6/30/2003 09:52:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Finding a shopping cart that is search engine friendly was never a reality... until now. If you are in the market for a new shopping cart check out these guys:
Shopping Cart Software Ecommerce Solution by SearchFit.com|W|P|105698473631538353|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/26/2003 09:49:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Google Toolbar 2.0
If you are a Google Toolbar fan you might check out their latest edition. It has some pretty nice features like:
Popup Blocker: Make surfing the web easier by stopping annoying popups.
AutoFill: Automatically fill in a form with the click of a button.
BlogThis: Create a weblog post pointing to the page you are visiting. |W|P|105663898183944728|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/26/2003 07:44:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Impatient web searchers measure web sites' appeal in seconds
Web users are picky and impatient, typically visiting only the first three results from a query, with one in five searchers spending 60 seconds or less on a linked Web document, according to Penn State researchers.
|W|P|105663148430942662|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/18/2003 02:11:00 PM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Google AdSense Google AdSense is for web publishers who want to make more revenue from advertising on their site...
In a nutshell, you agree to put some banners and/or skyscrapers on your site that are relevant to your content, and Google will pay you on a per click basis. Pretty sweet deal, huh?
Here's a link to the Overview page:
Google AdSense - Overview|W|P|200436444|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/18/2003 08:46:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|FindWhat.com Partnering with Espotting June 18, 2003. The board of FINDWHAT.COM (NASDAQ: FWHT) announced today an agreement to merge with privately-owned ESPOTTING MEDIA INC. The merger will create an international leader in performance-based Internet marketing with combined operations in 11 countries across America and Europe
This merger will be interesting in how involved they allow advertisers to be in where their ads are placed. Will FindWhat.com advertisers be forced to advertise in Europe? I suspect not. But you never know for sure.
Either way, we won't likely see any real changes until the end of the year.|W|P|200435210|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/17/2003 09:02:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Google Advertising - Premium service level for large advertisers Let us take care of the advertising so you can take care of everything else. Google's client service team is dedicated to providing each large advertiser with the highest ROI Internet advertising. We'll help you manage your campaign from launch to successful finish, freeing you up for other things that need your attention. Why worry about advertising? That's our job.
If you are spending $5000/month at Google, this service might be for you.|W|P|200431958|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/12/2003 12:01:00 PM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Once you get your keyword density all setup, it's time to submit those pages to the engines. There aren't that many these days. So just hand submit them.
Here's a page on our site that sends you directly to the submission pages of the major engines:
Submission Pages of Major Search Engines|W|P|200417904|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/12/2003 11:59:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Understanding how often to use a key phrase in a particular page can often give you some insight as to how a search engine ranks web pages. These are called "on the page" criteria. Now, engines like Google really look at "off the page" criteria as well. But that's a whole other can of worms.
Here is a search page at Google that lists a bunch of places you can learn more about keyword density:
Google Search: keyword density
GRKda is one I've used before that is very comprehensive.
But check out the others on that search page. There are a wide variety of them.|W|P|200417892|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/10/2003 11:13:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Unethical SEO Companies - Preying On Your Inexperience Sadly, unethical SEO companies are still out there selling contracts. There are two big areas of SEO that can inspire fraud -- undefined work ownership and undefined services. Don't let vague contracts and simple marketing packages lure you into an SEO relationship that's ripe for abuse.
|W|P|200407910|W|P|Unethical SEO Companies - Preying On Your Inexperience|W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/10/2003 07:04:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|UK Search Engine Relationship Chart|W|P|200406680|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/04/2003 04:05:00 PM|W|P|Sage|W|P|The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Google looks for new ideas as much as profits
This is a nice article that recaps the history of Google. It's a good story.|W|P|200385891|W|P|The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Google looks for new ideas as much as profits|W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/04/2003 03:59:00 PM|W|P|Sage|W|P|ValueClick Buys Search123 ValueClick will pay privately held Search123 $3.3 million in cash and another $1.7 million to cover transaction costs and certain liabilities.
We recently wrote about Search123 here.|W|P|200385868|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/03/2003 11:00:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Here are a couple neat tools put out by Marketleap - all around nice guys!
Search Engine Saturation Check - Marketleap Search Engine Marketing Tools
This lets you quickly see how many pages are indexed in a variety of engines.
Search Engine Placement Check - Marketleap Search Engine Verification Tool
Here you can quickly check a particular phrase on multiple engines to see if it is appearing in the top three pages of results.|W|P|200379528|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/03/2003 07:27:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Creating Your Own Favicon.ico Icon For IE5 - The Web Developer's Journal
Have you seen a little image next to some of your listings in your favorites? This is a Favicon. It can really make your site stand out. And each time it is downloaded and detected in your server statistics you know that someone has bookmarked your site.|W|P|200378431|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/03/2003 07:17:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|AdWords Power Posting Tool
It use to be that if you wanted the maximum bid for one phrase higher than other phrases, you would have to set up a new campaign. Power Posting makes that process a lot simpler.
While I'm discussing Google, check out this FAQ on "keyword matching". It discusses some very important features that many people do not know about Google Adwords: Broad matches, Phrase matches, Exact matches, and Negative matches.|W|P|200378383|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/03/2003 06:56:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|Google wins over SearchKing in PageRank case "PageRanks are opinions -- opinions of the significance of particular Web sites as they correspond to a search query," the decision says.
|W|P|200378284|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com6/03/2003 06:51:00 AM|W|P|Sage|W|P|NetIQ Rolls Out WebTrends Search Tool NetIQ will now include a tool in both its software and hosted WebTrends Reporting Series that allows companies to sort out how customers are using search to arrive at their site, including whether it is through paid search listings or through regular search results.
Things are just getting better and better for the end user. This tool is a case of that fact.
You can read WebTrends press release here.|W|P|200378261|W|P||W|P|sagerock@gmail.com