Tag "search engines"
5 Amazing Visual Search Engines
Social Media Do you prefer visual results over text? If you do, then you’ll love these visual search engines, which display images and website snapshots as opposed to text snippets. There’s not much to say about these search engines. You simply enter your query, press enter (or click on search), and view your results. So let’s take a look at 5 amazing visual search engine results. Search-Cube Watch the cube fill up as your results fall into ...
Continue readingQuixey – The Ultimate App Search Engine
Reviews, Social Media If you’re someone like me who is always searching for apps on all types of devices and systems, then you’ll Quixey. It’s a search engine that lets you find apps across all platforms based on what you want to do. How does it find these apps? Well it scrapes blogs, review sites, forums, and social media to learn about new apps, find out what they do, and how people can use them. What types of apps are displayed? You’ll be ...
Continue readingSearching Domains with PCNames.com
Domain Names & Hosting, Reviews There are many ingredients that go into your prescribed recipe for success. If you’re looking to make any kind of impact online, one of these critical ingredients is having the right domain name. It has to be reflective of your brand, easy to remember, and — perhaps most importantly of all — it has to be available. That last part can be particularly challenging. Helping you along on this front is PCNames.com. The website itself ...
Continue readingGoogle is Feeling the Need for Speed
Search Engine Optimisation In a recent interview Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer and frequent spokesperson, revealed that Google is considering using the speed which a website loads in its search algorithms. By 2010 is seems likely that slower sites will be pushed further down the results page in favor of quicker ones. In the interview with WebPro Matt stated that “We’re starting to think more and more about should speed be a factor in ...
Continue readingGet Social Updates in Real-Time Using Collecta
Social Media Collecta is a unique search engine that allows you to view results in real-time. Collecta makes sure that you don’t received old, outdated results and only shows you what’s happening at that very moment. The setup is very unique as well; there are three columns. The first colum is where the search box as well as your search terms appear. Searches are saved in tabs so if you have one search open and want to look for something else, ...
Continue readingTwiPho Your Ultimate Twitter Image Search
Social Media There are tons of ways to share images on Twitter but how many ways are there to search through all of them? TwiPho is a very new and convenient Image search engine for Twitter with a very pleasant UI. Whenever you conduct a search, TwiPho searches through the entire Twitter site to find images that have been shared by others. Just like most other search engines, you simply type what you’re looking for in the search box to begin. As you ...
Continue readingGoogle Blog Search
Search Engine Optimisation Last week Google updated its Blog Search adding a number of features such as “Hot Queries” and the ability to subscribe to any topic via RSS or Atom. Features like these have been in other Google services for quite some time which highlights Google’s Blog Search as a minor player in the Google universe. Following on the heels of Bing’s release without a dedicated blog search, which Jonathan Bailey ...
Continue readingIs Tagging Still Important for Blog Posts?
Blogging When tagging was first made popular for bloggers several years ago, it was pushed to the forefront by Technorati as a means of helping searchers find your content. The idea was that searchers, instead of or in addition to using the regular text search, would prefer a tag search or that blog posts with appropriate tags would have a higher ranking. The reason being, keywords often show up in posts only partially related to the topic, but if a ...
Continue readingShould My Blog Name Match My Domain Name?
Search Engine Optimisation During the past few months a lot of my time has been spent looking at search results and finding ways to clean up the way my sites/pages look in the SERPs. The reason for this is mainly because in one case I had two different sites ranking #1 and #2 for the same search terms, yet the #2 result was getting a much higher click through rate. The reason for this, I believe, is that the title for the site that ranked #1 was completely unrelated to ...
Continue readingEffective Internal Linking Practices
Search Engine Optimisation We should all know that outbound links to fresh, original, relevant content on other blogs or websites are vital when it comes to providing users with quality content. But often times we overlook the importance of good internal linking strategy within our own domains. I’ve put together what I believe to be a fairly solid list of tips to use when linking to your own content via a new post or page. Of course, this list is compiled of methods ...
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