March 2008

You can find a million tools to do almost anything SEO on the net. Having said that, only a very low percentage of these tools actually work the way you expect them too. Let’s take a keyword rank checker. You would expect to get the latest SEO rankings with these tools, and that would be [...]

The newest version of WordPress, 2.5, is certainly shinier than anything I have seen from those guys. Best of all, SEO features such as tags, permalinks edit feature, and … are now accessible more than ever. If you haven’t downloaded WordPress 2.5, do it now. It makes your day shinier, literally!

I am sure you have heard of the Earth Hour where people from all around the world turn the lights off in order to support to idea of conserving energy. Google just did their part today by making Google’s homepage all black. The homepage of Google does look ugly in black for what it’s worth, [...]

That’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? The fact of the matter is people are not comfortable discussing how much they are getting paid with their colleagues, but it is not difficult to find out how much some of the so called SEOs get paid for an hour of their time. What I have seen [...]

If you are a SEO, you want to be at the top of things day in and day out and maser the latest techniques. Obviously you can do that with blogs and forums such as SEOChat, but it’s always nice to have a color magazine that offers you the best of your world in 100 [...]

What an event it was. Sure. There were a lot of sponsored sessions, which I didn’t particularly like, but man! The focus of course was mainly on Web 2.0 and Social Media (SMO), but there were some very good sessions on Ad optimization and landing page optimization. Quite frankly, didn’t pick up much from any [...]

So today has been a really busy day for Google. I just noticed that they have added the search box to sites such as Amazon. Basically, if you search for the word Amazon on Google, you will see that little search box under Amazon.com’s listing. It’s pretty cool. For a second I thought I was [...]

It may been out for a while but I just noticed that Google adsense ads now come with navigation. That’s pretty cool, though I can’t say it will be more effective. The fact of the matter is a lot of people ignore these adsense ads, so you don’t expect to get a lot of clicks [...]

You would expect a search engine to get ranked high on other search engines for its best pages, especially when you are talking about the 2nd player in the search industry. Well, it seems all those 999 pages that you and I have been receiving lately have caught up with Yahoo! as Google ranks that [...]

A few days ago, a story broke about the plans of Ask.com executives to go into a different direction, namely targeting their female audience. Now it seems that Ask.com will not necessarily go after women, but they will try to become a very niche player. Here is an interview with Ask.com VP that sheds some [...]