Earlier this week, Google Blogscoped reported the change on clickable areas on Adsense units, and it is only now that the Google Adsense Blog posted an official explanation about the changes.Whereas in the past, the whole Adsense block units including the white spaces are clickable areas, Adsense has changed it to make only the ad [...]
A study conducted by some Penn State University researchers revealed that webmasters who use robot.txt files to determine which part of their sites are open or close to web crawlers, favors Google’s spiders and bots over other search engines. Using a new search engine which the researchers themselves have created specifically for the study, it [...]
Microsoft has finally released its much touted Live Search Webmaster Central to public beta. It’s been a long journey for Microsoft’s answer to Google’s Webmaster Central but sadly, despite the preparation and the hype Live Search’s Webmaster Central didn’t quite match up to Google’s. I would have to agree with Search Engine RoundTable that [...]
Social bookmarking allows web users to search, share, organize, and store the bookmarks of different web pages. This can be done publicly or privately (in private groups), or a combination of the two. People who are allowed to view the bookmarks can view them using a variety of different functions to sort and [...]
Local business finding search engine, Local.com gets to have its local search technology patented to several companies which are part of its LocalConnect Platform. These companies which got the Local.com’s search technology patent licenses include, PremierGuide. Former PremierGuide clients Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. (CNHI), GateHouse Media, Inc., Herald Association, Inc., Intellistrand, LLC and The [...]
Searchboth.com, a search engine that previously displays search results for both Google and Yahoo search side by side on a split screen has expanded its reach and now includes an option to display search results from other search engines. Users of the site now have the option to choose results from other search engines which [...]
As Google becomes a stronger player in the world of communications, their interests and participation in mobile devices is obvious. Like many areas though, if Google is going to become a successful player, they will do so through using their users as a learning and development tool.There’s also a video available of the Android [...]
While it’s great to have a web site optimized and performing well in the engines, you need to build out content on a consistent basis. Managing growth without upsetting your existing SEO efforts can often be a challenge. With these challenges in mind, here are my top ten tips for building site content [...]
Links are still one of the best ways to increase traffic and authority status to your website, which will in turn increase your site’s search ranking. The higher the rating, the more prominent you will be listed on the search engines, the higher the click thru ratio of your optimized title and description, and [...]
Attracting visitors to your website is a balancing act. On one hand, you must have good information, since that is the core of your service. The text is also the most important part of your site’s content that traditional search engines read, and thus, keywords, headings, originality and links are so important. [...]
