Archive for the ‘Search News’ Category

 

Simon Cowell Using SEO Tactics to Improve His Image

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Over the last 9 seasons of American Idol, Simon Cowell has been a controversial figure with his straight-talking and abrasive comments, earning him both fans and enemies. But when you Google “Simon Cowell”, what do you find? Over 20 pages of fan sites, biographies, news about his charity work – and no negative stories.
Critics are [...]

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SEO Tip of the Day: What Does Google Caffeine Mean for You?

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Last month, Google’s official blog announced their completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. “Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links [...]

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Follow the World Cup on Smartphones, Search Engines and Twitter!

Friday, June 11th, 2010

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is upon us, and you can enjoy the games while getting up-to-date information and interaction on social media networks! You can follow the World Cup on TV and on your Smartphone as well as on all the major search engines and Twitter.
In search news, Yahoo has introduced search shortcuts for [...]

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SEO Tip of the Day: How to Speed Up Your Website’s Page Load Time

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Google has officially declared a new factor into their search ranking: site speed. According to Google, site speed “reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests”. Speeding up your website is more important than ever. Google’s internal studies have shown that when a site responds slowly, visitors tend to spend less time there.
For these [...]

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Facebook’s New Changes Will Affect Social Connections and Search on the Web

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

At Facebook’s f8 conference earlier this week, the company announced ambitious goals and new changes to the social media network. Three official new concepts introduced are the Social Plugins, which utilize a social graph and the “Like” button to connect users with similar interests. The Open Graph Protocol allows users to build their profiles through [...]

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Twitter Launches its First Advertising Platform

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

It’s official: social media network Twitter is launching its first means of advertising today – Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Many have been speculating since Twitter was introduced four years ago how the social media site intends on making money through advertising. The highly anticipated Twitter advertising platform officially called Promoted Tweets will show up when [...]

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Yahoo Finally Integrates Local Listings and Maps into Search Results

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

After 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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