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Search Forum | Prefix question If I type sochoose.com, rather than www.sochoose.com in my browser it returns my homepage (w/out the www. prefix)which then links to all my internal pages (again, without the www. prefix).
What's the latest on paid inclusion/rapid indexing? A while back it seemed like several search networks (Fast, Inktomi, Ask, AltaVista) had a service where you could pay like $30-$60 a year and they would guarantee your site would be indexed in 48 hours
Anchor Text In an article entitled "Google’s New Update - Is Google Bombing You?" by Martin Lemieux discusses the poor situation with SEO specialists and the agressive use of the TITLE attribute. |
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| Recent Articles | It's The Same Deal For Both Search Engines And Real Estate It's all about location, location, location! In the past...back in the days when Google was IT when it came to natural search results...everyone was very focused (or shall we say obsessed?) on Google page rank.
Tops in Toolbars? Most internet marketers are aware of, and probably use, the Google Toolbar. After all, it has been the only indicator of Google's PageRank number that has been assigned to a given web page.
Pay-Per-Click Search Advertising Comes First There are a variety of advertising options available to online business owners small and large. There's traditional banner advertising, text ads of both static and contextual varieties, popups and popunders, layer ads and pay-per- click search engine advertising.
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10.13.04
Are Meta Keywords Back In For Search?
By Maximilian Cannon
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.
Well, meta keywords are back big in SEO consideration and there's a new sheriff in town setting down some new consistent guidelines. His name is Jon Glick - an honest-to-goodness search engine insider. Jon is Senior Manager of Search at Yahoo! and has a unique background in the industry, in that, he's a qualified computer scientist who also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
You'll find the Jon Glick lengthy interview concerning the new meta keyword rebirth in search at:
http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/april_2004.html
Here are the condensed talking point highlights of the keyword tag discussion within the article:
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Why Authors Should Blog
By John Colanzi
While watching the presidential conventions I was struck by the fact that blogs had totally revolutionized the publishing industry. Sitting right alongside the major news agencies were the bloggers frantically typing on their laptops. Even seasoned veterans who had covered past conventions mentioned the power of this new media.
Due to the dynamic nature of blogs, the bloggers with their laptops could report in real time, thus getting their stories online long before the morning newspapers would hit the streets. Commentators even mentioned that many of the breaking news stories had been reported first by bloggers.
Think about this for a minute. Gutenberg revolutionized the publishing industry by letting writers mass produce their work.
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Tiger Tops Personalized Search "Tiger Woods" was the top searched term on the KaZaZZ! Personalized Search Engine for the week ending October 9, 2004...
Yahoo Third Quarter Results Company Posts Revenues of $907 Million, Operating Income of $172 Million, Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization of $260 Million...
Supercharged Search Advertising Research and Markets has added Online Search, 2004 to their offering. Last year's 123% growth rate for paid search ad spending was impressive, but this report also highlights the other elements of the search marketing process that should not be overlooked...
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