Google has long made it clear that content is king, however someone finally flat out asked what Google will do against websites that are found to have auto-generated content.
Category Archives: Webmaster News
Bing Adds Deep Links to Search Box & Starts Redesigning
I know it seems like I favor Google over Bing since I mention Google updates so much more on here; and to say the truth it’s possible that Bing get’s slightly overlooked with all the new things that Google frequently comes up with. With the start of this post, I hope to change that. There […]
GoDaddy Launches Redesigned Site
GoDaddy has launched their brand new website today, featuring a full redesign, with a new, flat, interface. The new design goes much further than just on the front end however, The expanded development team has re-built GoDaddy’s popular Website Builder product, making it easy for anyone to create a beautiful website in short order, no matter […]
New Yahoo! Logo Released
Yahoo has created quiet the stir around themselves lately, especially with their 30 Days of Change campaign which I have mentioned on here numerous times. The 30 Days of Change campaign was counting down till today, the day the brand new Yahoo! logo gets released; and I was rather excited for it. We were promised […]
1 Day Left Until Yahoo’s New Logo
Today marks day 29 in Yahoo’s 30 Days of Change. I myself am quiet anxious to see the reveal of the new logo tomorrow; however in the meantime let’s touch base on what the new logo’s on days 22 through 29 look like. If you have missed the ones before that, I have outlined the […]
1&1 Launches New Hosting Services
1&1 Internet, Inc., www.1and1.com, a global leader among Web hosting providers, has released an entirely new range of Web hosting services. 1&1 hosting now provides an outstanding end-to-end customer experience for those who are big fans of using website applications. Available in both Linux and Windows formats, the new range brings together professional design tools such […]
Namecheap Launches UK Datacenter
Namecheap is extremely excited to announce the launch of their brand new UK based datacenter, which now allows Web hosting and Reseller hosting to be available with a choice of datacenters (US or UK). Pricing is very competitive, since choosing their UK location costs just $1/month more per package. Service is delivered to the usual high Namecheap standard and […]
Yahoo Redesigns 7 Network Sites
Continuing on with all of the recent changes Yahoo has been making lately in an effort to revive their image, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Movies, Yahoo Music, Yahoo TV, Yahoo omg!, Yahoo Games and Yahoo Weather have all received a new, modern, redesign. The new redesign finally starts to put a consistent design and navigation across the Yahoo site network – which I am sure […]
Day 21 of Yahoo’s 30 Days of Change
We are in the last stretch of Yahoo’s 30 Days of Change – a campaign aimed at bringing attention to the changing Yahoo! logo until the official new logo is released on September 4th. With just 9 days left I wanted to do another quick re-cap to follow up with my original post, 8 Days in […]
Google Asks for Your Feedback on Their Search Policies
Google has posted on their blog asking searchers to help provide some feedback on Google’s search policies. The form, hosted obviously on Google Docs, includes
Free Stock Photos for Facebook Advertisers
Facebook is always hard at work at making sure their advertisers are making the best use of their platform – and their recent announcement let us know about some great new features that small business owners are sure to fall in love with. I have long been a fan of Facebook advertising. In-fact I had […]
Yola Raises Prices, Gives 10% Off on .COM Domain Names
It’s not often that I get to write about a price increase, AND a new coupon code, all in one post. Yola however has allowed me to do just that today. Yola has just emailed me to let me know about their new pricing structure that just got put into effect; along with the launch […]
GoDaddy Buys Locu
GoDaddy has always tried to make it as easy as possible for small business owners to setup their online presence, whether it be via building their website using the GoDaddy Website Builder, or setting up corporate email accounts; so it comes of little surprise when this past weekend GoDaddy went ahead and purchased Locu, an […]
Volusion Introduces Amazon Integration
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Volusion has rolled out their latest product update, and this one was VERY highly requested. Seamless Amazon Integration, available to Gold plans and above. This latest addition to the Volusion software makes it easier than ever for anyone looking to open an online store to get their products in front of millions of shoppers. Because the […]
8 Days in Yahoo! Logo’s 30 Days of Change
We are on day 8 since Yahoo! has announced their 30 Days of Change – a campaign aimed at bringing attention to the changing Yahoo! logo until the official new logo is released on September 4th. Yahoo! maintains a dedicated page to display each of the new logo’s for each of the 30 days, and […]
Matt Cutt’s Gives Warning About Using ‘Creative’ ccTLDs
Matt Cutt’s had answered a great question earlier this week about using ccTLD’s to create a unique domain name such as www.google.it for “Google It”. “Should I use ccTLDs for sites not targeted to those countries?” In-fact there is an awesome tool out there created by @case, @ceedub, @connor, and @rr called Domainr which quickly finds you some creative domain names that […]
Google Adsense Use Limited on Google Sites
Google Sites is Google’s way of letting everyone and anyone create a free website utilizing a pre-built template, and an online WYSIWYG editor; and of-course Google makes it easy to monetize your Google Sites website with Google Adsense (seeing a pattern here?). In the past you’ve always had full control over your Google Adsense ad […]
Bing Expands Categories Featured in Autosuggest
Lately it seems all of the search engine related news has been revolving around Google. The new webmaster tools navigation, the display of favicons within text ads, etc. Even Yahoo jumped into the news with their new search engine ads testing; so it’s nice to finally hear something from the team over at Microsoft’s Bing […]
Google Now Displaying Favicons for Text Ads
Google is always adding something new to their huge portfolio of features, and recently I have started noticing that their Google Adwords text ads have began displaying the website favicons next to the title. Here is an example from this very website:
Prepare Your Site for Rolling Google Panda Updates
The online community was abuzz over the past few weeks in speculation that the first rolling Panda update is now live. Search Engine Roundtable founder and Search Engine Land news editor Barry Schwartz released a study showing increased Google volatility before July 4, which only declined and stabilized on July 7. MozCast bar graph showing turbulence […]