I have had several of my students to contact me over the last few weeks because they’ve thought some of the links they have built to their websites have been lost. Typically in SEO, one of the ways we can tell which links we built are indexed by the search engines is by is by [...] Read more »
Microdata Wins – Schema.org Brings Richer Web
Google, Bing and Yahoo jointly announced a new initiative today at Schema.org to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages in Microdata. For many years search engines have worked independently of one another to establish some standards in structured markup. Essentially, through Schema.org, the search… [[ This is a [...] Read more »
Demand Media: We’re "Very White Hat"
Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt, speaking on an earnings call today, took to defending his company’s content, which is often subject to a great deal of criticism, though I would contend that much of the criticism is really geared toward Google for surfacing some of the more questionable (in quality) content over other results that [...] Read more »
DuckDuckGo Follows Content Farm Banning With Promoting wikiHow Content
Today, DuckDuckGo has started "hard wiring" wikiHow as the first result on its search engine results pages for how-to queries. wikiHow founder Jack Herrick (who also ran eHow before selling to Demand Media) tells WebProNews, "As you know, there is tons of buzz on the web about what Google’s next step will be with tackling low [...] Read more »
Google Edges Bing For Visual Attention
The top three paid positions on Google attract more visual attention than the top three links on Bing, according to a new report from research firm User Centric. Study outcomes showed a comparable number of participants viewing top sponsored links (~90 percent) across both search engines. However, these participants spent 22 percent more time looking [...] Read more »
Who earns the most in China’s Online Search Market?
We say ‘google it’ but China says ‘baidu it’. iResearch released its annual report on China’s online search market and Baidu emerged as the top earner. Baidu owned 71.6 percent of the total online search engines revenue at $1.2 billion. While Google, at second placing, owned 26 percent at $433 million. The rest are shared [...] Read more »
Microsoft Launches WebMatrix Web Dev Tool with Built-in SEO
Microsoft has released a new web development tool called WebMatrix, which the company says is designed to let developers of "all skill levels" create, customize, and publish websites to the Internet. WebMatrix brings together a Web server, a database, and programming frameworks, letting users code, test, and deploy both deploy both ASP.NET and PHP applications [...] Read more »
Getting Added Twitter Value From Press Releases
More WebProNews Videos As you may know, press releases can cater to traffic from search engines and social media, for one thing just getting them out there to be found and shared is huge. Lisa Buyer, CEO of The Buyer Group shared some other ideas with us in a recent interview. "It used to be [...] Read more »
How do I become expert in SEO work?what skills are needed?
I would like to do work at home. Thing is many people are looking for SEO type work. I know a bit have done SEO article writing and some backlinks the old fashioned white hat way as they say. Can anyone help me on what skills I need? Im a Psychology grad so not that [...] Read more »
