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Quality Guidelines For Landing Pages

Over a month ago, Google announced there would be a change in the algorithm that calculates landing page and site quality score. This change was intended to benefit AdWords users, advertisers, and publishers. However, Google never actually offered insight into what elements comprise a ‘quality’ landing page until now.
According to the Google AdWords Blog, the […]

Top Searches in MSN Live and Yahoo for 2006

Well I previously listed the top Google searches for 2006, so now I will list MSN Live’s top searches of 2006 according to the Live Search Blog:

Ronaldinho
Shakira
Paris Hilton
Britney Spears
Harry Potter
Eminem
Pamela Anderson
Hilary Duff
Rebelde
Angelina Jolie

And here are the top Yahoo searches of 2006:

Britney Spears
WWE
Shakira
Jessica Simpson
Paris Hiltonr
American Idol
Beyonce Knowles
Chris Brown
Pamela Anderson
Lindsay Lohan

I believe MSN and Yahoo must group […]

Dealing with Duplicate Content

Duplicate content has plagued webmasters over the recent years because of its adverse effect in Google search rankings. For those of you who have not come across the duplicate content issue, here is a quick definition. Duplicate content refers to large blocks of web content that is exact or extremely similar to each other. This […]

Google’s Top Searches for 2006

Google has recently released the top filtered user search terms of 2006. You may ask why are they filtered, well there is a simple answer to that. Otherwise they would all be sex related search terms! I’m sure everyone at Google gets a good laugh at those ones :). Well without further adieu, here are […]

Google Sitemaps Provides Accurate Pagerank

It’s about time that Google offers webmasters an accurate snapshot of their websites’ Pagerank. At SES Chicago 2006, Rand Fishkin interviewed Google sitemaps key member Vanessa Fox on Webpronews (video found here). During the interview Vanessa informs webmasters that creating a sitemap specifically for Google sitemaps will only benefit the website by helping the search […]

Classifying Link Types For SEO

One of the most important aspects of SEO is link building. There are two main reasons why. First, they offer passages for a web user to find your web site, and second, search engines use links within their ranking algorithm. Nowadays there are many different types of links and values associated with a link. I […]

Google Update For Christmas?

Here’s a heads up on an early Christmas present from Google; loss of traffic. Multiple sources are reporting significant changes in the Google Search Engine Results Page (SERPs), causing traffic to drop. There have been numerous shuffles in different industries, and also an update on blacklisted websites. This may just be the normal flux, database […]