Moving from Feedburner to Google Feeds and Why?

burning-your-feed

If you are running your feeds through Feedburner, you should know that Google bought that service in 2007. Now they are making the next step, moving the feeds from Feedburner.com to feeds.google.com. And you have to follow... and you should do it before the end of February 2009. How? well there is nice instruction written by Michel Martin from Pro Blog Design on How to Move from Feedburner to Google I just moved my Feeds over to my Google account and it is really easy and you cannot !! go … [Read more...]

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Ranking on Google is going to change in 2009

google-top-ranking

If you keep an eye on things that are happening on Google, you will find some interesting things going on at this moment. Ranking and Google Changes First I want to point you to two video's from webpronews.com, the first one is an interview with Bruce Clay about this presentation Ranking is Dead where is looks at how Universal search is going to effect your Search Engine Page results. The other one is at the same site, but now an interview with Matt Cutts on some of the Changes … [Read more...]

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Google Insights use for analysis and upcoming trends

My Google Alert on Joomla SEO just brought me this link to an Google Insights Article that also discussed the use of this new tool in conjunction with the previous mentioned report in Open Source CMS Market shares. What interested me even more was how these figures where on a regional level, so I did some comparisons between Worldwide, USA, UK and the Netherlands. The outcome did somehow surprise me... Below the graphics for the Worldwide search, showing clearly the search for Joomla as … [Read more...]

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The Big Four Search engine features compared

Well not a comparison as for the results pages, but one about which Search engines are giving which functionality in search, or specialized search. First off, the links to the overview pages of the big four and their offerings: Yahoo for Searchers Live Search (Click on More) Google Labs Ask Site features The mean reason for this comparison was in the post Is Ask.com going for Web 2.0 Search. I wanted to find out what kind of search results are offered by all the big four search … [Read more...]

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Finding Your Niche Competitors and Authority Sites

Finding Authority Websites

Last time you could read about finding related keywords to incorporate in your website, know there is a nice tool to find the websites to link to... Why Links out? Because it shows the search engines where to position your website in the large scheme of topics on the Internet. As Matt Cutts stated several times, also on the paid-links discussions, Links should be as relevant as possible and should be off benefit to your visitors. Learning from Problogger Reading the post from … [Read more...]

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How Search Engines Help finding Keywords

Google suggestions for Keyword Anastacia

You now how to find keywords for your website, right? You know about Google external ad tool, WordTracker, trillian and seobook. But there are more easily and very targeted keyword suggestions to be found. The Search Engines themselves will show you what they think are the most relevant keywords... It is like looking into their database and finding what they think is relevant for you visitors. You just have to now how and where to look. I did some research for a new page of a new site … [Read more...]

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