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Bing and the Death/Rebirth of Blog Search

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing, despite being initially upstaged by Google Wave, has become the talk of much of the Web.

The reviews of Bing have been fairly mixed. Though most believe that it is much better than Live.com, the search engine it is replacing, most don’t feel it to be superior to Google in any meaningful way (though some disagree).

The interesting thing about Bing is that it seems to be very complete right out of the box. It has an Image Search, a Video Search, a News Searcha Maps Search and even a 411 service, most of it built upon technology left over from Live.com.

However, one kind of search is missing from Bing: Blog search.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Live.com didn’t have a blog search feature nor does Yahoo! (which had one previously). But the fact is a major new search engine has launched with a complete set of features but no blog search and, to put it bluntly, no one noticed.

Whether or not Bing is a major turning point in the search engine wars remains to be seen, but it almost certainly is another sign of the death, and possibly the future, of blog search.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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3 Quick Ways to Improve your WordPress Blog SEO

SEO is all the rage these days.  Actually, it has been the rage for quite a while now, and just when people started calling it bunk, it started to surge back.

Personally, I’m a 50/50 believer in it.  There are some good practices preached by SEO’s that really do help.  Here’s the three I have found that make a difference.

#1)  Get yourself an SEO plugin. The two most popular ones available (for …

Written by J. Travis Lusk from BlogCraving
Posted on May 23rd, 2009 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation, WordPress
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Why Headlines Are Important

It’s well known that one of the best ways to get your blog noticed is to employ some form of Internet advertising and one of the best ways to get the word out is through article marketing. Articles are a perfect vehicle to expose your business for several reasons and when you’re looking to use article marketing as your means …

Written by Rob Starr from Rob Starr
Posted on May 17th, 2009 and filed under Promote your blog, Search Engine Optimisation
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TwitZap Adds Filtered Channels To Twitter

TwitZap is a new application for Twitter that combines search and filtering in a way that can be very beneficial to bloggers. The aim of TwitZap is to “slice” Twitter up into more distinguishable channels so that you can better digest what’s going on in the Twitterverse.

It’s a worthy cause–Twitter is quite massive and is difficult to keep track of when you’re trying to use Twitter for blogging purposes. See, when you’re redistributing content through Twitter and need to leverage Twitter users for building your brand, engaging users in conversation is the best way to do that. But finding the users that are conversing about your topics of interest is the tricky part.

Written by Kristen Nicole from Kristen Nicole
Posted on April 14th, 2009 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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Tweefind Good for Ranking Twitter Users, Not Search

Can Google search tactics be applied to Twitter? Tweefind seems to think so. The new service launched recently as a ranked way to sift through the tweets coming through the popular microblogging site.

The interface is clean and simple, much like Google. Type in a keyword and the results are given to you in a manner according to the ranking method set up by Tweefind:

# followers
# following
# of tweets
# of RT he/she receives
# of replies
# of distinct users who reply
# of distinct users who retweet
# of RT he/she makes
# of links the user shares

Written by Kristen Nicole from Kristen Nicole
Posted on April 6th, 2009 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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SEO – Fact or Fiction?

Last week I touched on SEO Keywords and Phrases and provided a little bit of information on how and why this content is used on blogging sites.  Today, I would like to touch briefly on some of the myths associated with SEO content.

Most people who are not aware of how indexing works believe that the more keywords and links in each article or blog, the higher their site will be indexed.  This is …

Written by Trish MacQueen from The Shoppe
Posted on April 6th, 2009 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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SEO Keywords and Phrases

Today, as a guest blogger for Kevin, I would like to touch on Search engine keywords and phrases. As a freelance writer and ghostwriter, I write an average of sixty to eighty SEO (Search Engine Optimization) articles and/or blogs each week, sometimes more, depending on which companies have hired me and for what purpose.

Often, the articles are to promote the company that hired me through SEO keywords and phrases, …

Written by Trish MacQueen from The Shoppe
Posted on March 31st, 2009 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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