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Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend
This is a rant. It’s a rant from over 10 years of watching people trot out natural language search as the “killer” solution to the current state of…
How To Game Digg & Why You Shouldn’t
Peter Da Vanzo shows how you can pay someone to Digg your content for a fee. SEO Blackhat reveals a guaranteed way…
Google’s New SearchMash Test Site
Google’s gained a new unbranded site called SearchMash where it plans to test user interface ideas without Google’s brand somehow skewing the…
Bush Bio Changes For Miserable Failure Query Due To White House Change
Since 2004, a search on Google and Yahoo for “miserable failure” has almost always ranked the the official George W. Bush biography…
Checking Back Links From Wikipedia Articles
Steve Rubel spotted a new page at Wikipedia that allows you to quickly locate all the links pointing to a specific site…
The Ten Linking Commandments By LinkMoses
Eric Ward posted a fun but true list of what he calls LinkMoses Linking Commandments. But honestly, number five makes me wonder…
Big Brands: Do You Know What Wikipedia Saying About You Via Google?
Steve Rubel produced a small study on the top 100 advertisers, according to AdAge, to see where in the Google rankings does…
When Good Search Bots go Bad
Most people realize the importance of creating a search engine friendly site, but many don’t take the final step of assuring that…
Search Engines Handle No Index Inconsistently
Matt Cutts has a nice illustrated survey of how various major search engines deal with the meta noindex tag in Handling noindex…
Social Media Optimization: It’s Like SEO, For Social Sites
One of the coolest things about the rise of social networking and sharing sites like MySpace and YouTube are the new opportunities…
InsiderPages’ ‘Answers’
InsiderPages, one of the top “social directory” sites, has launched its equivalent of Yahoo!’s Answers: “Insider Advice.” It’s only available to members…
Playing SEM with the Big Dogs
Search marketing used to be a playground mostly for small and medium sized businesses with relatively modest budgets. But recently, larger players…
Google’s Webmaster Central Adds A Blog
The folks who are responsible for Webmaster Central, the old Google Sitemaps, announced at the Google Blog that they have a blog…
Tim Converse OF Yahoo Talks About Aggregation Spam
Tim Converse, the web spam fighter at Yahoo Search, wrote a very interesting blog entry explaining aggregation spam. In short, aggregation spam…
How Much Is Link Baiting Services Or Projects Worth?
Honestly, the purpose of this post is selfish, I want someone to come up with the value of a link baiting effort.…
How XSS HTML Injection Might Let Others Put Links On Your Sites
SEOMoz has some excellent examples of government sites that are susceptible to cross site (XSS) html injection, something that can also happen…
Washington Post Selling Text Links?
Steve Rubel reported that the Washington Post launched a sponsored blogroll product that allows people to pay to be listed in the…
101 Ways To Build Links & Popularity
Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall have compiled a list of 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006. I will not attempt…
A Guide to Social Search Players
In yesterday’s SearchDay article, What’s the Big Deal With Social Search?, I looked at some of the pros and cons of adding…
Beware: Is Your Hosting Provider Cloaking Paid Links On Your Site For Their Benefit?
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable on thread in our forums that shows how some hosts are inserting links on sites…
Google Sitemaps Becomes Google Webmaster Central; Preferred Domain Tool Launched
Google Sitemaps has gained a new name along with new features. Google Webmaster Central is the new name of the former Google…
The Concept Of A “Perfectly Optimized Page”
Aaron Wall at SEO Book has an excellent and thought provoking write up named The Myth of a Perfectly Optimized Page. He…
TrustWatch Extension Puts Phishing Warnings Into Google, Yahoo & MSN Results
Using Firefox or Flock? Now you can get an extension from TrustWatch that will may help you spot phishing scams in your…
Google Toolbar Look-Alike Installing Malicious Programs
Search Engine Journal reports on a SurfControl release that fake Google Toolbars are being downloaded unknowingly and causing those computers to be…
Yahoo Invests In Social Search Research
Reuters reports Yahoo hired Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan as vice president and Yahoo research fellow. Dr. Ramakrishnan is a well-respected database expert who…
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