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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 2:29 am
Posted By: sagar13d 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.accrediteddldegrees.com)
Category: Searching
If you are looking for a particular video, an old friend from high school, or the perfect handbag, a niche search engine can help. They can make life even better if you can use them in a pinch. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 4:29 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 218 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Searching
Could Stumbleupon’s human-filtered search results be the beginning of the next evolution of search engines that could see the all-powerful Google algorithim be made redundant?

I think Nowsourcing is on to something here. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 15, 2008 - 1:19 am
Posted By: steaprok 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Searching
Anyway as I said above I am good friends with the owners of BOTW so obviously I am biased. I am curious to hear your thoughts on the deal if in fact BOTW is the new owners of the DMOZ directory. read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 24, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Posted By: nickycakes 229 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Other Searching
Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats out read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: Maing 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
FireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 1:24 pm
Posted By: northrock 310 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Ask.com
I think this stinks. I have been hoping Ask could build it's search into a competitive engine. Their interface was nice but we all know that's not enough. I'm surprised they didn't stick it out longer. read more »
30 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: graywolf 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://webworkerdaily.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites — sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites’ first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 11:29 am
Posted By: Sebastian 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Other Searching
Here is Joost's guide 'how to provide usable WP-SERPs', titled
"Make WordPress' search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: rhcerff 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Ask.com
Ask.com... getting closer to core search or simply trying to increase the number of searches? Barry Schwartz gets to the nitty gritty... or not. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 19, 2008 - 7:16 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
How important is using images in your posts? Michaels example is one of many to show the benefits of putting your little 3 minutes worth of effort into adding an image, including locating, cropping and tagging. As Michael puts it, "How nice is it to read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2008 - 12:38 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Ask.com
Lisa Barone writes "Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can't bring myself to look at you.

I didn't intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 17, 2008 - 12:28 pm
Posted By: mpilatow 328 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Nice list of less popular Firefox Extensions that are helpful to SEO projects. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 8:49 am
Posted By: Maing 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Twitter is a great marketing tool that can help you understand your audience and keep track of hot trends in your industry. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 9, 2008 - 11:38 am
Posted By: aimClear 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Local & Maps
This post is important. Learn simple Local Business Center procedures to show up in the G-maps category of YOUR CHOICE. Mike Blumenthal discusses first research to reveal workings of Google's map categorization process. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 3, 2008 - 12:43 am
Posted By: rjonesx 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Searching
The analysis is in, and you can send all the validators home. W3C HTML Validation shows little to no impact on search rankings on Google, Yahoo, Ask or MSN Live. read more »
39 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 9:42 am
Posted By: oldschool 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Best of The Web adds a local component, making a great directory an even better resource on the consumer level. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2008 - 1:55 pm
Posted By: mbeijk 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal shows why it is important to claim your business. It important that this is being brought to the attention to Small Business Owners like Eric Stein said on SMX East on monday read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 1:14 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Searching
Now that Google Chrome is live, I [Danny Sullivan] spent some time looking at the search features within it, especially to see -- as I did recently with Internet Explorer 8 -- whether Google was going to try to stack the deck in its own favor. Like read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 2:45 am
Posted By: Ruud 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.googletutor.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
"simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open a new tab/window with Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at a search engin read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 21, 2008 - 8:18 am
Posted By: martinbowling 204 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
As I watch search marketers often continue to obsess about things like PageRank, I wanted to do a personal post / wake-up call related to our SMX Local & Mobile Search Marketing show happening next month in San Francisco, July 24-25. Because for all read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm brings you everything you need to know from last week's SMX Local conference. He says: "I've just returned from SMX Local in San Francisco and my head is still spinning. Chris Sherman, Greg Sterling, and the rest of the Third Door Media t read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: pittfall 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Searching
When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?

A new patent application from Yahoo explores how a search engine might handle the singular and plural versions read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 6:20 am
Posted By: annie7 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Tips & Tools
Very useful post on robots by Sebastian - must read! read more »
2 Comments     


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