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I just wanted to let readers know that SEOintelligence (our entry into the SEO tools category) was recently featured on KillerStartups™. I am very excited to get the “KillerStartup” badge of recognition, but honestly we’re only halfway to the finish line with the toolset. SEOi has turned from a “pet project” into a full blown SaaS business model with teeth - and we’re really only touching the tip of the iceberg in regards to usability and customer value (which is a GREAT place to be as a app developer).

Many of you know Kyle (my Partner) and I have been hard at work on the v1.0 release and finally getting out of “beta” mode - we are also trying to take into account ALL the customer feedback to date to make SEOintelligence the BEST SEO toolset available online (shout out to to all our loyal users - thank you!).

Now please take 10 seconds and go over to KillerStartups and Vote SEOintelligence to the Top!

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An Oldie but Goodie with Patrick Norton! Learn about advanced Google query modifiers, how to look up Airport Flights, Currency Conversion, Movie Zip Code Ratings, ‘Define:’, multi word phrase definitions carrot, specific file type searches, number range search, budget price range parameter, and many more.

Chris Boggs over at SEW wrote a great peice on the Top 5 Ways to increase SERPs with non-SEO methods. It’s a good write up and I wanted to share it with all my readers.

SEO involves getting lots of moving pieces coming together in the right way to form a perfect storm of sorts, which equates to better search results for a Web site. Beyond SEO best practices, I polled our SEO team to come up with the top five “non-SEO” tasks that can help support the SEO process and get Web sites consistently ranked for relevant desired terms within the results.

Some of the ways he mentions include:
1. Enhance Web Site Usability
2. Work with Other Marketing Teams
3. Incorporate Traditional PR Efforts into the SEO Plan
4. Monitoring and Leveraging Communities
5. Keep Content Fresh by Updating it Regularly

Continue reading “Top 5 Non-SEO Ways to Increase Your Search Rankings” at Search Engine Watch

On April 5, Microsoft informed Yahoo’s board that it would take its bid hostile if a deal was not sealed in three weeks’ time.

So here we are, three weeks later, and there’s still no agreement. Microsoft hasn’t gone hostile — yet. Its stock has continued to drift, which could make the acquisition more expensive; and Yahoo has given no indication that it’s warming up to a deal.

Microsoft, on the other hand, has dropped several not-so-subtle hints that it could walk away from Yahoo entirely — yesterday CFO Chris Liddell said in an internal interview that it was a distinct possibility. And on the company’s earnings call on Thursday, Liddell said speed was of the essence but the process has been “anything but speedy.”

Then again, it’s not even noon in California, so Microsoft still has plenty of time to attack.

Epicenter - Wired Blogs: D-Day: Still No Word From Microsoft

SearchMe.com Introduction Video:

SearchMe.com Demo Video:

Their Press Release is pretty thorough - found here. I also like the iTunes like Album playlist navigation similarity - very slick. This actually is reminiscent to the A9 or Snap! visual page interfaces attempts from years ago.

I hope people catch on, or they get purchased quickly. This looks like a fantastic new interface for Search to evolve into.

For the most recent chunk of our Internet lives, most of us have been on autopilot. When it comes time to look something up on the Web, we “Google” it. We don’t do this generically, in the manner that someone may “Xerox” a document on a Ricoh copier. We are more likely to do this than ever. Google’s growing share of all searches executed in the U.S. stands at about three in five…

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Google has cleansed more than 40,000 of malware hosting sites from their index, that seemed to be part of an organized SEO attack. OK - you might be thinking, spam search results show up everyday - why is this a big deal? It’s a big deal because the techniques used for these attacks was more clever and thought out than the typical SEO-poisoning.

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Google now says that it is preparing for a bid in the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction, but no one is yet sure just what the Big G has in mind. Our thoughts inside.

Telecom providers watch out, the closed door systems and proprietary network structures are about to fall! Go get em Google!!!

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Google took a giant step on Friday to make it easier for companies to migrate any e-mail system over to Google Apps Gmail by offering an E-mail Migration API targeted at corporate developers and e-mail administrators. Find the API details here: http://code.google.com/apis/apps/email_migration/
developers_guide_protocol.htm

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Microsoft (who is currently digg’s NEW ad partner) aims to be one of the top two players in the online advertising market in three to five years. The world’s largest software maker currently trails Google and Yahoo in the $40 billion global online advertising market dominated by selling advertising alongside Web search links.

Why not Google Sir?

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