It looks like that Google has pressed the dreaded red button of  Pagerank update today. The name Google Dance has often been used to describe the index update of the Google search engine.  The Google search engine pulls its results from thousands of servers which are used by Google for economical reasons. Naturally, an index update cannot […]

Happy Birthday Google

Google is celebrating its 8th birthday on 27th September with the delicous birthday cake logo shown above. It looks like that the birthday cake has only five candles. but Google’s Matt Cutts explains that it’s because they are the Roman numerals VIII to mean eight.
Well, it feels like only yesterday we were all visiting the […]

Microsoft has announced the beta release of Soapbox on MSN Video, a user-uploaded video service like YouTube and Google Video . 
Like YouTube, as well as the user-generated video hubs managed by Yahoo and Google, Soapbox will help users easily post whatever videos they’d like on the site, while also allowing searches of 15 content channels. One […]

How difficult is Linkbaiting?

Linkbaiting is a big topic that is getting attention recently. So, what is linkbaiting and why is everyone talking about? Everyone wants and needs incoming links. We can request for links, buy links or create articles and submit them for one way links. Linkbaiting is about getting inbound links without doing any of these. Linkbaiting is essentially baiting […]

The term Social Media Optimization, (SMO), has recently become an industry buzzword in search marketing circles. SMO refers to the practice of implementing changes to optimize a website so that it is more easily linked to, more easily found in social media applications such as del.icio.us, MySpace, Tribe.net or YouTube, and by interested parties throughout the blogosphere.
Social media optimization […]

Search Engine Optimization is definitely a slow way to get your website traffic if you plan on not using PPC traffic. It could be a long, expensive road before you even begin selling your product. It can take months, even years to start pulling up profits with the search engines. But, natural search engine traffic is definitely the […]

According to posts at WebmasterWorld blog, there seems to be a Google backlink update going on now at some selected Google data centers; 64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99.  Unlike Yahoo, Google has a tendency of showing only a sample of backlinks when the link:url search command is used.
Although Google also updated its PageRank about a month ago, the Google backlink update […]

Online Videos in Search Engine Marketing

Online video has been an untapped technology for more than 5 years.  There were technical problems in utilizing online video in a serious way, but at last the world of search engine marketing is tapping the promise of online videos.
The most recent change in online videos is the development of sites like Google Video, YouTube.com, and many others such […]