Google Market Share Up, Searches Down

by | Jul 21, 2010 | Search

Google saw more searches in June than May, but also a decline in market share. According to comScore, Google has seen a small decline in its search market share for June 2010 with Yahoo and Microsoft both increasing last month. Google is down 1.1% to 62.6% total share...

Google Bombing of “Holy See” Upsets Vatican

by | Jul 19, 2010 | Search

Remember the good old days of Google Bombing? Back when George W Bush’s bio page at the White House was ranked #1 for “miserable failure”? Well, this is something we haven’t seen for a while, and it is largely thought that this practice would no longer work, but  as...

Using a 302 Redirect in Place of a 404 Error is a Bad Idea

by | Jul 19, 2010 | Search, Tips

If your site is currently treating unavailable pages (404 errors) like temporary redirects (302 redirects) you may not have any problems with the search engines but your site is losing out on some important advantages of a proper 404 error. The Way a 404 Normally...

What Was the Big Bing News at SMX Advanced?

by | Jun 18, 2010 | Search, Tools

The last time I posted I revealed that there would be a big surprise revealed by Bing the next day… in fact just hours later when the conference commenced once more. Well, I took eons to get back to you but the deal is this, Bing has rewritten their Webmaster...

Bing Has Big News to Come in Just a Few Hours

by | Jun 9, 2010 | Search, Tools

I am at SMX Advanced in Seattle and today it came to my attention that Bing will be revealing some big news in just a few hours from now. So, if you are at SMX Advanced, be sure to visit the Bing sponsored presentation after this morning’s (June 9, 2010) Bing...