In a patent filed by Yahoo a few years back, (and excellently uncovered and covered by Bill Slawski) signals for success include site engagement metrics and a recognition of user interaction as a key metric to measuring satisfaction.
That pales in comparison with Yahoo Answers' 69 million and Answers.com's 49 million users. Brands are looking beyond social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ to more niche sites such as Pinterest, which puts a big emphasis on visuals.
Generally, a structured citation has the schema.org mark-up, which allows the search engine spiders across Google, Bing and Yahoo to read the data. Yahoo Directory, ODP). If you're a small local business, having a Google+ Local profile is...
EMarketer predicts Google will remain the leader in display ad revenues in 2013 with $3.11 billion in 2013, followed by Facebook ($2.75 billion), Yahoo ($1.37 billion), Microsoft ($760 million) and AOL ($540 million).
At the welcome desk stood Liz Walton who said that their software assists customers structure their business profiles on websites like Yahoo, White Pages, and Patch. They talked amongst the din of Google workshops, book signings, and roundtable...
Q: Glenn, did you know that the number one keyword searched for on Yahoo is Google? How about Bing or Yahoo? And not one did for Yahoo. Nobody raised their hand for Bing or Yahoo last time. Q: How many of you use Google regularly for searching the...
That’s obviously good news for Google (and for Yahoo! New formats, different ad styles and, as mentioned, competition from Yahoo! When Google announced last year that it was switching its Product Listing Ads from a free to a paid model, a mild...
During his three and a half years at Yahoo, Seth's responsibilities included overseeing such products as Yahoo Search, Local, Shopping, Mail, Flickr, Answers and many more. Another executive is out at Yahoo.
I also really like to advise small businesses to keep track of question-and-answer sites like Answers.com, Yahoo Answers, or Question.com. Most businesses can create a valuable Facebook network, while Google+ is good in a B2B or software/technical...
In recent years, search market share has remained mostly unchanged – for much of the world, it’s Google followed by every other search engine (in the U.S.the “Big 5” search engines consist of Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com and AOL, which combine for...
Searches with a mapping/navigation intent on the Big 5 Engines (Google/Bing/Yahoo/Ask/AOL) are down 34 percent over the past 15 months, going from 74.8 million to 49.5 million in August. Apple’s recent foray into the maps market, in which they...
DuckDuckGo gets its results from over 50 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! Tech dreamers with aspirations of creating a search engine to rival Google: take heart in the story of...
Search Yahoo Answers for unanswered questions relevant to your industry and create an image answering the question. Use the Google AdWords Keyword Tool to find terms and phrases related to those visitors are using to reach your site and create...
Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers may be big, and are still the dominant players in the reference space, but there is an opportunity for niche sites like Quora, which focus on premium Q&A content, to emerge as well.
Make sure you're listed in all the local services like Yahoo Local and Google Places. Whereas we used to think that getting a link from any source was a good idea, after Google started notifying webmasters that they had bad links which should be...
I like to look at the kinds of questions people are asking on Yahoo Answers and on Twitter. You need to do technical SEO, to make sure that your content is registered with Google Webmaster Tools, and fully crawlable by the search engines.
Make sure your Bing and Yahoo Local listings are up to date. Claim, verify, and update your Google Local Business listing. Whether it’s with established sites such as Google and Facebook, or newer outlets like Pinterest, there are plenty of options...
Yahoo Yahoo Yahoo search has a very different look from the others. It offers a tab-based interface that displays “trending now,” followed by a series of tappable search queries topping the Yahoo search trends at the time.
Well, Nextag doesn’t appear for this search on Google or Google-powered organic results (AOL/Ask), but it does on Bing/Yahoo – though it’s hardly prominent on any of these search engines, being pushed down by ads and links to shopping options.
You can take customer questions and make it into a video series or create a question and answers site like Yahoo Answers. In our example, we will use Google’s free keyword tool and use “Google Panda” as our sample keyword:
