What’s New in SEO for October 19, 2010

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We have compiled the latest news and updates from the big three, Google, Bing and Yahoo as it relates to SEO and the search engines overall.

WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK WITH GOOGLE:
Webmaster Tools – Links to your site updated
Google announced that the “Links to your site” feature in Webmaster Tools is now updated to show you which domains link the most to your site. The changes and additions were made to help you better understand where the links to your site are coming from and improve your ability to track changes to your site’s link profile.
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WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK WITH BING:
New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer
Ok so this might not be brand new this week, however, we felt it was worthy of including on our post. So, Bing and Facebook have partnered up to integrate their search features. So that when you search for something in BING, it will feed from your Facebook and vice versa. This move really follows BING’s business model of being a “decision” engine, combining results from the people we trust with the Web.
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WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK WITH YAHOO!:
New Ticker and Athlete Suggestions for Yahoo! Finance and Sports Search
Yahoo announced the addition of a “Related Tickers” module in Yahoo Finance, and a “Related Atheletes” module in Yahoo Sports. The hope here is to facilitate a visitors ability to quickly navigate over to a player on the team they are reading about, or in the finance module, it provides 10 related tickers in order to facilitate your next search query. Just two more ways Yahoo is making search easier!
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So there you have it, the latest news in search from Google, Bing and Yahoo. We will be bringing you more exciting updates and news related to SEO and the world of search engine optimization each week, so check back often!