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Search Spotlight on 2008 Olympic Games

AzAkers — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:19:25 +0000

The 2008 Olympic Games are well under way now and the blogosphere and news channels are abuzz with Olympic-mania. News of a violent murder tops today’s news, but there’s plenty of regular Olympic drama unfolding as well. What’s in the pipeline today? A Greek runner test positive and is excluded, some swimmer (Phelps) beats his [...]

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Search Spotlight on 2008 Olympic Games

Microsoft Live Search Coming to Facebook

AzAkers — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:51:34 +0000

Microsoft, desperate to secure real estate for their paid search ads, strikes a new deal with Facebook, the industries quickest growing social platform. Under the new arrangement, Microsoft will trade it’s exclusive global advertising placement on Facebook for having Windows Live Search integrated into the Facebook environment. Facebook user search queries will generate search results [...]

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Microsoft Live Search Coming to Facebook

Microsoft ‘Buying Yahoo – A Tactic, Not A Strategy’

AzAkers — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:51:28 +0000

Microsoft struggles to convince analysts and investors it still has a plan – a solid strategy for building search market share. Most remain unconvinced. I noted earlier this month that Microsoft, despite it’s varied and familiar tactics, has failed to gain market traction. Rather, Microsoft has gradually lost credibility and usage in the search marketplace [...]

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Microsoft ‘Buying Yahoo – A Tactic, Not A Strategy’

10 Essential FireFox Add-ons No SEO Superhero Should Be With-out

AzAkers — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:59:40 +0000

From smoke pellets to grappling hooks, from night vision goggles to batarangs – is there anything the caped crusader can’t pull out of that utility belt? But what sort of a superhero would Batman be with-out the contents of his trusty gadget girdle? Every trade has it’s essential tools and Search Engine Optimization/ Search Engine [...]

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10 Essential FireFox Add-ons No SEO Superhero Should Be With-out

A Search Engine’s Homepage The Key to Search Success?

AzAkers — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:04:13 +0000

From the smoke and rubble of the failed dot-com-bubble era emerged 3 contenders for the search crown. (4 if you count that interesting blip on the radar – Ask) Each hungrily stockpiled features and tested innovative ideas in hopes of building an arsenal that would grant them superiority. Like the real life cold-war, smaller web [...]

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A Search Engine’s Homepage The Key to Search Success?

Google Usage Still Rising, Yahoo Steady, MSN Falling

AzAkers — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:10:45 +0000

It’s no secret – Google is the most widely used search engine in the marketplace. Hitwise has tracked search engine usage over the years (amongst other things) and their data shows a steady increase in Google usage. [ 2007 hitwise report with 2006 data ] Who is Losing? So with Google’s increase in popularity who [...]

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Google Usage Still Rising, Yahoo Steady, MSN Falling

Google Keyword Tool To Get Search Volume Numbers?

AzAkers — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:06:42 +0000

As SEOers we’re constantly weighing the value of one phrase against another to determine which phrases to write & optimize around. There have been a number of tools out there which have helped us in our quest to find the best phrases – in fact we’ve probably all used the now defunct Overture Tool, or Word [...]

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Google Keyword Tool To Get Search Volume Numbers?

Google Improves on Robots Exclusion Protocol

AzAkers — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:48:14 +0000

You may remember when Google took a step towards transparency in early 2007 when they started laying out tips on the ‘how’ & ‘why’ of using a robots.txt file in their January post “Controlling how search engines access and index your website“, followed by “The Robots Exclusion Protocol” in February, and another mid-year follow-up that [...]

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Google Improves on Robots Exclusion Protocol

Google Crawls Javascript, News at 11!

AzAkers — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:12:58 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed – Google is crawling JavaScript these days. Yah, I know. Just when you think you’ve pretty much got it all figured out, Google has to go and mix it up a bit. With their continued shift toward more intrusive crawling, Google has been striving to pierce the JavaScript veil and [...]

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Google Crawls Javascript, News at 11!

Tossing Keyword Remix Into The Mix

AzAkers — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:13:45 +0000

I just love finding new, intelligent SEO tools and getting to share them with other SEOers who are passionate about their efforts. Of course not every tool that we discover can find it’s way into our ‘favorite tools’ list. Some lack the versatility to be applicable across multiple client sites, others are way too slow to [...]

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Tossing Keyword Remix Into The Mix

SEO Digger – Still Diggin it

AzAkers — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:48:56 +0000

I just wanted to follow-up on the SEO Digger tool I posted about a few weeks ago. As I shared previously, SEO Digger Dug It’s Way Into My ‘Favorite Tools’ List. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to use the tool in a few real world situations. I’ve found it to be extremely helpful in [...]

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SEO Digger – Still Diggin it

The SEO Shortcut Widget Rocks (even in beta)

AzAkers — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:20:50 +0000

I love finding new SEO tools. Sometimes the tools introduce a completely new concept such as the SEODigger.com tool which finds the keywords a URL ranks for - other times it’s a new tool that simplifies and expedites common SEO tasks, or combines commonly used tools into a single more effecient tool. [singlepic=128,150,,,] [singlepic=129,,,,] [singlepic=127,70,,,]The SEO Shortcut widget from [...]

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The SEO Shortcut Widget Rocks (even in beta)

Invoice Machine : Web 2.0 Invoice Application

AzAkers — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:57:08 +0000

Super simple online invoice builder Have you ever needed to crank out an invoice in a hurry? Ever been on the job-site wishing you could generate a quick invoice? With this very Web 2.0 online invoice builder you can build simple, yet effective invoices in just minutes. I ran across this simple, easy to use [...]

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Invoice Machine : Web 2.0 Invoice Application

The AdSense Rule Change Buzz

AzAkers — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:33:54 +0000

In a stunning blow to AdSense publishers everywhere, recent news of the upcoming Google AdSense’s rule changes is sweeping the web. It looks like EVERYONE is ranting about it since EVERYONE in the AdSense publisher community (albeit some more than others). Being a passive publisher myself I only became aware of the changes today reading [...]

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The AdSense Rule Change Buzz