Why Your Site Doesn’t Show Up on Search Engines

There’s the SAT, ACT, R-E-S-P-E-C-T…take care of TCB, O! Sock it to me. Sock it to me. Sock it to me… (Ahem) While those standardized tests helped qualify you to become the business owner you are today, they didn’t teach … Continue reading

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Bing and Yahoo! – Back in the Search Engine Marketing Game?

In February, we told you about the alliance between Yahoo! and Microsoft that would combine the advertising power of the Bing and Yahoo! search engines. Up to this point, this alliance has given Google nothing to worry about – their … Continue reading

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Help Visitors & Search Engines Discover Your Web Content by using Dynamic Site Maps

A site map helps both human visitors to your site and search engines bots (or crawlers) sent out by Google, Yahoo, Bing and all the others to index your site. There are three types of site maps. User-Friendly Site Map: … Continue reading

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To Whom Are Your Businesses Related to on the Web?

A tool associated with Google’s search engine is the ability to search for sites that are ‘related’ to yours. By simply typing in ‘related:your site address’ (for example, related:www.yoursite.com), you can view results that show pages that Google think are … Continue reading

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The Snags of the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Engine Alliance – Updated

We posted earlier that Yahoo and Microsoft have entered an alliance that will enable a new, unified search marketplace combining the Yahoo! and Microsoft paid ad networks. The merger is supposed to be complete by late 2010 but the companies … Continue reading

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