89.94%, though is still a major headache for its competitors, Yahoo and Bing that combine

GroupM Study: Consumers Start with Search, Consult Social Media

Published on 2011-03-01 03:18:50

Recent consumer study conducted by comScore and GroupM revealed that although 64% of the users are likely to follow a brand on Facebook and/or Twitter, search engine is still the most popular initial step for the majority of purchases made online. Th

SearchReviews.com – A New Way to Do Product Research

Published on 2011-02-27 05:14:05

It was always believed that “word-to-mouth” is the best form of advertising. Before buying certain product, one would generally consult with those who already bought it, asking their opinion as well as the observed pros and cons. Advertising coul

Yandex Needs More Money?

Published on 2011-02-24 02:56:01

Russian top search engine, Yandex, which was founded in 1997, has made an outstanding progress in recent years. Despite constantly growing competition from both the local Rambler and the “global” Google, it has succeeded to increase its market sh

The What and Why of Google Boost

Published on 2011-02-23 10:53:56

It’s not Google that needs a boost. Nor is it Google that gets a boost. It’s Google Boost, with a capital “B.” Which is what? It seems a bit odd to talk about Internet marketing and advertising in terms of history but the truth is this online

How Will the New Chrome Look?

Published on 2011-02-23 04:19:21

Google Chrome is currently world’s third popular browser, after the Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox. Although it is only two-and-something “years old”, the Chrome has quickly gained popularity due to extensive advertizing campaign – Goo

Google Ignores Your Title Tags? There Should be a Reason…

Published on 2011-02-22 04:24:43

Numerous websites reported that Google is ignoring the page title tags, replacing them with something “equivalent”. The discussion started on the WebmastersWorld forum with several “upset” webmasters claiming that Google is shoeing page title

Want to Get Results From Multiple Search Engines? Yes, You Can!

Published on 2011-02-19 04:39:01

It is no secret that Google is dominating the search engine market. However, it is also no news that there are people (about 35% of users, actually) who prefer other search engines – such as Yahoo!, Bing and others. Blekko is gaining some ground as

Facebook Beats Google to Claim Second in the “50 Most Innovative Companies” List

Published on 2011-02-17 07:58:14

The battle between FaceBook and Google mightbe overrated, but in terms of innovation, both companies are definitely doing their best. In the “50 Most Innovative Companies of 2011” list, published by Fastcompany Magazine, Facebook, the leader in 2

Your Site is Finally on Google News? Not Forever!

Published on 2011-02-16 01:50:40

Getting included in Google News database is not an easy task. Their guidelines are not that clear and sometimes it appears that you have to do something special to get listed. Here is an example of our communication with Google regarding the matter.

Google Enters Another Niche – Makes Partnership with GoDaddy

Published on 2011-02-15 03:56:42

GoDaddy might not be as familiar name as Google to ordinary internet users, but most webmasters had, of course, heard this name. GoDaddy is currently on of the leaders in webhosting industry, providing various related services, such a website hosting

Twitter Cashing Out? Unlikely, But…

Published on 2011-02-13 03:44:02

Twitter has been here for over five years, but it has become a real “hit” only recently. During the last Superbowl game, a new record for number of over 4000 tweets-per-second was recorded, emphasizing the usefulness of this tool when you

Additional thoughts on Facebook,Google and Bing (Microsoft) buying Twitter

Published on 2011-02-11 09:28:42

Woke up this morning thinking further about my statement yesterday that Microsoft should by Twitter.  I really think that if Google does not buy Twitter and it lands in the hands of Microsoft, it could potentially become a great equalizer. Bing̵

Bing Follows Google Tactics, Applies City-Based Localization in USA

Published on 2011-02-11 03:57:28

Bringing the most relevant results to the user is the quest of every search engine. Fighting spam is one aspect of this issue. The other one is personalization – showing the results that would be the most interesting to the SPECIFIC searcher. Hence

Google results without Twitter or Facebook links

Published on 2011-02-10 13:50:29

I was in the shower this morning, considering the impact that Twitter and Facebook have had on Google’s search results. After reading Rands test results from Twitter links versus traditional text links in ranking pages within the Google search

Google Resumes its China Quest

Published on 2011-02-10 03:47:46

How big should you be to successfully fight Google and beat it? Pretty big probably. Far bigger than blekko.com and DuckDuckGo. Even being a multibillion company, such as Microsoft, is not enough – Bing is still behind in the SE battle. Having the

Blekko is Growing, Reaches 30M Monthly Searches

Published on 2011-02-08 04:31:19

The “Slash-the-web” engine is trying to gain ground on its bigger rivals, Google and Bing. The mark of thirty million queries was passed in January – a decent accomplishment for Blekko, launched in November 2010. Additionally, over 100K new sla

Twitter Grows in Asia, Prefers South Korea Over China

Published on 2011-02-06 03:58:57

Twitter has mad a strong progress in the recent years. It has been a useful tool both for fun and, of course, business. Respectable companies are tweeting, telling their followers about company news, promotions etc. It is only a matter of time for wo

Introducing SolaMaps –Social Network for Renewable Energy Enthusiasts

Published on 2011-02-04 04:42:23

 When “the internet” was introduced, its main purpose – and the idea behind it – was to allow educational and research institutions to share data. That was back in the 1980s. Of course, since then internet has passed several phases.

Is Google Chrome as Good as They Say It Is?

Published on 2011-02-02 04:35:11

Have you ever heard about KidRocket, Konqueror or Amaya? I bet you didn’t. What about Safari and Opera? Sounds more familiar, right? And Google Chrome? Is there anybody who did NOT hear about Google’s web browser? Probably not. Launched slightly

What is wrong with Blekko and Bing

Published on 2011-02-01 15:49:15

I am really getting tired of Google presenting information and blog posts from 2007. The authority Google gives to these old blog posts and news items causes their results for particular topics to just STINK. So I jump search engines to BING or for t

DuckDuckGo Goes Aggressive, Tries to Scare People Off Google

Published on 2011-01-30 02:52:13

Beside the big and known Google, Yahoo, Bing, Blekko and Ask.com and the local leaders Baidu and Tandex, there are several other, “little” search engines – such as HotBot and DuckDuckGo. The latter was launched in 2008 and has a very, very limi

Wikipedia is Behind, Google Wins a Search Engine Jeopardy Contest

Published on 2011-01-28 06:36:03

Ask.com and Bing are very anxious to prove the world they can beat Google. Even in minor things, like Image Search that Bing was enhancing constantly over last several month. Or in a Search Engine Jeopardy contest, managed by Stephen Wolfram. Well, i

Bing Image Search – Yet Another Feature and a New Look

Published on 2011-01-26 03:20:50

It seems that Bing decided to combat Google first of all in the Images section. Merely a month after introducing its Image Categorization Panel, Bing now applies a new look to the Bing Image Search page. It is now showing the 20 top most searched ima

Pope Praises Social Networks, Recognizes Pros and Cons of Digital Communication

Published on 2011-01-25 03:14:41

The global village and the internet era is everywhere. Long gone are the times when Church opposed science– Vatican itself is happy to use the most advanced technology in the world. And internet is no exception, it seems. In his latest statement, t

User Blacklist is a Possibility, Google’s Matt Cutts Says

Published on 2011-01-23 03:43:31

Fighting SPAM is everyone’s concern these days. E-mail providers try to create advanced Spam-filters that send offensive and disturbing emails out of your Inbox to a “Spam” folder (and, of course, sometimes valuable, long-expected messa

Untabbed.com – a Different Way to View Search Results

Published on 2011-01-22 04:07:22

With so many Search engines out there (beside the “Big Three” of Google, Yahoo and Bing, there are also ask.com, duckduckgo.com, aol.com and many, many others) it is pretty hard to make an impact on the Search Industry. You have to present someth

Google Page Rank Update

Published on 2011-01-21 06:51:29

Woke up this morning and appears the SEO world is buzzing that after 9 months of nothing, Google may be releasing a widespread Page Rank Update. Google has over the past nine months done several mini updates, but mini updates only hit a small percent

Yahoo! UK is Bing, Yahoo! Japan is Google

Published on 2011-01-19 03:03:47

Everybody knows that Yahoo US has teamed up with Bing in order to fight Google in the North American search market. In other parts of the world, however, strange things are happening. Since the start of 2011, Yahoo and Bing are also a joint force in

Google is Not Number One in Czech Republic, Seznam.cz Says

Published on 2011-01-18 03:32:38

With Google being the most popular search engine in the world, and particularly in the US, it is not yet gained enough ground in non-English speaking countries. While in India, the UK and Australia Google is the runaway leader in Search Engine compet

Users Still Like Search Engines, Worried About Spammers

Published on 2011-01-16 04:06:32

Several polls, conducted recently, approve that the search engines are still regarded reliable by the internet users, yet the influence of “spammers” worries many searches. Over 33 percent of the responders to the question: “Have Google’s Sea

Yahoo! Is Very Much Committed to Flickr, Blake Irving Says

Published on 2011-01-15 03:08:29

Yahoo! had several troubles in the recent years. Geocities was shut down, as were several other features. And with over half a thousand workers fired in the end of 2010, people started asking questions about the future of a former search industry lea

Google Adsense – Continue Experimenting?

Published on 2011-01-13 02:19:22

It has only been several months since Google had announced and completed the “New Adsense” – a redesign of the familiar GUI, adding several features to impress the users. And here it is – they are already adding more attributes to the pop

Why Twitter Chats are Important

Published on 2011-01-11 01:56:52

Twitter has been here for quite a while, but it has really grown in the recent two years. And lately, with the people tweet to share their ideas and opinions as well as notify their friends (aka followers) about the current news, almost every busines

Caution: Google Webmaster Tools Are Only 90% Accurate

Published on 2011-01-08 03:12:43

Google Webmaster Tools are a popular feature, servicing hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of website owners and web analytics over the world. Everybody works with the provided numbers, without questioning the reliability of the data. Howe

Website drop in the SERP’s- Possible penalty? Block Googlebot

Published on 2011-01-07 20:49:14

Well in the past, most rapid drops in a websites search engine rankings were caused by off site factors. Bad links, too many links too fast, too many exact match anchor text links, too many footer or site wide links etc. Recently we are seeing more k

How to stop spam robots without using a captcha

Published on 2011-01-07 20:28:06

We have been thinking about how to stop the spam bots without using a captcha. Most Captcha’s work to a certain degree, but in general you do not want to make it any more inconvenient for real people get through your web forms. Well Bob nailed

Is Google a Search Engine or Your Biggest Competitor?

Published on 2011-01-07 14:54:45

Perhaps the key to answering this question lies in the title of a book published a couple of years ago: What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis. What has Google done, what will they do in the future?  To summarize the book-length answer, Google will do

China Introduces First State-Owned Search Engine

Published on 2011-01-06 03:54:25

It is widely known that Google has many local rivals in the Search Engine field. Many Russians prefer Yandex over Google, Israelis use Walla and in China there is Baidu. Most of those engines are extremely localized, providing relevant search results

SEO Secrets You Should Know – Different Google Search Results for Smartphones and Desktops

Published on 2011-01-05 02:17:06

The marketing has always been about customer’s psychology – learning the specific needs of a potential client and trying to satisfy them. Google has demonstrated once again that targeting certain audience is mandatory. And if you are into SEO

Googlelabs Body Browser

Published on 2011-01-04 17:39:19

At first glance, we’re not really sure what we would do with this interesting, detailed application. If the words that are scattered around the Internet are any indication there are a number of individuals who feel the same way. Google Body Browser

Rumors: Google Intends to Battle Apple for Publishers

Published on 2011-01-03 02:14:49

According to several anonymous sources, Googel is planning to launch an e-newsstand application that will run on Android tablets and smartphones in order to battle Apple’s iTunes sales. Leading publishers, such as Time Inc and Wall Street Journal,