Topic

Search engines.

How search engines work, compete, and change. 2,752 articles
Latest in Search engines

Yahoo Axes AltaVista Search Engine, Axis Search App

Yahoo, as part of their efforts to focus on specific web properties, has decided to close the search engine AltaVista. Along with Yahoo closing AltaVista, Yahoo Axis, which…

By Jennifer Slegg · 01 Jul 2013

Industry

Bing Offers Schools a Safe, Advertising-Free Search Experience

Microsoft wants schools to use Bing as the default search engine. The Bing for Schools program is open to U.S. K-12 schools,…

By Thom Craver · 26 Jun 2013

Industry

Opinion: Search Engines Not Responsible for Deleting Personal Data From Index

Google and other search engines don't have to delete sensitive personal information from their indexes because they aren't subject to privacy requirements…

By Lee Bell · 26 Jun 2013

SEO

How to Make Your Keywords Fit Your Marketing Messaging

There's so much more to keywords than traffic. Keywords are how people remember you, so they should reflect what you do, not…

By Erin Everhart · 25 Jun 2013

Industry

Bing Boards: New Search Experiment Highlights ‘Inspiring Content’

With Bing Boards, which resembles a sort of inline image slide show, Bing is experimenting with putting Pinterest-like boutique content front-and-center in…

By Thom Craver · 21 Jun 2013

Industry

DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal

Since the PRISM news broke, nearly every day has been a record search day for DuckDuckGo, including Monday, June 17, where it…

By Jennifer Slegg · 18 Jun 2013

Industry

Google, Bing Both Win More Search Market Share

Not surprisingly, Google led the way for search share in May, and grew its U.S. search market share to 66.7 percent. Bing…

By Jennifer Slegg · 18 Jun 2013

SEO

Do Stock Photos Affect Google Search Rankings? Matt Cutts Says No

Using stock photography versus original photography won't cause any negative impact on your site's search engine rankings. However, one caveat Matt Cutts…

By Jennifer Slegg · 18 Jun 2013

PPC

Google AdWords Keyword Match Types and Negatives: The Ultimate Guide

Mastering keyword match types is critical to PPC advertising success. There are several different match types: broad match, broad match modifier, phrase…

By Lisa Raehsler · 12 Jun 2013

Industry

Yandex’s New Interactive Snippets Allow Users to Take Actions From Search Results

Russian-based Yandex has introduced a revolutionary way for users to interact with search results by letting them pay bills, buy movie tickets…

By Jessica Lee · 07 Jun 2013

Development

5 Steps to Create a Website That Both Your Customers & Search Engines Will Love

A major mistake businesses often make when it comes to SEO is optimizing their website at the expense of their customers. Here…

By Jay Taylor · 04 Jun 2013

Development

2 Underutilized Opportunities for Schema on Your Website

Want to make your website's listing stand out from others within increasingly limited search engine real estate? Two schema.org protocols – breadcrumbs…

By Carrie Hill · 04 Jun 2013

SEO

Is it Time to Take a Machete to Your SEO Strategy?

Has your site been subject to a steady decline in organic search traffic? Or even hit by a penalty? Either of these…

By Eric Enge · 02 Jun 2013

Industry

Blekko’s New Search Results Aim to Take the Guesswork Out of Intent

Blekko says the new search results empower users to get to the best content for any given query, rather than scanning through…

By Jessica Lee · 29 May 2013

Content

5 Content Lessons & SEO Opportunities From Bloomingdale’s

Bloomingdale's is a leader in fashion in the brick and mortar world. But how does a store with history back to the…

By Christina Zila · 24 May 2013

Industry

Google News Snippets, YouTube Embedded Videos Face Legal Challenges in Germany

A newly approved bill states that Google, other search engines, and news aggregators can only use short snippets of material from publishers.…

By Jennifer Slegg · 20 May 2013

Analytics

BloomReach Adds 4 New Metrics to Measure Page Quality

BloomReach's “Continuous Quality Management” (CQM) technology scores web pages relative to other pages across the web with similar types of content. It…

By Jessica Lee · 14 May 2013

SEO

SEO Book Gives Readers a Visual Step-by-Step Marketing Blueprint

"Search Engine Optimization: The One Visual SEO Book You'll Really Ever Need" (Third Edition) by Kristopher Jones is out now and covers…

By Thom Craver · 13 May 2013

Content

How to Shift From Guest Posting to Content Marketing in 6 Basic Steps

As an authority, with great visibility, and publishing great content, you will get links. If you've been guest posting solely to obtain…

By Eric Enge · 05 May 2013

Content

Awesome Frickin’ Content

Creating great content is integral to attracting more and better traffic. Awesome content isn't ordinary and doesn't fade into the background. It…

By Grant Simmons · 01 May 2013

SEO

Website Indexation Audit: How to Find & Remove Non-Essential Content

Are you feeding search engines garbage? Taking a look at your entire index will allow you to gain an understanding of what…

By Josh Mccoy · 29 Apr 2013

Mobile

SEO Tactics for App Stores, Mobile App Website Pages & Local Markets

Once an app is ready for download, the biggest challenge is getting users to find it, or even discover its existence. These…

By Jennifer Wong · 18 Apr 2013

SEO

10 Killer SEO Landing Page Tips

User experience, site usability, and onsite engagement have become more important for major search engines in their assessment of a site's "rankability,"…

By Grant Simmons · 15 Apr 2013

Content

The Content Marketing Elephant & the Enterprise

When creating content at the enterprise-level, fostering collaboration among copywriters, creative, user experience, web dev, and marketing teams early in the content…

By P J Fusco · 11 Apr 2013

Analytics

Reaching the Golden Mean of Branded to Non-Branded Traffic

Traffic Marketers from strong brands pursue the 60/40 percent ratio of branded and non-branded traffic. They recognize the value of long-tail visitors,…

By Raj De Datta · 05 Apr 2013

Page 9 of 102