SEO in the News
- ...so Yahoo is definitely not just a clone of Bing's index. If you narrow the search terms in Yahoo! to include the specific part number mentioned in the blog post then it jumps to #3 but the more generic term doesn't rank anywhere close to Bing's. - Craigslist, the Internet's iconic ad bazaar, has stopped allowing U.S. users to access its adult services ads. - Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service. - Google Inc.'s methods for recommending websites are being reviewed by Texas' attorney general in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's dominant search engine. - The wording of the court statement appears to be a major blow to YouTube's business model, but Google Germany spokesman Henning Dorstewitz told The Associated Press YouTube will appeal the decision detailed in the 60-page ruling. - It is an old horse we trot out and kick every year ;-) - No UA, no robots.txt, no REF, no nothing. Not once. Not twice. Not even three times. Try eleven. - Or how 5 k uniques a day can vanish with no apparent reason - Seems to be a rash of missing 'cached' homepages. Cause for alarm? - In terms of readability, these are clearly not 'articles' and I don't promote them that way. I use them as long tail content and link bait. People read them because they're old,not in spite of that. (-subscription required) - Even as many sites seek to give their users more input, Sphinn is eliminating voting on stories and will use an editorial selection process instead. - A U.S. federal judge has reaffirmed that unfiltered UGC is the responsibility of the poster and that the site operator can't be sued for libel. - A few years ago I developed the strategy of buying dropped domains with good backlinks and pagerank, and either 301-ed them to one of my main sites, or host them with a bit of content, and link them to my sites. Now, years later, some of those still bring in nice traffic and PR. - Apple to launch their own version of Twitter and Facebook - Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we're very excited to say that we've reached the biggest milestone for our internal team - the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7! - Members discuss advanced methods of speeding up site performance such as efficient software, hardware strategies, and database optimization. (-subscription required) - Another common question about how to rewrite a subdomain back to a main domain. The answer can be quite complex. - Starting next July, eBay will no longer let Google provide transaction checkout services on eBay Web sites. It won't allow any checkout service except its own PayPal-featured service. Google Checkout doesn't offer PayPal. - I seem to be drawing a disproportionate number of foreign customers. I see the site setting for Geotarget and mine was to unlisted. My IP reports Plano, TX but my server is in Chicago, same time zone so no biggie I guess. - Bunch of on-the-page changes = Whole bunch of nothing: I feel like im flogging a dead horse.
