by Mike Krumboltz We haven't had a Harry Potter flick since 2007. Has the world forgotten the Boy who Lived? Not bloody likely! With the sixth movie about to swoop into theaters, the wizard's buzz is back in a big way. Lookups on " harry potter 6 movie " and " harry potter and the half blood prince movie " are conjuring up tremendous gains in Search. But that's not all. A recent blog from the LA Times revealed some details on the following flicks,

by Claudine Zap So, what are you planning to do this summer? Watch re-runs? Catch up on your gaming? We thought so. And guess what: Your government is on to you. Which is probably why Michelle Obama is behind the launch of a summer service project. You can find all the details on the government's new website, serve.gov . The first lady kicked off a summertime initiative for local DIY service projects that you, yes, you, can start up or join in.

by Claudine Zap So, what are you planning to do this summer? Watch re-runs? Catch up on your gaming? We thought so. And guess what: Your government is on to you. Which is probably why Michelle Obama is behind the launch of a summer service project. You can find all the details on the government's new website, serve.gov . The first lady kicked off a summertime initiative for local DIY service projects that you, yes, you, can start up or join in.

Another short post today. The Webmaster Center team has updated its RSS feed provider . If you use our RSS feed to keep up with the latest and greatest news from the Bing Webmaster Center team, please update your RSS feed today! Thanks! - Rick DeJarnette,

Another short post today. The Webmaster Center team has updated its RSS feed provider . If you use our RSS feed to keep up with the latest and greatest news from the Bing Webmaster Center team, please update your RSS feed today! Thanks! - Rick DeJarnette,

Quick note on this. We have just released a new white paper titled, Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters . As you might imagine, it covers the key features of Bing from the perspective of webmasters and web publishers. It also delves into how Bing affects your past and future SEO activities. Be forewarned â?" it is a bit long (I am a veteran tech writer, after all, and I like details and images to illustrate points). I hope you find it informative and useful.

We have another quick but important announcement today. Bing, along with the other search engines that are a part of Sitemaps.org , has announced support for the following Sitemap enhancements: 1. You can now include up to 50,000 references (either URLs or links to child Sitemaps) in your sitemap.xml index file . Until recently, Sitemap files only supported about 1,000 child references. This enhancement will be very useful to extremely large sites, as now a single,

Lord Alfred Douglas once said, All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. He could have just as easily been talking about high-ranking websites (had he known about them his quote pre-dates the 1920s!). The way to search engine optimization (SEO) success is neither fast nor simple (not that it has to be hard, though). But the accumulation of valuable, relevant,

We at Bing absolutely believe that security is one of our top priorities. We will keep investing in security, as one of our primary goals is to protect and secure our users and provide them with a safe search experience. What have we noticed in Bing? Over the last year, we have seen an increase in social engineering malware. Malware providers mostly target popular search queries on antivirus products, free software downloads, and related technical queries.

In the previous blog post, Links: the good, the bad, and the uglyâ?"Part 1 , I discussed that links are de facto endorsements of the site linked to, that the relevance of the linked to page to the one linking to it is critical for determining the value of the link, and how the quantity vs. quality argument shapes up regarding links. I also defined what is good and bad about each. So let's pick up where I left off last time in our discussion of the good and bad of linking,