MSN – Ad champions?
The Superbowl is this Sunday, and although I am a big football fan, I do not have much interest in the two teams who will be vying for the title of Superbowl champion. No matter who is playing in the [...]
MSN ad – New MSN.com home page preview
MSN now has an ad on its home page that advertises the new MSN.com, claiming to be Fast. Clear. Easy. You can view the preview of the new page with its features at https://specials.msn.com/homepagetour/default.html. The main features are: faster load [...]
Google AdWords API now in beta
The anticipated release of the Google AdWords API is now a reality. To begin using the API, all you have to do is sign up. You can get all the information on it at www.google.com/apis/adwords. For SEOs who offer AdWords [...]
Fight back against site hijackers
As I have reported before, Google is enabling the process of having your site rankings destroyed by hijackers and content thieves. To date, Google has done very little, if anything, to stop this from happening. Over time, we have learned [...]
Proof the sandbox exists – See it in action
US Netizen noted today that adding the -nonsensewords to the end of a search query results in the ability to see where your sandboxed site would rank if it were not sandboxed. An example query would be: your keyword phrase [...]
SEO Kit – A new SEO resource site
A new SEO resource site has emerged called SEO Kit. It bills itself as "information from around the SEO Community" At the moment, it includes SEO tools, articles, its own directory, a list of powerful directories, and links to various [...]
Log file analyzer – Bothunter
Jocelyn, a friend from both SEO Chat and SEO Guy forums, has created a log file analyzer called Bothunter. It is a good tool for digging through your log files and finding all the nuggets of information that you need [...]
My Yahoo! as a desktop ticker
Yahoo! has just released (re-released, actually) a desktop ticker that displays in your task bar. This ticker pulls information from your My Yahoo! page to display news, RSS feeds, Yahoo! mail, and anything else you have added to your My [...]
AOL looking to do search right
Innovation is not always necessary to create a good product. Sometimes, all it takes is the right combination of existing products to create a new outstanding product. That is what AOL is looking to do, and from what it sounds [...]
Easy way to check Google SERPs by country
I have noticed lately that two of my sites that do not rank well in google.com, rank very well in google.ca. Since I do not routinely check other country datacenters, this was a surprise to me. Obviously, with so many [...]
