The growing field of real-time search lets consumers discover what’s happening right now, but what if they want to find out what’s happening tomorrow, or this weekend? Goby, a new search engine, is hoping to fill that gap. Goby is designed to help find “fun ways to spend your time.” Instead of the usual single search field provided by Google, Yahoo, and Bing, Goby offers three fields: what, where, and when. Goby’s search spiders don’t crawl the entire web like the big search engines, but instead focus on databases of activities, according to a MediaPost report.
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/24886.asp

The following are just few tips to get rid of Yahoo penalty: Clean up all potential search engine spam and ask yahoo for a reinclusion, clean up the site and wait for yahoo’s slurp to recrawl the site, and submit via yahoo’s content submission program after clean up of site.

http://forums.seochat.com/yahoo-search-optimization-60/yahoo-penalty-278388.html

According to a post in DigitalPoint forum, SEO strategies are becoming, and will continue to become more and more vital to run a successful business online. As the world continues to become e-commerce centric (we’re barely past 10% here folks), the importance of information and how that information is accessed will become even MORE important. For a career choice SEO is 100% viable, but you should never limit yourself to a career.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1551630

Appearing for irrelevant or outdated keywords is a common flaw of poorly managed paid search marketing campaigns, but it can also afflict organic listings. If your site is ranking for unsuitable keywords, visitors clicking through expecting to find something specific will be disappointed when a glance at the page doesn’t reveal what they were looking for.
http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/whats-high-bounce-rate

Google has added a new Music Search OneBox to its search results. The new OneBox includes content from partner sites such as MySpace, Pandora, Lala and others, and lets searchers listen to song clips right from Google’s search results page. Searchers should begin to see the new OneBox in the next 24 hours.
http://searchengineland.com/google-music-search-28697

Google’s now officially announced “Comparison Ads,” starting with a way for mortgage advertisers to have their products compared against each other but which may expand to other products in the future. In the new system, those search for “mortgage” or related terms may see an special ad from Google itself inviting them to view offers.
http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-comparison-ads-starting-with-mortgages-28810

Optimizing a WP site and a normal site is done the same way. The only difference is in approach. In WP you can install All-in-One SEO Plug-in which looks after most of the SEO needs of your site. On the other hand, normal website does not have such add-on. It is much easier to optimize a WP site as it is completely built on SEO guidelines.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1549530

According to a comment in HighRankings forum, relevancy is one of the biggest myths in SEO. So is the idea that links from PR0 pages are not worth much. If that PR0 page is within a recognized authority site, you’re a fool not to get that backlink if you can. The notion of “natural” links is way overblown.
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41993

There are a number of things you can do to rank more highly on the search engine results pages – keywords in title, internal anchor text, the inverted pyramid concept and conversion rate optimization basics.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/Steps-to-Higher-Rankings-and-Traffic/

Your web server, web hosting package, and e-commerce/web publishing software can all play an important role in the execution of your search engine optimization strategy. If you want to increase traffic to your site, your choices in these areas can help — or hurt — your online success.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/SEO-Essentials-the-Proper-Web-Server-and-Platform/

Similar Images now becomes the first major feature in Google Labs that has taken the big leap into becoming a permanent feature of Google Search. Interestingly, Google has to make this move right after Gazoopa, a similar images search engine come out in beta. Although Gazoopa has far more better features than Google Similar Images feature, it’s still is a competition that Gazoopa has to contend with.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/similar-images-search-feature-graduates-from-google-labs/14267/

IAC’s media and advertising business — which includes Ask.com — suffered an 11 percent drop in revenues in Q3. And according to the latest comScore survey, Ask.com is a distant fourth in the search race with just 3.9% market share. It’s actually moved away from being a true search engine recently, and returned to its roots with the expansion of AnswerFarm, a Q&A database that was launched one year ago.
http://searchengineland.com/diller-says-hes-willing-to-sell-ask-com-28585

As we rapidly approach the holiday shopping season, advertisers are ramping up promotions, holiday campaigns and focusing on maximizing return on investment (ROI). An important aspect to success is optimizing your keywords and ads. Users will see your ads while you bid on the keywords that trigger which ad to show. Often times, we receive feedback from advertisers that campaign ROI is high and they would like to increase ad delivery. A great tool to increase ad delivery is Microsoft’s Advertising Intelligence.
http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/advertiser/archive/2009/10/26/tutorial-using-microsoft-advertising-intelligence-s-keyword-wizard-for-keyword-expansions.aspx

According to a forum, Yahoo answers has “no follow tag” attributed to each link. It can be a good source of traffic to your site but won’t help you achieve search engine rankings.
http://forums.seochat.com/yahoo-search-optimization-60/how-can-i-create-backlinks-from-yahoo-answers-280221.html

Not wanting to be left completely behind, Yahoo will soon launch their own real time search engine too. But unlike Microsoft and Google, they won’t be partnering with Twitter and Facebook directly for the data (perhaps memories of their ill-fated blog search engine from 2005 linger). They’ll work with one of the existing real time search engines – that partner is OneRiot.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/27/yahoo-to-launch-real-time-search-too/

Google now has an entire team of engineers dedicated to providing users with the tools they need to free themselves from Google’s services entirely, if they so choose.  These engineers call themselves the “Data Liberation Front“, and are charged with the task of helping users retrieve their data from the cloud and take it wherever else they’d like to go with simple to use import/export tools.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-data-liberation-front-frees-your-google-content/14249/

There are two key factors crucial to assuring the success of any large SEM optimization process: First, tuning the campaign so that it is efficient and second, scaling the account while maintaining the efficiency you’ve gained. In any SEM account there will be a relatively small set of keywords that are naturally efficient (usually but not limited to branded terms) but that only drive limited volume.
http://searchengineland.com/two-golden-keys-to-paid-search-success-scale-and-efficiency-28421

Google has made a series of announcements today about its Custom Search Engine service, including a new integration with Wikipedia that substantially changes the search experience on that site for users who opt-in. With the new Custom Search Wikipedia Skin, users can now get Wikipedia search results from Google inline on the Wikipedia page you’re viewing.
http://searchengineland.com/google-new-custom-search-features-including-wikipedia-integration-28517

Companies that implement keyword research and SEO efforts for their web sites holistically, typically realize a very desirable combination of benefits that include an increase in sales as well as a reduction of costs in certain areas. If not a reduction in costs, at least an improvement in efficiency and performance.
http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/10/defining-search-engine-optimization/

Yahoo intends to continue to innovate on the consumer-experience side of the search sector, without getting caught up in the “arms race” between Microsoft and Google of investing in the technology platform.  In the meantime, Yahoo is focusing on building out its content and display advertising platform, an effort it is supporting with a major multinational re-branding campaign it launched in September.
http://www.internetnews.com/search/article.php/3844691/Yahoo+Profits+Beat+the+Street.htm

According to a comment in a forum, if you would like to improve visitors to your site then you have to target less competitive keywords so that you can get ranking in less efforts. When you have number of keywords then there would be more chances to get more traffic.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1546700

The Google AdWords blog announced Google will begin testing a new My Client Center (MCC) this week. The new MCC will look a lot like the new AdWords interface and promises to help you manage your “clients more efficiently.
http://searchengineland.com/google-testing-new-adwords-my-client-center-28487

Google Social Search is rolling out, a new service from Google that allows you to easily find material written by people you know and trust. It’s a pretty cool idea, especially in that it’s pretty painless to get started using it. The service will be available through Google Labs Experimental later today.
http://searchengineland.com/google-social-search-launches-gives-results-from-your-trusted-social-circle-28507

Full-service SEO is as expensive as it needs to be to get the job done right. The SEOs have to be prepared to invest the hours to implement all aspects of the campaign. Like most businesses, you’ll likely pay higher rates for more highly skilled SEOs. But you’ll often get the results to match. If you think a particular proposal is too expensive then you need to take an honest evaluation of your site’s needs to see if some of the other options might better fit your budget.
http://www.searchengineguide.com/stoney-degeyter/affording-seo-in-tough-economic-times.php

Google seemed to have a minor search update, while Bing had a major search index update. Microsoft and Google both confirmed deals with Twitter on the firehouse. Yahoo added Delicious data and Search Monkey data to Site Explorer. AdWords released an update to their API v2009 and is sunsetting version 13 on April 22, 2010. Google confirmed the ad position move made for a higher click through rate.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021008.html

If you have a global website for example yousite.com and yoursite.co.uk, each one should have its own IP address in that country.  So, if your site is a UK site, don’t expect to rank for terms that are generic if you’re hosted in Kalamazoo, Michigan.   Search engines want to make sure you.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/international-seo-need-your-help/14172/

To estimate keyword market demand, first look at the phrases currently driving traffic. Export (from your site analytics) all the non-brand phrases that drove natural search traffic over the last completed month.
http://searchengineland.com/jedi-metrics-how-to-overcome-resistance-to-seo-efforts-27767

Try as they might Yahoo is having a tough time convincing people that it’s still “in search.” On Yahoo’s earnings call earlier this week CFO Tim Morse, who led the call because CEO Carol Bartz was ill, used her analogy to describe Yahoo’s new way of positioning itself around search: The next revolution isn’t with the algorithms that provide results, it’s in creating a better, more personally relevant search experience.
http://searchengineland.com/googles-brin-a-shame-that-yahoo-out-of-search-28376

When we think about getting links, typically the concept is quantity over quality. Granted, we often look at things like PageRank to see if the potential link has value in the eyes of Google. But we often don’t look at the inherent value that a potential link might have.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3635414

If you are posting in forums directly related to your niche, and your posts are extremely good and offer unique information, then you might manage to drive some traffic. If you’re going to be doing things like so many people do here where they say “hi guys, I think google is important to SEO, please visit my website” then you will definitely be wasting your time.
http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/what-are-your-thoughts-on-forum-posting-279543.html#post746583

Optimizing YouTube pages requires you to follow the same rules as any other search engine optimization (SEO) project, and all SEO can be broken down into three disciplines: content, linking, and architecture.
http://redfoxseo.com/2009/10/10-seo-tips-for-youtube/

Over optimization can affect a lot of things. The number one thing it can affect is your users. The last thing you want to do is give your users the impression your site is spammy, low class or just plain junk. Even if you get a ton of visitors the chances of them converting is slim to none, therefore your site is deemed useless. The best thing to do is to mix up your keywords with compelling content that grabs the users attention.
http://redfoxseo.com/2009/10/over-optimization-and-no-follow-tags-in-google/

Participation is more predictable with such PPC experiments, and the results can be easily benchmarked against your e-commerce or lead funnel metrics. It’s a small, low-risk investment that can help you discover big wins.
http://searchengineland.com/5-social-media-lessons-for-paid-search-landing-pages-28158

Google’s Marissa Mayer has announced at the Web 2.0 Summit that Google Social Search will be launching in the coming weeks. There’s a new Google product called Social Search that is launching in Google Labs. This is a new feature that allows you to see results for queries from people in your social network.
http://searchengineland.com/google-social-search-is-coming-more-on-google-twitter-28292

A report from TechCrunch suggested that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) may begin selling digital music, much like the iPod and iPhone maker. But others have claimed that Google is dealing with the music labels directly and looking to merge artist information into search results — and will link to music sites for sales.
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3844796/Googles+Next+Move+A+Music+Service.htm

SEO is very much in demand these days. The best and most trusted companies don’t need to spam you with offers of free web site analyses.
http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/how-to-get-started-with-seo/2364/

According to a comment in DigitalPoint, one of the fastest way to get exposure for your site/sites is to make a google gadget for it. The google search engine will pick it up in a couple of hours if not faster. Submitting to the directories is fine but sometimes it can take days or weeks for the spiders to “crawl” your site.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1005476&page=17

An XML sitemap is a type of sitemap Google suggests that you submit to them through Google Webmaster tools. This is not the kind of web sitemap you usually see when you are visiting a website. The purpose of an XML sitemap is to inform Googlebot of all canonical URLs in your website, which they may not find in a normal crawling process.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-Optimization-Help/Create-a-Customized-Google-XML-Sitemap/

A class of mobile “help” or “answer engines” has arisen as an alternative to traditional search engines. They hold out the promise more efficient, relevant or direct responses to queries than search engines can provide on the small screen. In several cases they involve the use of live human agents or a community of users to answer questions.
http://searchengineland.com/mobile-answer-engines-battle-search-engines-28106

Bing’s new Bing Twitter Search has gone live today, made possible through a new deal cut with Twitter. Bing hasn’t given it an official name. The site’s home page has a title of “Bing Twitter” which sounds awkward (as opposed to Bing Video or Bing Images, which combine the Bing brand with a generic term).
http://searchengineland.com/live-today-bings-twitter-search-engine-28224

Internal links can be used to help establish relevancy for important keywords and keyword phrases. A good internal link structure also helps search engine bots and spiders crawl website more efficiently.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1539790

The L.A. Times printed a sensational expose on how Google had a deal with Twitter to index and make publicly searchable protected tweets. Twitter allows users to keep their tweets private, seen just by their followers.
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/091020-173619

Having too many links per page will undermine ranking aspirations by infringing on the search engine’s design and content guidelines.  Google starts out by recommending that links on a page are kept to a reasonable number, which they classify as below 100.
http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/search-position-damaged-links

Some people have set up networks where you can trade or even buy content links. These sites rarely work as well as they claim. This is primarily because sites with high traffic and loyal readers do not need to trade or sell their links. They can make their money with advertisers.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/Building-Linkable-Pieces-and-Titles/

Google has just announced a number of new features for Google Analytics, including more powerful reporting capabilities, greater customization options and a new “intelligence engine” that Google says can help search marketers drive smarter data insights.
http://searchengineland.com/google-analytics-new-features-analytics-intelligence-custom-alerts-28048

Link and comment spamming won’t go away. It just won’t. It is unfortunately what we suffer from having open systems that allow people to submit anything without moderation and review, in a climate where occasionally, gathering links in this way can still work in the short term.
http://searchengineland.com/thoughts-on-web-developers-seo-reputation-problems-28047

According to the Inside AdWords blog, Campaign Insights is a unique measurement tool that gives you reliable data about how a particular ad campaign was able to raised brand awareness or active user interest on a particular product or service that you are promoting. It measures the incremental lift in both online search activity and website visits brought by display ad campaign, beyond the usual click and conversion indicators.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/measure-your-display-ads-impact-with-adwords-campaign-insights/14119/

As long as things can be searched, they can be optimized for better performance in search. Until search engines are perfect at finding, crawling, indexing and sorting searchable content, there will be a need for Search Engine Optimization expertise.
http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/10/the-truth-about-seo/

While Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) dominate the market for enterprise e-mail, Google is trying to convince businesses to switch to its so-called cloud-based services, in which software is accessed over the Internet and maintained at Google’s datacenters instead of on a company’s computers.
http://www.internetnews.com/breakingnews/article.php/3844361/Google+Takes+Apps+Pitch+Worldwide.htm

If the business’s status stays the same — for example, maintains its quality of service and delivery, maintains its search engine rankings, and maintains a competitive price — the business could last for a lifetime, like Amazon.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Website-Marketing-Help/Return-on-Investment-Calculation-for-Online-Businesses/1/