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Google Search Hits All-Time US High: 67.9%
Author: IDGLabs16 May
Google accounted for 67.90 percent of US searches in the four weeks ended April 26 — up 4 percent from the year-earlier period — according to Hitwise.
These figures mark an all-time high in market share for the search leader, MarketingCharts writes.
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Author: IDGLabs15 May
Robots meta tag basics
The robots meta tag is a part of a web page that communicates information to search engine robots. The robots meta tag is written within the <head> of an HTML file and looks something like this:
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Firefox plug-in personalises search results
Author: IDGLabs15 May
SurfCanyon is a Firefox plug-in that claims mind reading capabilities. Even though there’s no actual magic involved, this nifty little app does a great job of digging though the search results for the hits you need, even though Google buried them on page 12.
SurfCanyon accelerates the search process by re-ranking the search results based on your behaviour. This way, the browser extension applies a layer of real-time implicit personalization. The software is transforming static lists of links into dynamic search results pages that work with the you as you explore the search results.
Tags: age, Digg, engine, FireFox, Google, list, mount, msn, page, proc, process, ranking, search, Search Engines, SEF, Software, Web Browsers, XP, YahooHow to get the most SEO bang from query operators
Author: IDGLabs15 May
Google’s poor link: query operator has taken a huge beating from the SEO community for the past few years. The query operator’s reputation has been dragged through the mud so much that most people now use Yahoo! for link research (which is equivalent to asking Monaco to handle your national intelligence initiatives).
Tags: adding, age, CLOSED, crawling, dev, developing, engine, etc, Free, Google, IDE, indexing, Keyword, keywords, link analysis, list, Microsoft, optimization, option, page, ping, PROM, RAM, ranking, relevance, search, search engine optimization, Search Engines, search ranking, SEF, SEO, SEO, Sites, WordPress, XP, YahooList of Ping Services
Author: IDGLabs14 May
Ping services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources, so check out the list below and include it on your blog (Wordpress users can modify their ping list on the Control Panel, then Options, then Writing).
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