Traduction francaise: 9 Façons possibles pour les Moteurs de Recherche de Personnaliser vos Résultats de Recherche
Personalization of search results is very important to the future success of any search engine, and its an effort well underway with many of the big 3 search engines as we speak.
If its true that the key success factors of [...]

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Paid directories have historically been one of the best link building strategies for Search Engine Optimization. Back in the golden days of SEO, where it was much easier to manipulate Google for SERP’s, paid directories were thought of as being the ‘holy grail’ of link development.
Over time, the fine staff over at Google have constantly [...]

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Traduction française
After having spent seven years in the web industry, it never ceases to amaze me that many of today’s corporate decision makers are still failing to grasp and/or maximize the power of their corporate website.
There are enough studies out there today to tell us that the majority of research preceding purchase decisions, both for [...]

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A navigational query is one where the searcher knows where she wants to go to find something.
An informational query alternatively is one where the searcher knows what she'd like to do or find but does not know how this can be achieved.
Navigational queries come in two types:

a word, name or brand strongly or uniquely associated [...]

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Traduction française de l’article écrit par Jeff Quipp le 11 août dernier (2008) : iPhone Search Result Optimization Tip #1: Phone Numbers in Meta Tags
Est-ce que les PDAs du type iPhone sont la voie du futur? Est-ce que la plupart des recherches seront faites à partir de ces dispositifs? Je ne crois pas qu’aucun d’entre [...]

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Snatch of conversation:
- I beg your pardon? Assets? You probably meant to say “puppets” didn’t you?
- Whatever you call them, dear: puppets, fake accounts or users, bots, tools… assets!
- Hm… But the creation of err… sock err … fake err …multiple accounts within one community most often goes against their T&C…
- Yes, of course it [...]

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Traduction française de l’article écrit par Jeff Quipp, le 12 juillet 2008 : « 12 Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid »
Si le contenu est roi dans le monde de la recherche, alors les blogs en sont le royaume!
Pour ceux d’entre vous qui blogue dans le but de générer des revenus supplémentaires pour [...]

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Are iPhone type PDAs the way of the future. Will most searches be performed from such devices? I don't think any of us can argue against it … it will happen … and in fact the transition is well under way.
Accordingly, I thought the topic of getting better results from iPhones warranted a new blog [...]

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Time is not on the side of Cuil.com, the newest behemoth search engine which is boasts searching 121,617,892,992 web pages (at time of writing this).  Upon giving it a try, as anyone should, I find that it seems to be fraught with error and a graphic free-for-all for returning relevant results.  Will I write it [...]

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Traduction française de l’article écrit par Jennifer Osborne le 30 janvier 2008 : Dude, I’m Phaaaaaat!
Lorsque j’étais enfant, on m’a habituée à faire des recherches par type de catégorie à l’aide du système utilisé à la bibliothèque soit, le Système Décimal Dewey. Plus tard, lorsque j’ai vieilli, ce sont les pages jaunes qui ont renforcé [...]

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