While the ideal link appears when someone searches for information and finds your blog (see above) or finds the post via social media or other means and decides it's great information and posts a link to it on their website as a resource (perhaps...
Google has opted to remove 17 of those searches but has added related thumbnail pictures, the number of searches over 24 hours, a few related searches, and links to some news stories. Clicking on the hot searches will send you to a Google search...
SEOptimise last week had a good post on the benefits of fixing broken links, as well as some helpful link tools. Also, many people still don't realize that YouTube is the second largest search engine, accounting for more searches per month than Bing.
One valid attention to an RSS feed post is related reading links. The significant drawback to this approach is that it'll significantly slow the time from publication to the post hitting your Google Reader, giving you less time to be among the...
Sites with negative things to say about your business showing up in the SERPs for searches on your brand name. Once again, from Mike's post: "Writing a short, non-defensive reply to a review that owns the issue, describes how the issue has been...
And the people conducting these searches aren't looking for a new breed of con man. First of all, a shout out to Joanna Hogan (surfwrite), who asked for my thoughts on the post by Derek Powazek entitled, entitled, "Spammers, Evildoers, and...
Yahoo Alpha (beta) Tested Down Under Yahoo is testing a new search interface called alpha, which meta-searches several Yahoo properties, and also allow users to add their own search service via OpenSearch RSS.
Just go to Google Zeitgeist, Yahoo Buzz, the Lycos 50, and AOL Hot Searches, and you can see what's popular in search at any given time. Celebrity searches and following the trends in pop culture are nothing new in search of course, and the search...
Bloggers must disclose sponsored posts - The controversial topic of pay-per-post. Top Searches - Following Yahoo's release on December 4 of its top searches for 2006, last week AOL, Lycos and MSN Live released their top searches for the year 2006.
Web Increasingly Used For Local Service Business Searches Google News and other news sites don't offer any greater depth; if the news is older than a month, you're out of luck.But last September, Google rolled out its "200-year" News Archive Search...
For example, the search term "car" will include searches for the words "cars" and "carrs," as of the time of this writing. Allows you to tap into Google's database of searches, to determine what's popular.
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Lot's of stuff here but in a few searches I ran, it needs to improve. I'll likely have more to say in a longer post once I have more time to spend using Inform and new features are added. You'll also find links to go to individual subject...
Linking Neighborhoods, Illustrated - Threadwatch points over to the Picture of Link Neighborhoods post at Jim Boykin's new SEO blog, where he posts a nice illustration (PDF) of how search engines use links to determine what sites are important...
Hispanics Loving Search Sites - In a post titled: Search is HOT for U.S. PubSub Plays Ball with New Feature - The PubSub team released a new feature today that offers pre-built prospective searches to track blogosphere and other syndicated content...
AOL Hot Searches Spring 2005 now up from AOL covers top "spring" search topics on its US service from January 1 to March 21, 2005, the company tells us. Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google has rolled out a seriously cool search history feature that...
Fair to say, the searching community (anyone who searches for information) is a little broader than the WordPress community. Yahoo says the same in the Wordpress Article Spam Being Removed post from Tim Mayer, Director of
RBC analyst Jordan Rohan thinks that expansion in Western Europe, more spending on search advertising, and more searches generated through broadband growth means Google is going to be worth more. A summary and a bit more on the topic, in this post.
And it's not just for searches on Yahoo. Travel search engine SideStep now allows you to perform searches via its web site, rather than having to do that through browser integration. A bit more on the topic can be found in this post.
More about that, plus top searches from Yahoo, in this blog post. Some links in this post, for those who want to learn more about the history of this former Google of its day. The aim for Ask Jeeves is to become the first stop for Web searches, not...
