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 [...]
There are 3 options as to how you can format your keyword phrases within the PPC control panel:
Exact match: Exact match words are placed between square brackets (e.g. [Web site hosting updates]). The advert only appears if someone does a search for the exact phrase, without any additional terms. So, in this case, if someone [...]
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 [...]
Joost de Valk wrote a super article on search engine optimization for Wordpress. It is packed with some really great advice. I particularly like his suggestions regarding permalinks and several great plugins such as:
Redirection plugin which allows you to change your permalink structure and ensures that search engines can still find pages that have [...]
Ever since I started using multiple browsers in my daily work life, I have been a big user of FURL. FURL is a social bookmarking tool which enables me to bookmark Web pages and access my bookmarks in whicever browser I happen to be in. I know I could have found some way of synchronizing [...]
