Google is to purchase 265.com, a startup page of Chinese website links (or piloting or daohang). 265.com has been a partner site with since last year and Google’s search box has been positioned at a prominent spot on 265.com.
Previously, Google did launch its own daohang (or startup page of website links), but it is [...]
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Webmasters who have their websites in the Yahoo! Directory often complained about their outdated titles and descriptions being displayed in Yahoo!’s search engine result pages (SERP). This has negatively affected the clickthrough rate and/or ranking of websites of many webmasters.
However, since February this year all worries were over due to the introduction of Yahoo!’s NOYDIR [...]
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Today Google (Guge) launched a newly localized vertical site in China. It is a user startup web page called Daohang (daohang.google.cn). Daohang means “piloting” or “leading to the right directions”.
On the startup page, there are loads of external links pointing to many useful Chinese portals, search engines and websites, including even Google’s Chinese search rival [...]
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The Open Directory Project (aka Dmoz) has come back to live (see this recent post by Aaron Wall), when in recent months there have been speculations from many SEO professionals and link builders whether major search engines will soon degrade the authority values of this once-very-popular directory.
Just less than 48 hours ago, the directory has [...]
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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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