Link exchange tip
As I have mentioned before, when you offer to exchange links with someone, it can be useful if you offer a little something extra as well. One idea for that little something extra is to offer to put a thumbnail [...]
Is imitation flattery…or copycatting?
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when you are talking about the two major search engines, I would call it copycatting. Have you seen the search.yahoo.com page lately? Lo and behold, it is a very [...]
Do your web designers know anything about SEO?
Recently, someone asked me to take a look at her site and help her determine why she was not ranking well for her chosen search terms. It only took a couple of minutes to see many glaring mistakes that her [...]
Clustering – search of the future?
The term clusters has become the newest SEO jargon word to be bandied about. Clustering related search terms into groups has already been implemented by several smaller search engines such as Vivisimo's Clusty, but the other major search engines (including [...]
So what is being said about MSN Search Champs?
Obviously, all the people who attended MSN Search Champs are under a non-disclosure agreement, so most of their lips are sealed fairly tightly. However, from what I have read, most of them were quite impressed with the research going on [...]
PR Update – Finally!!!!
Check your PR everyone! Toolbar PR has finally been updated! If you do not yet see it on the toolbar, you can go to https://www.mcdar.net/Q-Check/datatool.asp and enter in your url, then choose Check for BL/PR Update to see the PR [...]
Yahoo and MSN cranking up new strategies in SE war
Both Yahoo! and MSN are feverishly getting closer to winning the war against Google. Both are beta testing new features (or in MSNs case, a whole new search engine) that they hope will bring them the spoils of the search [...]
Submitting to search engines myth
Look around at the many SEO companies promising a lot for very little and many will say they will submit your site to thousands of search engines. Please do not be tempted to take them up on this offer. First, [...]
Free links assistant software
If you are looking for software to help you manage the sometimes gargantuan task of link building, you may want to consider Links Assistant. This free tool for managing information about link partners lacks a few features that would make [...]
MSN beta preview live again for a short time
Once again, MSN previewed its new beta search engine yesterday in a few non-US countries, but only for a very short time. Those lucky enough to catch it while it was live noted that it had improved since the first [...]
