Category Archives: General Web and Search Info

MicroHoo: About the Microsoft – Yahoo! Search Deal

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I’m guessing that anyone reading our blog is probably already aware of the agreement reached between Yahoo and Microsoft in July, 2009 to join forces for Internet search. Much has been written about this deal but I thought I would … Continue reading →

Yahoo Launches Seach Pad Beta

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So Yahoo is showing some innovation? I guess they got tired of Google doing all the heavy lifting in the innovation area. This offering looks fairly interesting. The feature is called Search Pad and it’s deployed as part of the … Continue reading →

Setting Up 301 Redirects in IIS 6.0

Published in General Web and Search Info, SEO Basics

OK, this is kinda geekly but important. Did you know that search engines will catalog mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com essentially as two different websites! Strange but true. And this is not a good thing for your SEO performance. WARNING: The rest … Continue reading →

Introduction to MSN’s Webmaster Central

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The MSN search engine team — like it’s counterpart at Google and Yahoo — has developed a set of tools for site owner’s to use to improve how they are indexed into the MSN search engine. And, like Google and Yahoo, … Continue reading →

Introduction to the Yahoo Site Explorer SEO Tools

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Like Google, Yahoo provides SEO tools to allow you to “register” your site with them and do a few other things to improve your indexing within the Yahoo search engine. I had heard that Yahoo had such a facility, but … Continue reading →