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Jennifer Laycock

2005 Zeitgeist Released

The year end data from Google's search queries is in and they've put together the 2005 Zeitgeist overview covering everything from gaining queries to popular Froogle searches to nature and other phenomena. It's no surprise that Hurricane Katrina and the...

Jennifer Laycock

Yahoo! To Revamp Search Results, Shorten PPC Text

Yahoo! has announced that they'll be revamping their search results page after the first of the year in order to make their search results easier to read. They are also hoping that the move will help advertisers see an increase...

Jennifer Laycock

adCenter Opens Up Access to Another Round of Testers

Last week, I received an email in my inbox from MSN adCenter telling me that I was part of the next round of testers that were going to be give access to set up a pay-per-click campaign. I spoke with...

Jennifer Laycock

Google Accounts Make My Head Spin

Google, the company that claims to have "organizing the world's information" as their ultimate business goal has somehow managed to create a disorganized mess of their login and account system. I touched on this early on in the 30 day...

Jennifer Laycock

AOL Users Crazy for Lotteries

AOL Search announced the top queries for the year 2005 this morning in a press release that outlined the topics that received the most interest on AOL Search, AOL's portal and the AOL service itself. As it turns out, AOL...

Jennifer Laycock

301 Redirects and Domains With and Without WWW

Every website should have a 301 redirect (or something similar in effect) set up so that either the domain with or without the www is the primary....

Jennifer Laycock

Search Engine Strategies Chicago Recap

After a six hour drive that stretch into eleven hour due to a classic midwestern snow storm, I arrived home this past weekend from a week in Chicago for the Search Engine Strategies conference. While I didn't get to attend...

Jennifer Laycock

Are You Designing for Firefox Too?

I have a friend in the industry that's always hounding on the idea that usability and accessibility are so intricately tied to search engine friendliness that they are almost the same issue. While many in the industry still don't believe...

Jennifer Laycock

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