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Nothing is more frustrating than to find yourself wedged in standstill traffic, anticipating a multi-car pileup, only to find that commuters have found a stranded motorist to be more interesting than their own lives. Wouldn’t it be nice to know ahead of time where traffic is pilling-up and where the best alternate route might be? Google may have the answer.
Google has begun beta testing their accessible web search for the visually challenged. Accessible Search, available on Google’s experimental software site at http://labs.google.com/accessible, uses Google’s standard PageRank and goes an additional step by evaluating the usability of each Web page it displays. [more…]
Atrticle Source: vnunet
Kinderstart.com is suing Google to get their PageRank back. Not exactly what we would recommend but I can understand their frustration. We have taken on clients in the past that have been blacklisted and or penalized and have had a great success in working with the client to get the site relisted. The process can be long and stressful and Google desperately needs a better system. Matt Cutts said on his Blog that Google now will reach out to certain sites that are penalized if they are using Google’s Sitemaps feature, (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/notifying-webmasters-of-penalties/). But how many webmasters actually know this.. Probably less then 1 percent.
Article Source: Independent Sources
Attn: Entrepeneurs
Everyone knows that if you are going to operate a business in today’s world you need a domain name. It is advisable to look at the domain name selected as other see it and not just as you think it looks. Failure to do this may result in situations such as the following (legitimate) companies who deal in everyday humdrum products and services but clearly didn’t give their domain names enough consideration: [more…]
In my last posting on link building, Simple Link Building Tactics, I mentioned a few ways to help get more links to your site. Here are some things to keep in mind. [more…]
Ever feel that you can never find what you are looking for online, that dubious spammers have taken over the net with oodles of garbage? Well Microsoft feels your pain and has decided to take action against these spammers by testing an automated hunter that would effectively eliminate spam on the MSN search engine…but will it work? [more…]
Article Source: MarylandMedia.com
The term “Web 2.0” has been overused and has unfortunately oversaturated conversations to the point of being synonymous with industry ignorance. Like many leaders and followers of innovation – we role our eyes at the mere mention of the idea of the existence of such a term. Whether you like the term or not is a matter of semantics – the reality is that we’ve truly embarked upon a time of standards and sophistication that demand an evolutionary identifying mark. We have entered a moment that now more than ever before demands responsible design/development.
Yesterday a federal judge tossed the anti-trust lawsuit filed against Google by Kinderstart. [more…]
When you make a landing page, you want it to have a good, direct call to action. But don’t box the visitor in. I found this page for Barix Clinics last night while doing some research. [more…]
Those “in the know” about search engines are far too familiar with the phrase “Content is King”. Search Engines tend favor large, dynamic sites to smaller, static ones. This is primarily because larger, dynamic sites are more likely to contain fresh information of value to the Search Engine’s audience. USWeb has worked with some of the world’s largest online media companies such as Forbes.com and CNET Networks who are widely considered leading sources of information within their respective subject matters. Both entities have achieved “authority” status with the search engines and thus are typically “crawled” deeper and more often than smaller sites with similar information. [more…]
