Just noticed today that Alexa has made a few minor changes in the way it displays it’s data.
Instead of calculating in terms of reach per million users as they did in the past… they now offer you a percentage ranking based on total internet users. It’s a subtle but effective change. For example, [...]
According to Nielson / NetRatings, here are the top search engines, and their percentage of total online searches:
Google – 50.8%
Yahoo – 23.6%
Windows Live – 8.4%
AOL Search – 6.1%
My Way – 2.4%
ASK – 2.1%
Earthlink Search 0.5%
Dogpile – 0.5%
Wikipedia finally wised up to the PR link spamming rings, and has added a no follow tag to all of their outgoing links. The no follow tag was removed back in Nov. 2005 but just recently re-added it to help combat all the spammy links. A quote from the great Matt Cutts:
“I think [...]
Just found a really cool new search engine that lets you visually search for a term: Quintura. The technical term is called “Latent Semantic Indexing”. And there are actually many search engines incorporating this technology into their algorithms. You can navigate through the cloud of related terms and refine it by clicking [...]
Is anyone as sick as I am of receiving reciprocal linking requests in the form of spam emails? I read a fantastic article by Mike Banks Valentine of SearchEngineOptimism.com. Yes the article is a bit controversial, but that’s what makes it a fun read! The title is: “Reciprocal Linking is Dead”
Here are some excerpts that [...]
One of my favorite SEO/Webmaster blogs is SEOMoz.org. The content these guys put out is outstanding.
The founder: Randfish recently posted on the pubcon 2006, and based on some of the things he learned, he made some predictions for the next 6 months. (You’ll even notice a mention of Zillow, which shows me the [...]
Just found a funny but useful robot online. He is an expert on SEO, and claims to have all kinds of industry secrets and gossip. Here is the link
You can refresh the page to get him to speak again. His name is promo and he was created by the gang over at Search Engine Worshops
Here [...]
