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Stock Prices At $295
Right now the big search news is Google's second stock offering in which they sold over 1...
Microsoft
Buying AOL?
MySearch Bar and other plugins by Ask Jeeves can arrive from third parties on a computer system without asking for permission first...
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Google-licious Story
One competitor for the position of executive chef at the
Googleplex in Mountain View describes his experience with
the hiring process...
Microsoft
Shows Off Their Fresh Start
How do you improve your position if you are behind your
competition? In regards to web-related industries, a site
makeover can work wonders for attracting a larger market
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Yahoo searches while you type, saving countless nanoseconds
wasted by pushing a Submit button.
Editor's Note: Can you visualize a future where your
ads appear in videos online? We want to hear about it on WebProWorld.
"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel
lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"
-- Dirty Harry (1971)
 Clint
Eastwood asked the question first; Google let's you act on that
lucky feeling by hitting a button. Now, Yahoo dispenses with
the question and the button, by searching while you type.
It's in beta, but the Yahoo! Instant Search page offers another
take on the 'search engine anticipating my request' bit. AOL
Search does something similar with its Smartbox Suggestions
technology.
Typing in the Yahoo Instant Search box will start its back-end
search off on a quest to anticipate your query. The page returns
different results as you build your keyword. I decided to test
it with the now-popular hobby 'scrapbooking'.
Instant Search gave me a box of financial information, linked to Yahoo Finance, for Royal Shell when I typed in 'Sc'. Adding three more letter changes the suggested destination to Scrap.org, the "bi-monthly publication of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries."
Extending that to "scrapbook" brought a link to a Japanese page hosting the ScrapBook Firefox extension. The snippet of text accompanying that mentions how the New York Times discussed ScrapBook on April 7th; that text appears high up on the web page (SEO readers: take note of that).
Finishing off the word 'scrapbooking' pulls up Scrapbooking.com,
an appropriate destination for people who not only need to stick
pictures in books, but do so with the right paper, the right
tape, and all the other little extras one needs to preserve
those precious memories.
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Keyword
Tags Not Just Dead But Risky
By Jason Lee Miller
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, as this horse seems
to have been killed years ago, but the meta keyword tag debate still
snorts and flaps its tail from time to time, meaning we'll need to whap
it at least once more.
Back in 2002,
Danny Sullivan pronounced the meta keyword tag dead, as only a couple
of search engines were influenced at all. More importantly, Google
ignored them altogether. Title tags and description tags continue to be
an important part of webpage setup as they help search engines decide
how to categorize the site.
But as far back as 1997, meta keyword tags fell to the
manipulative hands of keyword spammers, stuffing the tags with as many
high-yield words as possible. The search engines that cared put keyword
tags on the black list.
All in all, SEO experts considered the keyword tag a
frustrating exercise in futility. After all, why bother if search
engine spiders ignore them?
But if we thought the horse was dead, debates wouldn't continue
to pop up. Or maybe its just a ploy to keep writers in business
:-).
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Jason L. Miller is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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Linking to Affiliate Site
Salutations. Chris here again because Rah is undertaking a major
redesign project at the moment. You guys will see the results
of his labor soon enough. In today's WebProWorld feature
post, jacobwissler
asks whether or not Google’ll penalize him for linking
to an affiliate site.
This is a good question when you consider the ambiguity surrounding
link building with respect to the search engines. Take a look
at jacob's post and see if you can lend a hand.
|| Chris||
Linking
To An Affiliate Site
I recently built a very small website for a client who sells
t-shirts, and she insisted upon linking to the manufacturer,
who set up a special entry page for her catelog.
She does not plan to sell online, she just wants her customers
to be able to see her inventory, but it is set up so her clients
could shop on line, from her manufacturer. I assume that this
makes the site I built an affilate site?
The url is www.houstontshirts.com
If I place a link to this site in my portfolio, will I be penalized
by Google for linking to an affiliate site?
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I've heard it said that having the same title and meta tags for each page is considered spam. Is that pretty well agreed upon? Anyone want to take a shot at it?
- ikgrauke
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