At the end of last week, Google Social Search broke out of its experimental phase, making itself available in beta for all users to create a more personally-tailored search experience.
Outside of Facebook (which has a strong privacy setting against being indexed by search engines), various blogs, social networks and collaboration sites a user is connected to will appear in SERPs when [...]
New Year’s Resolution: Eliminate Duplicate Website Content
January 12th, 2010When it comes to web design and optimizing a site for search engines, content is King. However, search engines count negatively against sites containing considerable amounts of completely matching content or similar content.
Oftentimes, closely-matching content within a site isn’t an attempt to attract search results; rather, duplicate content tends to occur because bulletin boards or blogs [...]
Yahoo Finally Integrates Local Listings and Maps into Search Results
December 15th, 2009After years of users having to type city names, zip codes, and far more information than anyone should have to in order to retrieve maps and directions in search results, Yahoo is finally offering a more streamlined service. The company announced today it has improved its local business search result pages, allowing users to locate [...]
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