MS and Yahoo Come Close – Bing To Power Yahoo Search

Microsoft and Yahoo have made a strategic alliance to create a stronger rival to the industry powerhouse Google.

The Microsoft-Yahoo pact is a measured step that represents a pragmatic division of duties between the two.

Microsoft will provide the underlying search technology on Yahoo’s popular websites. The deal provides a lift for Microsoft’s recent overhaul of its search engine, renamed Bing, which has won praise and favorable reviews.

For Yahoo, the move furthers the strategy of the company on its strengths as a producer of web media sites, from finance to sports, as a marketer and a leader in online display advertising that accompanies published websites. [Read more...]

Popularity: 30% [?]

Traffic Decreased From Paid Search As Compared To Organic Search

seoI have never been a fan of paid search. I know there are people who have visitors turned subscribers from paid searches like Adwords but except for few sales of ebooks, I have never been very keen on buying the visitors. I am more of a follower of building the visitors.

I have never used paid search for this site. May be in future that would change.

I am not against paid search marketing. but I do not advocate it for newcomers for two reasons [Read more...]

Popularity: 21% [?]

A List of 15+ Good and Free SEO Tools

Back Link Analyzer -This one comes from SEO Book. It is absolutely free and functions similar too Opti Link and SEO Elite.

Hundreds of Free SEO Tools - This page lists about 136 free search engine tools. Many of these are free. Overall, a very good collection

SEO Surf - This free tool optimize your websites for search engines, manage link exchanges and promote your website for more visitors and traffic.

WebCEO - Its 12 tools help you promote your site in search engines, analyze your traffic, and maintain your online property. [Read more...]

Popularity: 36% [?]

Keywords – Center Of Your Business

From  your marketing campaign to your articles and sales letter, there exists a core entity that decides and drives your business.

It is called ‘keyword’

It  starts with your market search for your niche, it is there when you search & create your product and it is there where you create your website. You need it to grow your business and you need it to check your competition.

It involves every marketing effort you make.

You need this for article marketing.

Very obviously, you need it for pay per click strategy.

You need it for your blog articles.

The list could be endless.

Knowing keywords related to your niche provide you a lot of advantages.

When you know what to build upon, your keywords become foundation on which you can grow your business.

While we consider keywords an essential part of SEO, we often overlook them as business building strategy.

To understand right usage of keywords, we need to research and experiment.

There are many aspects of keyword research and usage and there are many keyword research tools available both free and paid.

‘How to’ is a very broad subject.

For a while we just would discuss the important implications of keyword use.

Think about it. When you know your keywrds

  • You can write better and magnetic  headlines
  • You can write better and relevant sales letter
  • You can create better and relevant site content
  • You know where to look for your competition

Keep in mind keywords when you do any activity related to keywords.

Popularity: 13% [?]

RankNoodle.com-A Search Engine With A Difference

Ever heard of Ranknoodle.com . It is a new search engine and claims to be different.

And it is.

It is a search engine that display web result for your search phrase, related search phrase conversation, related articles, images, and videos in one searched page.

Search is the hard truth of today’s world.

We are always searching for one thing or another. Search on the internet has a special place. That is why search engines have such a prominent position on internet. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com are well known search engines. [Read more...]

Popularity: 12% [?]

Google Chrome-Google Launches New Browser

Google has launched new web brwser called Googl Chrome. It is hailed as Web OS.

Get more information here

I am downloading it. would let you know.

Popularity: 8% [?]

New Toolbar Pagerank Update On The Way

Check it out! New Google Toolbar Page Rank is on the way. Matt Cutts wrote this on his blog today.

I am expecting to see a lot of discussion on this.

One thing that intrigued me that they are expected to remove penalties on previously penalised sites.

It would take few days to reflect this in the toolbar.

But I know people would be pinging data centers like mad rush

Popularity: 16% [?]

Google Adsense Introduces Custom Search For Adsense For Search

Google Adsense has introduced Custom Search for Adsense For Search.

Custom search allows advance customization to improve the accuracy of search results and tailor than to what users are looking for. Integration of Custom Search into adsense for search empowers you to take advantage of the following features: [Read more...]

Popularity: 24% [?]

Yahoo Slurp 3.0-Revised Crawler Being Rolled Out

Yahoo! has rolled out its revised crawler called Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 that would be visiting your websites. Yahoo had been been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler for quite some time.

Some infrastructure updates had caused variance in crawl behviour. [Read more...]

Popularity: 18% [?]

Ask.com To End Its Search Engine-Garry Price Leaves

Ask.com will no more be a search engine. Instead it would be reverted back to its old model of questions and answers. Barry Diller’s IAC which owns the Ask.com is cutting the job by 8 percent of the Ask workforce and killing the search engine.

Wall Street Journal reports [Read more...]

Popularity: 14% [?]

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