Posts Tagged ‘yahoo’

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Patents on Interpreting Dynamic Page URLs

{ Posted on Mar 16 2010 by admin }
Three patents granted today to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all describe how each of the search engines might take a close look at page addresses, or URLs on dynamic web sites. I wrote about the patent from Microsoft back when it ...Read More »

Using 4Ðw0rÐ$ to sell hackz? LOLZ

{ Posted on Mar 15 2010 by admin }
I’m not so tech savvy as to know how to carry out any hacking or utilise backdoors (the Pentagon can sleep easy tonight) but when I was looking around for a particular filename when Google suggested these interesting options:Like I ...Read More »

College Hoops: SEO Madness 2010 is Here!

{ Posted on Mar 14 2010 by admin }
Your office pool is fun, but how about competing against fellow search marketers far and wide? It’s time for the 4th Annual “SEO Madness” College Hoops Pool, where we all make our March Madness picks, and the winner gets the ...Read More »

What Does Advertising on Yelp Get You?

{ Posted on Mar 10 2010 by admin }
That was one of the topics of Luther Lowe’s presentation Tuesday at the annual SearchFest conference in Portland. Lowe — Yelp’s Manager of Business Outreach — gave a generally clear description of what the company says are the benefits of ...Read More »

A Time and Season for Search: How Data Mining Can Influence Search Advertising

{ Posted on Mar 10 2010 by admin }
With more than 3 billion search queries a month, a search engine like Yahoo might be tempted to take a close look at, and analyze the data it receives in its search logs. That data might tell it what ...Read More »

3 Takeaways from SMX West 2010

{ Posted on Mar 08 2010 by admin }
SMX West was a rollercoaster of highs, lows, twists and turns. The highs of adrenaline-fueled excitement, the lows of getting the lowdown from the search reps, and the twists and turns of going with the flow during such an activity-filled ...Read More »

Why a Search Engine Might Choose Something Other Than Meta Descriptions for Page Summaries in Search Results

{ Posted on Mar 05 2010 by admin }
A misconception about web pages that lingered for a long time on the Web was that most people who visit your web site will enter your site on your home page. Another one is that the meta description you ...Read More »

SMX West 2010 Liveblog Coverage

{ Posted on Mar 04 2010 by admin }
The conference is over but the knowledge lives on.  Read all of Bruce Clay’s Liveblogging Coverage of SMX West 2010 here. Session names will take you to the coverage. Session descriptions link you to the SMX conference site. Thanks to all ...Read More »

How a Search Engine Might Choose Text for Quicklinks or Site links

{ Posted on Feb 28 2010 by admin }
Sometimes when you search at one of the major search engines, you’ll see an extra set of links showing up under one of the listings in those search results. Referred to as either quicklinks or site links, most often those ...Read More »

Apple Streaming Media Patent Filing Hints at New Approach for iTunes Store

{ Posted on Feb 25 2010 by admin }
A new patent filing from Apple may be a sign of changes to the way Apple presents music recommendations at the iTunes store. That change was hinted at last December when Apple acquired the streaming music site, Lala. The patent ...Read More »