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Google News Offers 8 Tips on How to Make Your Site Crawlable Posted by Nathania Johnson Feb 12, 2009 Online news publishers will want to take note of eight tips that Google News is offering to help them better index your site. Here they are: Keep the article body clean - keeping the content close to the title in the html and not breaking it up with a bunch of ... » Continue reading
| Yet Another Yahoo! Heads to Microsoft Posted by Nathania Johnson Feb 12, 2009 Larry Heck, the vice president of Search & Advertising Sciences at Yahoo Labs, has been wooed by Microsoft. And when he gets there, he'll be surrounded by a few familiar faces. Heck is just the latest in a stream of Yahoos leaving the purple behind for employment with the Redmond-based ... » Continue reading
| Google Friend Connect Launches "Social Bar" Posted by Nathania Johnson Feb 12, 2009 Google Friend Connect is a tool that helps web developers add social networking to their sites. Thankfully, Google realizes that adding such functionality can take up precious page real estate. Their solution to such design woes is a feature they're calling the "Social Bar." The social bar is basically a social ... » Continue reading
| Yahoo! to Charge Developers for BOSS; Releases Structured Data Posted by Nathania Johnson Feb 11, 2009 Yahoo! has announced that they will begin charging developers for their use of BOSS. It won't take effect until sometime in the second quarter at the earliers. They also won't be charging for the first 10,000 API calls per day (depending on the call). Yahoo! is also releasing SearchMonkey structured data ... » Continue reading
| Google Drops Search Web Option In Gmail Posted by Frank Watson Feb 11, 2009 Seems Google has silently dropped the search the web option in Gmail and I am wondering if that could be the reason it has been so buggy today. Everyone I have spoken to about their Gmail connection today has told me it has been on and off all day. Then I ... » Continue reading
| YouTube Tests Downloading; Offers Creative Commons Posted by Nathania Johnson Feb 12, 2009 In the ongoing effort to monetize, YouTube is now testing letting partners offer downloadable videos. Partners can allow downloads for free or for pay via Google Checkout, which requires a fee. Partners testing the free downloads are educational, including Stanford, Duke, UC Berkeley and UCTV. Partners testing the paid downloads include ... » Continue reading
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Paid Links vs. Free Directory Links Feb 5, 2009 Hi There - I use a service to get directory links. The directory links are topically related and the links are free, while the service is not (but they do only charge a nominal fee for the links). The links go into place slowly. This service has an ... » Join the discussion
| Permanent 301 redirect, changed domain not indexing....help! Feb 6, 2009 hi everyone, i have moved my blog to a new domain name and set a 301 permanent redirect to the new(its an old domain) domain name. My previous domain has approx. 90 pages all indexed. The pages of the new domain name arent getting index. Can someone tell me how long ... » Join the discussion
| Lazy SEO Feb 10, 2009 I have talked to a few people that have recently paid SEO companies to optimize their website and I have noticed similar techniques used that I am unsure are black, white or grey hat. The site is basically one big image, possibly a menu, but all the wording is within ... » Join the discussion
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