Yahoo Search Has Started Showing Bing Results In Paid and Organic Results

It seems that Yahoo and Microsoft search alliance has begun. Yahoo has begun testing organic and paid search listings from Microsoft. It is showing up 25% of its search traffic organic listing and up to 3.5% may see paid listings from Microsoft.

In coming months mobile organic and paid listing would be integrated.

The new guidelines for the advertisers are here

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Link Building Advice For Bloggers

It is an old age mantra that link building is about relationship building. But how to approach relationship building that would translate into more links?

Jeremy Bencken Search Engine Watch has come with a timely advice that tells people what to do actually for building relations.

Here is the complete article.

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Keyword Research – I Am Liking Wordtracker

WordtrackerThis is a follow up post on my tryst with Wordtracker. I always believed that I was good in keyword research. But I need to learn a lot. I was surprised after I joined Wordtracker how much I was overlooking.

Wordtracker allows you to create projects. I have included this website, Bone And Spine and Med Care Tips for improvements and optimization.

The best part that I liked was to research before making a blog post. I used to do this sparingly before and most of the times wrote on basis of what crossed my mind.

That kind of approach can take you up to certain level only which I think I had reached.

To get beyond, I need to  work smartly. While I would still write what I like, the content would be guided by my research.

I look forward to the improved and relevant blog posts. tags and titles.

I am liking Wordtracker for keyword research. Its interface is simple and intuitive.

Moreover their video tutorials are very helpful.

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Free SEO Tool Kit For Small Business From Microsoft

Microsoft has released a free tool kit that would help you optimize your website for SEO benefit.The free toolkit essentially works like a search engine would.

It processes your site in a similar manner and provides a report of the items and potential solutions to optimize a sites organic search results.

Using this tool you would get tons of suggestions about what you should do to maximize click-through, says the Microsoft.

And the best part is - it is free

The benefits as suggested by Microsoft are

  • Increase website traffic and revenue
  • Influence and update search engines
  • Improve customer experience

Download The Toolkit From Here

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Google Encrypted Search – Search Safe And Search Secure

Did you wish that no body else sees the information when  you search Google next time. Well! You are not alone.

As people spend more time on the Internet, they do not like being accessed.

We are already aware of  information encryption being used by  banking and ecommerce sites. It is usually recognized by a web address starting with “https” or a browser lock icon.

Gmail users would be aware of encryption it has. [Read more...]

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How To Optimize Images For Better Search Engine Ranking

Image search is quite hot in several niches. Entertainment industry and health are two good examples but there are many more. With more and more people directly using image search functionality, the images are getting more an more attention.

Unlike the text optimization of images has not evolved that much but lately it has become quite a hot topic. So if you have a website that hosts many images, you can outperform others by considering few things about optimization of the images.

As search engines struggle to deliver good results for the image searches, you can reward your efforts by taking care of few things. [Read more...]

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Speed Matters! Its Official Now

Google says it is now using speed of the page loading in website ranking. It means faster your site is better your rank could be as compared to if you are slow.This new signal was included in  search ranking algorithms of Google on 9 April 2010.

What Is Site Speed?

Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests. If there i a request to load a page , the page loading early has  better speed. [Read more...]

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Understanding Duplicate Content And How To Avoid It

I am sure you must have heard about duplicate content or come across a discussion somewhere on the web.

Duplicate content issue is not only confusing but also controversial.

While some people go at lengths to explain the duplicate content and the penalties involved, others say play it cool.

But the issue exists and in my view search engines are getting better at it.

With release of canonical url tag and its support across the domains, the search engines especially Google are giving ample signals that they take duplicate content seriously.

If you do not understand much about the issue, this article would help you. [Read more...]

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How To Use Search Engine In An Efficient Way

Every Thursday, there is a topic covered in internet marketing basics. This series is aimed to address the basic building blocks of internet business, the very foundations on which your business would prosper.The articles in this series are for people who have just started or willing to start. Let us sharpen the basic concepts together.

You are welcome and in fact encouraged to ask the questions and make comments. Your queries would be replied with full consideration.

While creating a list for articles in basic learning series, it occurred to me that first thing that every would be entrepreneur should know is effective use of search engines.

Effective use of search engines not only saves your time but also allows you to dig in the documents which you otherwise miss completely.

I had written an article about 2 years back on this topic.

I want you to read this article thoroughly.

Here you go.

Search engine tips that every searcher should know

As usual, every question is welcome.

And so are your comments.



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Google Caffeine – Is It Live!

As I write this post, the web is abuzz with activity and discussions on Google Caffeine going live.

What Is Google Caffeine?

Google Caffeine is the new update from Google

[Do not confuse it with Pagerank update.]

This is usually a change in Google algorithm and causes shift of results at Google. [Read more...]

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