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Widely recognized as the world's most popular search engine, Google defines searching to the degree that some people say they "googled" something as a synonym for searching. For more background, see Google news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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The introduction of further text to compliment forum listings seems to be more widespread over the last couple of days. Peter Young from Holistic Search discusses further read more »
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The headline is perhaps the most important piece of your landing page. It is the first thing a potential customer sees. It is also the first marketing message your deliver. The goal of the headline capture the visitors attention and compel them to r read more »
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I [Ann Smarty] search Google daily (min. once per hour, I guess). However I don’t just type in words and go through the results. An an SEO, I often use advanced search (especially the date range option to see most recent domain / brand name mentions read more »
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Yesterday Google released a nice upgrade to our favorite PPC campaign management tool, AdWords Editor. V6.5 has valuable features-but bugs that may be showstoppers. read more »
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Last part in this week's series on links from the fine folks at Gooooooogle ;0) read more »
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having given the topic much thought, I've decided to change my blog's comments from nofollow to dofollow in order to encourage reader engagement? Think I'm mad? Time will tell... read more »
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Google continues its supremacy, despite the clamor over emerging search engines attempting to dethrone it. These providers approach search from different perspectives (semantic, social, community-based) and present their results in fresh forms (desi read more »
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Looks like the whole /blog directory is missing !! .. May be some problem from server side or ru thinking about renaming the directory ... hun ?? !! read more »
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Write robots.txt file effectively and have full access on search engine robots crawling your web pages. read more »
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To win the Google War, you have to know the competition inside out. This report for sphinners helps you see how you stack up against the competition. By analyzing this, you will discover what are the key gaps in your online strategy. read more »
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If Satan is seeping up from hell, the rippoff report site is where he is surfacing.

Not long ago someone wrote a false report including my real name and my company name that included accusing me of fraud, tax evasion, discrimination and more. Th read more »
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Local Search article focuses on the facts and whether you should be focusing on the Onebox or Organic. read more »
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I think it's an interesting evolution in the world of Google, since they're now adding recent bloggin information, it may indicate it's usage in the algorithm for the ranking of blog posts. read more »
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I can count on one hand the number of SEO consultants I have met who understand Google’s perspective on brands. That’s not a good sign for those of you hiring SEO consultants. And, given Google’s recent public statements about brands, it’s also not read more »
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Just another list with 5 SEO Myths. read more »
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have you tried searching google for "search engine"?? read more »
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In the SEO world, there are various conventions that seem to stand the test of time despite their rather limited fundamental value. read more »
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Some Google Local business listings are getting trumped by an unethical data provider - and modified to point to a directory page with advertisements, and no mention of the business found in the Google Local search. This stinks! read more »
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One word: WOW. "New satellite images that will eventually show up in Google Earth and Google Maps are now arriving from the Google-sponsored GeoEye-1 satellite that launched a month ago. GeoEye has just released the stunning image below as a preview read more »
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Her you have Keywords for "Home Business"
- Don't use all of them
- 4 or 5 sentence are good enough read more »
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After reading that RSS feeds in Google search is coming soon on WebProNews, quoting both SearchEngineLand and TheWallStreetJournal, I became somewhat confused. Why? because RSS feeds have been available in Google Blogsearch for a month now. Maybe lo read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "A very insightful thread at WebmasterWorld discusses how Google might distinguish trust and authority notions and how they might influence the algorithm." read more »
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Researching exactly what people are look for is the cornerstone of a successful online business. Discover the best ways to research keywords. read more »
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Well ehm.. the story contains only two sentences, can't paste here.. sorry read more »
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I hope that don't decide on a duplicate video penalty :-) read more »
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