Microsoft’s Bing Looks Nice. What About the Usability?

The new search engine from Microsoft looks nice. At least for the front page, which displays a different, nice picture every day.
What is Bing all about?
The home page fails to communicate visitors what the website is all about. While everybody know what Google or Yahoo! do, almost no one knows what the heck is Bing.com. I would have inserted a nice tag line below the logo, something like “Microsoft’s Search Engine” or similar.
How do I perform a search?
There is no “Search” button on this page or the search results page. You should always display a web button properly and label it correctly. In this case it should have been “Search” or similar.
The search results page
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Squidoo Vs. HubPages – Which is More Effective For Getting Traffic?

Both Squidoo and HubPages are both very popular web 2.0 ( or maybe now I should say web 3.0 ) sites. Squidoo has been extremely popular, while HubPages is now up-and-coming. Squidoo was created by Internet Marketing “guru” Seth Godin, while HubPages was created by 3 lesser known guys; Paul Edmonson, Paul Deeds and Jay Reitz. All things considered, both of the sites are incredibly good for getting traffic. And if done properly, can be an Internet Marketer’s dream.
Page Rank
First off, if you don’t understand what “page rank” is, it is simply Google’s view of the importance of a website. It is ranked on a scale from 1 to 10. Any site with a 4 …

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To the Top of Google

Yes, You Too Can Get to the Top of Google in 24 Hours or Less!
So, you want to get your blog, article, photo, video, news release and/or what ever message you have to the top of Google’s search engine? Well it’s not as hard as you think and in most cases you can do this in 24 hours or less and in some cases even shorter than a hour.
I would have to imagine that your reading this because you most likely see the value in getting noticed at the top of the search engines. Doing so can create more traffic to your website, blog or anything that you want to attract attention to online. Over …

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Competely Improve Page Rank and Search Engine Ranking? Is it be Worth It?

The Google Page Rank or PR for short is a ranking system created by Google that aids with their search algorithm. Each website is allotted aworth from nil to 10 with 10 being the highest. When your site is brand spanking new it is instantly allotted a value of zero.
Your goal is to get that number up to 10, which isn’t straightforward, but it can be done, it just takes work. Realistically you’re looking to attain 5 to 8 which is really good. Having said that here are some systems you can use to help increase your Google Page Rank and appear higher on those Google search lists. Google looks positively upon sites when other …

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URL Structure – It is Important For Search Engines and SEO

The URL structure can play a very important part of any SEO campaign and is something that you should always take great care and consideration when planning a new website, again, especially more so if the site is going to be driven by a database with thousands of possible data outputs.
What Is The URL Structure?
It is very easy to go into unnecessary complex details when explaining what the URL structure of a website is, and indeed there are a few elements, but the basic answer is the URL structure is how your URL looks to search engines and of course your clients.
Take for example two different websites, WebsiteA and WebsiteB. Both sites deliver thousands of …

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SEO and Building Natural Links

We all know that in order to attain high rankings in the Google search results we must make a consistent effort to build one way back links to our site. Google emphasizes the need for these links to be natural as they will hold far more weight than unnatural links, but what are natural links and is it really an attainable goal.
Google see a natural link as one which is acquired by creating quality content on our sites, therefore enticing a user to link back to the site as a reference. The problem is, no one is likely to see your content unless you publish it at high traffic sites around the web, like article …

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Do Duplicate Content Filters Apply to Ecommerce Sites?

It’s a common complaint. Ecommerce site owners will contact me for help because their product pages don’t get ranked. Among one of my standard checks is their product copy. Very often, what I find is copy that was provided by the product manufacturers. Or, worse yet, copy that is the exact same for a variety of products with the exception of a few words. Both can cost you in the rankings.
Don’t Use Canned Copy
Using copy provided by product manufacturers may seem like the best way to go. After all, you get professionally written copy for free. However, there are two major drawbacks associated with this approach.
First, you lose most of your ability to differentiate yourself …

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SEO- The Truth About Gaining High Rankings

Search engine optimization is the process of making sure that your website content and information helps you to achieve high ranking on search engines such that you will get traffic directed to your website through these search engines. I will show you 5 steps to find out about SEO- The truth about gaining high rankings:
1. The very first and important step in search engine optimization (SEO) is to know all your niche keywords and phrases, and this begins with a good knowledge of your niche. If you want to attract some potential customers to your website, you should know the relevant keywords and phrases to use. When people are looking for information online, they type …

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