Duplicate content can cause rankings to drop especially if a large percentage of content is found elsewhere on another site. Here's a handy duplicate content analysis software tool that crawls your entire site and analyzes all your pages for duplicate content. It returns the similarity percentage for all pages of your site. The higher the percentage, the more likely the … [Read more...] about Site-Wide Duplicate Content Analyzer
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UK Search Marketing Market Grows 100% in 2005
According to the E-consultancy Search Marketing Buyer's Guide for 2006, the U.K. market for search engine marketing will be worth an estimated £1.41 billion ($2.6 billion) by the end of 2006 with paid search amounting to more than 90% of the total (US$2.4 billion). SEO will be worth US$276 million by the end of 2006. … [Read more...] about UK Search Marketing Market Grows 100% in 2005
Viral Link Building Through Link Baiting
Link building is one of the major keys in ranking effectively with the search engines. Many techniques have evolved to capitalize on the hidden gold from attaining top rankings and getting free search engine traffic. Of them all, link baiting has to be one of the best methods to build incoming links. Link baiting boosts the link popularity of a web site and has quickly … [Read more...] about Viral Link Building Through Link Baiting
Google Patent #20050071741 Implications
Google filed a patent which was made publicly available recently called 'Information retrieval based on historical data'. While not a leisurely read like a novel would be, it certainly gives a great deal of insight into the future of search engine algorithm technology and is certainly worth studying for the SEO enthusiast. Aging Delay I mentioned in another post the issue … [Read more...] about Google Patent #20050071741 Implications
Yahoo’s Link-Based Spam Detection Patent Application
In an effort to curb spam, TrustRank has been used as one of the factors in establishing rankings in search engines like Big G. Now, Yahoo is joining in the game by using domain "Trust" as a ranking factor. From the latest patent abstract by Yahoo: A computer implemented method of ranking search hits in a search result set. The computer-implemented method includes … [Read more...] about Yahoo’s Link-Based Spam Detection Patent Application