'SEO' News

Google Suggest has been recently updated to include link suggestions as well as sponsored links along with the list of suggestions. Read the rest of this entry »

A few days ago, Google announced the launch of their new Search Options Panel. This new feature will enable users to have more control over their search results, as they will be able to sort out the results with reference to time and content. Read the rest of this entry »

A lot has been going on outside of our main website, and I thought I’d write a quick post to update our readers about some of these new developments. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo! recently overhauled the Yahoo! Image Search Preview page, with the intention of making it more interesting and user friendly for their clients. The result is a more modern feature that looks like a “Web 2.0” image gallery. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has started internal testing of the upgraded version of their search engine, Live Search. This new incarnation of Live Search has been codenamed Kumo. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo! does seem to be back in the headlines, and not just because of Microsoft’s continued flirtations. In order to attract more users to their search service, Yahoo! has recently started adding fancy Facebook links via SearchMonkey on the search results. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft is in the process of allowing its users to share their opinions about the search results provided by Live Search. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has been bucket testing a new interface on some randomly selected users. Recently a screen shot of the new interface along with a video showing the new search features was screened. This interface has a very Digg-like look and feel. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week the Google AdWords keyword tool started showing approximate search volumes. AdWords advertisers and everyone else in the world can now see the approximate number of search queries carried out on Google for any keyword. Read the rest of this entry »

For some time now, Google has been working to improve the indexing of Flash files. They have now released some information about the new algorithm they have developed by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player Technology for this purpose. Read the rest of this entry »

A year ago the news network CNN, launched a comprehensive news site, CNN.com. It has now come to light that in just one year, they have beaten the search market leader, where news is concerned. This information was revealed during a survey, which was conducted by Google’s subsidiary DoubleClick. Read the rest of this entry »