Once again we have another recap on some of interesting ongoings in the world of search this week…
Don’t Rely on Conversion Rate Alone
Your keywords conversion rates is without a doubt one of the most important aspects to focus on with either your PPC or SEO campaign for obvious reasons. This post takes into account a few other aspects in people’s search behaviour highlighting that your should not only rely on conversion rates alone..
Why Some Weak Sites Rank High in Google SERPS
This is is something of an annoyance to all to do with search. At times you may come across sites that are ranking well when in fact it would appear that they don’t deserve to be there. This post from Search Engine Journal explores some of the reasons on why this phenomenon occurs…
Yahoo Quietly Adds Top Queries & URLs To Site Explorer
It would appear that Yahoo Site Explorer has got that bit better. The addition of your sites top queries is of course very handy to have and further heightens site Explorer as one of the best free tools on the web
Should I use pipes or dashes in my titles?
When writing site titles it sometimes makes you question yourself on what are the best practices. Pipelines are a common divider and so are dashes –but which does Google like? Well Matt Cutts clears this up in this YouTube video…
Timeline of Search Engine History
The history of search engines is pretty interesting and it is strange to see how much things have changed in a relatively small amount of time. Search Engine Journal have created a timeline of search engine history which includes the time when Google used to power Yahoo search…
Looking for good Yahoo search engineers
Google are looking to recruit Yahoo engineers since they may soon be out of jobs…
Google Lets You Tell Them Which URL Parameters To Ignore
This is a good addition to Google Webmaster Tools. Stopping the search engines from indexing certain parameters within your URLs is vitally important and the robots.txt does not always help with this. Telling Google to ignore certain parameters will be very useful, the only downside that it works for Google only…
Seven Twitter Tips to Improve Your SEO
This is a good post highlighting seven steps tactics you can use in utilizing your Twitter account for SEO…
Google AdWords Bidding Tutorial
This tutorial is worth a watch if you are still not fully sure on how to use the new Bid Simulator tool that Google have recently added…
Bing Passes 10% Market Share, Nielsen Says
This is something we thought was blog worthy also. Bing has continued to grow and grow in users. More interesting is that Yahoo appear to be going the other way…
Adobe buys Omniture, Flash gets smart
Adobe buys Omniture for $1.8 billion in a bid to help digital marketers increase their ROI…
Microsoft Bing adds visual search
Microsoft introduce an new innovative feature to their search engine Bing – visual search. The addition is said to be a move to differentiate Bing from rivals Google…
Google praises Microsoft’s HTML 5 thoughts
Yes you read correctly Google have praised Microsoft! It was in regards to HTML 5 but still…
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