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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...

Amy Gesenhues | Jun 24, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 21, 2009 at 8:43 am ET

The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review

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Vanessa Fox | Dec 31, 2007 at 10:18 am ET

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....

Danny Sullivan | Sep 5, 2007 at 7:42 pm ET

Goodbye Teoma Algorithm, Hello Edison, Says Ask.com

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Barry Schwartz | Apr 12, 2007 at 3:48 pm ET

Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery

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Danny Sullivan | Apr 11, 2007 at 8:07 am ET

Ask.com’s CEO, Jim Lanzone, Calls Yahoo Paid Inclusion “Hypocritical”

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Barry Schwartz | Mar 7, 2007 at 9:15 am ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Mar 5, 2007 at 8:48 pm ET

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,...

Danny Sullivan | Feb 27, 2007 at 3:47 pm ET