All Posts Tagged With: "Search Engines"

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How To Get More Traffic From Technorati - Tips Straight From The Horse’s Mouth

A long time ago when I was just starting to blog, I questioned the value of adding Technorati tags. An employee of Technorati replied saying the best way to get picked up by Technorati is to display tags on the homepage as Technorati don’t follow links to individual pages:
Hi there,
We’re not picking up your [...]

8Nov2006 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
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Internet Doubles In Size In Just 2 Years, And Now Exceeds 100m Websites

According to a new survey, the Internet has just reached and passed 100m websites.
This year alone an additional 27.4 million sites have appeared on the net, compared to 17m in 2005. 2005’s growth of 17 million.
This means that the internet has doubled in size in just 2 years.

Total Site Growth Aug 1995 - Nov 2006

7Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Best Wordpress Engagement Plugins: Make Users Read More Posts

I’ve just finished deploying my 6th theme in around six months, 4 on this blog and 2 free of charge for the charity Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation where I maintain their blog for free. I’m quite happy with the result and this template is definitely my best so far and I wanted to share [...]

4Nov2006 | Everton | 27 comments | Continued
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England 2 - 0 Brazil: Peter Crouch Beats Ronaldinho On Search Results (And Height of Course!)

According to a comment left earlier by Heather Hopkins, Director of Research for Hitwise, and on her blog Peter Crouch is about to overtake Ronaldinho as the second most searched for player in the UK, only beaten by Steven Gerrard who’s a injury concern at the moment.
‘Crouchy’ as he is becoming known, is now famour [...]

8Jun2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Yahoo! Launch Instant Search

Yahoo! are testing Instant Search which presents as you type the most relevant search result in a popup window using Ajax.
I think this is a good idea (although I couldn’t test at the time of posting as the service didn’t seem to be working), as I still find it weird that search engines persist in [...]

15Sep2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Steve Ballmer Promises To Bury Google - Can He Do It?

Searchblog has an interesting extract of a transcript that supposedly comes from an ex-Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, in the ongoing lawsuit between Google and Microsoft, over Google’s hiring of Kai-Fu Lee. The statement reads:
“Prior to joining Google, I set up a meeting on or about November 11, 2004 with Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer to [...]

2Sep2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Google Sandbox - How To Get Listed In Under A Day

Feedblog is struggling to get listed on Google and has been Sandboxed.
I was told that the quickest way to get indexed is to get site with a Page Rank of 6 or higher to link to you - a Page Rank of 6 will get you indexed within 3 days and a Page Rank of [...]

24Aug2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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See Who Is Linking To Your pPosts - Try TalkDigger

Kevin Burton alerted me to another linking/citation service from PubSub which I didn’t realise was available. The PubSub service is quite cool and is well laid out - here’s PubSub’s profile for Connected Internet.However, it was frustrating yet again to see that PubSub have picked up sites other linking tools like Technorati and IceRocket [...]

19Aug2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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How Often Does Google Update PageRanks?

I was just wondering how often does Google update PageRanks?
Mine jumped from 0 to 4 within a month of blogging and hasn’t moved for 4 months (has it been that long). Was I just lucky as I’ve noticed a lot of other blogs who have been around for longer than me who are stuck [...]

12Aug2005 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Technorati: I’m Sorry Too

I just found a post on another Blogware powered blog apologising to Technorati for not picking up more posts. Apparently the author discovered that it wasn’t Technorati’s fault and apologised to Technorati for giving them a hard time.
I’d like to do the same as my Technorati results have picked up after making the [...]

7Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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