Free Newsletters
Part of the iEntry Network
over 4 million subscribers
SearchNewz
ClicksToday
EcommerceTrends

Send me relevant info on products and services.


Newsletter Archive: 2004
Google Buying Flickr?

Adam thinks that Flickr will be bought by Google early next year. This isn't the first "Google wants to buy Flickr" rumor I've heard, but it is the first one I've seen on a blog.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1229.html

12.29.04

More IProspect Acquisition News

Some more interesting details regarding the iProspect acquisition by Isobar Worldwide are revealed by Mediapost.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1228.html

12.28.04

Search Engine Company Unveils Custom Topic Search

Gigablast, an internet search engine corporation, unveiled its "Custom Topic Search" (CTS) tool. The new tool offers webmasters the ability to tailor their website's search to a custom topic. The topic may be defined by a list of hundreds of arbitrary websites.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1227.html

12.27.04

MSN Desktop Search Feedback

Since Microsoft officially announced the availablity of the MSN Desktop Search their blog has received over 100 comments which includes some interesting and useful feedback.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1220.html

12.20.04

Google Dominates Holiday Searches

Hitwise announced in its Internet usage report that Google is dominating the holiday search engine traffic.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1217.html

12.17.04

Tom Foremski On Google And Yahoo Culture

"Yahoo kicked the engineers aside quite some time ago. Co-founders Jerry Yang (does he still carry the title of "chief yahoo" on his business card?) and David Filo probably still do engineering type stuff, but the business is handled by people who know how to run a large media company.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1216.html

12.16.04

Blogging The Microsoft Way

I haven't said much of anything yet about MSN Spaces, but it's been amusing to watch the reaction to their lame attempt at censorship of blogs.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1215.html

12.15.04

Google Launches 7 Foreign Language Editions Of Google News

Google announced late last night that they have launched seven non-english editions of their extremely popular Google News service. The news sites all have a similar appearance, but they are in seven different languages. They also are focused on the geographic region they serve.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1214.html

12.14.04

Yahoo Will Launch Desktop Search ... Eventually

Nothing's better that to announce something that will happen in the future. You get the publicity without actually having to deliver the goods.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1213.html

12.13.04

AOL Partners With Copernic For Desktop Search

America Online is offering a beta version of their desktop search utility, which is powered by Copernic. This download is available to all AOL members. The AOL/Copernic partnership also indicates that desktop search has become another hot spot for search developers.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1210.html

12.10.04

Google Guys Interviewed By Barbara Walters

Barbara Wawa featured the 10 Most Fascinating People on tonight's 20/20. I really don't like "Babs" so we hope you enjoy the sacrifice we suffered to bring you this transcript and screenshot. ;-)

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1209.html

12.09.04

Keyword Research For Blogs

Our friend, Amanda Watlington, has been keeping a low profile since her departure from iProspect, but she resurfaced at SES San Jose and appears to have moved on to better things.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1208.html

12.08.04

Affiliates Year-End Bonus

Join now to take advantage of the Lightspeed Affiliate Bonus Program. Three top performing affiliates by year-end will be rewarded with cash bonuses on top of their regular commissions..

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1207.html

12.07.04

New Version Of Google Groups Launched

Shannon Bauman, Associate Product Manager of Google Groups announced the launch of a new and improved Google Groups.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1206.html

12.06.04

AOL's Multimedia Search Has New Agenda

Singingfish which was acquired by AOL a year ago has revamped their multimedia search engine for the public.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1203.html

12.03.04

Meta-Search Engine Integrates PPC And Local Search
Rather than build an index of the entire Internet from the ground up, meta-search sites like WiderSearch.com create an umbrella of results from a number of different search engines.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1202.html

12.02.04

Want Press? Just Mention Google!

Chris Gaither takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the increased number of press releases that mention of Google.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1201.html

12.01.04

A Search Engine For Your Television
Save this CNet article for your coffee break, as it's quite lengthy. Bottom line? Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all working to bring search to a TV screen near you.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1130.html

11.30.04

SEO Is Going To Disneyworld

SEO Experts Robin Nobles and John Alexander will be together in Disneyworld Orlando to conduct their SEO Mastery Workshop on December 6 thru 10.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1129.html

11.29.04

Blog Site For Careers In Search Engine Industry
JobsInSearch.com has launched a blog site aimed at providing news, views and information about careers in the search engine industry.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1122.html

11.22.04

2 Powerful Ways To Capitalize On Your Search Engine Traffic

Many marketers know that search engine marketing is among one of the best methods to get visitors to their websites. It's a profitable way to reach new subscribers and new customers.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1119.html

11.19.04

Yahoo Has Big Plans For RSS Content Syndication
Yahoo has big plans for RSS Content Syndication according to Jeremy Zawodny, a Yahoo employee. Jeremy Zawodny made this comment in a blog post relating Yahoo's need for RSS Engineer's. Here's what he wrote:

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1118.html

11.18.04

Feedster’s New Blog Search Enhances RSS Search Service

Feedster announced its ability to segment search results by source type. The first example of the resulting specialty search engines is found at blogs.Feedster.com. The Feedster service provides users the ability to search for RSS feeds.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1117.html

11.17.04

Explore All Link Popularity Options For SEO
SEO has increasingly concentrated on a single factor in the major search engines' algorithms-link popularity. After on-page optimization methods have been exhausted, it is link building that separates the top ten from the bottom thousands.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1116.html

11.16.04

Dogpile's New Enhancements

Dogpile has launched significant enhancements to its metasearch platform. Dogpile's new IntelliFind technology utilizes sophisticated query intelligence to assess the likely intent behind every entered query, enabling Dogpile to return more relevant results from a wider array of content sources.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1115.html

11.15.04

SEO Pressure On B2B Companies
Oneupweb published a research study showing that 46 percent of BtoB Magazine's Top 100 Advertisers showed only nominal search engine optimization or ignored it all together.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1112.html

11.12.04

MSN Set To Launch Search Services

On Thursday, November 11, Microsoft is preparing to launch their search presence to the public… again. A version of their search engine has been available on search.msn.com and on their sandbox site for some time now. This "release" is expected to be a media blitz that will announce MSN Search to the general public.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1111.html

11.11.04

Atlas Search Focuses On Marketing Strategy
At AD:TECH New York, Atlas DM released two cases studies demonstrating the success agencies and direct advertisers are having with Atlas Search, the industry's first integrated search marketing and online campaign management system.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1110.html

11.10.04

Ten Steps To A Well Optimized Website

Welcome to part three in this search engine positioning series. In the last article we discussed the importance and considerations that much be made while creating the content that will provide the highest ROI for your optimization efforts. In part three we will discuss the importance of site structure.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1109.html

11.09.04

Nationwide Local-Search Portal Powered By Interchange
Interchange's Local Direct search and advertising platform is powering On-line USA's nationwide local-search portal.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1108.html

11.08.04

Steps To A Well Optimized Website: Content Creation

Welcome to part two in this search engine optimization series. In part one we covered the importance and tactics for choosing the keywords and keyword phrases that will provide the highest ROI for your optimization efforts. In part two we will discuss how to properly write content for high search engine positioning.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1105.html

11.05.04

Interest In Better Desktop Search Swells
Interest in a better and integrated desktop search product is swelling, and it may add a new dimension to the features that end-users demand. According to IDC, software vendors must decide whether desktop search should be a standalone product or a necessary feature.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1104.html

11.04.04

SearchGuy.com Goes Mobile

SearchGuy.com has launched the much anticipated SearchGuy Mobile technology. This new technology will allow users to browse the Internet from any Palm Pilot or Blackberry device, as well as Internet enabled mobile phones.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1103.html

11.03.04

Linspire Hot Words Embeds Google In OS
Linspire unveiled "Hot Words," a set of features within Linspire's new Internet suite that allows one-click Google searches on words on any Web page or email message.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1102.html

11.02.04

Firefox Browser Targets Microsoft

Up and coming web browser Firefox is looking to secure allies as it prepares to challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer for browser dominance. One of the potential partners being spoken of is search engine Google.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1101.html

11.01.04

Google AdWords To Provide Local Ads For BellSouth
RealPages.com from BellSouth the Southeast's leading online yellow pages and Google Inc., developer of the award-winning Google search engine, today announced an agreement whereby RealPages.com will become the first yellow pages publisher authorized to sell advertising through Google AdWords to small and medium-sized local businesses.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1029.html

10.29.04

SEO's Role In The Election

An Internet marketing slip-up in the presidential candidates' websites was uncovered by Atlanta search engine optimization company (SEO) Prominent Placement.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1028.html

10.28.04

Optimize Your Search Engine Placement Five Easy Ways
If you are like me, you created web site metatags with the help of your Web master. Maybe like me, you didn't spend time or money submitting to search engines because you weren't techie enough.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1027.html

10.27.04

Non-conventional Enterprise Search

Search Cacher released its innovative ESA-series appliances, an integrated hardware/software enterprise search solution for Intranet and Internet deployment.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1026.html

10.26.04

Throw Away Your Money On Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization consists of some relatively arcane issues that are not obvious to anyone. That I can be thankful for, I suppose, or I wouldn't continue to be in demand as an SEO specialist. But why do clients throw money out the window with developers who don't understand they are bulldozing down site naming structure and careful page architecture when they do a site redesign?

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1025.html

10.25.04

Google Launches Desktop Search Utility

With desktop search being one of the remaining frontiers for the search engine industry, there is competition to see who can develop an effective means of searching contents on a computer. Recently, a few software packages have upped the ante considerably. Copernic, Blinkx, and the announcement of Mac's Spotlight are a few of the better-developed solutions.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1022.html

10.22.04

Leading Yahoo Europe
As President of Yahoo! Europe, Chappaz, 45, will lead the European operations of Yahoo! and Kelkoo, which Chappaz co-founded and which was acquired by Yahoo! Inc. earlier this year. Chappaz will report to John Marcom, SVP of International Operations, Yahoo! Inc. Vidal, 40, becomes Yahoo! Europe Chief Operating Officer reporting to Chappaz.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1021.html

10.21.04

Impact On Conversions From Paid Search Listing

In search of the tools to make strategic decisions about paid search advertising, Atlas DMT, a digital marketing technology provider and an operating unit of aQuantive, released research demonstrating the rank of a paid search listing and its impact on conversions.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1020.html

10.20.04

10 Steps To Higher Search Engine Positioning
There is perhaps no more level playing field in business than the Internet. It is this fact that has created millionaires from paupers. The amount of money that can be made depends of course on your industry and your products and/or services but to be sure, if it can be sold at all, it can be sold online.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1019.html

10.19.04

Secret Search Engine Insider Statistics...

Which Search engines provide the most relevancy for website ad producers & SEO specialists? I believe the answer is in letting the market (the end user) decide which search engine brings the most meat to the table. This can easily be determined by viewing the little known unique visitor statistics of the top search engines. Could knowing which search engines are receiving the most traffic aid you in SEO, and thus increase traffic to your own website? The very thought is extremely tantalizing.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1018.html

10.18.04

Yahoo & Google Split Market Down Middle
As Yahoo! search announced that they would no longer be utilizing Google's search results in their query returns, they began launching their very own search technology, to wit - Yahoo Slurp. Now what does this transition mean to the dynamics of SEO and ad marketing on the web? It means that almost one-half of the entire search results returned on the web is now using a different technology other than Google's PR system to present your website to the world.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1015.html

10.15.04

Google Introduces Google SMS

Continuing their (exponential?) company growth, Google has introduced another service, this time, aimed at the mobile phone generation. SMS, short for Short Message Service, allows mobile phone users to send text messages to one another. In this case, users send queries, in text message format, to Google search.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1014.html

10.14.04

Are Meta Keywords Back In For Search?
Over the last few years web producers have been told that 'Meta Keywords' hold only the slightest consideration in search engine page rank, if at all. Yet we all still post these strings of meta keywords and discuss at length in SEO threads the appropriate way to display them. Some webmasters use commas, some say no spaces between the commas, while others advocate long logical strings of words to match natural search queries.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1013.html

10.13.04

News Releases Optimized For Search Engines

News releases issued over PR Newswire's premium national newsline, US1, will now automatically be optimized for better search engine placement and enhanced access reporting, the company announced today.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1012.html

10.12.04

Lycos Acquired By Korean Internet Company
Daum Communications has completed the acquisition of Lycos. The transaction includes the Lycos.com site as well as Lycos' popular specialty sites, wired.com, tripod.com, angelfire.com, matchmaker.com, quote.com, and hotbot.com.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1011.html

10.11.04

SEMPO Survey On SEM Activities And Spending

The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) is launching a first-ever comprehensive survey to estimate the size of the North American advertiser spending on search engine marketing and critical trends in the burgeoning SEM sector.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1008.html

10.08.04

Company Releases Federated Desktop Search Engine
Scientific Software released a new federated search engine for the desktop PC that is integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1007.html

10.07.04

SEM Considerations For Optimal Campaign Performance

DoubleClick released a new white paper on search engine marketing considerations for optimal campaign performance.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1006.html

10.06.04

Yahoo Launches Yahoo Local
Integration of Yahoo Local into Yahoo Search and Yahoo Front Page further Demonstrates Commitment to Providing the Best Search Experience on the Web.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1005.html

10.05.04

SearchGuy Mobile Technology In Final Stages

This new technology will allow users to browse the internet from any Palm Pilot or Blackberry device, as well as internet enabled mobile phones. SearchGuy Mobile has been tested in over seven countries, with an average result time of just over two seconds per search query. SearchGuy Mobile will officially launch on Nov. 1st as a wholly owned subsidiary of SearchGuy.com.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1004.html

10.04.04

LookSmart Acquires Technology Of Innovative Website
LookSmart has acquired Furl.net, an innovative service that enables users to save a full-text copy of any page on the Web, then search and share that data. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Furl allows members to simply and securely save copies of online articles, product information, electronic receipts, favorite Web sites and other interesting or important pages.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/1001.html

10.01.04

SEMPO Loses 2 And Gains 3

The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) appointmed of three new members to its Advisory Board that will provide different perspectives of the online industry and non-profits to help with the organization's strategies and goals.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0930.html

09.30.04

Dogpile - Cross Cultural Issues
In September 2004, the US based meta search Engine Dogpile announced that is was changing its name to WebFetch in Europe and the UK. This change is a perfect example of the cross cultural issues language can pose for international businesses.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0929.html

09.29.04

5 Ways To Eat Your Competition For Lunch Using Google

The geniuses at Google Labs (labs.google.com) are always coming up with new innovative ways to allow people to search for information. With over a billion pages indexed, Google is the largest search engine and should stay that way for the foreseeable future.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0928.html

09.28.04

Hitwise's Search Term Suggestion Report
Hitwise launches its new search term suggestion Report which brings a world first opportunity for search marketers targeting customers in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to access successful, locally relevant search term variation data across all search engines.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0927.html

09.27.04

The Back Pain Of Search

If you've ever suffered from back pain you'll relate to the grief that I discuss in this article. You'll relate even more if your back pain started on the onset of your SEM career. Not surprisingly, mine did.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0924.html

09.24.04

Google Browser: Just A Matter Of Time?
It's looking more and more likely that the oft-speculated possibility of Google creating their own browser may become a reality.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0923.html

09.23.04

Article Syndication For Better Search Engine Position

If you're sick of being #987 for your best Google keyword phrase, here are simple-to-implement changes that can skyrocket your listing (and they don't have anything to do with what is ON your page!)

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0922.html

09.22.04

Destination: Desktop For Google
In fact, it became so popular that the word "google" worked its way into our everyday language as a verb, as in "to google" something. Google later introduced a toolbar that was plug-in for some browsers like Internet Explorer. The Google toolbar features a direct Google search box with quick access to image and group searches, a pop-up blocker, and for Internet marketers mostly, a PageRank (PR) indicator.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0921.html

09.21.04

Linking For Traffic Not Positioning!

With more and more experts and search engine enthusiasts claiming the right way and the wrong way to handle link swapping, link exchanging or reciprocal linking!

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0920.html

09.20.04

Understanding Search Engines!
1. A tool that enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web. Search engines use keywords entered by users to find Web sites which contain the information sought. Some search engines are specifically designed to find Web sites intended for children.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0917.html

09.17.04

Power Packed Linking Strategies

If you've been sitting and wondering why the traffic to your website is trickling in to your website ever so slowly then this article is intended to help you add some much needed oomph to your marketing campaign by using a linking strategy.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0916.html

09.16.04

Google's Adsense Program Expands With Web Search

When Google launched Adsense, millions of website owners scurried to sign up. By adding "AdWords Text Ads" to your website, you can make a nice little income with no work on your part. Once the code is placed on a page, Google scans it for a theme and shows ads related to the content it finds.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0915.html

09.15.04

Optimize Google AdSense Revenue By Reducing The Number Of Ads On A Page

On Sept. 2, Google announced that they would now allow their AdSense clients to post ad code in two or even three places on their site.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0914.html

09.14.04

Making Informed Keyword Choices

Marketers stake much of their livelihood on keywords, whether for proper search engine optimization or targeted pay-per-click advertising. One challenge faced by inexperienced marketers involves knowing which phrases to target out of hundreds of combinations.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0913.html

09.13.04

Google Page Rank Is Dead

I discussed how Google's Page Ranking System has become obsolete, but at the same time, many business savvy entrepreneurs still give it credit and could possibly discredit or credit your website accordingly to it's rank.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0910.html

09.10.04

Guarantees From SEO Companies

Recently there has been a spate of well publicized court cases against SEO companies who have been involved in dubious practices such as making false claims or false guarantees.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0909.html

09.09.04

Google Can Now Index . . . Flash!

As you know, a Flash movie as the index page of a site has always been a major problem with search engine optimization. There's simply no content for the search engines to index.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0908.html

09.08.04

Picasa.com – Google's New Photographic Portal

As if Google.com had any problems with acquiring new technologies along comes Picasa.com and helps Google let people share graphics and video for free!

Google.com has always been synonymous for giving people what they wanted and best of all for free. Since this recent acquisition, Google continues to snap up quality companies that it feels that is inline with its vision.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0907.html

09.07.04

Google Page Rank Is Dead - Or Is It?

For a long time now, marketing gurus all over the world have been talking about google page ranking. Page ranking is simply Google's way of measuring your pages accordingly.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0824.html

08.24.04

The Benefits Of Organic SEO

If you're going to sell any type of product or service online, you're eventually going to have to optimize your Web site for the Search Engines, in order to boost traffic and sales.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0715.html

07.15.04

CSS A Great Optimization Tool

What is CSS? CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a webdesign language that is used to increase the look and feel of your website. It can be of great use when you are optimizing your website for search engines. Search Engines go through your website as fast as they can. So usually its better to have less code and more content. CSS allows you to use simple tags in your code and have high effects.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0714.html

07.14.04

What Is Content? Part II

Both search engines and customers love fresh, updated information. Some people groan at the thought of having to work so hard at adding new content, but it's not as complicated as you think!

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0713.html

07.13.04

SEO Basic Tutorial

Starting out, the two biggest keys to success in the search engines (Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc.) are content and incoming links. People argue about which plays the largest role, but I just suggest doing your best at both.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0712.html

07.12.04

Search Friendly Site Navigation

Daniel Boone was known as one of the most famous trailblazers. Boone helped blaze a trail which later became known as the Cumberland Trail. A few years later Boone blazed the trails from the Carolinas to the, then, western territories, those trails became known as the Wilderness Roads. While people can blaze trails in the wilderness, search engine spiders cannot. Search engine spiders require through your site to find your pages.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0708.html

07.08.04

Search Optimization Tools

Well, I bet many of you have been trying to find tools to help you in optimizing your website for search engines. So I thought I would throw together an article with a list of really useful tools (and of course ill give you a link to their websites so you can download them to!)

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0707.html

07.07.04

Content Is King

In the world of search optimization, one thing is clear… content is king.

The more content (and keyword specific content), the more information the search engine spiders have to ‘crawl'. When I say crawl, this is what I mean…

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0706.html

07.06.04

Paid Placement On The Natural Engines

In the PPC world the more you pay the higher you rank. A #1 ranking on Overture for "search engine placement" would cost $8.01 and a #3, $5.25. It has generally been understood that this is a major difference between the PPC engines and the natural engines. You can't buy placement on the natural search engines … or can you?

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0702.html

07.02.04

New Changes From Google And Overture

So, you want your Web site to rank high on Google and other search engines.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0701.html

07.01.04

Five Things Most Search Optimization Firms Won't Tell You

So, you want your Web site to rank high on Google and other search engines.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0630.html

06.30.04

Hiring A Search Marketer

Many website owners put the cart before the horse- anxious for search engine traffic and rankings, the first thing they do once their site is complete is buy a "submit to 1,000 search engines for $29" service. Unfortunately, what they receive is a tenfold increase in e-mail spam but no increase in search engine traffic.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0629.html

06.29.04

Does Location Of Your Keyword Affect Ranking

One of our members asked for a study of keyword location on a page. Is it more effective to have your keyword mentioned in the top third, middle third or bottom third of a page?

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0628.html

06.28.04

MSN Hotmail Takes On Google With 250 MB Of Email Storage

In a few weeks, users of MSN Hotmail will be offered 250MB of storage space. The upgrade will take place in early July, Microsoft announced today.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0625.html

06.25.04

How To Write Articles Optimized For Search

It is a well known fact that writing, distributing and posting articles to various location on the web is an extremely effective way to generate targeted traffic and establish yourself as an experienced marketer in your field. Unique articles that help solve the reader's problems, assists the reader in advancing their marketing acumen, or otherwise generally inform tend to stay posted on many web sites throughout the Internet and usually generate targeted traffic for the writer.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0623.html

06.23.04

Are Hotmail And Yahoo! Blocking Gmail Invites?

Joel Johnson created a buzz by reporting that some Gmail invites and emails aren't getting through to Hotmail users. Several reports also claim the emails aren't getting through Yahoo! Mail filters.


http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0622.html

06.22.04

If Content Is King, Then Surely Relevance Is Queen!

There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the search engine world of late and there are lots of conspiracy theories as to why these things happen.


http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0621.html

06.21.04

A Keyword Generator - Is One Enough?

If you want to create web pages optimized for a search engine, one of your first tasks will be finding relevant keywords around which the page should be built. The more specific you can be in selecting relevant keywords the better chance of getting targeted traffic to your web page.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0618.html

06.18.04

You Had Me At The Search Engine

You've likely heard of the movie, Jerry Maguire, with its famous line, "You had me at hello." Jerry Maguire was luckier than web sites we find in search engines. Many web sites don't attract user devotion at the first word, let alone after scanning the home page.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0617.html

06.17.04

The most effective way to improve your search results.

Search engine optimization is a precise process... without the right tools you could be losing business to your competitors. With WebPosition Gold, you get the complete view of your search engine results:

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0616.html

06.16.04

How To Use Your Google API Key As Your Secret Weapon: Part Two

Unlike part one , the rest of this article series will outline fewer Google API applications, as it focuses on only one thing. By the time you finish reading it, you will know how to implement what in my humble opinion, is the best way to use certain Google API Applications to enhance your own site.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0615.html

06.15.04

Understanding The SEO Triangle

There is no doubt that competition between businesses on the World Wide Web is increasing. If you aren't feeling the heat yet, you will soon enough. In order to survive, you must have a sharply focused strategy in all aspects of your online presence.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0614.html

06.14.04

Teoma Search Apparently Allows Mirroring

With thanks once again going to Andy Beal, WebProNews has discovered a bad case of spam on Teoma's search engine results. A search for the keywords "company names" finds that one site has several mirrored listings in the resources section.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0611.html

06.11.04

Nigritude Ultramarine: What We Will Learn

Recently DarkBlue.com initiated a competition to see who could rank #1 for the keyword nigritude ultramarine. The idea of the competition is to see what works and what does not work in search engine optimization of websites. To aid in creating useful findings, the competition has two winners. The first winner will be announced in early June and the second winner will be announced in July. The idea is to see who can get to the #1 position in a short amount of time as well as to see who can optimize the best for the long term.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0610.html

06.10.04

A Web Directory That Helps You Do, Not Find

nterview With Gimpsy Founder - Mordechai Chachamu
Gimpsy is a different kind of directory, listing only sites that provide online activity or help you accomplish a specific task. Gimpsy founder, Mordechai Chachamu explains why.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0609.html

06.09.04

The Missing Ingredient In SEO

Load all the keywords you want. Set up all the landing pages you want. Create enough ways for your prospects to find you at the top of Google. It doesn't matter. You'll be bypassed by savvy searchers soon enough if you aren't careful about content.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0608.html

06.08.04

Attack Smaller Searches To Get The Big Ones!

Searching online can not only be fun, but you sometimes need to be downright inventive.
For those of you who have been searching online for years now, you've probably adapted ways & techniques to find what you are looking for quickly.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0607.html

06.07.04

Absolute & Relative Links : How Do They Rank?

The question for this article is whether or not you should use "absolute url's" or "relative url's"? Not only that, this article researches whether or not Google ranks these methods differently.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0603.html

06.03.04

EZ Traffic From Google And Yahoo Traffic

This is a sly traffic idea I got from my Kentucky cohort Garrett French. Garrett writes for WebProWorld.com.

Garrett and others in the search engine optimization forum noticed a large number of visits from people using either Google's image search:

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0602.html

06.02.04

Gmail To Support Mobile Technology
Google's email service, Gmail, has been the topic of much discussion among the internet communities. Every aspect of Google's new service has been dissected, with both negative and positive points of view receiving equal time. All the while Gmail hasn't even left its beta testing stage.

http://www.searchnewz.com/2004/0601.html