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
A-List Sites Spamming Search Engines
Robert Medford reveals how A-list company websites are using black-hat SEO techniques to game the SERPs. A surprising list of offending sites are listed with an analysis of their site. Companies like GM, Shop NBC, WebEx, NetJets, and SkyMall are listed among them. A very eye-opening expose which reveals that even the big companies do whatever it takes to out-rank their … [Read more...] about A-List Sites Spamming Search Engines
3 Out of 4 New Pings Are Spings
A new study at UMBC eBiquity Research Group proves that almost three of every four pings to blog servers are from spam blogs, or splogs. Those interested to see their findings on the pingosphere over time can check it out http://memeta.umbc.edu … [Read more...] about 3 Out of 4 New Pings Are Spings
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?
Access to Search Engine Data?
Alexa which is owned by Amazon.com released Alexa Web Search Platform Beta. This service could be the breakthrough if web developers can develop some applications to access and sort through the giant vault of information. According to Alexa: Since 1996, Alexa has been crawling and storing the Web at millions of pages per day. Alexa has also been building out the … [Read more...] about Access to Search Engine Data?