The recent closure of Yahoo Site Explorer has given rise to a number of alternatives from providers such SEOMoz site explorer, Web SEO Analytics, and SEO Book toolbar, which all offer free alternatives alongside numerous other options such as...
As SOPA protests, largely driven by social media rage on around the web, another influential player threw their hat in the ring yesterday. On content quality, Essex would like to see search marketers do their part to clean up the web.
You Can't (NOT) Afford to Invest in SEM Analytics SEW EXPERTS: VERTICAL SEARCH While more advanced Web analytics packages may seem out of reach for some marketers, at some point you have to ask if you can afford not to invest in better analytics.
Additional components are making it more effective for SMB advertisers when you look at geotargeting, performance tracking, Web analytics and call analytics. In the earlier part of the decade, there was more of an imbalance in the number of...
Along with my own articles, I always recapped a variety of other search-related articles from around the web. Gary came aboard last month to help Search Engine Watch in recapping the search news from across the web, primarily through the blog.
Getting people to your web site is only half the battle. The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization's web site offers a wealth of resources for both search marketers and information professionals alike.
Feel an Open Directory editor is abusing their position to favor or ban particular web sites? And during the dance, some SEOs suffer from GDS -- Google Dance Syndrome, when they see their web sites face lower rankings.
Some editors at The Open Directory Project are now contributing to a web log that contains news and information relating to the ODP. In February, Google was nominated by the Google Watch web site for Privacy International's 2003 US Big Brother...
Some editors at The Open Directory Project are now contributing to a web log that contains news and information relating to the ODP. Shopping search engine DealTime is acquiring Epinions, one of the web's most popular consumer opinion and review...
Big Web Sites and brands come with bigger challenges -- that was the main theme at the Big Sites and Big Brands Forum held at the recent Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, CA. Now at the bottom of ALL web searches at Yahoo is the text...
Topics for discussion include open source code options, robot spidering and web crawling, index compression, file format conversion, metadata indexing and searching, Boolean and Intranet search operators, index speed and size, stop words...
There's a meta tag generator, a "Page Primer" analysis tool that offers basic advice for changes that may help with crawler-based search engines, a submission tool to send your URLs to many search engines at once as well as a "deep" submit of many...
Given that it's relatively easy to get a site included in Go Guides by submitting yourself, it's really going to be a crawler-only submission service that web site owners will want to watch for. This is a directory built by volunteers, available...
In essence, the Go.com web site figure was simply allowed to be corrupted into a web property number. By drilling down, you can see that Alexa is combining any Lycos-owned sites into this number, making it really a web property number.
In essence, the Go.com web site figure was simply allowed to be corrupted into a web property number. By drilling down, you can see that Alexa is combining any Lycos-owned sites into this number, making it really a web property number.
Enter a URL, and this free web-based service will report back on the number of times and percentages various keywords appear within it. Netscape has acquired the volunteer-compiled NewHoo web directory, which has been rebranded as the Netscape Open...