MSN Live Image Search Beats Google
I found something that MSN Live beats Google at. It's Image Search. If you'll watch this video by Stefan Weitz of the MSN Live Search team, you'll see the cool features offered by MSN Live on its Image Search feature. Stefan isn't Matt Cutts and there are some weaknesses in the video presentation, but it does do a decent job of highlighting some of the cool features of MSN Live's Image Search, such as: Search by image size Aspect Ratio Image Style (photograph or illustration) Color or black and white Face shots, head and shoulder, or other image effects I think this is getting closer to the way that searching for images should be done. I would like to see one other feature added - CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Do Outbound Links Hurt Your Rankings?
One question that comes up every now and then about outbound links is, "Do they hurt your rankings?" The question is based on the precept that linking is a zero-sum game. That is, if you have 1,000 inbound links and 1,000 outbound links then they'll cancel each other out. That's not true at all. If it were true then it would seem to reason that 2,000 outbound links versus 1,000 inbound links would hurt your search engine optimization and provide you with negative benefits. I don't think it's true at all. Outbound links provide only one negative effect, that I'm aware of. I'm talking about healthy linking here, not linking out to bad neighborhoods and bad sites. If you link to good neighborhoods and good sites then CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Canonical Link Tag Wins The Day
The latest and greatest from the search engines - besides the fact that they've all put their heads together and agreed on one common tactic - is that canonical link tags are a necessity and they've settled on one protocol to help "clean up the Web." Matt Cutts explains it here. In a nutshell, you can now add the following syntax to your meta tags: link rel="canonical" href="http://www.exampleurl.com/yepthisistheone.html" What that will do is notify the search engines that a particular link URL is the correct URL to index and the tag comes in really handy when you have more than one page URL with the same content. The search engines will index the URL that you want indexed and it's a way that CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why Small Business SEO Is Important
If you run a small business and you are contemplating whether or not to build a website and make the transition to online marketing, maybe you should listen to this: (Source) Webvisible said this means that while searchers don’t always find the specific business (no online advertising/no website, etc.), they may choose to contact a similar business with a stronger online presence. If only 44% of small businesses have a website then you're competition online is much smaller than it is off line. And if 89% of consumers use the search engine before consulting the yellow pages, that's just one more reason to go online. But that's not all. Even of those businesses that do have an online presence, most of them CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How To Perform Link Building Research
We've talked about it in the past, the importance of the link building aspect of search engine optimization. But do you know how to go about finding the sites you want to obtain links from? The process is simple but time consuming. Here are some strategies to use to find relevant websites to your niche: Straight Search Method - This one is a bit intuitive. After you've performed your keyword research just Google your keywords (the ones you want to use as anchor text) and see who pops up. Chances are, the sites that come up are competitors, but you may find some complimentary gems in there as well. Linkdomain Method - To to Yahoo! and type in Linkdomain: followed by your competitor's website. You'll have to CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Build Links With Your Affiliate Program
One of the most effective link building strategies is a good solid affiliate program. When you have an affiliate program in place that sells your product or service well and pays good commissions then you'll get more affiliates to sign up. More affiliates signing up for your affiliate program means more inbound links. Think about it. Every time one of your affiliates links back to your website, that's another inbound link. Those links are usually relevant and often are high authority. If a good number of your affiliates are established websites with solid reputations then you'll have high authority relevant links multiplying again and again, delivering new traffic to your website and providing valuable inbound links. These links help you in a number of ways and often CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Which Google Keyword Tools Should You Use?
Some of you may be aware that Google AdWords has a couple of free keyword research tools. Both tools are handy for PPC and for search engine optimization. You can use them even if you don't have any active PPC campaigns or even if you are not planning to start any. You can use the tools for your search engine marketing and optimization campaigns and improve your performance drastically. But when should you use each tool? The Google AdWords External Tool is a good place to start your research. It's free so performing your initial keyword research is fairly simple. There are two ways to use it, primarily. You can use the external tool to search for related keywords CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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