Daily Search Engine News 10 September 2003

Making Sales on the Internet
Source: Search Engine Guide 2003-09-10
If you build a better company than the other guys you can come out ahead. With lots of unique and useful content and a design that appeals to your audience, you can rank well with a commercial site and build a good business while you're at it.

The Right Keyword Phrases Bring Customers
Source: Search Engine Guide 2003-09-10
Search engine optimization is not about bringing in traffic that might be interested in your product. It's about bringing in people and traffic who want exactly what you sell. Note the word 'exactly.'

Behind the Scenes at the Daypop Search Engine, Part Three
Source: SearchDay 2003-09-10
This concludes a three part interview with Dan Chan, founder and sole proprietor of Daypop, a specialized search engine focusing on weblog and news content.

Search Engine Size Wars
Source: ClickZ 2003-09-10
Which search engine index is bigger -- and who really cares?

West Web Aces Take On Google
Source: Western Daily Press 2003-09-10
The world's first speech- enabled internet search engine, developed following a lunchtime drink in a West pub, is set to challenge the might of Yahoo and Google. From the unlikely base of Cirencester, the creators of www.go4.it claim they can deliver what people really want out of the internet better than their US rivals.

Homestore taps Overture for ads
Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com 2003-09-10
In a bid to make use of its massive audience seeking real estate-related information, Homestore.com signed a deal with Overture to be the exclusive provider of paid-search listings, excluding real estate, across Homestore's Web sites, including Realtor.com and HomeBuilder. Additionally, Homestore will use Overture's new content match listings to be placed on relevant pages.

Business from the Back of a Truck

How Domino's Pizza Got Started

The Goal Is To Make Your Portal Profitable
INDN.org Forums
"I am fortunate enough to have a portal that is actually profitable. Hopefully, I will be able to continue to share my stories, the good and the bad, in order to spur your thinking and creativity so that, your portals support themselves. Even the hobby portals."

Does Alt Tag Matter Any More?
High Rankings Forum
"...alt attributes that describe the page you're clicking to, on a clickable image, does seem to count. It's very similar to having a text link, which is as it should be."

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"The de facto standard" in SEM: The Search Engine Yearbook 2003
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Snap becomes part of the new NBCi site
Pandia 2000-09-10
According to the last issue of the Snap Wire newsletter, Snap will be integrated in a new site called NBCi.

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