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NicheGeek recently posted some examples of Unconventional Online Business Ideas. If you review this list you will see a bunch of nifty ideas here. Lots of people are doing these types of sites and carving out a nice niche for themselves. There are a lot of these types of opportunities in the market. If you […]

Recently, I came across this post at Read/WriteWeb about Technorati’s declining traffic. Evidently, Google BlogSearch has overtaken Technorati. The article attributes this happening because Google began promoting Google BlogSearch on the Google home page. One thing that is for certain, when you take a look at the chart they offer on the market share of […]

A while back I wrote about how building a search engine using Yahoo! Search Builder can increase the number of pages you have in the Yahoo! index. This notion did not come from me. It came from an interview I did with Tim Mayer back in December 2006. Recently, we began a little experiment with […]

I have written a few times bout the problems with putting Flash on your site. It’s cool, and it’s sexy, but search engines want text rich sites, and movies and text rich content don’t mix. Recently, I came across a site that did a really nice job of talking about this issue, and that also […]

The following is the transcript of an interview with Justin Osmer, a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. Justin is with the Online Services Group, which includes both MSN and Windows Live, including Windows Live Search. Interview Transcript Eric Enge: Why don’t you start by providing us a brief background of yourself, and how you got […]

Brett Tabke recently opened up a forum thread on WebmasterWorld titled: Yahoo SERPS vs Google SERPS – If you can’t beat em – join em?. Brett also provides a screenshot comparing the results screens of the two engines. It’s also interesting to consider the changes made in Panama. I was staring at Yahoo! Search Marketing’s […]

Bill Slawski recently did a great post about University SPAM. He tried some smart queries that exposed how it is taking place: site:.edu viagra site:.edu cialis As you can see if you look at these queries, there is a lot of spam happening on university sites. What happens is that they have message boards that […]

Last week I did a post on Search Engine Watch about 11 guidelines for pursuing authoritative links. This post on SEW provides an overview of pursuing the highest value links from sites as part of a long campaign. And this is a great approach to pursuing links. However, there are other times when you do […]

A thread over in the Google Webmaster Groups talks about the Google Sandbox, and about 301 redirects. In this thread, Adam Lasnik jumps in and sets some expectations on the handling of 301 redirects, and also does some myth-breaking. Here is what Adam has to say: 1) There’s no universal/intentional sandbox. But, as Matt has […]

Aaron Pratt has been doing some great stuff in terms of monitoring spam activity lately. His latest post is: What’s hot in Google Gaming this year? This post calls out a post by David Dugdale titled: Consumer Source Interactive Owns Atlanta. There are still many cases where site owners succeed in gaming Google and continue […]

The following is the transcript of an interview of Mark Lucovsky, a Technical Director of Engineering at Mountain View, California-based Google, Inc. Mark has held this position at Google since November 2004. Before joining Google, Mark was a Distinguished Engineer at Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corporation. While at Microsoft, Mark was a founding member and principal […]

Today we officially launch our new Podcast series. Our first Podcast is a discussion about competitive intelligence tools with Avinash Kaushik, the publisher of the Occam’s Razor blog, one of the most widely read blog in the Web Analytics world. In particular, we focus on Competitive Intelligence tools. Avinash is obviously passionate about analytics in […]