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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advise.
We are proud to present a new service we launched this week: Y-Boost. Y-Boost is your best chance of inexpensive, fast Yahoo! inclusion.
Y-Boost is a fast, affordable advanced Yahoo! submission service that will also help your site ranking over time. Our research shows that Y-Boost ensures that the vast majority of web pages will be included in the main search engine results pages of Yahoo! within…
Users of the MSN Search Tool Bar would see a slightly different Internet Explorer. MSN Search Tool Bar Version 02.05.000.1082 adds in tabbed browsing functionality. It is only available if using the MSN Search Tool Bar.
Whilst this functionality has existed for a number of releases in Firefox, it is the first time that Microsoft have included this funtctionality in the market leading Internet Explorer.
Microsoft have called…
Teenagers log onto the Internet more often and do more things online than ever before. A new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project titled “Teens and Technology” reveals that 87% of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 are now online. Their favorite online pastimes are playing games, getting news and health information and online shopping (great news for online retailers now and…
Move over, Google Earth? Hot on the heels of Google’s spectacular satellite imaging service, MSN has launched its own local search service called MSN Virtual Earth, featuring satellite images and maps which integrate with MSN’s local search results.
While the service is called Virtual Earth, it is currently really only “Virtual U.S.A.”, since satellite images are only available for the United States. MSN has said that it…
Here’s another news snippet from the acquisition front. While Google bought Brazilian search engine todobr.com.br last week, Yahoo! is testing unknown waters with its latest purchase.
The search engine and portal giant has acquired tiny software company Pixoria, makers of the hip Konfabulator Widgets. Even though the name Konfabulator Widgets sounds like they are something straight out of Fred and George Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes joke shop, the…
Akwan Inforamation Technologies, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the company that operated the Brazilian search engine todobr.com.br, was acquired by Google last week. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed, but Google said that it will establish a new research and development center for Latin America at Akwan’s head office. The search engine site todobr.com.br is now being redirected to Google’s Brazilian site google.com.br.
According to InternetWorldStats.com,…
Google and Microsoft have both announced increase in their profits and revenues for the fourth quarter. Yahoo! saw increased profit but failed to meet analysts expectations on revenue growth.
Microsoft
Microsoft has increased profit by 37% (to $3.7billon) with an increase of 9% in revenue (to $10.16billion). The growth of Microsoft has been fueled by all divisions increasing sales. Microsoft has many divisions including:
Google is updating again. Over the last week, numerous webmasters have reported changes in PageRanks and backlink counts. Experiences are mixed, with some webmasters reporting PageRank increases on relatively new sites, while others reported PageRank drops.
Search engine results pages and traffic volumes seem to be constant for most webmasters up to now. Of course the most relevant measure of the impact of Google’s update doesn’t lie…
While it is true that a Web page’s meta tags are not as important for ranking as they were in the early days of the Internet, ignoring them is still very risky nowadays - especially in regards to ranking on MSN.
Here is what MSN themselves have to say on this topic: “As the MSN Search web crawler MSNBot crawls your site, it analyzes the content on…
A group of smaller search engines and directories has formed a new network as a counterweight to the large search engines that currently dominate the industry. While the focus of the new isedn.org network currently is on the pay-for-inclusion product they offer, it’ll be interesting to see if the network evolves from its mainly commercial focus to an advocacy body for the large number of smaller…
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