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Google's Top Five Tips for Driving Traffic to Your Web Site
Jun 30, 2008 by Natalie
In a recent USA Today article Google's Matt Cutts reveals the top five tips for driving traffic to your Web site and getting it more highly ranked in the search engines. The article is filled with great information and provides insight on what techniques are effective for optimizing Web sites in order to get them more highly ranked in the search engines. Cutts' ...
Visual Search: Keeping an Eye on Search Contenders
Jun 26, 2008 by Kelly C.
How often do you use Google (the search engine and its products) during your day? For me, the number is pretty ridiculous. Will Google execute its master plan and take over the world continue to dominate search forever? Reports liken search and Google to advertising and television. Before cable TV there were a couple major networks that dominated the advertising...
Could Microsoft's Purchase of Yahoo! Give Google A Run for Their Money?
Feb 1, 2008 by Natalie
News outlets everywhere are buzzing with the unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo! stock Microsoft waged on February 1, 2008. Called "the next major milestone" for Microsoft by it's chief executive Steve Ballmer, the deal would pay Yahoo shareholders $31 a share, which represents a 62% premium from where Yahoo stock closed on Thursday. According ...
Making My Blog More Search Engine Friendly
Sep 7, 2006 by Travis
After reading Colin's excellent post on search engine optimization, I decided that my personal blog could use a little fine-tuning to hopefully index it a little higher in search results. Google, at least, will rank each page it indexes based on several criteria. The mains ones being the actual URL of the page, the page title, and how the content of the page relates...
Gentlemen, start your search engines!
Aug 23, 2006 by Colin
I've been learning a lot recently about optimizing sites for search engine rankings, which is clearly one of the most important business components of any website. If a customer can't find your store, how can they buy what you're selling? Think about your own experiences with Google or other search engines (there are others?!?)---would you look through more than 2-3 pag...