Yahoo! just announced the new approach they are about to implement for returning search query information. This is quite interesting and actually makes a lot of sense to me. I applaud them for the foresight they are displaying and really hope with this new implementation that they can re-gain some of the market share lost [...]

Today, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft (MSN/Live)  and Ask are all announcing cross-host submission for easier management of sitemaps. This will make it a lot easier for webmasters to manage multiple sitemaps.
Here is how it works:
For those of you not familiar with sitemaps, a sitemap is a file that contains the URLs for the pages on [...]

Today, Google Adsense updated their terms of service (TOS). The announcement was posted here and you will also see a message when you login to your adsense account with the updated TOS. It has been almost 2 years since the last update. The last significant update was made in November 2005.
So what are the most [...]

This is a nice example an online marketed product that reveals an ‘ugly face’ in reality :)
Check this out: !
This is what the online product picture looks like:

You can view the product live here.
Actually, a very popular DIG story was launched 28 days ago on this burger got a lot of commotion! But the [...]

This feature is probably unknown by most of you but could become very useful for increasing your users/client Google search experience and relevancy. It is called a Subscribed Link, and it allows you to “create a custom search results that your users, clients or members can add to their Google search pages. Wow!
What is Google [...]

On 29th of Feb (leap day) Google will be holding a hachathon for anyone interested in participating. It will be help at their  Mountain view facility in the ‘The Googleplex building’. If you are in the area and an expert JAVA programmer then it may be a fun day for you to attend. Google says [...]

This is a nice image created by LeMonde.fr, which nicely illustrates the popularity of the different social networking sites across the world in different countries. This is great data for geotargeting your social media content.

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Here are some of my observations based on the above data for you. Make sure you [...]

WELL Well well … What I am about to discuss will make a lot of webmasters very happy and at the same time many ‘Search Engine Ranking Report’ companies are about to go out of business!
It seems that Google never ceases to amaze us and the Google Webmaster team have recently launched a services within [...]

Link Baiting is in essence an advanced form of link building. Link Baiting is pretty much like baiting a hook: A fisherman would bait up a hook so that a fish would be more inclined to take a bite. It is the same with link baiting. You throw out a link somewhere, like on one [...]

Here are some interesting statistics open to discussion. A recent Netcraft report published a survey study showing the total number of websites and blogs is around 156 million.

Technorati claims that the total number of blogs alone is currently in excess of 100 million so there this data is open to speculation and interpretation. Putting all [...]