3rd October 2006

Ranking Monitor tool

Source: seoadministrator.com

This seo tool uses your website keywords to obtain the ranking position of your website from a wide range of search engines. The list of over thirty major international search engines includes: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, AllTheweb, Lycos, HotBot and so on.

Every Seo specialist needs to regularly monitor web site positioning in the major search engines. Manual checking is possible but this can occupy a significant amount of time. Seo Administrator software tool completely automates this chore and allows you to easily create convenient and informative site position reports in minutes.

    Currently, just a handful of search engines bring nearly all of the visitors to a website. Google is in first place, while Yahoo, MSN search and AOL search engines are also extremely popular. Seo Administrator supports all of these major search engines as well as more than thirty other international and West European search engines.

    The operation of the "Ranking Monitor" module is user-friendly and intuitive. You simply specify keywords, your site addresses to be checked, then select your search engines. Ranking Monitor then collects the required information. Collected information will be displayed as easy to interpret web site positioning reports.

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3rd October 2006

The 10 Commandments of Link Building

By: Brandon Cornett | Source: isedb.com

Links today are what keywords were several years ago — the hottest topic in SEO. Search engines, particularly Google, use link popularity to help evaluate and rank your website. Link popularity refers to the number, quality and relevance of inbound links from other websites to yours.

Some people waste a lot of time seeking links in the wrong way and from the wrong places. The "10 Commandments of Link Building" will help you avoid such time-wasters and achieve true linking success.

1. Thou shalt recognize the value of links.

For now, and for the foreseeable future, link building and SEO walk hand-in-hand. Linking profiles are one of Google’s top ranking factors, and the "other" engines use them as well. Once upon a time, you could simply write a lot of keyword-rich content and rank well for it. While that may still be the case with MSN / Live Search, it no longer carries you very far with Yahoo or Google. That’s where links come in.

2. Thou shalt begin link-building on thine own website.

"What is this heresy? Link-building starts on my website? Who ever heard of such a thing?" All too often, I see website owners throw up a new site and go out hunting for links before they have a site worth linking to. Link building always starts on your own website.

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3rd October 2006

Amazon’s A9 search engine redesigned

Surce: a9.com

Amazon’s A9 drops support for bookmarks and diary. Adds new search design.

Amazon has developed a new strategy for its A9 search site.

The company has clearly abandoned the plans of turning A9 into a personal portal for searchers. Functions such as personal search history, diary and bookmarks have been abandoned.

The toolbar is also dead, and there is no longer an Amazon discount for A9 toolbar users.

However, the company must still have some faith in the search site concept. The new design introduces six groups of search tools.

You choose one of them by clicking on a button. This brings up a menu where you can tick off the search engines you want A9 to use in its search. Some are ticked off by default.

The six groups are:

  • quick start (including web search by Microsoft’s Windows Live Search, books by Amazon, Wikipedia and more)
  • entertainment including the International Movie Database and Videos.
  • reference, including answers.com, wikipedia, blog search and more.
  • news, including news from Live.com, Ney York times etc.
  • Amazon.com, where you can select among types of goods.
  • images, where you may include Flickr, Webshots, istockphoto and other sites.

You may also add other groups, including shopping, jobs, books, health and more. And, finally, you can create your own custom group based on more than 400 search sources.

A9 will present the results from the different search engines selected in separate columns, not mixed as one might expect.

This is not in any way a revolutionary innovation, but it is a system that works.

A9 has also introduced a new continuous scrolling feature, “so you no longer have to bother with next and previous buttons to move from one page of results to the next.”

What happens is that when you reach the end of the search engine result list, A9 will automatically generate new results and add them to the column. In other words: You stay on the same web page.

You may also switch to a new search group from the search engine result page.

As for the unlucky ones who have been using A9’s personalized features, there is hope:

“If you had any bookmarks or diary entries, we have saved them in files for you that you can access in the Product Extras section of your Amazon Media Library,” A9 says.

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