March 2005

Scottie Claiborne

Motivating Your Web Site Visitors To Take Action: Personality Targeting

It is easy to focus on one personality type with your design, layout and copy, but with a little creativity you can actually build a site that appeals to all types....

Jim Hedger

Looking Up Vertical Search Lines

Name a business sector and you can likely find a search tool designed specifically for that sector. Vertical search is not a new idea however branding it as an essential type of search engine is....

Jennifer Laycock

Ixquick Metasearch Engine Introduces New Features

Dutch metasearch engine Ixquick introduced a range of new features this week designed to generate more comprehensive and accurate search results....

Scott Buresh

The Myth of Rankings - Beyond Search Engine Optimization

In general, if a prospect can’t explain what he or she hopes to achieve beyond “higher rankings” or “more traffic,” we’ll first try to educate, and, if that person can’t move beyond these base subjects, we’ll kindly refer them elsewhere....

John Alexander

The Easiest Sequence of Steps for Growth of Your SEO Career

What I'd like to share here are some simple steps you can consider, as well as the sequence of those steps to be most effective in launching your proposed SEO business....

Eric Ward

Looking for Links In All The Wrong Places?

In their frenzy to build links to curry favor with the engines, web site owners miss a far more important audience using topical tools....

Jennifer Laycock

Web Analytics is Google's Latest Acquisition

Google announced plans this week to purchase San Diego, California based Urchin, a popular web analytics software program, for an undisclosed sum of money....

Simon Dang

Strategies For Preparing a PPC Keyword List (Part 1)

Generating your initial keyword list for PPC should be a well-thought out process. It is a critical step in a successful PPC campaign and should not be rushed....

Scottie Claiborne

How Image Links Can Help Build a Better User and Search Experience

There are webmasters out there who believe that good design, usability, and SEO can't co-exist in the same site; that effective SEO will ruin usability or design elements....

Jason Dowdell

IXQuick.com Q & A With David Bodnick & Alex van Eesteren

Jason Dowdell speaks with Alex van Eesteren and David Bodnick of IxQuick.com, a meta search engine that's been around for a few years but released some new features out of beta last week....

Jim Hedger

Yahoo fires latest salvos in Search Engine War

This has been a good week for Yahoo. It has seriously upgraded its feature services and, as search engine user stats released yesterday by Search Engine Watch attest, is holding its position against Google and MSN in all fields....

Bill Hartzer

Yahoo! Unveils Yahoo! Creative Commons Search Beta

Yahoo! today unveiled its new Creative Commons Search Beta where you can find content you can "use for commercial purposes" or content that you can "modify, adapt, or build upon"....

Jill Whalen

Search Marketing FAQ: Special Relationships, Traffic and Plurals

Jill Whalen continues her search engine marketing FAQ and answers commonly asked questions about special relationships with the engines, traffic estimates and keyword phrases....

Jim Hedger

Search Industry Maturing

The activity of the first three months of this year has started to change how most users relate to search. For search marketers, environmental changes borne by the mass adoption of new technologies can be both boon and bust....

Jennifer Laycock

Lawsuit Against Google May Prove Costly for AFP

AFP is going to court to keep their customer's Web sites from being listed in Google news. One wonders how their customers feel about this, after all, a victory could result in less traffic to customers' Web sites....

Jason Dowdell

Q & A With Become CTO Yeogirl Yun

AIR evaluates a web page based on what other "knowledgeable" sites in that specific field say about the page, and also evaluates the page based on what the page says about other "knowledgeable" sites in the specific field."...

Scottie Claiborne

Successful Website Marketing Needs More Than Great Search Listings

In order for search marketing to be an effective marketing strategy, people have to look for what you sell. This seems to be an obvious statement, but it's surprising how many business owners overlook this detail....

Daria Goetsch

Link Building - The Waiting Game

It takes time for the search engine robots to find those new links and index the pages they are linked to....

MSN's New Beta Shopping Search Engine

The Budget Webmaster’s 6 Step Guide to Improving Existing Rankings in Google

Amazon's A9 Offers Unique Local Search Experience

User Experience and Search Engines: If Your Home Page Could Only Talk

Corporate SEO Preparation

MSN Introduces New adCenter Paid Search Solution

Popular Search Marketing Myths Debunked

Hiring a Search Engine Marketer

Increase Website Traffic by Giving Them What They Want

Are You in for a Safe Landing? - PPC Landing Pages

ClickTracks Optimizer Offers Must Have Reporting for Small Businesses

Basic SEO Answers For CFDynamics' Newsletter

The Terrier Project

Search Engine Optimization in the Here and Now

SEO Without Usability -- An Exercise in Futility

What's The Deal With "Other" PPC Search Engines?

Increase Traffic to Your Blog from Search Engines - The Top 5 Tips

Multiple Domains, File Placement and the Impact of Blogs on Rankings

Yellow Pages Introduces Local Search Guide

Yahoo! Celebrates Ten Years

Thinking Like a Spider Helps Search Engines Rank Your Site

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