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Wednesday, 13 April 2005

Overture DTC Problems

If you’re an agency with multiple accounts in the Overture Direct Traffic Centre (DTC), make sure your double checking your Account Summary Status. At the moment it is quite sporadic about updating information, ie; it doesn’t appear to be updating...

Monday, 11 April 2005

Explore the World with Google

Google who acquired Keyhole last year have recently incorporated the satellite imagery within their local search - the results are impressive from a users perspective. This currently gives users the advantage of physically seeing structures and locations. Again moving one...

Google behind the scenes - essential viewing.

I recently came across this essential viewing, a 55min recruitment style presentation by Jeff Dean of Google, at the University of Washington. http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2459 Those of you into security and redundancy will be very interested in the GFS (Google File System)...

Friday, 08 April 2005

Search Engine Marketing Buyer's Guides doing the rounds again.

Neutralize (*\*) has been shortlisted in the E-consultancy's Search Engine Marketing Buyer's Guide again, but weirdly an hour after receiving the invite via email, we get another one inviting us to fill in the Official Questionnaire to be listed in...

Google prefetching, what are the implications?

On Monday Google announced a new feature specifically for Mozilla users, support of the Prefetch function. What are the implications? Bad Prefetch will make a request to a site for the top result, even if the user doesn't actually visit...

Saturday, 02 April 2005

Linking to Search Engine War

To link to Search Engine War cut and paste one of the following pieces of link code into your site. Search Engine War Button Link. 232x29 pixels Search Engine War Search Engine War Square...

Friday, 01 April 2005

SME / SMB search engine optimisation strategies

Early in 2003 Neutralize (*\*) published a report about SME/SMB internet strategies. It came out of our work on the Web Review Initiative (WRI) and the E-Commerce Review Grant, consulting exercises conducted by Neutralize (*\*) on behalf of Business Link...

Optimising your website for Local Search

If I want an electrician, a plumber or even a pizza, isn’t it much more likely I am going to want one in my area than on the other side of the country? ‘local search’ is the solution and in...

Algorithmic search engine optimisation - change is the only constant

Why are my search engine rankings and traffic consistently changing? This is one of the most common questions I am asked as an algorithmic search specialist at Neutralize (*\*). The straight answer “change is the only constant in the world...
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