Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
A good number of the posts at SEO by the Sea lately, about the use of geography and location in searches have involved specialized local searches from the major search engines. Chances are good that more people use the main index and results from those search engines than the Local searches, to find out information … Read more
I’ve used services like Kayak.com to get prices for a trip, but haven’t dived into Yahoo’s Trip Planner before. Looks like I was missing out on some useful and interesting information. If you haven’t checked it out, you may want to give it a try – It combines a nice mix of information from service … Read more
This summer, I wrote a post at Search Engine Watch about a pay-per-percentage of Impressions method of advertising described by a Microsoft researcher, Joshua Goodman, in Ending Click Fraud with Pay-Per-Percentage. A new patent application from Microsoft, and Joshua Goodman, covers the same topic as the paper, Pay-Per-Percentage of Impressions: An Advertising Method that is … Read more
I was showing someone Google Local one box results (see H.) for a specific search, and they asked me why Google was showing distances in those results, and where the search engine got the distances from. A good question; my answer was that it was from the CenterPoint of a defined geographic region that Google … Read more