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This seems like a valid question considering the lack of activity from Yahoo! lately in search, while Google & Bing continue to innovate.
Well, to answer the question, Yahoo! still is very much committed to search as indicated at its recent SearchSpeak conference.
The event was basically a press conference allowing Yahoo!’s Search Products SVP Shashi Seth to dispel the “misconception” that Yahoo! was no longer investing in search.…
At the end of last year, Google’s Matt Cutts hinted that speed could become a factor that Google looks at for ranking search results.
This was big news in the SEM world and got many webmasters worrying that their website didn’t load quickly enough. (We even devoted a whole post to how to fix your site.)
Despite the fact that Google never said that page speed would become any more…

When Google launched Social Search back in October last year it was set to make search more personal by providing searchers with relevant content from their friends and online contacts.
For those who need a refresh on the idea behind Social Search, it allows Google Profile users to see search query results from people in their social network. If your Google Profile is set-up correctly, then Google will…
To say that Google is a busy company is probably an understatement. Almost every week we hear of either a ranking update, a new Google project or webmaster tool.
2009 was certainly a busy year for Google; it left Yahoo! & Microsoft behind in terms of innovation (besides the new Bing search engine). Can you list all the new features and releases from Google last year?
Thankfully, you…
Google is the first to tell us that links from relevant and important sites are always a great way to get more traffic and increase your ranking in the search engines. But what about links from new platforms such as Twitter and Facebook?
Popular Googler (and recently clean shaven) Matt Cutts shared his thoughts in a recent video below.
Google treats links the same irrespective of where they…
The series of Search Engine Strategies (SES) conferences attract a variety of SEM professionals across the globe.
The Chicago leg of the conference was held just last week and one of the guest speakers was Christine Churchill from KeyRelevance.com who discussed (yep, you guessed it) keyword research for PPC campaigns.
We’ve written a number of articles in the past about keywords. Keyword research is one of the most important…
Although the practice of SEO has been around for many years now, there still seems to be quite an air of mystery surrounding it and one of the biggest myths that newbie’s to SEM tend to believe is that SEO is simply a one time effort.
This certainly isn’t the case. With Google & the other main search engines making constant changes to the search engine and algorithms,…
Did you know that 168 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 26 billion videos online during September 2009? That’s an average of 154 videos per viewer.
With these stats in mind, we decided that it was time to find out more about how online videos can be used by small business owners to promote their business. So we enlisted the help of Josh Williams, CEO of the…
Last week we reported on the success of YouTube in August with around 10 billion video views for the month.
Now it would seem that Google wants to cash in on this success with the announcement of YouTube Promoted Videos on AdSense sites.
Promoted Videos are generally movie trailers or product demos on YouTube which are promoted by their creator to reach a bigger audience. However, now if an…
Content scraping is a fairly common practice whereby other websites will copy some text, links or images from your site to use on another domain. If you’re writing content for the web, there’s a good chance this may have happened to you, but does this practice actually impact your Google ranking?
While many webmasters fear that content scraping may result in duplicate content penalties, the good news…