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Dec. 31, 2007 at 10:18am by Vanessa Fox
The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review
The paid links debate is back, this time about whether Google wants all links in a paid post to have a nofollow attribute. Below, a look at the latest round, plus a recap of this year's "War On Paid Links" by Google and where the other search engines stand on...
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 7:42pm by Danny Sullivan
Meta Keywords Tag 101: How To "Legally" Hide Words On Your Pages For Search Engines
If there's anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it's the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented. It's practically useless, yet people still obsess over it. In this article, I'll explain more about why you shouldn't worry about it except perhaps for misspellings,...
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Apr. 12, 2007 at 3:48pm by Barry Schwartz
Goodbye Teoma Algorithm, Hello Edison, Says Ask.com
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com, has confirmed with me that Ask.com is working on Edison. Edison is the code name behind merging of Ask.com's two different search technologies they own, Teoma and Direct Hit. The name comes from inventor Thomas Edison, who worked out of New Jersey where's Ask's Teoma...
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Apr. 11, 2007 at 8:07am by Danny Sullivan
Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery
Last November, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo united to support sitemaps, a standardized method of submitting web pages through feeds to the search engines. Today, the three are now joined by Ask.com in supporting the system and an extension of it called autodiscovery. This is where the major search engines will...
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Mar. 7, 2007 at 9:15am by Barry Schwartz
Ask.com's CEO, Jim Lanzone, Calls Yahoo Paid Inclusion "Hypocritical"
In a comment left at the Stepforth blog, Jim Lanzone, Ask.com's CEO, has said that he considers paid inclusion a "dis-service". Jim explains that he finds it "hypocritical to charge for something we need to do anyway," i.e. crawl the web to find quality pages to present to the searcher....
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Mar. 5, 2007 at 8:48pm by Danny Sullivan
Meta Robots Tag 101: Blocking Spiders, Cached Pages & More
Last week, I covered a new command for the meta robots tag -- one to prevent search engines from using Yahoo titles and descriptions. In doing that, a number of questions came up about the meta robots tag syntax itself. Google Webmaster Central has now posted "Using the robots meta...
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Feb. 27, 2007 at 3:47pm by Danny Sullivan
Squeezing The Search Loaf: Finding Search Engine Freshness & Crawl Dates
A reader emailed me today noticing that Google was showing a date next to his listing, which made me think this was a good time to revisit how, when and where search engines show crawl dates for pages. These dates are a useful way for site owners to understand how...
