SEO Updates

I was reading Eric Ward’s website the other day and I’m really intrigued by what he does and the way he goes about it. He’s pretty well knonw as an SEO/linking guru and on his site he talks about his philosophy of linking, how it should not be automated and should reall invovle a lot [...]

Ever wondered what Anchor Text your competitors are targetting?
Check out the Yahoo Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer.
Using this tool you can see what backlinks your competitors have and more importantly the anchor text.

Ask Jeeves plans to expand further into the European Search Market.
“International expansion is an important component to our corporate growth strategy,” said Steve Berkowitz, CEO of Ask Jeeves Inc. “We believe the Ask Jeeves brand has a tremendous opportunity to succeed in Europe because it offers the only differentiated world-class search experience to consumers.”
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In an effort to prepare for Video search - Google announced that it will soon begin hosting video uploading for users.
Like Google’s recent library project scanning volumes of books, the company’s video ambitions highlight its broad plans to digitize the world’s content and make it searchable. It also foreshadows a heated race with rivals Yahoo [...]

Google has announced that Keyhole, its satallite imagery, will now be incorporated into its maps section.
Until now, users were charged $29.95 to utilize the satellite technology, which displays actual satellite images of a given address. The images used are six to twelve months old, so don’t worry about Big Brother (or your [...]

How to Incorporate Meta-Tags Into Your Site
By Tom Baurley

Meta-tags seem to be an item of debate these days. I still recommend using them and will go the extra distance for my web site clients by including them. Meta Tags are those embedded tags within the Header of your html page script. These pages were created [...]