Bing’s 45 Point SEO Check List
Bing recently came out with their version of an SEO check list that all internet marketers should be trying to follow in some sort of way. Some of the bullet points are very important to talk about and fit into the overall search engine optimization equation very well. Let’s pull out a few that I think are the most important below: “13.Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.” Huge! If a visitor lands a 404 page and all they see is a blank page than you are missing out on an opportunity to change that visitor into a lead or even a sale. Customize your 404 page so that your visitors have CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Is Bing Solving the Media Indexing Issue?
Still to this day media rich website applications have a difficult time being properly indexed due to the search engines inability to read those types of marketing efforts. Search engines are simply readers which rely on reading text in order to display the correct relevant information. Microsoft has created a new type of technology recently which many large brands have embraced in order to help them index their media rich content. It is called Microsoft Silverlight and it is supposed to offer much more powerful indexing capabilities for media rich content. Rick DeJarnette had this to say on the official Bing webmaster blog: “Right off the bat, there are several things you can do to help the search engine bot learn more about your Silverlight-infused CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Mark Drummond of Wowd Search Video
Mark Drummond, CEO of Wowd talks about the importance of providing a search feature that is real time for the community. Internet users are constantly on the hunt for the most up to date information available online and it starts with being able to find and locate the information as quickly as possible. Mark emphasizes how users do not want to wait for crawlers to find information and display information it into search results that could very well be time sensitive. Online information needs to be rapid, quick and almost instant. Check out the video below from Mark Drummond about Wowd: Real time search has not completely made it into its prime just yet but there is a massive push forward by many websites large and small CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Google Spam Report Public Calling
Recently Matt Cutts has announced on his blog that Google will now be letting companies report other websites that might be taking spammy approaches and clearly violating the Google webmaster guidelines! Is Google running out of abilities to track all black hat techniques? If someone comes across another website performing any spammy or black hat SEO techniques such as cloaking, hidden text, misleading words or deceptive redirects you can now submit the websites information to the following link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport Am I the only one that sees a variety of problems from this? Trying to create silent police officers in the search engine optimization industry is an appetite for disaster while the potential for rather large quarrels is amazing. This leads me to believe CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Where Is The Future Of Search Going?
All the search engines have been scrambling around quite a bit over the last year to position themselves as the number one source, everything from Microsoft’s very expensive push with Bing to Google just scrambling around clawing to make the next big thing. But where is all this scrambling really heading? What I do know is that websites like Google need to make some changes because the amount of content entering the live space does not seem to always make it into the search results. I recently did a Google search for the phrase: “The Future of Search” What I got was actually quite astonishing. One up to date recent article on view points of where the search industry is heading. The third link down was an CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Yahoo and Bing Holding Hands, Now What?
Yahoo and Bing have been hoping and praying that everything with their recent partnership would go through as smoothly as possible with no hang ups. Recently everything was approved for these two giants to be allowed to put their heads together and change things for the future of both businesses. With Bing really increasing in market share and Yahoo decreasing, it was an obvious marriage that had to happen. Don’t forget that Yahoo is still a very powerful website and one of the most trafficked websites in the world. How is this going to change things for SEO professionals who have been focusing on just Google for so many years? The united pay per click advertising platforms of Bing and Yahoo will surely be a new CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Can New Websites Rank Well?
The search engines grow more and more littered with new websites, web pages and more blog posts and articles than we know what to do with. How is a new aspiring website ever supposed to be able to break into the search results for any type of keyword phrase? Even third string keywords with much less search volume are becoming very tough to be visible for. This is why it is even more important to really focus on marketing and branding your business online and focusing much less on breaking into search results. Prime example on why all businesses need to take a slightly different approach when trying to market a new business online. The days of only focusing on ranking for search results are slowly CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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