Microsoft, Yahoo merge – a “game changer”

Filed under: News, Search Engines, Updates — Tags: , , , — Ian Lavelle @ Thursday, July 30th, 2009

For those of you too busy to read the news in the past 24 hours, there’s been a pretty major development in the land of the search engines. Microsoft and Yahoo! have announced a deal whereby they will be combining their search offerings with the aim of invigorating the challenge to Google.
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Viral Videos and The SEO Payoff

Filed under: SEO, YouTube — Tags: , , , , , — David Boyd @ Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The internet is coming down with video content. To give you some idea of the scale, in January 2009 YouTube alone had six billion videos viewed.

Of those six billions views you might have already seen the home grown videos such as the “Charlie bit my finger” 109 million views, “Battle at Kruger” 45 million views, “David After Dentist” 25 million views , “Star Wars Kid” 13.5 million views, “Beached as” nearly 5 millions views. And, who could forget the entertaining Sparta the Mean Kitty who’s video has been viewed 25 million views and counting. (more…)




Red Steel – Sword Fight Your Way to the Top of YouTube

Filed under: Updates — Tags: , , , , , — Kate Reuvers @ Friday, July 17th, 2009

 

While looking for a new video game to buy (yes – I am a nerd) I came across this which shows an excellent use of YouTube:

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June 2009 – Google PageRank update, backlink algorithm change and Vince UK update

Filed under: Google, Search Engines, Updates — Tags: , , , , , , , — Steve Wulz @ Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

There has been a lot of discussion out there on the SEO forums regarding Google’s changes in June 2009.

Reports of Google PageRank updates, backlink algorithm changes and the continued effect of brand keyword reshuffling noticed by the wider SEO community, particularly within Google UK.

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