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Google's Search Adds Single Page Domain Results Yet another change on Google, and this time Google has tweaked its ranking algorithm so to allow, a large number of results from a single site on a single page. According to Google, this improvement is essentially for users to find better and deeper results from a single site.
Google's Search Adds Single Page Domain Results Yet another change on Google, and this time Google has tweaked its ranking algorithm so to allow, a large number of results from a single site on a single page. According to Google, this improvement is essentially for users to find better and deeper results from a single site.
Google's Search Adds Single Page Domain Results Yet another change on Google, and this time Google has tweaked its ranking algorithm so to allow, a large number of results from a single site on a single page. According to Google, this improvement is essentially for users to find better and deeper results from a single site.
Google Acquires ITA For $700 Million Google has announced, that it has acquired ITA, a Boston based software company for $700 million. ITA specializes in the collection and organization of the airline data, details...
Google Make Their News More Social Google has done some very interesting changes in the homepage of Google news. According to Google, they have replaced the old look of the google news...
Google Adds Sunrise And Sunset To Search Results This week Google has given a surprise to its users by launching two new search features called as the Sunrise and Sunset. These search features will let the users know the exact timings...
Larry Cornett Leaves Yahoo Larry Cornett, one of the recognizable faces at Yahoo, has announced to depart himself from Yahoo and said that it's time to move on to some other opportunities.
Google Removes AdWord Report Center Google AdWords Blog has reported that they are going to retire the Adwords reporting center tab very soon. The reports that were used to be under the reporting center tab will now be shifting to the campaign tabs, where the users used to maintain their files and other reports.
Google Adds 'Analyze Competition' To AdWord Tools Now, apart from your own progress and performance, you can measure your competitor's performance too with the help of Google AdWords new tool called, 'Analyze Competition'. So, the advertisers can calculate the range of the competition over the past two weeks with the help of this service.
Google Adds 'Analyze Competition' To AdWord Tools Now, apart from your own progress and performance, you can measure your competitor's performance too with the help of Google AdWords new tool called, 'Analyze Competition'. So, the advertisers can calculate the range of the competition over the past two weeks with the help of this service.
Google Adds 'Analyze Competition' To AdWord Tools Now, apart from your own progress and performance, you can measure your competitor's performance too with the help of Google AdWords new tool called, 'Analyze Competition'. So, the advertisers can calculate the range of the competition over the past two weeks with the help of this service.
Are You Ready For Google Caffeine? This is the tone that most of the blogs and discussions in forums have taken. Everyone is anxious about when it will come, what it is and what effect it will have on site rankings, but no one has any concrete information to share.
Google Announces Significant Changes To Webmaster Tools Google has announced some significant improvement in the data provided by Top search queries feature in Webmaster Tools. We previously just reported the average position at which...
2010 Forecasts 14% Growth Increase in the SEO Industry The 6th SEMPO Search Engine Marketing Report is out. The report is an outcome of an online survey of almost 1,500 client-side marketers (advertisers) and agency respondents, from across 68 countries. Here are a few important points from the report:
New iPhone Search Apps from Yahoo! Yahoo! has passed over its search duties to Bing. The result has been greater focus on mobile search, and has it not been good so far! Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search & Yahoo! Search app for iPhone are two cool new applications launched by the search-turned-into-search experience major. If one glosses over the superlatives and claims of them being very new, the new applications for iPhone...
New Reports on Google AdWords Conversions The new reports are all about seeing sales as a process than a one-click act. Google AdWords used to attribute the conversion to the last ad someone clicks before making a conversion.
Yahoo! Ranking Algorithm Update Yahoo! Search Blog has announced another periodic update to its ranking algorithm. The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and...
Finally, Shared Site Ownership Is Possible Finally, shared site ownership is possible without having to go through the meta tag or HTML file verification process.
Check Your SEO With Google's New Report Card Google is getting serious about optimizing its own product sites. The new *Google SEO Report Card* is an extensive analysis of more than 100 main pages of Google products.
Check Your SEO With Google's New Report Card Google is getting serious about optimizing its own product sites. The new *Google SEO Report Card* is an extensive analysis of more than 100 main pages of Google products.
New Social Media Experience from Yahoo! and Twitter Whether its posting new Twitter feeds with content from Yahoo! or checking out the latest tweets from their online friends or seeing the public updates, Yahoo! will provide...
Google Adwords offers Free Online AdWords Classes
Social Media In Gmail With Google Buzz Google has announced its new Gmail social sharing element- Google Buzz, to let its users enjoy the new social networking experience. It has the tagline "Go Beyond Status Messages"...
Google'a 1GB/sec Fiber Optic Broadband Plans Google announces the experiment to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in some trial regions of US. Its planning to deliver 1Gb/sec broadband service to the Americans...
Google'a 1GB/sec Fiber Optic Broadband Plans Google announces the experiment to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in some trial regions of US. Its planning to deliver 1Gb/sec broadband service to the Americans...
Google's First Super Bowl Commercial
Bing Prepares for 2010 Winter Olympics Bing has announced its new search features for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics slated to begin this Friday in Vancouver. The two amazing search features Instant Answers and...
Google Analytics Goes Multi-Lingual
Google Analytics IQ Passing Score Raised From 75% to 80%
Google Rolls Out Social Search In Beta Google's official blog announced the launch of the beta version for its Social Search. The effect of this will be that now on all web and image searches will have...
Yahoo! Updates its Search Index!
Google AdWords Now Targets Ads Based On Mobile Devices Google advertisers can now target ads based on devices and carriers of the users. This will enable better results if the messages delivered are device or carrier specific too.
Now Google Serves Location-Based Search Suggestions... ...On Your Phone. Google Mobile has launched an all new localized search suggestions feature for the iPhone and Android phone system users. Based on the users current or last location...
Improved Yahoo Sponsored Search For Better Advertising... ...In 2010! Yahoo! is planning to launch its enhanced Sponsored Search with two add on features next week. Network distribution and AdWords Import features are aimed at providing...
New URL Policy on AdWords Display for Hosted Domains
Read Online News Just Like a Newspaper by Google Fast Flips Reading news online on Google News has now become easier and user friendly than ever before as Google has introduced a new Fast Flip technique where in you can flip through...
Google India Opens Health Clinic For Sites! In first of it kinds, the analysts from the search quality team of Google labs India have opened a site health check clinic for your websites. The team will do a thorough analysis of...
New AdWords Optimization Center Launched by Google!
Google's New Yearly Page Rank Update Is Here!
Google's New Yearly Page Rank Update Is Here!
Googles New Yearly Page Rank Update Is Here!
Google Suggest Introduces Universal Search Features Google is expanding its Google search services for its users. The next time you query Google, you'll experience a new service added to Google. In every query, Google provides some suggestions.
Google Starts The New Year Countdown New Year is just around the corner and Google has begun the countdown for the New Year already. Without giving any query to Google, just click on the Im Feeling Lucky option on the Google homepage.
Bing Announces Top Ten Searches Of 2009 Bing revealed the list of top ten most searched topics and events for the year 2009. As we are moving towards the end of 2009, it is the perfect time to look back at the top...
New Dynamic Parameters in Google AdWords... ...Allows Inclusion of Numerical Values. In a recent announcement made by Google AdWords API Blog, two vital parameters have been introduced in the ad copy for...
Google Coming up with More Relevant New Search Ad Formats The latest Google blog is talking about the New search ads format introduced to provide richer and more informative search results to researchers on Google Adwords.
Good Just Made Holiday Deal Hunting Easier As Black Friday is round the corner, consumers in the U.S have started looking out for the best deals on electronic products in neighborhood as well as online stores.
Google Experiments With Search Results Google has been experimenting a lot on their homepage and it has now shifted to search results as well. The team at present is testing a permanent left sidebar in the search result, which will display results in three columns including organic results, new sidebar and search ads.
Google Releases New Software Notification To Webmasters In an urge to come up with something new everytime, Google team will now be sending the updates about new versions of software packages and plugins to webmasters...
Webmasters Discuss The Usefulness Of Watermarked Images Maile Ohye, the Developer Programs Tech Lead is talking about the pros and cons of watermarked images in the Official Google Webmaster blog.
Google Refines Image Search Google has released Google Image Swirl, a similar images explorer that is using the wonder wheel flash visualization from web search results.
Google's SERPS with New Site Hierarchies Display! Google has rolled out an improvement that will replace the URL in some of the search results with a hierarchy that will show you the exact location of the page on the site.
Bing - Out of Beta Tag for Handling Search Overload in the UK It is true that Internet has drastically grown in the past few years and has become more complex, but Search Engines are still on the verge of evolution. In order to make search...
Google Surprise PageRank Update
Site Speed Might Become Another Google Page Ranking Factor Google Engineer Matt Cutts has recently told Web Pro News in an interview about how Google may rank websites in future. He has hinted that ranking would somehow be affected by...
Google Expands Product Ads In the recent blog, Google has announced that it is expanding the product ads within AdWords listing. After testing the Product Listing Ads for a while, the team has finally said that searchers in the U.S will be able to see product ads more frequently.
Bing Works With Wolfram Alpha for Better Search Results After integrating Twitter to its search results, Microsoft is now collaborating with Wolfram Alpha for getting its computational algorithm technology into the search results of Bing.
Google Introduces New & Improved Keyword User Interface Google webmasters have announced a brand new user interface for Google's keywords feature. Referring to the announcement as post-Halloween treat, the Official Google Blog says that data will now be updated on daily basis and will provide details on how often the team finds a specific keyword. A handful of URLs containing...
Google Buys Gizmo5 for $30 Million
Google Aquires Admob
Google Makes Conversion Tracking Easier
Making your Site Ready for Holidays
Google Commerce Search for Better e-Commerce Searching Now e-commerce searching will be as easy as using Google.com with the introduction of a new enterprise product "Google Commerce Search. The Google team feels that holiday season...
Yahoo Testing Real-Time Search!
The New MSN Homepage with Bing Search Package is Out! The MSN Homepage is out with a new, streamlined and less cluttered look. While marking another milestone in the history, the MSN team has finally succeeded in making a page that...
Google Increases Relevancy and Choice... ...in Search Ads by Launching Sitelinks. Google has made a new addition to AdWords by introducing Sitelinks. These are links to deeper pages on the website. Sitelinks are getting showed...
Bing For Mobile is Out! An updated version of Bing for mobile browser has been recently released and is live at m.bing.com. The addition will serve as a great resource for map search...
Google comes with October 2009 Toolbar PageRank Update! In contrast to the bold statement that Webmasters shouldn't solely focus on the PageRank, Google has come up with the Google Toolbar PageRank update last night.
Similar Images Moves Further from Google Labs Google has announced in its recent official blog that Similar Images feature will now be graduating from Google Labs to become a permanent feature in the Google Images.
Google AdWords Testing New Interface,,, ...for My Client Center. A recent post on the Inside AdWords blog is talking about Google Adwords testing the new interface for My Client Center. From this week onwards, you will see a link appearing on the...
Google Out with 4 Minor Updates for the Week With Apple releasing product refreshes and Microsoft releasing Windows 7, how could Google remain behind in announcing updates. After introducing 3D building maker this month,
Google Gives Green Signal to Online Reputation Management! Google has given official endorsement to reputation management, which is certainly a great news for reputation management consultants.
New Introductions Made in Google Website Optimizer Google has done a couple of updates in Google website Optimizer, which would be beneficial for the users who do landing page testing.
Smarter Google Analytics Makes Tracking Easier Google has announced the launch of a new Analytics feature Intelligence that will be of great use for Webmasters. Along with providing a screenshot...
One Million Views For Google Webmaster Video Google has hit one millionth video view on the official webmaster video channel, where it has been making and posting videos. Through these videos, Google...
Yahoo Site Explorer Improved Yahoo! has added more detailed information to the Site Explorer, which is an amazing tool to check the number of pages of the site indexed...
Google AdWords Campaign Insights Google AdWords will soon be launching its new ad campaign impact measurement tool Campaign Insights. The tool will help in measuring the...
Google Squared Sorting and Exporting Google has made a number of improvements in the amount and quality of information visitors can find with Google Squared. It has also...
Yahoo Serving BOSS Sponsored Ads
Google Earth 3D Building Maker Tool Google has launched a new tool Building Maker, which will compliment with Google Earth and Maps products. This online tool will help users in creating...
Google Webmaster Tools, Malware and Fetch A recent Google Webmaster blog is talking about the release of new features Malware Details and Fetch as Googlebot under the Labslabel.
Google Board of Directors Resignation
Google: HTML over XML Sitemaps The latest Seorountable blog post is talking about why HTML sitemap is better than XML sitemap. Here is a video in which Google's Matt Cutt answers SEO...
Google Is Still Working On The Content Duplication Issue It seems Google is working hard on the content duplication issue. After introducing a new parameter for handling duplicate content problems, Google is now talking about reunifying duplicate content in its latest Google Webmaster Official Blog.
New Parameter for Google's Duplicate Content
Ask Deals - Helping You Find the Best Deals OAKLAND, Calif., October 6, 2009 " Ask, a leading search engine and operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced the launch of Ask Deals, its proprietary database of more than 1 million high-quality savings offers from national and local merchants across hundreds of product categories. Ask Deals scours the Web for all the deals available online " from cheap Halloween...
Google More Refined Searching with New Options It was a year ago when Google started adding search options to SERPs in order to give more refined results by time or to change the trend of...
Google Introduced a New Search Feature After the recent attempt of Google to provide more accurate and detailed search results, it has now come up with the latest web search feature. It will help users in keeping themselves updated with the latest trends on the World Wide Web. Everyone is familiar with the Hot Trends, which is known for listing the fastest rising search terms on the search index. This latest trend will...
Google Does't Use Meta Keywords According to an official Google Webmaster blog, Google does not use the "keywords" meta tag in web search ranking now.The search giant believes that keyword...
New Ad Campaign for Yahoo Yahoo has announced the launch of their forthcoming branding campaign, which is more than just an advertising campaign. This campaign will revolutionize...
Google Wants More Accurate Search Results The Official Google Blog is talking about the new features that have been introduced by Google to give faster search results to visitors. Apart from adding the name anchors for identifying sections of pages, Google has also come up with following additions: Google Sidewiki, which will display the information posted by others for a particular search result. Search Snippets with which...
Google Parameter Handling For Webmaster Tools
Yahoo Top Queries Addition
Google Adwords Bidding Tutorial Last month, Google launched Bid Simulator in AdWords. The idea behind launching this was to help people know their value per click as well as cost per click.
Bulk Listing Verification in Local Business Listings Earlier Google Maps Guide, had announced a new verification form for bulk uploads for business owners to upload their business listings to Google Maps.
reCAPTCHA Bought by Google
Microsoft Mobile Behavioral Targeting Microsoft has launched their Mobile Behavioral Targeting Solution, which means all of the powerful behavioral targeting options, categories and...
Fast Flip Google News Reading If you have read the online news, you might have experienced that browsing is really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and thus it takes...
Microsoft's New Image Ads AdCenter blog-Microsoft Community on Tuesday announced a pilot for new Image Ads offering in the U.S from Microsoft. Microsoft is looking...
WordStream's Free Keyword Tool WordStream has launched a free keyword research tool that is meant to mange keywords to help in your search marketing efforts. This is to provide quality...
Google, Facebook, Yahoo and SearchMonkey
Restricted Google Results A recent blog comes up with the update that while expanding the options on a Google search result page, you can restrict the results to things such as the past week, the past 24 hours, or "Recent results".
Google Pulled Out of SOAP Search API
Yahoo PPC Reports With New Features Yahoo has just added some new and interesting additions to their PPC reports enabling you to see where your ads are. Before this, Yahoo had...
Bing Goes Visual! Of late, Microsoft has conducted a study that shows that images give the users 20% faster search results than the text only. Hence, it has become clear that images play a key role in various search activities for movies, cars, news and different products. It seems like Bing has seriously followed the above study for search results. Yesterday, Bing in a blog post announced new Visual Search feature...
Know if Your Ad is in Bing with New AdCenter Feature
AdWords With Opportunities Beta Test Expansion Earlier Google AdWords had added some languages to their Beta Web Interface, now the news is that the search engine is expanding its...
Google Homepage Changes Just a few days ago, Google patent was approved for its unique homepage design, has now come up with changes to the homepage to simplify it more.
Google China Lee Resignation Kai-Fu Lee, the President of Google Inc China, who has helped Google to strike lucrative deals in the past is now leaving the company to start a new project.
Suicidal AdWords Advertiser? Search Engine Roundtable blog reports that a Google AdWords Help thread had an Indian advertiser who was threatening to suicide, in case Google didnt respond to him in the next few hours. The surprising fact in this case was that this advertiser did not kill himself after not getting any response from Google in few hours. Google did reply to him a day or so later, explaining that...
Economic Sectors Tracked Google Domestic Trends
Bing and Ping, Facebook and Twitter Bing is preparing a new feature called Bing & Ping. This will be very useful for sharing search results through various places, like Facebook...
Google Online Ad Executive Gone David Fischer, who was handling online operations in Googles AdWords, AdSense, and Book Scanning programs (among others), is on his way to new role.
Google News Publishers SEO Tips In a recent post on Google Webmaster Central blog, some interesting tips for optimizing Google News search results have been provided for...
Google Webmaster Tool - Rich Snippets Few months back, Google released rich snippets in the search results. That meant Webmasters could mark up their HTML with richer data using micro...
Google News With Suggestions
Leaving Ask For Bing? Ten days ago, there were reports that Antonio Gulli left Ask.com after heading up their technology team for four years in the European R&D center.
51 Languages in Google Translate s there are millions of Googlers living and working in dozens of countries, but the products and services on Google are used in more countries.
Tips About Image Optimization From Bing Todd Schwartz on Bing's Blog is giving some tips on optimizing the photos and graphics for image search. He is talking about optimization...
AdWords API v2009 from Google This is surely a good news for all advertisers who can now use the new beta version i.e API v2009 of the AdWords. Google AdWords API first released the...
Yahoo Video Search
Certified Ad Networks To Compete with Google A recent post on the Inside AdSense Blog revealed that Google is all set to allow multiple Google-certified ad networks to compete with AdWords...
Yahoo Search Product Enhancements
Google Web Search for August 2009 To Be Updated? Of late, people have been noticing changes in Google web search. So, is this Google web search update for August, 2009? Maybe! Over the last weekend...
Search Ranking with Minute SEO Changes
Ask.com Losing Employee: Antonio Gulli
Google Images Updated Search It was in March that Google had updated its mobile search image just for the sake of iPhone and Android gadgets. But now the good news is that they have...
Matt Cutts Video: UK Results Of late, some UK Google users have been noticing that search results pages are showing more results from .com sites as compared to earlier.
Microsoft To Boost Verizon Mobile Ad Solutions The Microsoft Advertising Blog reported that Microsoft advertisers are now offered with the option to purchase high quality, premium on-deck display inventory...
New Font Styles in Google AdSense
Google's New Enterprise Search Tools The Official Google Blog has reported the launch of two new tools for Google Enterprise Search. The tools- Side-by-Side search and new...
Changes To Google AdSense Contextual Targeting A recent post at Google AdSense Blog lets us know that Google is going to make changes to the AdSense's contextual targeting algorithms in order to...
Bing: Locate Other Domains on an IP Want to know which other domains or websites are hosted on a web server that hosts a particular domain (may be yours)? Well, it's all very easy now!
Google AdWords: A New Way To Run Local Ads Google has came up with a new way to run local ads in the new AdWords interface. It's called Location Extensions that allow advertisers or business...
Bing Boost With Cashback In an attempt to encourage searchers to use Bing more, Microsoft has come up with a great idea recently. Microsoft announced a Bing stimulus package...
Bing Tune Up and Tweaks Over the past few months, discussions have been going on in the Webmaster Center Blog regarding how to optimize a site! Recently, Kristin Meldahl of Bing...
Doug Cutting of Yahoo Joining Cloudera
Getting To Know Google on Caffeine A Google expert team has been working on a project of next generation architecture" for Google's search (read Caffeine index), yet to be finished. According to Google, the new architecture focuses on dimensions like indexing, crawling and ranking changes. Google is not incorporating these changes into their existing infrastructure. The new infrastructure lies underneath Google's search engine.
Google: How Do You Use Webmaster Tools?
Adobe PDF Documents with SEO When it comes to search marketing, utilizing SEO to optimize the indexing and presence of PDF, as well as other document types comes across as inevitable.
Microsoft adCenter on Illegal Pharmacy Ads A report from LegitScript.com and KnujOn was doing the rounds earlier this week which stated that 89.7 percent of Bing's ads for online pharmacies...
Bing Search Updated Again After a July update less than two weeks ago, Bing is updating again. Many webmasters are noticing a search results update on Microsoft'search engine.
Google Closer To Organic Results James Carswell has reported that Google has shifted the search ads on the right hand side of the search results page, or more precisely, closer to the free results.
Bid Simulator for Google AdWords Google has recently rolled out a new feature called Bid Simulator for AdWords in an aim to show advertisers the potential impact of a bid on...
Google Ad Campaign Google is launching a rare commercial campaign in an attempt to boost the sales of its online business applications. The company is leasing billboards...
Better Local Business Search Results on Yahoo Yahoo! has made a change to the Yahoo! Shortcut.Yahoo! Shortcut appears at the top of the Yahoo Search results page when users search for a local business.
Google CEO Steps Away From Apple Google CEO Eric Schmidt has stepped out from Apple's Board of Directors, days after Apple's App store rejected Google Voice Application for the iPhone.
Google: Contextual "Show More Results" Link Google seems to be testing changes to its show more results from feature and has come up with a wider use of the feature. Google removed the...
AdWords Interface Improved and with New Features Recently, Google has removed the beta from its new interface for AdWords. The new interface makes online campaign management faster, easier and clearer.
Google AdWords Address Addition Google AdWords Blog informs about a new way to run local ads via Location extentions. With the help of this feature advertisers will be...
Google Maps Street View Zoom Navigation The Google team is constantly updating Google Maps with new features. After adding new search layers for iphone 3.0 users that allowed...
Google Maps Updates Mobile Version Google introduced Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0 that allowed users to locate specific location without even inserting the exact place where they are.
Google Conversion Optimizer Announced Google AdWords announced that Conversion Optimizer is now available to more ad campaigns. Any ad campaign which had at least 15...
Google Webmaster Tools With an Update The team of Google Webmaster Tools has named their current update as Summer Shine. For every update released they have code names.
Fresh New Yahoo Homepage New & Improved Yahoo Homepage Launched. Yahoo recently launched its new and improved homepage for web users. For months the forthcoming of Yahoo homepage had been known, but it was released yesterday around 4:30 Eastern. However, Yahoo will not replace the older homepage for now, rather an opt-in choice will be provided for interested users.
MSNBot 2's Workload Revamped by Bing Microsoft recently announced that it's going to ramp up MSNBot 2, which is currently in beta version. Webmasters may now notice the new bot in their log files.
India Google Analytics Conference One of the main difficulties that most marketers face is to identify best metrics , which will complete a sales cycle or improve customer's loyalty.
Google Location Search for iPhone The Google Mobile Blog recently reported the launch of Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0. With the help of this feature, iPhone users will be able...
Google Calender Labs In the month of May, Google Calender had come out with new tasks features and now a new Lab section has been added to it. It is quite similar to Gmail with...
Your Q&A With Matt Cutts Google's Matt Cutts has been uploading a lot of videos, mostly on SEO topics. He has tried to answer some of the previously asked questions through these videos.
Twitter's & Bing's Powers Combined! BingTweets To explore more options in real-time search, Bing in association with Federated Media and Twitter has released BingTweets, which is described as:
Google Twitter Accounts Listed
Better Results For a Virtual Trip To Places with Google Well, we all have been benefited from Google Maps for a long time now when it comes to search for locations worldwide. ut, how about getting a more...
Bing is Still Growing - Search Engine Share Data
Creative Filter on Google Image Search Yesterday, Google announced the launch of a new feature on Image Search. This feature will help you find free images while giving...
Google Maps Gets Even Easier There is always something happening in Google Maps. The latest is that it unveiled a new directions gadget, which proves helpful for businesses, such as...
Google's Shrunken Search Results There are reports that Google has made changes to the way it uses to display search results. Since there is no official announcement for the same, it can be...
Google SafeSearch Switch Google image search has made it easier for users to toggle the SafeSearch by including settings switch menu on the results page. Earlier, instead of directly...
Google Adds Blog Search Tools Recently, Google has rolled out some of the most requested features at its Google Blog Search homepage, which was launched last year. RSS feed and Atom feed are two of the new tools, that locate in the left-hand column of the Blog Search front page. Readers can now click on the links under Subscribe to subscribe any topic or story in any feed reader, such as Google Reader.
Matt Cuts Talks About Over Optimization
Author Search Feature for Google News You can now get details about your favorite author/journalist by searching their name on Google News There are three different methods of doing this:
From Google To Webmasters: Tips for Beginners Have you ever thought how a duplicate content is handled or how can you report about a hacked site? If you are a webmaster beginner or owner of a...
Yahoo's "My Display Ads" The self-serve display ad marketplace Yahoo My Display Ads" has been launched by Yahoo. The marketplace is meant for ads on Yahoo sites and the...
Yahoo's "My Display Ads" The self-serve display ad marketplace Yahoo My Display Ads" has been launched by Yahoo. The marketplace is meant for ads on...
300 Million Q&A Database from Ask.com
Bing with Explore Pane, Organized Search Results Microsoft has now added Explore Pane, a new feature in the search engine Bing. The feature is one of the ways to improve the pattern...
Microsoft's Unsafe Image Filter Made Easy Microsoft has recently introduced two new methods for making Bing image and video search safer for the users. The very first step taken by Microsoft...
Bing Instant Answer Translation The best part about Microsoft's Live Search that is also present in Bing is the Instant Answers. You can get instant answers on shopping, travel and sports.
New Google Webmaster Tools Features A few weeks ago, Google had launched a preview of their new Webmaster Tools interface. In response, they received a lot of constructive feedback such as:
Google Translator Toolkit - Easier and Faster Google recently launched a powerful yet easy-to-use translator " Google Translator Toolkit. The Translator Toolkit is known for its faster and easier translations.
Bing and Google New Comparison Tools Ever since the launch of Bing by Microsoft, many webmasters have been trying to compare Google and Bing, to find out which one is best among the two.
Bing Added to Google Analytics Report
Microsoft Team Answers Bing Questions Rebranding of Live Search to Bing has created a lot of concerns among users. To solve this issue the Microsoft's adCenter team has finally took to its blog.
New and Faster AdWords Interface
Google Maps Updates Guidelines Google Maps recently updated its business listing quality guidelines. The new guidelines are considered to be a big relief to those who have noticed an...
Photos Included in AdSense Link Units
Google Fixes Webmaster Problems Google has made two quick announcements about bug fixes and Google Webmaster tools just two days back. The first announcement was related...
Google Updated Toolbar PageRank Again
MS Live Search Sports Pattern After the surprise upgradation of Microsoft Live Search sports update pattern, Yahoo and Google has followed suit. Although both Yahoo and Google had sports...
Ask Not Renewing Looksmart
Google Search Results With More Visuals Here we go again. That is what Google must feel when they start new experiments. Once again Google is at its experimenting end. Its seems to test a new feature...
Google Updated News and Blog
Ask.com Gets Better It seems Ask.com cannot have enough and be satisfied. The site has been remodeled and redesigned several times within past 4-5 years.
Google And Who Is Leaving
Google Friend Connect Adds New Recommendation... ...Gadgets To Your Site! Google recently added another feature to its Google Friend Connect " New Recommendation Gadgets. The new addition will inform you about...
Oops! Google Services Down in Various Cities One of the recent ZD.Net reports that Google services have drastically gone down in various cities. The report also indicated outages in New York, San Francisco...
$201K Profit Per Employee at Google!
Google Updates Its Policy on Trademarks... ...in AdWords Ad Text! Google has updated its policy on Trademarks in AdWords Ad Text. According to the new update, trademarks will only be allowed as ad text...
New Google Calender Tasks Released!
MSN City Guides Gets a Makeover With Live Search... ... and Live Maps! MSN recently announced its new version of MSN City Guides, which includes Live Search and Live Maps options. The new integration will make it easy...
New Webmaster Tools Layout & Design! Google has announced a brand new Webmaster Tools design. Following are some of the highlights of the new design:
Google Announces AdSense Ads with Doubleclick.net... ...Clickthrough for Feeds Update. Google AdSense for Feeds recently announced that its ads will now run using the googleads.g.doubleclick.net clickthough URL...
Google Maps Publishes an Authoritative Description... ...on Duplicate Records Removal Process. It is very common for a business location to have multiple business listings in Google Maps. These records are provided by...
Live Search Mobile Launches MSN Video Search... The Live Search mobile team recently launched two new features - MSN video search and MLB dashboard. The new features are expected to make mobile search more smoother and faster.
Google Trends Gadget
Microsoft Kumo to Launch June Second As we all know that Microsoft is going to rebrand its search engine Windows Live Search with a brand new name called Microsoft Kumo.
More Languages for Google AdWords
Business Cards Give Away: Google and iPrint
New Search Results in Google SERPs According to one of the Search Engine Journal posts Google has came out with yet another addition for its search results, which included number...
Google Webmaster Forums in Multiple Languages
Microsoft Live Search SEM 101 Microsoft Live Search Blog announced the launch of a series of SEM blog" SEM 101. The aim behind the launch is to train people in promoting their websites.
Google Search Addition Inside Gmail Gmail labs added Google Search Box to Gmail Inbox interface. The new option provides the feature to search Google even while chatting or reading your mails.
Microsoft's Addition to Live Search 411
AdSense Policies Updated AdSense recently released new policies for link sellers and publishers. The new AdSense policies have been reorganized to take everything into consideration.
Google Public Data Search and Charts In the recent Wolfram Alpha demonstration, Google announced the launch of their structured data feature. The new feature enables you to compare and find public data. The feature will make way for public data to take a more centralized approach in informed public conversation. For example, if you search for population with a U.S. state or county, you will see estimates like this:
Google for Advertisers Site Google rolls out a new site called Google for Advertisers. This site is expected to provide useful information about Google's various marketing solutions.
Google Sitemaps Research
Google's Sitemap Research
Microsoft Live Search 411 Microsoft recently announced Traffic, a new addition to its Live Search 411 (1-800-CALL-411 or 1-800-225-5411). The company has tied up with INRIX, a leading...
Microsoft Global Live Search Local Listing A few days ago, Microsoft launched a new version of Live Search Maps. With the help of this feature you can update your listing.
Google Updates Keyword Suggestion Tool One of the recent posts by Site Visibility informed that Google has updated their keyword suggestion tool. In fact, even we also noticed the same thing.
Google Toolbar Labs With New Features Google recently introduced Google Toolbar Labs. The primary aim of this forum is to build new and innovative ideas for its Toolbar. Google also...
Expired Domains and Google Thoughts Barry Schwartz in one of his recent posts talked about expired domains and domain name transfers in Google. The topic has been discussed for a long time.
Google Analytics Data Export API Google users can now develop client applications that download Analytics data in the form of Google Data API feeds, with Google Analytics Data Export API.
Google's Google Profiles Google recently launched Google profiles in their main results, to give you a better control over what people find when they search for your name.
Search By Similarity for Google Image Google has come out with a new experimental tool that will enable you to click on a similar images link present beneath the image search results.
Launching of Google Toolbar 6 for IE
Microsoft Live Search Cashback Program Microsoft announced the improved cashback shopping site. It will integrate Live Search Products (shopping vertical within Live Search) and cashback.
Google Ranking Data According to the recent post at blogstorm that a new referring URL format for Google users. Now, when a user clicks on a result URL in Google, the...
To Be Laid Off From Yahoo According to one of the NY Times reports, Yahoo! is planning to layoff some more of its employees for the third time sinche the first quarter of 2008.
Local Business Center User Guide
Mobile Google Maps - Bugs Fixed
Coming Soon: New Interface for AdWords
Google Rank Changes Over Time In a post by Randfish, he brings focus on the changes of Google's ranking system. Importance Levels of Various Ranking Factors in Google's Algorithm Over Time
Google Latitude
Color Selection in Google Images After adding filters for photos and images, Google Images has now added color selection tool to the interface, according to Ionut reports. With this...
Generic Results on Google One of the recent Google posts announced that Google is now showing more local results for generic queries, but now it is officially confirmed.
Yahoo to Update Search
Google Image Search Suggestions In one of our previous post, we informed you about Google search suggestions being launched internationally. In addition, Google has...
Google India Election Center
Local Search Results in Google Maps Google continues to make its search results more localized. The new improvement is believed to make searching information more simple and easy.
Google Suggest and Local News
Yahoo Search Update Sometime Soon? It has been more than a month since Yahoo Search made an update. There has been a lot of discussion going on in various forums about changes at Yahoo.
Localized Google Suggest
Blog Search Algorithm from Google Google finally releases its Blog Search detector algorithm. With the help of this algorithm Google Blog Search will match blog posts with relevant queries.
Announcing: MSN Windows Live Search Yesterday Live Search finally unveiled the much anticipated internet new brand" MSN Windows Live Search on kumo@microsoft.com.
AdWords Web Interface to More Users
Withdraw AdSense for Video Support
Google's Experiment: Wonder Wheel Google recently uncovered its Wonder Wheel experiment. It was an experiment based on Google's search results. To understand the experiment better...
Google for Blackberry: Voice Search & My Location Recently, Google released additional features for Blackberry with Google Mobile App. The two new features are Google Voice Search & My Location.
Live Search Instant and Active Answers
Google Insight Addition Do you remember Google Insight? Yes, it was a product launched by Google, which offered more flexibility and functionality in terms of understanding...
Google Image Search: Specific Color
Google: Numbers No Longer Required in URLs Webmasters are no longer required to include three digit numbers at the end of the URL to be in Google News. However, they need to submit a...
Yahoo CMO Elisa Steele Yesterday, Yahoo! Inc. named Elisa Steele as the new CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of the company. She will be responsible for Yahoo!'s brand, its global...
Live Search Guide for Penalized Sites
Bug in Google AdWords Tool Recently, the Forums at WebmasterWorld and Search Engine Watch have webmasters complaining about a bug in the Google's Keyword Tool.
Yahoo IE8 Optimized Yesterday, Yahoo! released an optimized version of IE8. The new version includes three new categories of instant visual results - Weather,...
Google's New VP for American Operations
Live Search Accelerators - Internet Explorer On Thursday, the Internet Explorer team announced the release of Internet Explorer 8. The best feature of this explorer is its Live Search Accelerators, which is believed to make web surfing faster and easier. Live Search Accelerators is considered to make the entire researching and shopping online more simplified. Typically, a web surfer has to browse through different sites...
Matt Cutts On Keywords in URLs
Google Maps Uk and Netherlands According to the latest Google report, Street View of some of the major cities in the UK and Netherlands have been released by Google Maps.
Google Certified Program Google recently announced the release of Google Ad Manager consultant program, which will provide advanced ad serving support and professional services.
MySQL Banned in Google Adword Campaigns Google recently added the the term MySQL to its Adwords keyword ban list. The news surprised those who used the term for professional reasons.
Yahoo's New Ad Targeting Yahoo's search marketing team recently came out with new ad targeting features to give its advertising partners more return for their investment.
Google's New Image Search Results Pages Google has announced the launch of a new Image Search results page for Android, iPhone, and iPod touch to allow the suers have a better...
Google Maps Instructional Video Google Maps has recently released an instrumental video for the Local Business Center to help the users (especially the beginners).
AOL's new CEO, Google's Tim Armstrong Tim Armstrong, (ex Google executive) replaces AOL CEO Randy Falco, who was on the job since November 2006. Armstrong was associated with Google since the year 2000 and it is not the first time when AOL has recruited a Google executive for its chief positions. According to a Press Release by Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer: 'Tim Armstrong, who had been...
Google's New Feature For Blog Search Delayed Google was about to test New Link Command feature for Google Blog Search Ranking Update. The feature would have affected the way Google returns...
301 Redirects and NoFollow With Matt Cutts
Yahoo Minimum Bids
Google's Exact Image Size Just a month ago, Google Advanced Image Search added a new option of adjusting width and size in its update. Now it has added a new...
Yahoo Keywords Suggestion Tool All those who grieved the retirement of overture, can find some consolation in new section by Yahoo! Search Marketing Help Center now provides...
Cutts Re-Explains Keeping Less Links It was not long back when we had covered that Google can crawl more than 100 links per page, but still it is not in a favor of a document with more than 100 links. Now Matt Cutts on his blog is explaining as to why one should keep the link count on one page less than 100. Here is what he has to elaborate on the issue: The original reason we provided that recommendation...
Google Sued and Case Won Aaron Greenspan, President & CEO of Think Computer Corporation sued Google for dis-enabling his AdSense account without prior notice and won the claim!
Google SERPS Mini Sitelinks WebmasterWorld is again buzzing in with some new discussion! Now the webmasters are noticing mini sitelinks on Google SERPS!
Google SERP Update A thread at the WebmasterWorld is reporting Google search update for the month of March 2009. Here is what jcmiras, a member of the community is reporting:
Matt Cutts on Brands Earlier, we had reported that Branded search results has become an issue of high importance in Search Results Rankings. The world of...
SEMPO Board Of Directors
Google SOAP Search API Ending Google in their latest post has mentioned that theyll end the Google SOAP Search API on August 31st in this very year, 2009! We'd like to bid...
Google Mails Webmasters About Website Issues Webmasters at the WebmasterWorld are reporting that Google is sending them mails regarding the website issues! Earlier also, the team of...
Cutts With How To Remove A Search Page There are all kinds of people who post their views and comments on the Internet. Some of them even go a step further and post wrong things about other people.
More On Microsoft and Kumo Yesterday we had reported that Microsoft is rebranding the Live Search into the Kumo brand . But there was no official confirmation from any...
Yahoo! Celebrates 14th Birthday! The script was written in the year 1995. Exactly fourteen years ago, Yahoo! was officially incorporated by Jerry and David! Here is the screen shot...
Paid Posts with Matt Cutts Matt Cutts never stays away from news! Recently it was all about Canonical tags and now the guy is going ga-ga on the issue of paid...
Search Index Update from Yahoo Just when we were suspicious about any further Weather Report or updates from Yahoo!, the search engine has announced their latest...
Town of Eu to Change Name for Rankings Now this is an astounding news! A French town Eu that holds hundred years of civilization (The County of Eu was created in 996 by Duke Richard I of Normandy)...
Microsoft Live Search Experiments The current hot topic related with SEO industry seems to have a very deep relationship with Googles algorithm changes that favors big brands, but it looks that Microsoft Live Search has some other plans in mind. The later one is in the favor of Best Match along with other features to improvise on its search results and give a better browsing experience to its users.
Google - New Link Command Features, Soon
Updating Yahoo Search? Loads of Webmasters at WebmasterWorld are reporting that Yahoo Search is currently in the process of updating their index and algorithm.
Yahoo's Bartz Ushers Out CFO SAN FRANCISCO (AP) " After spending six weeks diagnosing Yahoo Inc.'s troubles, new Chief Executive Carol Bartz started to prescribe a cure Thursday with a management shake-up that will usher out the Internet company's chief financial officer. Besides pushing CFO Blake Jorgensen out the door, the overhaul will expand the responsibilities of Yahoo's chief...
More With Matt Cutts on Canonical Link
Yahoo Mobile's Marco Boerries Resigns Not long ago Zimra founder Satish Dharmaraj marked his exit from Yahoo! Before that Carol Bartz filled the slot of Yahoo's new CEO, replacing Jerry Yang.
Branding Is The Key In Google's New Rankings A post by Aaron Wall of SEOBook is talking about the excessive weight that Google is placing on branded search results. The post says that all those...
Google Toolbar 6 for IE
Yahoo's New Launches Yahoo! has recently announced the launch of their three new features: Search Retargeting, Enhanced Retargeting and Enhanced Targeting...
YouTube, Google Webmaster Central Blog
February Google Image Search Update In the month of January we had reported a Google Image Search Update. Now, a thread at the Webmaster World is again buzzing up with reports of another update!
Canonical URL Tag for Ask Ask.com Joins The Group- Implements Canonical URL Tag! Just a few days ago, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft announced their collaboration to support a new Web standard Canonical URL Tag to abolish duplicate content from the Internet world. Now, Ask.com has announced its intentions to go Canonical! Here is the example of the screen shot of the tag, provided by Ask.com:
Google Video Link
Google Advanced Image Search, Now Restrict Size Googles advanced image search now provides all its users with an option of restricting their image search to a particular width and height...
AdWords URL Policy Changed The Google AdWords blog recently announced that their new display URL policy will be effective February 24th onwards! The new policy...
Google AdSense Font Changes Back in the year 2006, we reported that AdSense Font Size changed with Firefox Browser Text Size! Now the Inside AdSense Blog is reporting...
Windows Mobile, Google Mobile Application
More Layers to Google Local Search! If you use Google Maps and make use of it to search locations and other entities, then you must know that it displays only a layer of search results.
Happy Fifth, Yahoo Search! It has been five years now when Yahoo! first came out with its own search engine. Here are some of its major milestones:
Google Mobile Ads Business Pages Google has pulled out a lot of their applications in the past few weeks. The most recent of them all is Shutting down of Radio Ads!
New Blog From Google
Yahoo - Air Miles Rewards Program Yahoo! Canada is using all kinds of marketing techniques to spread its arms all over, in the world of search engine market. This time it has...
Indian Webmasters Google SearchMasters Conference On 28th February, Google India is organizing the Google SearchMasters Conference 2009 for the Indian webmaster community.
Radio Ads Shut Down by Google Google recently announced that they are planning to shut down their Google Audio Ads and Google Radio Automation! This is what...
Google Webmaster Wants Feedback
Ask Datacenter Enhances Search Is Ask really serious about search? That's the question that a majority of Ask users are asking these days. Some think that the search engine offers quality...
Google Japan Penalized by Google Just tune in to Twitter and you find the place buzzing with news that Google.co.jp was penalized for paying for blogger reviews.
Local Keywords Ranking in Google Maps It was in the month of August, when we covered a presentation on the Google Map Ranking Factors. Now have more insight on how you can rank your local keywords in Google Maps. Gerald Weber, President and Founder of Search Engine Marketing Group, has come up with three easy steps to do so! Have a look at them. Step 1" If youre not already in Google maps, you...
Yahoo Heart Shaped Search Ad Bar Is Yahoo! trying to copy Google? That's what everyone felt when Yahoo! made an announcement that the ads which are displayed on the...
Yahoo! oneSearch Shortcuts The Yahoo Search Blog has announced the expansion and improvement of Yahoo oneSearch shortcut. * An auto-locate feature that uses cell tower triangulation. * Wi-Fi to detect the users location. * Enhanced Search Assist that incorporates the users recent search history. * A Windows Mobile client. * Expanded availability on Windows Mobile client. * Improved Search Assist technology on BlackBerry devices.
Google AdSense With More Channels
Expanded Version Of Live Search Maps For India! Microsoft India released a new version of Live Search Maps that will allow users to plan multi-city trips in a single search query with multi point routing ability!
Tweaked Google Search Suggestions Interface? It was not long back when we reported that Google is testing a new user interface for some AdWords advertisers. And now Google Operating System...
Twitter Tweets Talk About Google Lay Offs
Google Website Optimizer On YouTube Channel Google Website Optimizer has announced the launch of its own channel on YouTube. This will allow the users to get all the videos related to...
New Ad Format for Google AdSense Speculations and guesswork are going on that Google AdSense is testing a new ad format. A lot of publishers are noticing this at DigitalPoint Forums.
Multiple Gmail Inboxes If you are a Gmail user, then you must have faced a lot of problems in viewing multiple panes in different browser windows to read your messages.
SEOs Lose Rankings Due to Google's Feature It was not long ago, when Google making the new "Did You Mean" feature a standard, was reported. This approach gets users to the results they wanted faster...
Yahoo! "Search Pad" Feature Yahoo! these days is testing a feature (only to the selected users) called Search Pad that was formerly known as Research Assistance.
New News Gadget from Google
Instant Answers in IE8 Live Search If you are using Internet Explorer 8, then you can get Live Search instant answers in your search box! According to the Live Search Blog,
Google Executives May Get Jail Time in Italy for Video! According to New York Times, Google executives have been put on trial for defamation and violating the terms and conditions regarding a ...
Testing Bulk Keyword Diagnose Tools in Adwords
Google Stops Passing Anchor Text? Blogstorm is reporting that anchor text is no longer passing via certain types of 301 redirect with Google. Again, there is no official confirmation on...
Google is Stopping Anchor Text? Blogstorm is reporting that anchor text is no longer passing via certain types of 301 redirect with Google. Again, there is no official confirmation on...
Google Switching To AJAX? The SEO Smackdown blog states that they are noticing some changes in Google's Search Pages. According to their webmasters, Google is switching "completely" to AJAX based search results. But a majority of people are not seeing the Google search results pages render in AJAX yet! Google has been offering AJAX driven results through the API and other services...
Confirmed By Google: One Domain Per Ad Group Recently, there were all kinds of reports going on that Google will now be requiring one domain per ad group in their new display URL policy in the AdWords program.
New Interface Test for AdWords
"Most Visited Sites" Firefox Tab When we look at the major attributes of Google Chrome then its main feature is to list the sites you regularly visit on your home page when the browser starts.
Extended "Conversion Optimizer" Eligibility! Google AdWords has opened up Conversion Optimizer to greater eligibility. Those who often make use of AdWords' free Conversion Tracking...
Firefox Live Search Autosuggestions The official blog of live search team has announced the official integration of Live Search into Firefox by popular demand. Here is what the team has to say on this issue: For example, start to type "Bruce Springsteen" into the Live Search box, and you're shown relevant suggestions. The list of suggestions refreshes as you continue typing or when you change the query...
New Help Videos on Google AdWords
Yahoo Automatic Account Optimization? Not long back when Yahoo! decided to auto-optimize sponsored search accounts. But just three weeks after, the search engine has published an explanation.
Google Finally Confirms Fixing SMS Search! The month of January was full of speculations that Google SMS Search is facing some complications and is not working! Some were saying that it is not functioning in a proper way...
Yahoo! Search Marketing Updates Help Center Yahoo! Search Marketing has updated its help center. Here are the major changes:
Google Asking For Feedback Google is asking its users to give feedback on Ad Planner. "Over the past few months, the Ad Planner team has released a number of new features that were based largely on user feedback.
Question Phrases in Keyword Discovery
Yahoo Wage Recession? A lot of companies are laying of their employees and some are freezing the salary hikes of their most deserving employees. Yahoo! is doing the same.
Satish Dharmaraj - Zimbra Founder Leaving Yahoo
January Google Images Update WebmasterWorld is giving early reports of a Google Image Search update of January 2009! According to these reports, Google has added...
Microsoft SearchPerks During Recession
Impact of Google Preferred Sites Discussed by SEO's Recently we reported about the new experimental feature by Google named 'Preferred Sites.' Since it is experimental, it is not available to a majority of people.
Rare Javascript Message Fixed by Google
Complaints About PageRank Dropping It seems that recently there has been a massive drop in PageRank scores in Google Toolbar. Diverse forums are arrayed with numerous complaints...
Talking After Leaving Google Some are saying that the perks were not good, some faced disappearing fringe benefits, some are saying that there is too much bureaucracy and...
Windows Live Search News Alerts Check your inbox- latest headlines are flowing in! That's the new feature by Windows Live Search.The service is called News Alerts Service and it will...
Contextual Network Ads Shut Down by Yahoo PPC Hero is claiming that they have received an email from Yahoo! that they are planning to shut down Content Match" in UK. For those who don't...
Google Apps Reseller Program Google Inc. is launching a formal reseller program for Google Apps Premier Edition. The program will enable the technology solution providers to sell Google Apps to businesses around the world. The program has its SaaS office productivity suite platform that is arrayed with diverse features like e-mail and chat, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, security...
Easier Verification with Webmaster Tools
AdWords Local Business Ads Intro Google Maps has updated certain features for local business ads. The first one is that now your ads information window will be arrayed with diverse...
Google Wants Feedback on 'No Results Pages' It was not long back when Matt Cutts asked for specific help identifying Spam issue that the search engine is facing! This time Google wants...
Google Wants Feedback on 'No Results Pages' It was not long back when Matt Cutts asked for specific help identifying Spam issue that the search engine is facing! This time Google wants...
A Rise In Local Search Mobile phones have come a long way since the initial days. Search engines are available at your fingertips, stock market revolves around your...
Carol Bartz CEO of Yahoo The slot vacated by Jerry Yange is now filled by Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! The news is official as Yahoo! has confirmed Carol Bartz as the new CEO, along with making an announcement that President Sue Decker will soon resign. Yahoo Board Chairman Ray Bostock is extremely enthusiastic with Carol's acceptance of the CEO post. Here is a quote:
Google Exlplains Sever CO2 Production Everyone is thinking about greenhouse effect and global warming! Google is no exception. According to BBC news, the Internets carbon footprint is bigger than the footprint of the airlines.
Microsft AdCenter Adds Two New Features Microsoft's adCenter has come up with two new options for adCenter Performance Data. These are: New Custom Date Range & Filter Options.
Yahoo Discusses The Use of Reciprocal Links A majority of search engines are of the view that the process of providing reciprocal links refers to 'spamming.' Yahoo, in their Search Content Quality Guidelines, has also given certain examples of content that they dont want to include in their search engine. Here is one of them:
New 2009 Google Favicon
New AdWords Budgeting Option Name Timeline WebmasterWorld is reporting that Google is testing a new AdWords budgeting option named Timeframe. The help document explains this a bit better.
2009 Begins With New SEO Tools Clan of Bruce Clay has come up with two brand-new SEO tools that are available for free on their Web site. These new tools are the...
Updated Live Search Mobile Live Search will soon have an update to its Live Search Mobile app for Windows Mobile. A lot of new and diverse facets will be added via this release.
Yahoo Can Create Ads and Edit Your Keywords In an email sent out to the Search Marketing advertisers, Yahoo! has notified them about their new terms and conditions without even seeking...
Google Timeline Visible in Search Results Googles timeline view, was earlier made as an opt-in experiment in Google Labs, is currently visible in a lot of queries on the search results of Google.com.
Updated Google Toolbar PageRank Google has updated its Toolbar Pagerank. A lot of people are talking about their PageRanks being changed. Sometimes the PageRank drops...
Japanese Version of Webmaster Central
Google Search Quality Team is a Little Upset A recent post in the Google Webmaster Help forums was enough to make Google upset. A lot of speculations were made that Google was indulging...
Google Ad Manager Equipped With New Features!
Google Blog Search Fixes Link Issue But Still Requires Help! Google recently confirmed that the search engine is in the process of fixing blogroll issue and will continue to use RSS feed to index the pages. At the same time it will try to exclude blogrolls and navigational elements of the blog as well.
'Search-By-Style' in Google Image Search! It was not long time back when Google came out with a new search bar for Google Image! Now keeping the particular choice of each and every user in mind, Google has launched...
Matt Cutts Take On SEM & 2009 In a recent interview by Virginia Nussey of BruceClay.com, Matt Cutts of Google elaborated on every possible query that was related to everything expected from Google in the coming years!
Google Webmaster Tools Updated
Google Website Optimizer Forum The Website Optimizer by Google is a free testing tool for landing-page-optimization! But the fact is that a lot of webmasters still do not know how to use it.
Brad Goldberg Leaving Microsoft
Yahoo Slims Data Retention From 13 to 3 Months Yahoo! has announced that it will reduce data retention policy from 13 months to 3. It will be interesting to see what kind of impact this leaves on Google.
Google Penalizing Your Site? A new thread has surfaced at the Google Groups that talks about the ways webmasters can tell if their site is penalized by Google or not. Thanks to Barry for noticing it. One person says that Home page will not appear unless you use site:www.domainname.com. JohnMu further elaborates on the whole issue:Here's one test that seems to work about 90% of the time...
40 Languages in Google Webmaster Tools Google Webmaster Tools has announced, the addition of 14 more languages, taking the count to 40 languages! Our team is very excited to...
Translate Your Site with Google One more enhancement in the world of Translate Tool, being made by Google these days. The new enhancement is called "Translate My Page."
Live Search Update for the Holidays?
New Pages in Yahoo! Buzz Yahoo! is rolling out some additional features for Yahoo! Buzz. To talk more about these additions, one thing is for sure that Yahoo Buzz Publisher...
Google With New Features Google Is Testing A Lot Of Features! Google is getting indulged in all kinds of changes these days! But some of them are good, and some of them are awkward!
Live Search: MSNBot
Google AdSense for Domains Google AdSense For Domains, helps finance people who park domains. The service is sometimes connected to useless links and spam of the web.
Ability To Turn Off SearchWiki, Coming Soon Good news for all of us! Google Search Wiki will soon have an off button. Google Search Wiki was getting somewhat negative response, particularly...
Google SERP Update Archives
iPhone and G1 AdWords Options The whole world is getting trapped in the web of iPhone and G1 mania! The advertisers are also not left behind as they are looking this gold mine as a very good opportunity to attract target audience. That is why search advertisers have opted to select this medium in their latest strategy to target the rapidly growing number of searchers on the go. Googles mobile team...
Google Blog Search: Full Text Indexing What happened to Google Blog Search, that used to index via RSS feeds? But this method was for blogs that published partial feeds! That automatically means that Google Blog Search only indexed that partial portion. But what about the rest of the post? The links and text in that portion werent available through Blog Search! Now the news that is spreading like a fire...
Googlebot Crawl Rate Controlled More control has been given in the Googlebot's crawl rate setting in the Webmaster Tools to enable all the webmasters to specify their problems in a better way!
Google Yahoo! Deal: What Really Happened? If you are still are wondering what led to the termination of the famous advertisement deal between Google and Yahoo!, then probably you should read further: Prosecutor Sandy Litvack who was assigned to the case told the AM Law Daily that, the DOJ (Department of Justice) was about to charge Google with antitrusts lawsuit, and it was just three hours away from doing so!
Questionable Sites Flagged by Live Search Microsoft's Live Search has now announced that they will now take action against the sites which they deem questionable in terms of malware.
Google Blogroll Issue To Be Fixed Recently, a news was flashing all over the web world that Google blog search link command is now scanning blogroll links. For example, using a link: pagetrafficblog.com would not only return links from the content of the article, but also return links from the navigational elements. So the crux of the matter is that you will find it difficult as to who linked to you within the body of their content!
Live Search Instant Cashback With a Glitch?
More Ad Quality Videos by Google Google recently published two new videos about quality scores. It is either the search engines effort to become transparent or a try to attract more people to advertise.
Spam Algorithm Classifier Fixed for iFrames A lot of discussions has been going on at the official Google thread where a very interesting response from Matt Cutts of Google was noticed, where...
Live Image Search: Find Images With Other Images Features like continuous scroll and index with millions of websites, makes a single image search query enough to get what you were looking for. These initial results give you a hint and you have to refine your search to find the images you actually need. Live Search now provides you ease to use images, rather than looking for keyword queries to discover more refined results.
Enhanced Google Street Views
New Features for Live Search Webmaster Center The Live Search team has come out with a lot of new features for the Webmaster Center. So if by any how, you are using this Microsoft service aside from...
Yahoo! and Virgin Media Going Mobile British Telecommunications leader Virgin Media announced it will use Yahoo oneSearch for providing internet exploration facilities to its mobile customers.
Google AdWords Option to Show on Desktop/iPhone Many advertisers prefer to not show their Google ads to iPhone or mobile users, and there are advertisers who avoid showing their ads to desktop users.
Amazon Doing Away With Alexa Amazon is taking opportunity of Thanksgiving day by releasing the bad news of shutting one of its web service i.e. Alexa Web Search. This service provides programmatic access to...
Enhancements for Google AdWords Last month, Google launched a display ad builder in the Google AdWords. Now, we have noticed that this tool is already getting updates.
Is Microsoft's Live Search Named Kumo? As reported by Liveside.net, Microsoft owns a new domain name kumo.com and the website is pointing towards an internal Microsoft test site. This site can only be accessed by Microsoft.
SEMPO's State of the Market Survey The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization has launched its fifth annual State-of-the-SEM Market Survey. SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) recently announced its fifth industry-wide survey in order to assess the economy's effect on the annual online marketing spending and the change in budget allocation across the various media segments.
Yahoo's November SERP Update We had been anticipating an update in Yahoo! Search for the last few days. Yahoo! had itself caused these speculations by making the following announcement:
Sean Suchter From Yahoo, Heading to Microsoft Whoever said that it's better to jump out of a sinking ship when you can, probably had this scenario in mind. Sean Suchter, Yahoo!'s former Vice-President of Search Technology, is heading over to Microsoft. The news was confirmed by Satya Nadella, Senior Vice-President of Portal and Advertising, Microsoft. He made the following statement: We are very pleased to confirm that..."
Google SERP Update?
T-Mobile and Yahoo OneSearch Yahoo! and T-Mobile have announced a new partnership, under which, oneSearch, Yahoo!'s mobile search facility, will be available to all the...
Gmail Account Themes We had been anticipating Google's web mail client Gmail to add some themes for the last few months and looks like they have finally obliged.
Spell Checker in Google Search Making Up Words Google Search's 'Spell Checker' is an extremely handy feature. It must have helped you innumerable times to get over searches with 'typo' errors.
Voice Search for iPhone
Google's PageRank Singing Ever wondered what Google PageRank would be singing out if it could. Well, all we tech geeks have been thinking over the same for quite some time now.
Google: Some Sub-Directories with Sitelinks
Flash Tracking with Google Analytics Have you ever thought whether your visitors even find the time to watch the flash movies on your website, or they simply skip it? Now you can find it out. How?
Jerry Yang and Yahoo One really can't say that the move was an absolutely unexpected, but still amid much hype Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang officially announced his retirement from the position that he had assumed about 18 months ago. The official press release begins as follows: Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced...
Hints of Competitive Bidding with AdCenter
iPhone Google Voice Search? It was somehow confirmed that Google is desperately working on an entirely new voice-recognition search app for the iPhone. But certain speculations...
Google On-Demand Google has come up another nice webmaster tool. They have come with the launch of their On-Demand Indexing that could actually assist the...
More Demanding Google Site Search In this world, that is full of all kinds of hustle and bustle, people demand speed! It was the game of yesterday years, when people used to wait for hours to get the things done. Now everything is instant! Google has made everything look so simple for us. Everything is available at our fingertips.
iPhone Has New Google Results Pages
New Features for Google Ad Planner Google has recently made an announcement that it's Ad Planner that was launched earlier this year, is now made available to every internet user.
Changing Google Analytics
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems Team Up! Microsoft is going strong with its strategy to craft search shares by gaining more number of distribution partners. In order to continue with this strategy...
Google AdSense Improvises AdSense was blamed for showing political ads in a lot of websites! No one was happy with them. But now they are planning to improve AdFilter and Blocking Ads.
Verify Code Option Removed from AdWords
Yahoo Search Deal with Ballmer? After Jerry Yang's explicit comments about Yahoo! being open to an acquisition from Microsoft, everyone was waiting with waited breath as to what...
Google Termination of Partnership with Yahoo! Despite recent clarifications by Google, regarding the ad deal with Yahoo!, Google has finally decided to terminate its advertising partnership...
Track Your Links with Google's GLYNC It is a fact that the Google Webmaster Tools offers great data for all the webmasters. But still certain things are missing. Earlier, the webmasters...
Trademarked Keywords Displayed by Google AdWords
Google Toolbar PageRank Indicator Missing A lot of discussion has been going on at one of the threads of the Official Webmaster World. Webmasters are discussing about speculations that...
Google - Yahoo! Partnership Termination Despite recent clarifications by Google, regarding the ad deal with Yahoo!, Google has finally decided to terminate its advertising partnership with Yahoo! without providing any clear answer! Heres a statement, just released by YahooGoogle has terminated the advertising services...
Google November SERP Changes... Reverted!
Microsoft Launches Live Search Map In India! Microsoft India has come with the launch of Live Search Maps! The feature provides a detailed analysis of listings as well as street maps for nine...
AdSense Showing Political Ads! I'm outraged that a political ad was fed onto my site This line says it all! Recently it has been observed that AdSense is showing political ads... |