http://www.seoservices.biz/blog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:23:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those of us who have been doing SEO since the 1990’s and feel rather nostalgic toward the evolution of search and the Internet its is with great remorse that the official Yahoo Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool has finally made it into the Otherworld Wide Web above. Of course, the ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/yahoo/yahoo-overture-keyword-suggestion-tool-officially-departed/ The Google I/O conference is quickly coming upon us and the take at eWeek is that the search giant will hit heavy upon the points of cloud, client and connectivity. This is so new of an outreach program to developers that it didn’t even have an official name last year. The ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/google/google-cloud-client-and-connectivity-oh-yeah/ I’ve traveled around many webmaster, web design and SEO message boards to glean the conventional wisdom of the day and find out what current SEO technology is being used. And, in my travels I’ve heard that most SEO’s and others believe that inbound links from bad neighborhoods such as spam ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/link-building/do-inbound-links-from-bad-neighborhoods-hurt/ In March 2008, I had talked about the new Google phone based on the search giant’s Android software system. What was missing at that point was how Google intended to deliver the ads to their new cell phones. But, now the picture has become a bit clearer as Google has joined ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/google/google-wimax-network-will-deliver-ads-to-cell-phones/ VisualRank image search was unveiled by Google in Beijing, China today. VisualRank is like PageRank for images in that it uses visual data in addition to text to rank images in the search results pages. Other companies have been trying to crack the visual search code for years with varying results. ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/google/visualrank-google-image-search-unveiled/ Yahoo has beaten the estimates somewhat with a 14-percent greater earnings gain over 1-year ago. Analysts were estimating earnings of $1.32 billion and Yahoo announced the actual number was $1.35 billion this quarter. But, Microsoft has not blinked because of the announcement. In fact, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a preemptive ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/yahoo/yahoo-beats-earnings-estimates-and-microsoft-does-not-blink/ Last week, search giant Yahoo announced the acquisition of Hungarian firm Tensa and their IndexTools analytics software. The addition of Yahoo IndexTools, which the company is stating will now be free, will give users tools for website monitoring, metrics, analytics, traffic performance and optimization. While Yahoo Site Explorer in itself is ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/yahoo/yahoo-indextools-for-serious-analytics/ I ran across an article on the CNET News Blog about whether or not the Google duplicate content rankings drop (for lack of a better word) is actually a penalty or a filter. This got me to think about perspective. From the perspective of the search engines, it is a ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/google/google-duplicate-content-penalty-or-filter/ After a yearlong deal to acquire DoubleClick / Performics, yesterday Google has announced the selling of the Performics Search Marketing division. On the official Google Blog, DoubleClick Director Tom Phillips states a conflict of interest as a reason for the sale. According to Phillips, “Maintaining objectivity in both search and advertising ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/google/google-sells-performics-because-of-conflict-of-interest/ Inside of Webmaster Tools, the Google Robots.txt Generator has been unveiled. The Robots.txt Generator will help webmasters travail the often misunderstood method of allowing or disallowing search engine robots from crawling files, folders and pages on a website. Inside of the tool, webmasters are offered the Action of allowing or blocking ... http://www.seoservices.biz/blog/index.php/google/google-robotstxt-generator-unveiled/