Recent ‘seo’ News Stories

(Funny) Automatic Captions On YouTube

Tuesday, 24th November 2009

YouTube has just introduced the ability to provide automatic captions on all user videos. (more…)

Tags: accessibility, multilingual, video, video-search, youtube
Posted in Technology, multilingual, seo, video | No Comments »

Google Webmaster Central Promoting AdWords In France

Tuesday, 7th July 2009

French website owners who don’t currently advertise on Google AdWords might notice a message waiting for them when logged into Google Webmaster Tools. (more…)

Tags: france, google, google-adwords
Posted in google, multilingual, ppc, seo | 9 Comments »

SEO Technology Center For Flash

Friday, 20th March 2009

Adobe must be realising, at long last, that they are losing a lot of money by making Flash technology so search engine unfriendly – a fact that probably deters a lot of webmasters from using Flash, resulting in lost revenues for the company. To make ammends they’ve created the SEO Technology Center on the Adobe Developer Connection section of their site. (more…)

Tags: adobe, flash, optimisation, seo
Posted in seo | 2 Comments »

Microsoft Closes adCenter Analytics

Friday, 13th March 2009

Mel Carson, Microsoft adCenter’s Community Manager, announced yesterday that they will close the adCenter Analytics program at the beta stage itself. (more…)

Tags: adcenter, adcenter analytics, google-analytics, microsoft, microsoft-adcenter
Posted in SEM, Technology, marketing, ppc, search, seo | 1 Comment »

Rich Media Ads On Yahoo! Search Results

Friday, 27th February 2009

Yahoo! Search Marketing has announced the addition of video ads, image ads and custom links within search ads on their search results pages. The service, called Rich Ads, is currently available to a few of their advertisers. (more…)

Tags: google, ppc, seo, serp, video-ads, yahoo-search-marketing
Posted in SEM, ppc, search, seo | 1 Comment »

Google Japan to Google, “We’re Sorry”

Monday, 16th February 2009

Google was the object of ridicule among many SEO professionals last week, when the search giant penalised its own subsidiary for buying links. (more…)

Tags: blogs, google, google search, japan, link-building, yahoo
Posted in google, multilingual, search, seo | 1 Comment »

Google Blends Mobile Ads In Organic Results

Thursday, 8th January 2009

While Google has always been very particular about differentiating ads from organic search results by placing ads only at the side of the search results page or in clearly marked slots at the top of the page, the Google Operating System blog recently found Google Mobile Search displaying short text ads in the middle of the search results page. (more…)

Tags: ad, advertising, google, mobile, mobile-search, ppc, search-engine-marketing, seo
Posted in SEM, mobile, search, seo | No Comments »

Google Launches SearchWiki, Allows Users To Customise Results

Monday, 24th November 2008

When customers use Google Search, they may often find that they do not agree with the rankings of the search result provided by Google. Now it will actually be possible to change the rankings, to add or delete a result or add a comment alongside a result as may seem appropriate to the user. (more…)

Tags: custom-search, google, seo
Posted in seo | 1 Comment »

Search Has A Truly Long Tail

Thursday, 20th November 2008

Here is some good news for all Search Engine Marketers. A report released recently by Hitwise, has shown that there is still plenty of scope for all those who are in this field, as it seems that only the proverbial ‘Tip of the iceberg’ has been scraped as yet. It is thus not necessary for SEOs to follow ruthless or ‘dog-eat-dog’ marketing practices. (more…)

Tags: keywords, long-tail, seo
Posted in seo | 1 Comment »

Now U Can Rank Live Search Results

Monday, 27th October 2008

Microsoft is in the process of allowing its users to share their opinions about the search results provided by Live Search. (more…)

Tags: microsoft, seo
Posted in seo | 1 Comment »

Compare Petrol Prices On Yahoo!

Wednesday, 15th October 2008

Yahoo! has launched a new service that could help users save some money. They have started providing a shortcut, via Yahoo! search, that will allow users to know the prices of gas at various petrol pumps in the vicinity. (more…)

Tags: maps, yahoo
Posted in search, seo | No Comments »

Microsoft Live Search Gets Semantic Query Processing

Monday, 22nd September 2008

Microsoft has now integrated Powerset into the Live Search platform, since last month. The Redmond-based software giant is believed to have paid $100 million for Powerset’s semantic search capabilities in an attempt to improve their position in the search engine market after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo! earlier in the year. (more…)

Tags: microsoft, powerset, seo, wikipedia
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What Is Google’s Insights For Search Good For?

Wednesday, 13th August 2008

After the success of Google Trends, the search giant has now launched a new tool, called ‘Google Insights For Search‘. This tool is similar to Trends, but shows rising searches in relation to other terms, geographic location and time periods. (more…)

Tags: google-adwords, pay-per-click, ppc, search-engine-marketing, seo
Posted in SEM, ppc, search, seo | No Comments »

Live Webmaster Tools Updates But Still Lags Behind

Tuesday, 12th August 2008

The Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center has been brought out of beta, last week, along with the release of a few new updates. Webmasters will now be able to better understand the crawling and indexing methods used by Live Search. (more…)

Tags: google, microsoft, seo
Posted in seo | 1 Comment »

Google Search Customisations Made More Transparent

Monday, 4th August 2008

In their continued efforts to improve the search experience for the users, Google recently added new features to their Web Search that will allow customers to realise how their search results are customised, thus making the process more transparent. (more…)

Tags: custom-search, google, seo
Posted in google, search, seo | No Comments »