Google vs Yahoo New Survey

June 15, 2005

The two heavyweight fighters of the online world, Google and Yahoo, remain locked in a titanic battle for supremacy, with each dominant in their key areas, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research.
ChangeWave’s survey of 1,440 professionals showed Google is not only the primary online search engine by a huge margin (78% Google; [...]

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Permanent Redirect From Root Links

June 14, 2005

Search engines treat and evaluate http://domain.com , http://www.domain.com and http://www.domain.com/index.php seperately. So if you have incoming links to your root domain (domain.com) you are losing some great value of incoming links.
If you do a link building campaign, you can always use the same domain, but if there natural links coming to your site, [...]

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Google Most Valuable Media Company

June 10, 2005

Google Inc. took over the top spot as the most highly valued media company this week, surpassing Time Warner Inc. in just 10 months of trading as a public company.
Google’s share price on the Nasdaq rose another $2.18, or 0.75 percent, to close at $293.12 on Tuesday, an all-time high. Stock market analysts have suggested [...]

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Google Sitemaps Beta Create Your Sitemap

June 7, 2005

Google has its new beta program Google Sitemaps Beta.
Google says:
Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these [...]

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US Manufacturers Do Not Use SEO Effectively

June 2, 2005

New study shows how poorly U.S. manufacturers use natural search engine optimization (SEO) as an online marketing strategy to generate new sales leads.
“U.S. Manufacturers Resist Natural Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Online Sales Leads,” prepared by Cleveland, Ohio-based Fathom SEO, covers such SEO topics as web site page titles and META descriptions, site architecture barriers [...]

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Search Conference by WebmasterWorld

June 2, 2005

WebmasterWorld is hosting a search conference in New Orleans, LA during June 21-24.
Google is also sending 10 engineers to the conference, and this is the announcement about it at WebmasterWorld:
In an unprecedented move, Google is sending a team of engineers to support WebmasterWorld’s World Search Conference, being held in June 21-24, 2005. Conference [...]

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PR is Dead, PR is Back . What is happening?

May 30, 2005

It was a busy weekend for SEO consultants, and SEO forums. Friday (27th of May) I have read the thread “There is not a PR update going on” at DigitalPoint Forums and found out that many sites started showing grey on the Google Toolbar PR check.
There were very early comments with the shock of [...]

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Google Visual Page Rank is Back

May 30, 2005

I have read DP topic Google PR is back and went to check the visual page rank.
Yes, Google Page Rank is back. Maybe it was a glitch, maybe maintenance. But it is back right now.

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Is Google Toolbar PR History ?

May 27, 2005

Movement in different Google data centers were the reasons of many discussions during last couple of days. Now all the data centers show 0/10 PR for websites, and Google Toolbar is grey.
At first many thought it was a Google PR update after a Google backlink update, but then some started mentioning a rollback at [...]

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Link Exchange Requests Becoming Annoying

May 27, 2005

I have never replied to a spam email in my life, and I have never sent any kind of spam from any of my sites. Lately, I have been receiving hundreds of link exchange requests from webmasters.
With the help of link building softwares out there, it is becoming annoying.
Here’s my advice to [...]

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