Posted by great scott! Crawling and Indexing. Without them you can't rank. If you can't rank, you can't get search traffic. If you can't get search traffic, your online marketing efforts are going to suffer; and in our industry that is a colossal FAIL. This seems like simple stuff we all take for granted,

Buzz has been building about real-time search. Of course, you can search real-time Tweets on Twitter, Facebook is testing search on its live Feed, and Bing just added limited Twitter search to its engine. Now, FriendFeed is launching real-time search and it has the potential to be the mackdaddy of them all. Here's why. FriendFeed is a social aggregator. It's a one-stop shop to check and update a bunch of different networks, blogs, etc. Now,

Google recently wrote a post on its Webmaster Central Blog addressing site architecture and traffic . Specifically, items addressed include Duplicate content Affiliate programs Hacking and malicious malware Robots.txt And rel="canonical" URL attributes This may come as a surprise to you, but affiliate program content and duplicate content do not necessarily cause a drop in traffic. But you have to understand where Google is coming from here.

by Vera H-C Chan Given the continued Search interest , amusement parks will a Fourth of July weekend destination for many. Those headed to Orland's Magic Kingdom on Independence Day might want to stop by a revamped Hall of Presidents, where an animatronic Barack Obama â?"AKA Robobama â?"makes his debut. Animatronics is, as HowStuffWorks puts it, a " mechanized puppet ." The administration apparently is so tickled by this honor,

Now that ex-Google employees start-up Friendfeed has real-time search, you can feed their engine with a keyword like google and embed it elsewhere, like below (I could refine this search by restricting it to results which have X comments only, or have Likes, or which are only from my contacts at Friendfeed, and so on): PS: If you want to subscribe to my links at Friendfeed, it's there . [Hat tip to Websonic !

Creating new landing pages for testing is getting cheaper. And scalable. So there are fewer and fewer reasons for SMBs not to be testing their landing pages and sites to optimize conversion rates. Testing landing pages has long been a preoccupation of mine, particularly because of the traditionally prohibitive costs. Even if you use a design contest at a place like 99Designs.com , you're still paying $300 - $500 for a good graphic look and feel.

This week we feature the interview with Fraser Kelton , working at new and exciting social media project Glue , developed by AdaptiveBlue . 1. Please share your background. What brought you to the Web 2.0? Also please tell us a few words about your [other] projects you were doing before joining AdaptiveBlue. I'm originally from Hamilton, a beautiful Canadian city, an hour southwest of Toronto.

Nothing innovative here really. Just some functional features which should have been added a long time to Google's Blog Search. Then again, better late than never.  So, Google has just added RSS/ATOM subscription, list of  the most popular terms that users are using, and latest blog posts from, I guess "more prominent" blogs indexed by Google Blog Search? The RSS/ATOM subscription is nothing new really.

This is the second in a series of blog posts focusing on Microsoft Advertising Intelligence (formerly Microsoft adCenter Add-in Beta for Excel), coinciding with the launch of Microsoft Advertising Intelligence in the UK. Last week I covered the Keyword Extraction and Keyword Suggestion tools ; this week I will be looking at the Keyword Research tools. The Keyword Research tools provide up-to-date traffic and demographic data for your selected keywords.

Hello, Here are the most viewed adCenter API topics on MSDN for June 2009. Microsoft adCenter API Version 5.1 (Start migrating to V6 and use Microsoft adCenter API Version 6 instead !).