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Robert Clough

Businesses Must Target More Than Just Google

Source: Small Business Ideas Forum - "Yahoo! has been a major player with their own engine for a while now...how radically did your search marketing efforts change when they entered the market? Are you still doing anything differently to make...

Robert Clough

Yahoo Doesn't Need Six Apart Or Blog Ownership For Ad Purposes

Source: Search Engine Watch - MovableType's great -- we use it ourselves -- and so would be of interest to anyone who wants to own blogging technology. But the idea Jackson has that Yahoo needs blogs to fuel its pay-per-click...

Robert Clough

The butler report

Source: Internet Works - Discover why subservience is not on the menu for Ask Jeeves as it stakes a claim for a share of the increasingly valuable search market. (Link Via Search Engine Watch)...

Robert Clough

In the shadow of Google

Source: Boston.com - Although Google dominates the market in Internet search, a number of companies are hoping that profitable niches remain. (Link Via Search Engine Watch)...

Robert Clough

Referral ID Strings and Referrer Info

Source: Search Engine Watch Forums - "Referral tracking is becoming an ever harder game with the growing obsession about (and misidentification of) spyware. A growing number of applications and plug-ins strip referrer info from HTTP headers sent by browsers, making...

Robert Clough

A Defense Against Comment Spam

Source: Yahoo! Search Blog - I'm pleased to announce that Yahoo! Search is one of several organizations in support of a technique that should help combat weblog comment spam. Others involved are: Google/Blogger, MSN Search, Six Apart (TypePad, MovableType, LiveJournal),...

Robert Clough

Working Together Against Blog Spam

Source: msnsearch's WebLog - Over the coming weeks, our MSNBot crawler will start respecting [the rel="nofollow"] tag, and sometime after that MSN Spaces will start to support this as well....

Robert Clough

Adam Bosworth (VP of Engineering at Google) on personalization

Source: Geeking with Greg - Adam likes Google News because it helps him discover articles he otherwise would have missed. What's so interesting about this comment is that Google News is stunningly bad at discovery. It shows the same front...

Robert Clough

Yahoo beats the Street

Source: News.com - For 2004, net income hit $840 million, or 58 cents a share, after gaining $314 million in its investment sale and tax benefits. Excluding the gains, Yahoo reported $526 million, or 36 cents a share, in profits...

Robert Clough

Google aims to outsmart search tricksters

Source: News.com - Called a "no follow" tag, the control when placed before pages of blog comments will signal to Google as it indexes the Web that the pages are to be overlooked. That will render comment spam ineffectual....

Robert Clough

Photo Search: Google Picasa 2 Vs. Adobe Photoshop Album 2

Source: SearchDay - A look at how photo management in Googe's new Picasa 2 measures up against Adobe Photoshop Album 2 and Photoshop Elements 3....

Robert Clough

Businesses Must Target More Than Just Google

Source: Search Engine Guide - The days of simply worrying about gaining a strong ranking in Google, sometimes at the expense of rankings in other engines, are long gone. Companies need to focus on building a strong organic and PPC...

Robert Clough

Top 500 Search Engine Keywords Of The Week

Source: Search Engine Guide - This week's list of the top 500 most frequently searched keywords....

Robert Clough

Top 500 Search Engine Keywords Of The Week

This week's list of the top 500 most frequently searched keywords....

Robert Clough

Top 500 Search Engine Keywords Of The Week

This week's list of the top 500 most frequently searched keywords....

Robert Clough

Businesses Must Target More Than Just Google

By Jennifer Laycock - The days of simply worrying about gaining a strong ranking in Google, sometimes at the expense of rankings in other engines, are long gone. Companies need to focus on building a strong organic and PPC presence...

Robert Clough

Business Plans?

"...it is important to pull those documents out and update them as necessary. And, it can be necessary to be flexible and amend your plan as you come across new information, or if the plan doesn't seem to be working."...