The new search engine, Cuil, seems to have caught the imagination of SEO commentators with much written in the last few days.
Cuil’s claims to fame include a very large search index (121,617,892,992 web pages at the time of writing) and founders who (mostly) hail from Google.
The design of the site is crisp and clear with [...]
HitTail have anounced that, as of August 5th, they will no longer offer their free Basic service to new users. Existing users wil still be able to use the service. So I would strongly recommend that anyone who hasn’t tried the service takes a look at it prior to August 5, 2008.
HitTail works by creating [...]
During the last few years I have created many Web sites and one of the critical things I have come to realize is that sites render differently in different browsers - sometimes disastrously differently. Of the browsers that your users are mostly likely to be using, IE6 was a horror for misinterpreting CSS styled sites [...]
In my last post I mentioned Ann Smarty’s comprehensive article about SEO tools. One of the tools I looked at is a search engine SPAM detector. The tool looks for keyword stuffing, doorway farms and hidden text, but is not able to find Javascript or CSS positioning/layering based techniques.
I didn’t really think I [...]
Ann Smarty wrote a very comprehensive post about useful SEO tools. I am working my way through the list to see what is useful and what is not so useful. There is always a danger that with so much great information it becomes difficult to see the wood for the trees, and ‘analysis paralysis’ sets [...]
Some great news from Google. The Google Adwords keyword tool now provides numerical information showing the estimated number of searches for a particular key word. You can read more about it here.
Before the change the only way of getting this information was to take a guess by looking at a bar within the keyword tool [...]
Google reported that they have recently updated an article entitled: “What’s an SEO? Does Google recommend working with companies that offer to make my site Google-friendly?”
The article is particularly strong in describing some of the things to beware of when talking to an SEO.
