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SEO in the Facebook Age

Facebook. What started as a social network site for College students, has now grown into a big company and force to be reckon with on the Internet. It has slowly encroached on many things and affected and disrupted online industries as it grew. One of these is SEO, a field that as its name suggests, used to concern only with traditional search engines. Currently, people rely heavily on search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask and Bing to find information on the internet. Google’s success on search -- making information available (fast and accurately) to users has jump-started ... 0 Comments

Yahoo! Sports Search

Yahoo! launched a new look for their Sports and News search early this month. I am more impressed with the sports search since Google's News search pretty much suffices for my news search needs. A look into Yahoo's Sports search was pretty fun though. Below is a screenshot of what the sports results pages looks like. As you see at the top when I searched for the braves it showed the Atlanta Brave's logo. It then gives links for the team's page, news, scores and schedules, and photos. Right under ... 0 Comments

Selling Dead End Domains to Social Sites

Bill Slawski, one of the best SEO minds today, recently did a fun post (usually his post are very cerebral) showing the old Digg.com. Facebook.com, Twitter.com, MySpace.com, and Yelp.com, and of course the current versions. Digg.com used to be home to Digg Records, a site on Russian Tourism. Facebook.com used to be home to AboutFace Corporation, an internet directory site. Yelp.com was a directory as well. MySpace was a web design company (makes sense from the name) and Twitter was just up for sale. Twitter's site was the funniest since you'll have no idea what it was used for ... 0 Comments