The Live Search Webmaster Center Blog reported yesterday that the backlinks feature has been made actionable again. The linkdomain attribute feature had been taken away in 2007 and then later a subset of back link information was included in the Live Search webmaster tools.
The new feature appears to return accurate results and gives the option [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I’m currently reading Web Analytics An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik. It is easy to read and it packed with great insights about analytics - including analystics for social media and SEM.
One thing that struck me the other day was Avinash’s comments about internal search. Even though I often use the internal search box [...]
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