Archive for MicroHoo (Yahoo and MSN/Bing) category:
New Google Translator: Add Foreign Languages To Your Site
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Google is ever the innovator. Google was one of the first to offer free technology that allows web pages to be translated into foreign languages on the fly. Called Google Translate, it was a pretty effective tool that we used on a few of our clients’ sites. (See the PuertoProperty.com site.) Google has taken something [...]
It’s Official: Google Does Not Use the Keyword Tag
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While it’s long been believed that Google stopped using the Meta Keyword tag as part of its formula for determining search result positioning, it’s now official. Key Google tech spokesperson Matt  Cutts, writing on the Official Google Blog, recently confirmed that Google has not used the Meta Keyword tag “for years.”
Visual Search from Google and Bing
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Google and Bing have both announced new “visual search” tools for their respective search engines. The announcements were made at TechCrunch 50, a San Francisco-based startup that both are sponsoring.
So what is “visual search” and why should you care?
Image vs. Text-Based Website Design
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Google and Bing recently announced new “visual search” tools for their respective search engines. We did a blog post about this. And it got me to thinking about the growing trend I am seeing in the use of  images in Website design.
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 summarize what I believe are some of the important aspects of this deal for the [...]
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, access to these tools requires registration at Windows Live and site authentication.
Note: I recommend you read my [...]
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 when I went to locate the URL it was a bit of work to find [...]
