Things categorized as 'Search'

Google is not the only search engine or service in this galaxy

SEO Test: Default Personalized Search is a Myth – It Doesn’t Work


During the recent three weeks I have performed a very simple SEO test to determine the influence of the newly introduced personalized search feature by Google. This one allegedly works with cookies ...

hkcMjRm: How to Use Google as URL Shortener


Google short URL: hkcMjRm. Update December, 15th 2009: Try it with http://l.gog.is/hkcMjRm. Moreover Google has launched it's own official Google URL shortener yesterday: goo.gl Thanks Brandon Diaz for the heads ...
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Google Indexes Twitter Links


How to get Indexed by Google in 2009? Just use Twitter. This is no joke. I ran a test on Twitter to find out whether Google indexes Twitter links and surprise, surprise ...
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The 7 Most Pressing Reasons to Control Google & Search not SEO


Google? "City gate, Dali" is a Creative Commons licensed image by Alexandra Moss A recent anonymous posting on Techcrunch proposes the
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Matt Cutts Acknowledges SEO 2.0 Tactic of Linking Out as Ranking Factor (Nofollow is Dead)


Finally Matt Cutts of Google has acknowledged one of the most used SEO 2.0 tactics, linking out, as an important ranking factor.
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Bing FAIL


Bing FAIL: This will be a short post, like the headline already suggests. You know, after the disastrous performance of Wolfram Alpha ...

User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps


What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I'll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you ...
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Search: 8 Reasons Why Wolfram Alpha is a Waste of Time and no Threat to Google


Wolfram Alpha is the new overhyped "Google killer" on the block. It's allegedly a search engine. Do you remember the last few much hyped Google ...
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7 Effective Moving Content to a New Domain Manuals


CC: Your Move by Durotriges. A buddy of mine, styletime, Twitter power user and one of the brightest new bloggers asked what else he should ...
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Top 7 Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration


Social bookmarking, it's what Delicious does (Digg is social news in contrast, while StumbleUpon is social browsing), is one of the best working things when it comes to ...
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2009 is the Year of Meta-Social Media: 6 Services Compared


CC: meta mini moo by darkmatter. While taking a look at this list of social search engines compiled at the
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SearchWiki: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0


These are the Google results for SEO I want to see, but Google SearchWiki doesn't want me to keep. Most of you have noticed by now, Google has introduced a new set ...
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SEO Company, SEO and Search Engine Optimization Google Results Are a Disgrace


cc: Magic movement by Gojca. The SEO industry is outraged about search engine optimization leading figure Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz calling ...
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Top 10 Firefox Extensions for Search, Website Optimization and SEO I Use


Besides using such obvious Firefox add-ons and toolbars like those for StumbleUpon, Delicious and Browzmi (the StumbleUpon, Twitter & Mixx combination on ...
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How Can Websites about Boring Topics Succeed on Social Media?


Bored to Death by Niemster. Patricia of sourcesouth.com asked a very important question in the comments which many people ask: How can websites about boring topics ...
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Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog


Suicide by frozi. I'm shocked! Not only do bloggers waste time with meta tags although most of them are worthless for Google, bloggers hurt themselves using ...
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Wall Street Down, SEO Up: 7 Reasons Why


Wall Street, Utah by mandj98. That's why I don't read the papers at first in the morning, usually they ruin your day. Now Wall Street is down, Banks crumble and US ...
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7 Reasons Why Google Chrome, the New Google Browser is a Bad Idea


Help the homeless by balakov. Do you remember the browser wars? No, not Star Wars, the browser wars. In the prehistoric era of the Web we ...

10 Google Operators for Advanced Search I Use Daily (and You Should Too)


While using Google not only as a searcher but also as a search engine aka website optimizer I apply so called advanced search operators which in fact aren't