Digital Inspiration offers an all-in-one preview tool that helps one compare the relevance of Contextual Advertising services offered by Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) and Chitika eMiniMalls. Just plug in the URL and see what ads will display for it. Alternatively, the addon and extensions can be downloaded for use in your browser as well. … [Read more...] about Contextual Ad Comparison Tool
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Yahoo Approves of Selling Outbound Links?
While Google's Matt Cutts says it is not OK to sell links. On the other hand, Jeremy Zawodny, a Yahoo employee owns a personal blog that has been found to be selling links to those seeking to buy some PageRank juice. This is apparently OK as long as those links aren't spammy and not hidden. Matt Cutts suggests using the "nofollow" tag in these links to avoid any reference … [Read more...] about Yahoo Approves of Selling Outbound Links?
Yahoo Site Explorer Site Feeds
Yahoo's Site Explorer has been a great tool to: All subpages within a URL indexed by Yahoo as well as subpages under a path. Display inlinks indexed by Yahoo to a URL. Submit any missing URLs to Yahoo. You can use their free submit if any URL is not found and can even upload URLs in bulk. Now, site feeds can be submitted via their site submissions in RSS and … [Read more...] about Yahoo Site Explorer Site Feeds
Search Communities
Search has become an indispensible part of our lives. With the plethora of information available at our fingertips, how do we wade through the increasing amount of information on the internet if we don't know exactly what we're looking for? Online communities offers a possible solution. Interesting discussion about online communities such as Google Base, Yahoo 360, … [Read more...] about Search Communities
Hand-Editing for Spammy Results?
Search engines aim to keep the search index clean - after all, if the results are worthless, few will continue to re-use their service which means lower profits through search ads. Mid this year, a German SEO reports on Google's Secret Evaluation Lab at eval.google.com. On the Yahoo front, Search Engine Watch also revealed that Yahoo was recruiting Relevance Analysts. Now … [Read more...] about Hand-Editing for Spammy Results?