May 2008

These days are good days for SEO professionals as SEO has again become one the hottest internet marketing topics. Companies from various industries are looking to improve their search engine visibility by implementing best SEO practices. Implementing title tags, meta tags, and alt tags is a must these days. Sure, some of these techniques are [...]

The thing about Google is that they constantly test so many features that sometimes it’s difficult to find them all. The one that I just noticed today was the search box that you get when you search for a few plural terms such as Banks or Restaurants. You all probably know that Google showed search [...]

I am sure you all have heard this piece of advice about how having keywords in your domain will help you get ranked better on Google. That is partially true, but it really all comes down to branding and what you do with your domain. It is true that if you run a credit card [...]

Now I can’t tell that for sure as Google needs to either verify or deny this, but I have not been able to get to Google.com for a few minutes now. If that doesn’t mean servers are down, I don’t know what is. It could be a maintenance that is going on @ Google, but [...]

After Microsoft failed to woo Yahoo! folks in order to acquire and integrate Yahoo! technologies with those of  their own, some have claimed that Steve will invest the money he had set aside for Yahoo! in search technologies that could allow Microsoft to challenge and dethrone Google as the leader of the pack. Now that [...]

Now this feature may have been in place for quite some time, but frankly I have not used Yahoo! for so many months that I haven’t noticed many features that they have been implementing (expect SearchMonkey that is). But I noticed today that when you search for a keyword phrase on Yahoo!, you get a [...]

Search Monkey of course! I don’t personally have any affection towards yahoo, but since they announced the search Monkey project, I have been desperate to see what I can really do with it. I have just received the beta invitation from Yahoo! and can’t wait to get my hands dirty with the API. Now, I [...]

I am sure you all have heard this piece of advice about how having keywords in your domain will help you get ranked better on Google. That is partially true, but it really all comes down to branding and what you do with your domain. It is true that if you run a credit card [...]

So much for not going a dime above the original offer, as Microsoft claimed when Yahoo! rejected its initial offer. Major news sources are now claiming that Microsoft has upped its offer by “several dollars” in an attempt to finish the deal with Yahoo! as soon as possible. Yahoo! turned down the first offer, considering [...]