SEOCentro Latest SEO & search engine blog news articles and feeds. http://www.seocentro.com/ SEOCentro - Latest SEO News http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8315 In case you are not familiar with the concept, StumbleUpon allows you to pay for visitors to your pages, five cents per visitor or click. The question is, do you consider this to be a simple form of paid advertising, or paid social bookmarking. On a simple level, it is just paid advertising and not social bookmarking. If you set a limit of $20 per day, you will get 400 visitors. They may stay on your page or they may spend five seconds and dissapear. Search Engines News SEO News Blog Marketing Journal Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:13:27 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8314 The surest way to ensure that your ads are getting clicked on (outside of using the right keywords) is to write ads that demand a click through. In other words, the content within your ads are of prime importance. If your ads aren't being clicked on and you know you are targeting the right keywords, you might want to tweak your ad content and write better copy. Search Engines News SEO News Pay Per Click Journal Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:05:27 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8313 If you utilize a lot of images on your site and you feel that having those images indexed by the search engines then you could consider creating an image sitemap as part of your search engine optimization strategy. As far as sitemaps go, this is not your standard official search engine sitemap. In fact once completed you cannot 'submit' this sitemap as you would a normal sitemap. However, once spidered, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Optimization Journal Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:04:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8312 It is summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the search engine industry catches its breath. No big news this week, but we did found some interesting articles all the same: Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth Ask switches to Microsoft's Mapping service, Search Engines News SEO News Pandia Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:59:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8311 A different marketing gimmick that is creeping into many businesses, particularly bricks and mortar businesses, is to establish a catchy URL, set up a page on Myspace, and have that URL redirect to the Myspace page. A slightly different twist to alternative domain names that all redirect to the one main domain. It's a clever marketing ploy, particularly for bricks and mortar businesses as a page on Myspace can be easier to establish than creating a web site from scratch. Search Engines News SEO News Social Marketing Journal Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:11:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8310 There are times when an individuals search engine optimization techniques actually end up doing more damage than good, to the point that search engines like Google remove the site from the index altogether. When this happens, what can you do? Identifying the problem: If you feel your web site may be in difficulties your first step should be to do a search on your websites URL. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Optimization Journal Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:36:05 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8309 When you're looking at press release writing as an option for promoting your business, one of the things that you are going to want to be sure of is that you know what bloggers, editors and journalists are going to be looking for when they read a press release. Simply put, if you are looking for the opportunity to market your business with press release writing, Search Engines News SEO News Online Publicity Journal Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:03:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8308 Posted by great scott! We've got a special guest on Whiteboard Friday this week: Rand! After a few weeks of awesome stuff from our guest stars, Rand was missing the limelight and wanted to get back in front of the camera. So what's the topic? Indexation issues. What do you do when you have a large (or ginormous) site and thousands of your pages simply aren't getting indexed? Well, a lot of times it means you lose clicks and lose business, Search Engines News SEO News SEOmoz Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8307 Since being acquired by Google, Feedburner seems to be a backward slide into Googleism.  Many may not be familiar with Google's lack of information, read any of their blogs and you only get a slight insight into what they are up to - Feedburner is saying even less. There is no information coming out of Feedburner now. There have been no ' Publisher Tips ' since August 2007 and nothing on the official Feedburner ' Blog ' since May this year. Search Engines News SEO News Blog Marketing Journal Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:29:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8306 Google are pushing their offline advertising with a new blog - called - Let's Take It Offline. Most advertisers aren't aware of Google's offline advertising in more traditional media outlets such as print, radio and television. The blog is supposedly going to keep everyone up to date with all that is happening with offline advertising. This means that, if Google runs true to form, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Optimization Journal Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:51:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8305 David Szetela brings up a very important point when he mentions in this article that the display URL on your ads don't have to conform to a single web page URL on your web site. He gives to examples, which are reprinted below: Outdoor Furniture Durable Patio Beauty. See Low Prices on Top Brands! www.FranksFurniture.com/Outdoor and the second example is: Outdoor Furniture Durable Patio Beauty. See Low Prices on Top Brands! Outdoor.FranksFurniture. Search Engines News SEO News Pay Per Click Journal Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:33:25 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8304 Posted by Stephen Chau, Product Manager Today marks the beginning of one of my favorite summer events: the Tour de France. I'm always amazed when I hear about the long, steep climbs through mountains or the blistering speeds of the cyclists as they pass through the French countryside. But since most of us can't head over there to watch it in person, we're giving you the next best thing: Street View of the 2008 Tour de France route. Head to google. Search Engines News SEO News Official Google Blog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:20:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8303 Do you know what pitch is? You may think you do, but let me tell ya, it is not what you think. So what is pitch? They use it to seal asphalt. If you have ever watched a crew laying out pitch you probably noticed FIVE really, really, important things about pitch: Pitch is black. Pitch is really freakin hot. If you get too close to it, it sticks to you. If you do get it on you, it burns the hyde right off you. Like naplam. Once you get burned by pitch, Search Engines News SEO News Social Marketing Journal Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:05:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8302 Posted by Duncan Morris I'm hoping this post will become the first in a series of posts from me, talking more about SEO from a developer's perspective. A lot of the posts around tend to be more centered on SEO from a marketing perspective. If you have anything you'd like to see covered, please leave a comment and I'll do my best. The work done by developers rarely hits the headlines but can often be the difference between success and failure in an SEO project. Search Engines News SEO News SEOmoz Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:40:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8301 Over the last couple of weeks many people have noticed several ranking changes in Google.co.uk. Reports so far suggest that the Google algorithm is currently favouring .co.uk domains over .com and other top-level domains. Is this a positive change? Recently Google have appeared to be moving away from heavily relying on TLD information and trusting a wider range of factors in order to assess a website's geographical location, so the algorthim update seems quite surprising. Search Engines News SEO News SEOptimise Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:17:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8300 Happy Fourth of July to all those who celebrate it, and even those who don't! Lots of search engines and websites have special logos for Independence Day don't you like how Marketing Pilgrim is red, white and blue today? I know I'm a fan. But I found a little Easter egg (holiday confusion?) in Google Street View today. Check it out: it's Uncle Sam! Enjoy the holiday (or just Friday if it's not a holiday for you)! Search Engines News SEO News Marketing Pilgrim Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:50:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8299 Can't figure out whether this is an ad serving problem, or an issue with Firefox 3.0. But every time I visit a page in the film section of The Village Voice , two ads for current film "The Wackness" display. Well, make that 2 1/2 ads. An upside-down, partial ad also appears, spilling down into the lower frame of the browser. If it's an ad serving issue, it's easy to straighten out. But if the new version of Firefox, which is setting download records, Search Engines News SEO News Clickz Blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:17:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8298 According to Vietnamnet , Yahoo is pushing the boat out in terms of new product launches in Vietnam - a market of around 20 million internet users with a largely young profile. Only in April this year, Yahoo appointed Vu Minh Tri as the General Director of Yahoo Vietnam. Vietnam is a particularly interesting market for Yahoo. Search Engines News SEO News Multilingual Search Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:20:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8297 As you may have seen in the news, YouTube received a court order to produce viewing data from our database, including usernames and IP addresses. In order to protect our community's privacy, we strongly opposed this motion when Viacom and others filed it. The court felt differently and ordered us to produce the data. Viacom said that they need general viewing information to determine the proportion of views on YouTube of copyright infringing content vs. non-infringing content. Search Engines News SEO News YouTube Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:20:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8296 It's July 4th in the Unites States, and you know what that meansâ€"hot dogs, fireworks, sunburns' and one or two people might drink a bit. But let's not forget what else this day signifies. That's right' The Fourth of July is the day President Bill Pullman declared the world's independence day from those pesky alien invaders from outer space, thereby rallying the troops and horrifying international film critics . Apparently, Search Engines News SEO News Copyblogger Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:51:34 GMT