International SEO and Accents
September 30, 2009 - 10:28 pm by toddjensen
As high speed internet continues to penetrate other countries, many U.S. companies are now focusing their efforts on this world wide market. Google’s India site is now the twelfth most popular site in the world, and Baidu.com, a search engine in China, is even better at number nine. Companies can see huge sale increases from [...]
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SEO Ranking Factors Revisited
September 25, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
Several clients, recently, have specifically asked about the many factors that go into helping a website show up higher is search engines. Particularly, on-page factors. The best resource I’ve found in a long time is SEOmoz’s Search Engine Ranking Factors resource. One of the reasons this resource is so helpful, is that it’s from a [...]
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Google Also Getting Visual
September 21, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
A few days ago we posted about Bing going visual with their visual search, well Google is getting into the game as well. CNN posts a nice video that gives you a sample. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a><br /><br /> I like the direction this leads. The more visual search becomes, even more [...]
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Facebook & Bing Working Together…Taking on Google Together?
September 15, 2009 - 1:20 pm by toddjensen
We at TK have long mused wither Facebook would ever really try and get into the search business. Imagine, if you will, doing a search on FB for a local plumber and getting web results that integrate with your friends from FB. It could deliver results that had your friends searches and input as a [...]
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Bing Reaches Over 10% of Search Market Share
September 14, 2009 - 9:20 pm by toddjensen
Bing continues it’s steady and healthy adoption rate. It has just improved to over 10% by itself. If you include it with Yahoo, it’s recent search partner, it has over 26% of the total market share. Google is still the strong leader with over 64%, but the competition and with Bing bringing on cool new [...]
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Don't Forget the Long Tail
September 11, 2009 - 8:38 am by toddjensen
Much has been said about long tail searches, and the video below illustrates how important these unique, less searched phrases can be to your site traffic. It is critical that you pay some attention to them as an SEO. Sometimes as much as 75% of your overall site traffic can be attributed to the long [...]
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Google, Yahoo or Bing: A Blind Test
August 31, 2009 - 10:23 am by toddjensen
Much has been written about the comparisons between Google, Yahoo and Bing. Many feel that Google still reigns supreme as far as quality search results. Others counter that Google benefits from their brand in this debate, and with a blind test, they argue, Bing competes very well. So, instead of giving our opinion, we leave [...]
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Yahoo and Bing Combo Video
August 7, 2009 - 4:06 pm by toddjensen
Some nice background and analysis about the Bing/Yahoo search deal.
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Yahoo & Microsoft Going After Google
July 29, 2009 - 10:09 am by toddjensen
Yahoo and Microsoft have finally teamed up to take on Google. We’ve been watching these two try and dance together for a long time and they finally are making it happen- thanks to Bing showing so strongly as of late. Together they could claim up to 25% of the search market and be a thorn [...]
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Future of SEO- Content and Verticle Search
July 28, 2009 - 11:42 am by toddjensen
If you’ve talked to me for more than 15 seconds at a time, you probably know that I love SEOmoz. We’ll Rand doesn’t disappoint with another great video whiteboard on the future of SEO. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – The Future of SEO from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. I love how they never take a ‘this [...]
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