Yahoo! has recently introduced the “No Open Directory” (NOODP) tag to webmasters.
If you’re one of the webmasters who has a link pointing to your website from the Open Directory Project (ODP) since years ago, your ODP title and description may have not expired and do not reflect what your website is about anymore. However, Yahoo! [...]
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Baidu as a search engine, like Google, has built a financially successful business around its paid search program, Baidu Jingjia. In China’s Internet search market, paid search is regarded as the 3rd generation. However, Baidu is actively pursuing the next emerging stage of search - social search!
Baidu CEO Robin Li recently explained, “In the next [...]
Webmasters and SEO experts often talk about Google Sandbox, which is strongly linked to Google TrustRank. Both TrustRank and Sandbox are part of Google’s ranking filters and both are often regarded as one set of Google filters by webmasters and SEO experts.
When the Sandbox effect has been applied to a new website, it disappears entirely [...]
Yahoo! is leading in Yellow Pages Searches with 23.9% of total US market share.
* Yahoo! Sites: 23.9%
* Verizon SuperPages: 20.1%
* Google Sites: 12.5%
* Yellowpages.com: 12.0%
* Time Warner Network: 7.7%
* Local.com: 5.9%
* InfoSpace Network: 5.1%
* Dexonline.com: 4.1%
The results were recently released by comScore. According to comScore,
The study is the second in a two-part series that analyzes [...]
Google has further strengthened its lead in the online advertising space in which Google will take up 25% of all online advertising revenue by the end of 2006, according to a recent report by eMarketer.
It is estimated that Google’s US advertising revenue will increase by 65% from last year, while Google’s nearest rival Yahoo! will [...]
Yahoo! Buzz Log released their top 20 misspelled keywords. The keywords within ( ) are the corresponding correct spellings.
1. Rachel Ray (Rachael Ray)
2. Tatoos (Tattoos)
3. Scarlett Johanson (Scarlett Johansson)
4. Wierd Al Yankovic (Weird Al Yankovic)
5. Evanesence (Evanescence)
6. Soduku (Sudoku)
7. Barbara Streisand [...]
Several years ago I have had a client asking me to submit his website search engines. His website was not newly created at the time, though it wasn’t showed up on organic search results. The client wasn’t even aware of the existence of PPC ads. It took me a bit of explanation and education to [...]
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One of the Inside Adwords crew recently explained that there is absolutely no relation between one’s web page ranking on the organic search results and one’s PPC ads ranking on Adwords. These are the points that he made:
Inclusion in the search results has no impact on whether or not one’s ads will appear.
Being an advertiser [...]
Last week, China has officially launched cnki.net which is a search engine of China’s first online database of academic journals.
cnki.net is a national web project of search program that is built at a cost of 345 million yuan. It provides the contents of 6642 academic periodicals that serve as research sources by anyone.
This academic web [...]
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