As consumers increasingly flock online to comparison shop, it's the portals, search engines, comparison shopping engines, and trustworthy topical 'vortals' that will enjoy the fattest and least messy profits from facilitating consumers' research....
Imagine if you could get into the head of a sampling of your website or software users? What would they tell you?...
If portals have all this power, and Google is becoming one, how will they start to throw their own weight around? How quickly will Google hurry to consummate its long-delayed IPO given that the company could be weakened irreparably by further delays in this new 'everyone against Google' climate?...
In the spirit of peering into the future at the things that await us all, let's now take a look into what could happen if the rumors of an Inktomi and Yahoo partnership were to ever come true....
The real secret to attracting more traffic is to add bucket loads of fresh content to your site. Providing you promote this new content effectively, it can act like a magnet on your site, pulling in new visitors every single day....
Recently, the beta version of Froogle.com was launched, offering the search expertise of Google to the world of online products....
Are you sick and tired of receiving "I just visited your website. I linked to it on this page. I would love it if you would link back to mine" emails? The gig is up....
There's no need for an additional domain. If you have additional products or services, simply add pages to your existing site. Every page is a gateway to the rest, and they can all rank highly if properly optimized....
I've found that most brand web sites fail to provide the type of content that engenders, inspires, or encourages other sites to link to them, or online editors to write about them. I call this concept 'linkability'. Some sites have a lot of it, others have very little....
Your website is ready. Your content is in place, you have optimized your pages. What is the last thing you should do before uploading your hard work? Validate....
I'd like to see a fair, affordable-to-all-websites ranking and indexing system developed for an environment of many cultures, languages, and user demands such as ecommerce, research, blogs, personal pages and news. Google, nor any other search company, hasn't found the answer yet....
Optimizing pages with JavaScript and Style Sheets for search engines. Step by step tutorial on how to successfully offload Javascript and CSS (Style Sheets) to external text files for optimum indexing by the search engine spiders....
Right now, I feel like the kid in school, afraid to raise his/her hand and ask a 'dumb question'... but perhaps, like that kid, there are others afraid to ask too! Would it be possible to include a brief explanation and spelled out meaning of the abbreviations or terms?...
I spend a lot of time reading newsletters and forum postings about search engine marketing. More often than not, people are asking about methods used to improve search engine rankings: what works, what doesn't, and what will get you in trouble....
Everyone is trying to second-guess what's going on at Yahoo!. Some experts are saying webmasters will stop paying $299 yearly for the Yahoo! Business Express listing because they've seen their rankings tank since Yahoo! started serving Google crawler-based results. Others say it's more important than ever to pay for the Yahoo! listing in order to boost link popularity, an important algorithm ranking factor....
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