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Study: Top 5 Search Engines See Search Traffic Drop By As Much As 31% Since December 2013
A newly released report from Shareaholic claims the top five search engines — Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com and AOL — have all...
A Quick January 2009 SEO Update
Many SEOs and SEMs have been noticing updates at Google, Yahoo and Ask.com this past week. I thought I catch you up on what has been noticed at...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...